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My opinions and feelings lean more toward Nate's. It's not "One Nation under God"... it's "All nations under God". We have to be reaaaally careful any time we bring the flag into our worship spaces (not to say Never)... even if only to be sensitive…
June 17
"talent and time to do it right"... to me that's one of the biggest roadblocks we have to creating well-thought-out, excellent and meaningful dramas. Many good dramas we see on TV (or even in the theatre) take a lot longer than the traditional weekl…
June 17
great artwork and composition, Dan. deep honesty.
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June 4
Great idea, man. I'm envisioning a new position on our weekend media team! Keep it up
May 12
great stuff!
February 25
I've been waiting for someone to do "celebrate - He Lives" by Fred Hammond. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcpIHtZzQe8
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The name of your church / organization?
Ginghamsburg Church
How are you involved in worship?
Music, Media, Production, Creative Team, Planning Team, Volunteer
An aspect of creative worship you are passionate about?
Graphic Design and Announcements/church updates
A challenge when planning creative worship?
Quick turnarounds... multiple responsibilities
A favorite creative moment in worship?
Using puppets to deliver church updates!
A favorite quote or scripture about creative worship:
"You're gonna die" Might as well be creative, right?
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Media Team Field Trips

As a media producer, I can get stuck in front of my computer. It's easy nowadays with the newfound glories of animation to spend hours by yourself, editing series promos frame by frame. I love sitting through tutorials and learning new techniques. I could critique TV commercials for hours...

However, I am boldy reminded on a daily basis how important it is to bring others in to the equation. If shear workload doesn't instigate delegation, then the idea of discipleship and inclusivity should. As… Continue

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 4:40pm — 2 Comments

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photoshop - play with text - creating logos

Greetings! Let's go through some basic steps to creating a logo.

MOST logos will be used for print... which would require CMYK color mode, and 300dpi. However, in this instance, the Creative Worship Tour logo would be primarily used on-screen... so my document size is as follows:



Create a new document with t… Continue

Posted on November 4, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

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Photoshop - color desaturation



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Posted on September 15, 2009 at 10:15pm —

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photoshop - adding depth

Depth. Creating Z-Space on a flat screen... one of the many wonders of digital art. Shading and gradients (and a couple of neat tools) help us go from this:


to this:

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Posted on August 18, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

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Phototshop - Creating Text Effects

The FX button for layers in photoshop is small, so it's easy to miss. More than anything, the knowledge of its presence will be your greatest "takeaway" from this tutorial. Let's play around with some of its funcitons...

FIRST, create a new document. At Ginghamsburg, here is the standard for every graphic that goes on screen:

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Posted on June 16, 2009 at 2:48pm —

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At 12:04pm on March 9, 2009, Allen Nikdoost said…
Wow, sorry it took so long to get back with you. I will home Friday May 15-20 for a short homeleave. Unfortunately I have spring break in D.C. and april is our senior trip so that leaves me with graduation time. I am going to keep the email address you gave me and try and keep in touch. This site is blocked unfortunately but feel free to get ahold of me at anikdoost@mvacademy.org.
At 9:49pm on January 9, 2009, Allen Nikdoost said…
Hi Dan,
My name is Allen and happen to live right up the street from Ginghamsburg. I attend a boarding school in Mt. Vernon and direct the media team there most of the year however. I was really wondering if you would be willing to teach me how to make graphics as nice as Ginghamsburg does sometime when i'm home. I wanted to go to the little bootcamp that Ginghamsburg put on but I was at school. Just so you know:
Mt. Vernon Academy is a Christian boarding school
We run various outreach ministries & have several worship services
That's pretty much it... thanks for your time, -A.N>
 
 
 

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