Street rods have return to York.

When I create a layout sometimes I have an idea already in mind. Sometimes the ideas come from other co-workers. This page design came from the latter.

Here are two concepts I came up with.

These two concepts were basic and clean, but boring.

Here is the final and can be seen in today's York Daily Record.

What is nice about this design is that it still is clean and organized, but the presentation is interesting. It also allows for a dominant piece of art to really stand out.

Yeah, I'm one of those Mac freaks. I work on a mac at my job, I have an iMac, and Mac book pro at home. My husband and stepdaughter and myself all have iPods and now our newest mac addition is my iPhone.

Freakin awesome is all I can say about my iPhone.

The ease of use and all those Apps.

Now, a certain co-worker who I won't name, Paul, was dissing my phone. He has a Blackberry equivalent to my i Pod. He listed many downfalls that the iPhone has compared to his Blackberry,so I did my own fact checking and comparison and found some reviews. Both phones rated very similar and it really did come down to a personal preference. And like I stated earlier, I work, breathe, and drink macs so the iPhone was a logical choice for me because of the ease of synching my computers and iPhone together.

I created this in photoshop. I found photos of silverware and used the Distort/Polar coordinates and shear filter.

For example, bending a knife to make a letter "e."

Here is the knife, straight as can be.

I am using the shear filter, this bends the knife. ( I also used the polar coordinates filter, for some of the other letters in the text)

Here, I am using the transform tool to tweak the shape.

Final "e"

My "Terminator Salvation" page ran in today's York Daily Record.

Here is the final version.

I ended up not using the sketch of Jon Connor, because I wanted the Terminator ro be bigger on the page.

Here is about 30 minutes into my illustration. I am adding color to my pencil sketch in Adobe Photoshop.

I set the sketch layer to multiply so the underneath layers will show through.

The underneath layers are where I am adding the color and shading.

Always work with layers and always keep and working(layered file)

This summer looks like it is jammed pack with some really cool movies.

Some of the ones I am looking forward too are "Star Trek," "Terminator," "Harry Potter," "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers."

I just finished my "Star Trek" page for Flipside which is running this weekend in the Flipside Weekend section. There is even a funny video to compliment my page which can be viewed at this link Star Trek video link

My next movie page I am currently working on is for "Terminator Salvation"

Here is sneak peek at my sketch.

Stay tuned to view updates for my page design

This is my Earth Day package design that is in today's York Daily Record newspaper.

My editor Brad came up with this idea after reading an interesting fact about Hershey Kissses. More than 80 million Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day. Placed end to end, those foil wrappers would stretch 3,157 miles -- and it's all recyclable.

First, we took a soccer ball and wrapped some aluminum foil around it. Then, I became the hand model. And let's just say being a hand model is hard work. I was sweating by the time we were done with the shoot. By the way that's Brad making adjustments to the ball. We had two versions, one was a tin foil and the other one was a newspaper, pictured below.

Here I am holding the tin foil ball. (And yes, I'm sweating like crazy)

Next, I downloaded the photo and opened it up in Photoshop. This is where the magic happens. So the idea was to have the earth look like a ball of tin foil. I found a piece of stock art of the world but since it was a satellite image of the world it was way too detailed to overlay ontop of the tin foil ball.

So, just as I was going to get on the internet to look for another image of earth... our internet connection goes down. So, I'm like thinking sh@#!, where am I going to find an image of earth that will work in the design. I went through a stock art CD and came across a rubber ball that had the image of earth on it.

PERFECT!!!

I took this image and overlayed it over the tin foil ball and set the layer opacity to multiply. I then bumped up the greens and the blues to make them pop using selective color adjustments in Photoshop. Added the headline text and placed it behind the earth.

And in between doing this I collected the data and wrote the intro. But, I really want everyone to know that Brad, my editor played a really big role in finishing this package with me.