Web Designer/Developer, Storyteller and Lover of Technology

I'm a web designer/developer, writer and animator living in Birmingham Ala. I have been working in the web design/development field for 15 years. I am a founding member of the writing and animation team 5 Guys in a Garage who started JabTV.com. I have worked for various internet and media companies over the years including the now defunct Hecklers.com and al.com.

Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware Tools

Posted March 25th, 2010 by brad_strickland

Adobe has released a video on the new content-aware feature in Photoshop. Wow! If you do a lot of photo retouching this is a feature worth paying for.

Filed under:Adobe, Graphics, Mac Applications, Videos, Wow!

Flash Ads 101 – Questions to ask when building a Flash ad.

Posted August 13th, 2009 by brad_strickland

They are at times the bain of our web surfing experience. They are also a websites bread and butter. Online ads. If you are a starting web designer and someone asks you to produce flash ads for a client. You’ve never done a flash ad! Don’t panic, It’s easy. You just need to know what [...]

Filed under:Flash, Graphics, Web Design

Ask Adobe Why?

Posted September 15th, 2008 by

If you work in the web/print or video fields then you use adobe products. In the creative end of the computer industry they are the 800 l.b. gorilla in the room. Every wanted to ask Adobe why they did this? Why Photoshop does that? or just generally tell them to take a flying leap? Well [...]

Filed under:Adobe, Flash, Graphics