Learning New Stuff

It can be fun and frustrating . . . often within minutes of each other. I'm talking about learning new stuff, particularly computer stuff. I tried this new program for making simple flash files called mix-fx. It's simple, almost too simple because I haven't figured out how to edit a file you've already made...just start over is all I could come up with. It's also just about 20 preprogrammed effects for text and for the background with no combining multiple effects. Frustrating. I used Swish a few years back but they don't offer it for free anymore and I hate paying...plus, the learning curve for that was considerably higher than mix-fx. Here's a sample - it's the theme design for the series that we're doing for the rest of August.



See, even to make that work, I had to find the HTML code and insert it here. Fun, but I'm such a novice it's frustrating. Oh well, that's how you get better I guess.

The one thing I wish is that there were someone who had the desire and skills to learn and create this kind of stuff for the church...I'm no graphic artist, not a web developer, and even the baptism videos probably take me twice as long as someone else. But to get where I want this church to be, somebody needs to do it....it's about "excellence" - doing the best you can with what you've got.