AZ DIY Guy

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Design

I enjoy graphic design. I like to fiddle with my blog's look constantly. I even help others from time to time. I'm still learning web-site stuff, but the graphics part is really fun. I don't have a professional suite of tools, but I get by with the free stuff. I've done all the work on

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myself. Here's some of my portfolio:

I was looking at one of Jack's XBox games and,.. Hey! Wait a minute!

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Brian started another site for tool reviews. I took a crack at it for him. Brian's Tool Reviews

. I think I like it better than my own banner at this point.

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That's my tape measure Brian!

Summers Woodworking - Facebook Banner

- I started this as a contest entry for Summers but finished it a couple months too late.

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Here's how it would look in place:

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Shattered.

- made for this blog when I was having technical difficulties.

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-  I like to start with original photos

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The "Gunslinger"

Page Elements

(I may have touched it up a bit)

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Photo editing.

We have an address plaque on the front of our house. I tend to blur out license plates, but I wanted the house shot to look a little cleaner:

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Later I substituted the new address plaque's numbers with Dwarven lettering from Tolkien:

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Unique graphics

- Some stuff I did for

30 for 30

's Facebook page

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