Fire Font Photoshop Graphic

As you can see, I like to have some fun with Photoshop and I believe I made this when I was using Photoshop CS4 because I probably made this a couple years ago. I mostly used the tutorials below because using Google for tutorials is a HUGE help. Instead of making the font have a gradient in it (which I either purposely skipped that step, messed up, or both), I thought it would be cool to have all of the font be made of flaming awesomeness instead and used the liquefy feature (filter) to shape the letters... because fire is fierce! Enjoy!

http://photoshop-dragon.com/Tutorials/Text_Effects/Text_on_Fire.htm

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/fire-text/

Move Forward in the Presence of Tragedy

My response to all the recent tragedies is below... despite the pain we've seen on the news lately, we should still notice the beauty in life, move forward, and be as happy and positive as we can! Enjoy!

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Dear beautiful universe,

If you're all aware of this lovely little fact, the purpose of life is to promote beauty, but do you feel like 2014 has lately been suffocated with tears of blood, mass destruction, and suffering... and more than usual of such tragedies?

Tragedy is not and should not be the central circle of the meaning of life. Life is not some depressing black hole that people keep abusing, despite the fact that we need to acknowledge that life isn't all unicorns and rainbows and we need to know that "shit happens"...

From the mass murders in Israel, to headlines of constant gun violence, and even locking young children in the car, for crying out loud, despite all these terrible things happening, that shouldn't be society's main focus! Let's look past all of this awfulness, devise a solution for the problem, and move forward towards a hopefully bright future...

Unless you're actually in mourning, or even if you're terminally ill, there's no reason to sit there and complain how much the world sucks and how much people suck... complaining isn't going to get you farther than the next person who wants to sit there and witness or join your tirades of discussing depressing topics. The world is actually a happier place than you think. Not only that, but if you focus only on the negative, your world will be negative and vice versa... because according to my guru friend (who's a holistic doctor), life happens in two places: first in your head, and then in the outside world's reality!

There's a vast difference between educating yourself with what's going on in the world and wanting to watch the news or enjoying history in school/in general than submerging your life into the black hole that people struggle to get their pretty faces out of... that would be called a loop, and you don't want that, right?

Life is a game, life is worth living, and despite the constant tragedies of 2014, just keep smiling and keep your heart whole!

With lots of smiles, optimism, and positivity,
Rebs McDuxler :)

My Portfolio Website

My portfolio website is FINALLY at a point where it can be released to the public because it doesn't just have "testing 123" all over it -- www.rebeccaduxler.com --> Check it OUT!!!

This super awesome website (that I coded) is mainly for me to showcase and practice my programming skills, demonstrate my passions for IT and web development, have a "central hub" to show the world everything I do, and for self-marketing purposes.

Enjoy!