Tenacious Creations

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to the new and improve Tenacious Creations. I am taking this site a whole new direction. I plan to post useful tutorials for the average user, and maybe some for the not so average user.
I have a series of tutorials showing some neat effects in Photo shop and the Gimp for you to use on your own digital pictures. Whats the Gimp you say? Well it is an open source graphics manipulation software that (get this) is freely down loadable. Well it may not be as polished as Photo shop and it may have some limitations when it comes to commercial printing it is more than powerful enough for most tasks non graphic artists will want to do with there pictures.

Whats that you say? You don’t know where, or how to install the Gimp. Never fear we have an up coming tutorial on how to do just that in Windows XP.

Another series of tutorials we are tackling are all about Open Office. All inspired by a friend of mine who whenever I ask for a copy of some document informs me “Well I can’t give it too you it is in Open Office.” To which I always respond “Its all right I can open it.”.

If you the reader has suggestions for tutorials or questions please post them in the comments. We’d love to hear from you.

So what makes me qualified to write tutorials? Well nothing really other than I have finally come to realise that sadly I am a computer geek. While it is true I hold a bachelors in computer science and have worked as a professional computer programmer in past years it didn’t really dawn on me how much of a computer I am till recently.

You see many of my friends are average computer users with average computer user problems. When ever I hear them talking about their problems I can almost always talk them through to a solution. To which I am always asked “Well can you come over and show me?”. Most times for the price of a cup of coffee I agree. But I find showing some one is never really effective. More often than not when you show some one they end up forgetting and sometime in the future encounter the very same problem. I find if you teach them how to solve the problem, where to look for the solution, and how to fix it they tend to remember. Not only that, but if you teach them enough they start to solve the problems on their own. They are not always successful, but they have made the effort, and lets face it even the geekiest of computer geeks is not successful all the time either.

I look forward to you the readers comments on our future tutorials. I also look forward to hearing your suggestions for tutorials and maybe even some of you will submit your own tutorials.

I suggest you check back often as the tutorials will begin to be published shortly.

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