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A word of warning from Dave Cross: Save all of your CS3 goodies before upgrading to CS4. This includes all the brushes, patterns, shapes, and plugins. You don’t need to save the application, just the extras folders. For instance, here’s what to save in Photoshop CS3

Photoshop CS3 Window Save for CS4

Look for similar items in each of your CS3 (or earlier if you haven’t upgraded in a while) folders and save them.

According to Dave Cross, some of these items are not present in CS4. If you wanna watch the Photoshop TV containing this tip, go watch it!

My copy is on the way and should be here soon. I can’t wait.

2007 was a fun year for me as a part-time photographer. I got to shoot five different weddings and loved it. In fact, i just shot my first wedding of 2008. I’ll have those up soon.

If you’re interested, here are some photos from each wedding I shot in 2007. If you like what you see, spread the word. I’d love to shoot more this year. Plus, I cost a lot less than other photographers in the area. *wink wink*

TJ & Kim Thompson

Brunswick, GA – Family Life Church

Brett & Mika Cox

Jekyll Island, GA – Beachview Club

Dean & Shannon Barber

Jekyll Island, GA – Jekyll Beach

Jared & Amy Crosby

Jekyll Island, GA – Beachview Club

Ana & Omar Soosani

Jekyll Island, GA – Jekyll Beach

Our youth group at SSCC ‚Äì named “Inside Out” ‚Äì is doing a series called “Inside Out” to try and re-center the youth on the idea that God is trying to change us from the inside out to become more like Him. Jon, our youth minister, asked me to make an XBox-looking graphic for the series to put on the screens and to print as posters on our brand new Canon 36-inch wide format printer (SWEET!).

So anyways, I got to work and out came this. It’s all from scratch except for the font called “1979″ that I got from dafont.com.

I hope you like it enough to steal it and use it at your church. This is big enough to print 24″x36″ or to drop down low enough and use on the screen. Please let me know if you use it by leaving a comment.

Hey guys. I need your help. As a visitor to a church, what do you think about this? Does it gather enough information without asking too much? Do you feel like the church cares for you and isn’t just trying to get cards so they can bug you? Do you have any other feelings? Are there any errors?

I’d appreciate a look. Thanks!

Click here to see it bigger.

If you attended St. Simons Community Church Sunday, you saw the video we opened our new series “Be Still” with. Travis did a great job in After Effects communicating the concept David gave us to go by.

I’ll let Travis explain it to you. From his website…

I just wanted to share another one of our videos. We are beginning a three week Christmas series this Sunday entitled “Be Still.” It is about, well, being still. You know, “Be still and know that I am God.” We saw a video at Drive Conference two years ago that made an impact on a lot of our staff and so we “adopted” their concept and made our own. The video was edited in After Effects and the graphics were created by my co-worker Chris in Photoshop.

The video will play following a prayer in the service. We will have all the lights out and wait about 8-10 seconds before we play it. That way there will be an awkward silence to get people’s attention and make the first word on the screen more noticeable. There is no audio on this video and there won’t be in the service either. If you get distracted, cut on iTunes and restart it. However, if you can’t make it through in silence, maybe you need to check on the podcasts of this series. HaHa.

Hope you like it!

View it here, YouTube, or on the SSCC website.