Hello Everybody

[ChatChai]

Hello Everyone. I'm new to the board. I've been looking for good forums for Photoshop and Illustrator because the Adobe forums seems very confusing to me. I like these threaded vBulletin type boards much better.

I'm fairly new to Graphic Design and I'm all self taught. Been doing some work personally for about a year now and I work now for a small family print shop where I help do some basic graphic design work. I work mainly with Illustrator and Photoshop and rarely use Corel Draw.

I'm hoping to find a lot of info here where I can learn more and maybe correct some techniques that I already have. Also I would love to contribute to give back to this community any way possible.

[Red Kittie Kat]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/welcomes/welcome44.gif


Nice to meet you ChatChai :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

Welcome aboard, ChatChai!!

[ChatChai]

Thank You. Is this a good place to be for more info on Illustrator and Photoshop? Or does this site lean more to other programs?

[SpugNothuson]

You're in the right place for the programmes you mentioned. We deal with pretty much everything here. Welcome aboard. :D

[morea]

Welcome to GDF, ChatChai.

When you have a few moments, please take a look over the threads posted here (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=42); they explain just about everything you need to know about GDF.

If you're not familiar with vBulletin forums there are some great tips to help get you acquainted posted here (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28801).

Enjoy your stay. :)

[ChatChai]

Welcome to GDF, ChatChai.

When you have a few moments, please take a look over the threads posted here (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=42); they explain just about everything you need to know about GDF.

If you're not familiar with vBulletin forums there are some great tips to help get you acquainted posted here (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28801).

Enjoy your stay. :)

Thank You. I"m reading them all over. I like to read all the stickies as they relate to me before doing any posting anyways. Thank you for all the info though.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Thank You. I"m reading them all over. I like to read all the stickies as they relate to me before doing any posting anyways. Thank you for all the info though.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!1 And I'm sure morea will thank you as well, since she put a lot of work into the FAQs.

I wish everyone would do that. :)

[budafist]

Welcome!

Here's a Welcome Chai to get you comfy :)

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/recipes/7278001165_chai-tea-recipe.jpg

[morea]

Thank You. I'm reading them all over. I like to read all the stickies as they relate to me before doing any posting anyways. Thank you for all the info though.

I think I love you. :D ;)

[Typically]

but what am i so afraid of!

[ChatChai]

I think I love you. :D ;)

ha, some of these stickies are pretty entertaining. Really artichokes? This oddly reminds me of those Montel Talk Shows where they show odd phobias. There was a woman that had a phobia of Jello and would just flip out. I know yours is not that extreme but funny either way.

[Craig B]

Welcome aboard.

[Ben Kessler]

ChatChai, welcome to the Forum!

[morea]

my fear of arti... you know - those - isn't actually a phobia so much as a desire not to eat them. It's terribly unfair because I've never actually given them a chance, but I'm a grown up now and I don't have to eat any vegetables that frighten me. :D

Glad you enjoyed the stickies, I tried to make them as enjoyable a read as possible. ;)

[budafist]

I don't eat artichokes because they look far too difficult to prepare and I believe they are also very very expensive. Too much work for not too much food.

I have had a lifetime loathing of eggplant but I ate some on Monday at my parents house. Mum stewed it with chunks of pork belly. It wasn't bad at all.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I've never even tried cooking with a whole, fresh artichoke. I would cook with the marinated hearts, but I don't think my fiancé likes them either, so I haven't bothered.

[budafist]

I don't mind the marinated hearts I guess. I've seen them on antipasto platters.

Just had a look and the price of artichoke hearts is $50 per kg. Just to give you an idea, that is the same price I would pay for crayfish. Pretty pricey for a vegetable! I could get 50 avocados for 1kg of artichoke hearts.

[garricks]

1 can artichoke hearts, chopped.
1 cup mayonaise
1 cup parmesan cheese
Mix together in a small baking dish. Bake at 350ºF covered for 20 mins.
Uncover and broil 5 more minutes. Serve with melba toast, party rye, etc.

See, Morea, their little hearts are already cut out, so they can't hurt you! :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

Just had a look and the price of artichoke hearts is $50 per kg. Just to give you an idea, that is the same price I would pay for crayfish. Pretty pricey for a vegetable!
Especially when you consider how much of that whole vegetable is inedible.

[budafist]

1 can artichoke hearts, chopped.
1 cup mayonaise
1 cup parmesan cheese
Mix together in a small baking dish. Bake at 350ºF covered for 20 mins.
Uncover and broil 5 more minutes. Serve with melba toast, party rye, etc.

See, Morea, their little hearts are already cut out, so they can't hurt you! :D

How much does a can of artichokes set you back over there garrick?

1 cup of mayo and 1 cup of cheese? 3 cups of ingredients sounds enough for 2 people for dinner, but geez, half a cup of mayo for dinner? Or is it only for snack kinda thing?

[budafist]

Especially when you consider how much of that whole vegetable is inedible.

Those are the price for hearts. I think the fresh vegetable is a few dollars per head.

[garricks]

US$2-3 per 14-ounce can, packed in water.
The recipe is just an appetizer. I usually serve it with several other types of appetizers. This one always has the serving bowl licked clean...Oh, and I put crumbled bacon into it too.

[Red Kittie Kat]

packed in water!!! Never!! Get them packed in Olive oil and chop them into a salad with bleu cheese dressing :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

^^^ notice I spared our darling Moreas feelings .. I did not say the vegetable that shall not be named :D

[garricks]

I understand what you mean, kitty, but for the recipe I posted further up, water-packed is fine. And less expensive. I mean, you're smothering the things in mayo and parmesan...isn't that enough fat???

[SpugNothuson]

the vegetable that shall not be named
Looks like I missed something in my abscence. We have a vegetable we're not alowed to talk about.

And we don't talk about it!?

Morea must've threatened some serious smackdown! :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

I understand what you mean, kitty, but for the recipe I posted further up, water-packed is fine. And less expensive. I mean, you're smothering the things in mayo and parmesan...isn't that enough fat???

who you callin fat badger boy??


:D


;)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Looks like I missed something in my abscence. We have a vegetable we're not alowed to talk about.

And we don't talk about it!?

Morea must've threatened some serious smackdown! :D


ok ... I shall type it .... but you must highlight it to see it ... Mo .. don't look whatever you do ;)


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[Virgo Nightingale]

Those are the price for hearts. I think the fresh vegetable is a few dollars per head.
Silly me, I missed the word 'heart'. :o