“Hi! My name is Livia and I love design and photography which I've been doing for most of my life. I ♥ Canon cameras; Apple Macs; dabbling in Adobe Creative Suite software; and wrangling XHTML, CSS, basic PHP and Wordpress. Comic Sans and Papyrus fonts scare me. I ♥ eating out with friends. I really ♥ camels. Have you figured out what 'chamelle' means yet? According to some silly online quiz I am a 'hippie'. I believe in environmental sustainability, and like meditation and yoga (when I get around to doing it) so I guess it must be right ;) In October 2010 I moved to France to practise my French and nurture my love of foreign languages (and eat lots of yummy food!). Here, I found plenty of inspiration amongst all the beautiful places and things I see… In May 2011 I moved to Geneva, Switzerland and being a former Sydney beach girl, I am getting used to the beauty of the large lake and the mountains. This blog contains bits and pieces about my life and work. Hope you enjoy reading it, glad you made it this far. Please drop me a line, I'd love to hear from you!
Livia xxx
Copyrighting
This is a Wordpress site/blog. Chamelle Designs' Theme was proudly created FROM SCRATCH on an iMac and drawn with a Wacom tablet. It used the software Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Smultron and Firebug and was tested using MAMP and WAMP. All graphics here are original and created by Livia. Please do not steal or else you will be thrown into the sea as food for the hungry shark below. Please do not re-post any of these (copyrighted) blog images/photos/articles in part or full on your site without crediting and linking back here.
“Content-based scaling” for photos – woohoo! I actually read about this type of software about a year ago, and it was called Rsizr, except they called it “seam carving”.
From a quick read it looks like Photoshop and Illustrator are starting to look more “Macromedia-ish” that is taking a cue from those software programs (yes yes let’s not get picky. I meant the programs formerly owned by Macromedia). Example – tabbing in Photoshop which is similar to Flash/Dreamweaver/Fireworks, and drawing ‘blob’ method in Illustrator which seems similar to the way you draw in Flash, etc.
Random question: I know you are using wordpress for this blog, but have you tried any other platforms. I am trying to decide for my blog? and I ask because I like yours.
Regarding your question: I have tried Blogger/Blogspot before but not any others. Blogger is also great and easy to use for a beginner, but I wanted the ability to fully control and design my own theme (to integrate with my website) which is why I went with Wordpress. Also, it is free and some of the others (such as Typepad) you have to pay for. There are also heaps of Wordpress resources online to help you
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Random question: I know you are using wordpress for this blog, but have you tried any other platforms. I am trying to decide for my blog? and I ask because I like yours.
Hi Justin,
Regarding your question: I have tried Blogger/Blogspot before but not any others. Blogger is also great and easy to use for a beginner, but I wanted the ability to fully control and design my own theme (to integrate with my website) which is why I went with Wordpress. Also, it is free and some of the others (such as Typepad) you have to pay for. There are also heaps of Wordpress resources online to help you
Hope that helps!