I had an email today from Barry (have a look at Barry's personal site to see some of the projects he's involved in) about the caricature image I created for my header. I created the cartoon image of myself using befunky.com. BeFunky.com allows you to transform any image into multiple styles of artwork with the click of a button. There's no need to download any application as everything is done online and it's also done very quickly!

photo credit: Drew and Didi

After I created the cartoon image of myself I edited it in Photoshop to create the desired effects and also split the image into 2 pieces one for my header and one for my hand clasping over my nav bar.

What I've done is by no means brilliant but with a bit more work on Photoshop I'm sure you could come up with something very good. I did follow some youtube tutorials on creating a caricature image of myself but none of the outcomes looked anywhere near what I was able to produce using BeFunky.com in a couple of minutes.

It's great to get someone asking about something relating to something on my blog or indeed get any kind of feedback, as at least I know someone is having a look about on here

Something I wanted to do since I started using photoshop was to create either a chrome effect or some chrome text. I followed this youtube tutorial from and here's the result:

This is also the first image I uploaded to my iliveontheweb flickr account so i'll be using that store my images from now on just to save storage space on my server. It might not seem like a big deal now but when I add more and more sites at a later date it all counts.

I've also been making some progress with updating the default wordpress theme and hope to have something concrete up on this site in the next week. Again, I've been looking at minimising server space and the time it takes for my pages to load and may go with using as little images as possible and try to use background colours only. I haven't made a definite decision on this yet but I'll probably keep the look and feel of the design pretty minimalistic anyway so this is an option.