The Start of Something New

Good Morning Blogger.com! Yesterday I announced that I would be launching a daily series today and as promised this is the start of it. I call it, Watch Me Read. Pretty much every day I will peruse the internet looking for something for all of you to read or in today's case read and do.

Here's the deal with this morning's Watch Me Read. I woke up and knew I was going to be posting soon so I came straight here. I looked through my Reader and the first thing on the list was a post from David Cross, who I started following after I started watching PhotoshopUserTV. If you haven't checked that out do so now. (Well, not right now, please continue reading first.) I've been watching the show for a few weeks and already it has been a huge help in my work. The give tutorials, have contests, and show off great products that are extremely useful. Like I said, if you haven't seen it yet check it out when you're done with today's reading assignment.

What I read this morning was an assignment that Dave has started doing on his blog where he has people send in photos that need restoration and once a week he picks one and posts it for everyone to fix up and he displays whichever he thinks is best. This week he has chosen to assign the picture on the left. Click on it and it will bring you to his blog where you can read the post and get a little better idea of what I'm talking about. Also, make sure you go to the link that he posted to upload your work to Flickr.




I Know What You're Thinking

If you've been keeping up on my blog I know what you're thinking. Yesterday I just posted an offer to restore a photo for the first person who wanted it because I didn't have a picture of my own to use. Well, I do have one now, but the offer still stands. I'll post what I come up with from this and you can see if it's something you want me to do. I should have it up in the next few days for your viewing pleasure. So, if you want an old photo of your parents or grand parents restored, drop me a line because the offer still stands

Starting tomorrow there will be a daily series. Tune in tomorrow to see what's in line...

FREE!!!I shit you not. I offered this on Twitter last week and no one took me up on it so here's your chance bloggers... I want to start doing some photo restoration and I don't have any photos that i can restore. If you scan and email me a picture that you want restore i will do it for free for the first person who wants it. If you want to check out my Photoshop work you can check it out on Flickr. Don't be afraid and back out if you think that someone has probably already taken me up on this, if someone has I'll give you a good deal. I'm a poor college student just trying to pay rent. If you refer me to someone and they decide to work with me i will give you a discount on your next photo. email me @ DSWieting@gmail.com

This quick, easy, & cheap recipe gets its name from exactly how I came up with it...

Ingredients:

1pkg Noodles
Soy sauce
1/4th block of firm tofu
Sweet & sour sauce

Directions:

Cook noodles using directions on the package. While you boil the water drain tofu and cut off the quarter block of tofu that you will be using. (stick the rest in a container with a little water and save for something else) Slice tofu into 1in. x 1/2in. strips and fry in sweet and sour sauce. Cook until it starts to crisp. When water comes to a boil cook the noodles until done. Drain noodles completely and cover in soy sauce and top with tofu. Enjoy

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...to flickr that is. Link attached to the photo.