Gloria's Niche




  A Little History of This Site

Started about January of 2001
a few months after I joined a site called the Playroom
hosted by a company with the name of MyFamily.com.
One of the purposes of the Playroom was to help people learn HTML and to
set up their own websites.  Another purpose was to get us working with
our graphic editingprograms. 
We got a scanner and with it came a copy of an editing program called
Adobe Photoshop LE.  Gradually I learned to  use that to edit my scanned photos.
Later We bought an editing program called Adobe Photoshop Elements and that is
the one I use most of the time now.
  A friend named Ann from the
Playroom first helped me get this site set up about 2001, and now in 2005 I can handle it by myself.




Christmas Recipes




I made some background
swatches with Photoshop.
The carpet like ones have come in quite handy as backgrounds.

The middle bunch are specialty
backgrounds made with a Photoshop Plugin called Splat. there are links at the bottom of the pages
to pages of flower, food and
miscellaneous backgrounds.

Terrazzo is a plugin
for Adobe Photoshop,
which I used with Adobe
Photoshop Elements.

Graphic Quilts

Bells
Frogs
Easter
Spring Flowers

We first in the Playroom learned to make graphic" quilts"
in which we had our friends make little squares with pictures
on them on a set theme and we set them up on web pages
in little squares in tables so they would look like quilts.
My first one was using bells at Christmas.

I like to collect frogs so I made a frog quilt. This
was the first time I drew something with Photoshop,
did the frog at the top of the page. In the spring of 2002
we worked on quilts a lot and I was able to add one for Easter
and one of spring flowers.



Links to Friends Websites
Some of my friends have websites also
and I made a page of links to their
websites.

Graphic
Gallery
These are some pictures I drew from scratch
using Adobe Photoshop Elements and a how to Draw book. Most are birds and other animals.


misc. graphic and other links

These are links to
my favorite sources
for graphics and other things.
Some of the sites linked to may be closed.


Photoshop Quickmask Tutorial(Photoshop 5 and later)
One way isolate a part of a picture in order to
move just that part or delete it you can fill the place where it was with something else.

Photoshop Horizontal Type Mask Tool Tutorial
How to make text that is part of your picture but is raised.

Snowglobes
I made my first snoglobes in Photoshop and put them on another page.
A "snowglobe"
is a circle or
other shape colored
to look like glass.
Onto that you put
a picture of some kind so it looks like it is inside the glass.
You can then add some kind of fancy
"base".

Armadillo
 Poem
At an Elderhostel my husband and I went on
in Long Beach, Washington,
there was a fellow elderhosteler who had written a poem about his battle with an
armadillo. He gave me permission to put it on a web page.

Santa Fe
Forest Hike
My husband and I spend a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico most years.
In 2002 we went on a hike on one of the trails in the national forest
that is nearby. I had my single use camera with me so took a pictures
for a web page.

Alaska Trip
Washington/Alaska trip 2002

In the summer of 2002 we we attended an elderhostel in Long
Beach Washington, then drove to Seattle, flew to Anchorage, then boarded the Dawn Princess and cruised to Vancouver, Washington, then flew back to Seattle and drove home.
Here are some of our pictures

Trip to Phoenix, March 2004
and
Encanto Park, Phoenix
To visit our daughter and
see our grandkids.
(pictures)


Yellowstone
Elderhostel

With our granddaughter Adrienne
Elderhostel/Glenn Miller Festival
June, 2004
(pictures)

A walk in the Park (Pictures I took)
Centennial Park,
North Platte, Nebraska
Genealogy
I have a start on including the genealogy and family history for both me and my husband, but have a long ways to go.

About Nebraska

Santa Fe Trip
Pictures 2004