Graphics Projects

This is where I'll display some of my little personal graphics related projects that I've worked on over the years.

Stop Drop and Roll

My inspiration for this came many years ago at a rave. One of my friends just proclaimed "Stop! Drop! And Roll!" while acting out the steps. for some reason it just stuck with me. I always thought it would be cool to make something parodying one of those fire safety things.

This is my final version. You can see my first attempt in animated GIF form here

Stop Drop and Roll

Passdown Image

I created this image to be used as the header on the passdown sheet that we would use at Great America to write down our daily passdown in the morning. Previously we were using a badly photocopied hand drawn image for our passdown sheet. That image was actually a poor imitation of a better hand drawn image that was used a few years before. I'm not entirely sure but I believe that original image was drawn back in 2002 by my best friend John. The font and overall style I used were loosely based off of that original hand drawn image.

Click the image for full size image, or download the MS Word doc file Passdown.doc

Passdown Image

Mouse Cursors

I created these cursors a while back because I felt the default windows cursors were a bit small and and bland looking.
Although I can't really take all the credit for these because they are just modified versions of the "Windows Standard (Large)" and "Windows Animated" cursors that come with windows.
 


Windows Default Cursors
Normal Select Link Select Help Select Working in Background Busy Diagonal Resize 1 Diagonal Resize 2 Horizontal Resize Vertical Resize

The Other Windows Cursors That I Modified To Create My Cursors
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Patrick's Animated Cursors - Standard  Download
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Patrick's Animated Cursors - Purple  Download
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Desktop Wallpapers

Here are some of the better wallpapers that I've made, they were mostly the result of just messing around in Paint Shop Pro.

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Sunset

Weirdness

Patrick and Janelle in SF

WindowBlinds Skins

WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to change the appearance of Microsoft Windows, check out the web page here www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds

Way back around 1999 I found out about WindowBlinds and started using it. I soon decided to make my own skin. Overall it was fairly simple but mostly complete for the version of WindowBlinds that was available at the time (2.0).

Please note that the skin studio screenshots don't show the skins exactly the way that it should look. Mainly the menu bar buttons and the title bar in the Teal Fade 2 screen shots.

So here is my first WindowBlinds skin that I called Teal Fade
Teal Fade - Active Window Teal Fade - Inactive Window

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Teal Fade Screen Shot

 

I then started to make a more visually interesting skin but I only got it about half done since I lost interest in using WindowBlinds at the time.
As you can see the scroll bars look the same as my first skin since I didn't get around to making better looking ones.

This is my second WindowBlinds skin that I called Teal Fade 2
Teal Fade 2 - Active Window Teal Fade 2 - Inactive Window

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Teal Fade 2 Screen Shot

Some Other Random Stuff

My "Business" Card 2010

My Business Card
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My "Business" Card 2006

My Business Card
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