The Lizzard Zone

In late 2005, Lizzard was feeling like she needed to get a new hobby so she looked in the local community college's "not-for-credit" offerings and found a Photoshop class. She soon found that she had Photoshop on her computer and decided to take the class. What a blast it was! While there is a LOT about the program she doesn't yet know, she's been having a lot of fun playing with pictures. Here are a few of her masterpieces, if they can be referred to by such a lofty title. Enjoy! The newest are on the top.

	I made this because I after enjoying the Olympics two months ago. Mostly, I made it just to see if I could and how it would look. It was easier than I thought it would be. Click on the picture to see a bigger version.

	Here is an updated family picture for 2010. Mostly, I did this because I saw the filmstrip thing in my photoshop magazine and wanted to try it out. Click on the picture to see a bigger version.

	My husband did one of these and has had his students do some as well. It made me decide to do one too. Basically, I just tried to capture some things about myself. Click on the picture to see a bigger version that can actually be read.

	I learned how to make this cool lookin' picture in a Photoshop class I took in 2009. I think it's MUCH better than the other collage I made for the year 2003 (shown a few pictures above). Click on the picture to see a bigger version.

	To celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary, we went to Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. It was an awesome weekend. We wandered through the shops, ate ice cream cones while walking on the beach and explored the area around Haystack Rock during low tide.

	Happy Halloween! Or, as this picture indicates, Howloween! Here are our jack-o-lanterns! One is the outline of Mikey (notice the curly tail). The other is supposed to be a football jersey with the name of "Cosmo" and the number 28. Cosmo is, of course, BYU's mascot. "28" is a play on words that my cute husband came up with earlier this year. Simply put, my name sign is based off of the sign for "late". If you fingerspell "L8", it's the same as "28". Click on the image to see the bigger version.

	Lizzard was playing with some of the filters in Photoshop and managed to make this cartoon-looking picture from a real photograph. Not too shabby.

	When Lizzard wanted to experiment with various Photoshop features, she decided to make a "highlights of 2003" picture. She learned a lot from the project that, if she were to do again, would make a better picture. So, the next one will be improved but this isn't bad for a learning experience. Her favorite part of this is how the picture in the center just jumps out. Very appropriate since the wedding was the biggest event in her life that year.

	Lizzard backs up her pictures onto a DVD-RW until it gets full. Then, she burns them on a permanent DVD for storage. Her pictures from 2002-2006 all fit onto one DVD and she was about to put a plain, boring label on the DVD when she thought "hey, wait a minute!" She made this picture in Photoshop with some of the highlights of those years. She even played around with gradients and textures and made a much better label.

	This is a picture that Lizzard made for Stamps (for either Valentine's Day or their anniversary). Rather simple, isn't it?

	Lizzard plays softball with a team of co-workers each summer in a recreational league. She has a lot of fun though she's not the most skilled player on the field. Her team, the Fireballs, won their league championship in 2006. She made this picture for fun - kind of a "what if we had our own field?" kind of scenario. The picture of the field is just one that she got off the internet somewhere since she didn't get around to taking a picture of a field they actually played on. Maybe when the 2007 season starts up, she can get one and update the background.

	Stamps needed some help with a project he was doing with his students. They each drew part of the design and Lizzard put it all together and made it be what the kids had envisioned. When complete, they were each given their own copy to keep. Lizzard's favorite part with this project was experimenting with textures as she'd never really done that in Photoshop prior to this project. Pretty fun idea.

	For fun, Lizzard decided to make a new background for her computer. It was a while in the making but eventually became a collage of things that she likes, are special to her or that she just felt like including. Basically, it's her idea of what makes Lizzard, well, LIZZARD! How many things can you identify? Learn anything new?

	Lizzard is a HUGE BYU Football fan. She's not just a fair weather fan either -- she's in it for the long-haul. After a few disappointing years, 2006's team was a welcome breath of fresh air! At the end of the season, their record was 11-2. They won the Mountain West Conference championship by two games and wiped the field in Las Vegas with the feathers of the Oregon Ducks (incidentally, the team that Lizzard could never cheer for). To commemorate the season, Lizzard made this picture. Click on the picture to see a bigger version so you can actually read the scores!

	For Lizzard's 27th birthday, her dad came to visit. So she and the cute boys of her family headed off to enjoy a nice hike to a beach and enjoy nature. Afterwards, Lizzard made this collage of some of the pictures from the hike. Her favorite feature of it are the ocean waves in the sky above her dad's head in the picture.

	After a romantic date at the beach, Lizzard made this as a Valentine's Day present for Stamps. The background is a picture they took during said romantic date. The lizard obviously represents our favorite Lizzard. The fox represents Stamps - as his name sign is similar to "fox". Isn't it cute? Lizzard can't help but smile when she sees this picture.

	After Lizzard's parents divorced, she needed a new way of displaying pictures of her family on her desk at work since no new family pictures would be taken. When she started learning Photoshop, she realized she could make a collage of current pictures rather than displaying a picture that was outdated. So this picture was created. Clockwise from top left are TSO & Timothy (best friend), Lizzard & Stamps, Lizzard's mom, Mikey the pooch, Manto (brother) , Lizzard's dad and Kim & Ross (sister).

	This is from Girls' Camp 2006. One evening after most had retired to their campsites or beds, a man came wandering into camp. He claimed that he was late for dinner with the President of the United States, George W. Bush. While some of the men at camp stayed with him and waited for the cops to haul him away, everyone else was gathered into the lodge - just to be on the safe side. Many of the girls started referring to the stranger as the "Bush-man". The following night at dinner, some girls left a spot open at the dinner table, saying it was for President Bush. Thus was the inspiration for this picture. Click on the picture to see a bigger version.

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