SFN Spec ads

 Spec ad for future small groups push.

Generic Spec ad for SFN Church. Various text could be added posting worship times, or other phrases such as, "come grow your family with us", "get your life in focus", etc.

Psalm 121

Had to reload this posting since blogger was down for a day due to them changing software. So here it is again. I took this picture while traveling with my son heading west to Washington. We were in Montana at the time. This graphic was inspired from the portion of Psalm 121 where the Psalmist cries, I lift up my eyes to the mountain, where does my help come from? In the Psalmist day people used to go to the high places to inquire of God. The point of Psalm 121 is that location doesn't matter. Our help is from the Lord. Whether we are in a valley or on a mountain top. Here is the psalm in the New American Standard Version.

¹I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
²My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
³He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
⁵The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
⁶The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
⁷The LORD will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
⁸The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.

SFN Church News Intro Spec Video

The video format is flash, so the final version will have a higher rez when it is rendered out as an mpeg, or wmv. As you can see this video is 30 seconds long. This would be an extended intro video for the news in lieu of any verbal intro. I created it as an example of what the video could look like. I sought to utilize Google satellite maps to zero into the church facilities. To give a sense of the fact that SFN church is part of a larger community and that we should consider how to reach, connect and grow the body in that community. Which then the news of what's going on in the church would provide ways to reach, connect and grow in the context of the body.

Good Fences

The title of this piece was taken from a poem by Robert Frost entitled "Mending fences." The techniques used to create this were similar to the tilt shift method covered in a previous post. And also some techniques from the newest tutorial on depth of field found at PSD.TUTS+. The texts effects was achieved using the various lighting and shading effects in the layers effects in Photoshop. I used hard light for the fence text and pin light for Robert Frosts name in the grass.

Tilt Shift Effect

I came across this interesting effect tutorial on psd.tutsplus.com that makes the picture take on a tilt shift effect. Here's what it looks like applied to a cityscape of Seattle.

Here is what the original picture looked like.

The original picture was downloaded from stock.xchng by Scott Snyder

Happy Mother's Day

A mother's day graphic to celebrate our wonderful mother's. In this case the mother of my children, my wife. Mother's Day is celebrated once a year, but hopefully you celebrate your mother and the mother of your children. And since my wife is an awesome mother, I've decided to post this early for her.
Happy Mother's Day to my wife.

And here is the graphic by it self.

Life's Journey in a book

I came across a tutorial that taught me how to utilize various composition techniques in photoshop, not having access to all the photo's they used, I found my own and employed them. I titled this graphic Life's journey in a book. The younger couple on the left are walking toward the sunlight, as the older couple on the right walk into the sunset of their lives. You can find the original tutorial here if you would like to try it out.

Welcome Back Spring

Created this graphic using my pen Bamboo Wacom pad and experimenting with different shapes in Photoshop. If you look closely you will see the bee I made in the flower. I realize that some parts of the country haven't seen Spring yet. But it's here.

Man's Anger

Created this graphic while experimenting with a psd tutorial I got from psd.tutsplus.com.
Tutorials are a great way to learn new effects and skills. The key is to not rip off the tutorial and claim the work as your own. But to learn from the tutorial and apply different facets of it to your own creation.

Weather Alerts

I created this poster after checking the weather report online. I struck me as absurd that a tornado watch and high pollen level would have side by side billing. I realize this wasn't the weather.com's intent. But that's how it presented to me when the website first popped up. Stay classy guys.

Survival Rule of Threes

This graphic was created after I ran across a list of survival rules (Maybe I heard them from Bear Grylls)

New Blog Graphic

I designed this blog graphic for our travel blog that will document our road trip for our close friends.

New & Improved

Why Are You Watching?

Made of Stars

This graphic was inspired by a song written by Moby in 2002. The night sky shot is of the Milky Way and was taken over Switzerland. The cityscape is of Vancouver, Canada when it was encased in fog.

7 Minutes

Bait and Switch

The inspiration for this graphic came from what I have observed as the extremes that some churches will go to in the name of "outreach". And when they are challenged on it some churches will say it's all about reaching the lost and point to the number of people that pass through their doors, when the truth is that for them it's become more about the show, doing something that stands out and the accolades of having a "cool" church. Stay Classy Church. Romans 12:2

Perspective Changes Choices

Both graphics speak to issues contained within the individual graphic image. And one can clearly choose to be the sheep in one, and the sheepdog in the other.

Spec Movie Poster

The Quip Pig