Monthly Archive for February, 2009

Rounding Corners in Photoshop

I’ve tried several ways of rounding corners in Photoshop and sometimes it just seems like it doesn’t look quite right…until now.  The Graphic Designer I work with found this link with great instructions to help make this task an easy one

http://matthom.com/archive/2004/09/10/fast-rounded-corners-in-photoshop

by Michael Shead

Part Style Guide, Part Mood Board

How do you present the look and feel of a sermon, ministry or event brand? Do you find a carefully crafted brand being stretched or shredded by an over-zealous team member? Here are two excellent examples of style guides, almost “mood boards,” created by a church in Cincinnati. Would something like this help you communicate or defend your branding decisions?

(Backstory: One of my clients, a church in northern Kentucky, has twice partnered with Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, to do the same teaching sereis. I get access to all the graphics created for this “shared” series. I take the predetermined brand and apply it to all of my client’s collateral.)

RESET style guide

KINGDOM style guide

CONSUMED style guide

A church and a Hooters restaurant?

I read this article and was reminded of how we are to be in the world, but not of it while being salt and light. Salt must come into contact with something else other than salt before it can season or preserve. Light shining in a lit room does little. Light shining in darkness brings hope, directs and changes the situation.

Read about how Rice Temple Baptist Church and how they built a relationship with a Hooters restaurant and loved the workers as Christ loved.

Read it here.

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by Michael Shead