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What's been going on?! A bunch!

In case you've not noticed around here, I've been transitioning tutorials and photography related stuff over to PIXLS.US.

I built that site from scratch, so it's taken a bit of my time... I've also been slowly porting some of my older tutorials that I thought would still be useful over there. I've also been convincing all sorts of awesome folks from the community to help out by writing/recording tutorials for everyone, and we've already got quite a few nice ones over there:

So just a gentle reminder that the tutorials have all mostly moved to PIXLS.US. Head over there for the newest versions and brand-new material, like the latest post from the creator of PhotoFlow, Andrea Ferrero on Panorama Exposure Blending with Hugin and PhotoFlow!

Also, don't forget to come by the forums and join the community at:

discuss.pixls.us

That's not to say I've abandoned this blog, just that I've been busy trying to kickstart a community over there! I'm also accepting submissions and/or ideas for new articles. Feel free to email me!

I checked the first post I had made on PIXLS.US while I was building it, and it appears it was around the end of August, 2014. I had probably been working on it for at least a few weeks before that. Basically, it's almost been about 10 months since I started this crazy idea.

Finally, we are "officially" launched and live. Phew!

Help!

I don't normally ask for things from folks who read what I write here. I'm going to make an exception this time. I spent a lot of time building the infrastructure for what I hope will be an awesome community for free-software photographers.

So naturally, I want to see it succeed. If you have a moment and don't mind, please consider sharing news of the launch! The more people that know about it, the better for everyone! We can't build a community if folks don't know it's there! :) (Of course, come by and join us yourselves as well!).

I'll be porting more of my old tutorials over as well as writing new material there (and hopefully getting other talented folks to write as well).

Thank You!

Also, I want to take a moment to recognize and thank all of you who either donated or clicked on an ad. Those funds are what helped me pay for the server space to host the site as well as the forums, and will keep ads off the site. I'm basically just rolling any donations back into hosting the site and hopefully finding a way to pay folks for writing in the future. Thank you all!