It's photoshop time again...

[flaninacupboard]

any chance someone more skilled with image creation than me could lend a hand? i'm trying to set up a website.

I'd like something similar to this:



with the yellow circle representing some flan (which i have thus far not found online....) and the left bit being a navigation bar. If the top part is about 900pix wide that's good, and some less gay colours would probably help

[thecoalman]

Not knowing what the hell a flan is I looked it up, I'm assuming it's some kind of custard pudding...????

How's this:


I can make some other simple things or incorporate this image. Just need a littel more specific info. How you going to use it? As a background??? One image? You need it split?

Edit needs a spoon handle....

[northcat_8]

I too am a little corn fused with what the hell you are talking about Flan....but I'm on it.

Are you wanting bright colors, dark colors, metalic look, gel look.....push us in a direction.

[IAIHMB]

You might want to give photoshop a shot when you get a chance, it isn't as hard as it looks. I'll give it a shot once I figure out what flan is. :P

Edit: Hrm, I've found a flan soup and a flan custard, which one is it? :P

[northcat_8]

I didn't know what a flan was either...I didn't assume it was anything.

BTW WTF is up with your screen name Flaninacupboard? Not making fun just seeking to understand

I didn't know what you were looking for so I just took off on my own. Decided to go with a blue/black gradient theme tonight...I threw some buttons on there and a header where maybe a banner advertisement might go.

Basically I was just ******* around until you told us what a flan was

Yea, I know the FLAN circle should be smaller...I just didn't resize it...well because Tera Reid is on TV and I got distracted.

[Conquest10]

BTW WTF is up with your screen name Flaninacupboard? Not making fun just seeking to understand

Don't you watch Eddie Izzard's comedy specials?

[thecoalman]

What the hell is a Eddie Izzard?

[northcat_8]

Eddie Izzard is a comedian who has a special on HBO called Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill. I watched about 2 minutes of it and it made me want to stick my tounge in an electrical outlet while standing in 5 gallon buckets of water.

EI is not my cup of tea...so to speak. Also, isn't he gay? If he's not he does a damn good job acting like it.

[Conquest10]

Also, isn't he gay? If he's not he does a damn good job acting like it.

No, no. He says it himself in the show. He's a transvestite. Transvestites fancy women. Its not drag queen, gay men got that covered. Its male lesbian.

[duffyr83]

flan is a latin desert, it looks like this:



sorry i would help you out but my optical mouse went dead, so i'm stuck using a touchpad to i replace it. i'm no good working with the touchpad, i can barely hightlight text :P

[flaninacupboard]

yeah, you americans are weird.....
flan is a savoury dish. it's a pastry crust with an eggy yellow mess in the middle. you stick in onions and tomoatoes and courgette and any other vegetables. it's basically a quiche, if you know what that is.

it's not "flawn" which is a sweet dish and totally different.

yeah, the user name comes from eddie izzard. i'll find an MP3 if you like.

Yor pic is a good start northcat, but a bit too fancy. i basically can't do curves very well, and wanted it all to have nice rounded edges. i'll try drawing another freehander but a bit neater. if the colours are just left solid for now i can change them or put gradients in afterward.

[northcat_8]

I'm alright on the mp3. When I heard it was an Eddie Izzard thing that was enough for me.

so you are wanting a picture of that in the upper left?

[tekkieman]

yeah, you americans are weird.....
flan is a savoury dish. it's a pastry crust with an eggy yellow mess in the middle. you stick in onions and tomoatoes and courgette and any other vegetables. it's basically a quiche, if you know what that is.

Real men don't eat quiche! :P





C'mon...someone had to say it!

[DVD_Ripper]

yeah, you americans are weird.....
flan is a savoury dish. it's a pastry crust with an eggy yellow mess in the middle. you stick in onions and tomoatoes and courgette and any other vegetables. it's basically a quiche, if you know what that is.

Real men don't eat quiche! :P





C'mon...someone had to say it!

Give me 6 eggs over easy, hash browns, 4 slices of toast and a side of angioplasty

[tekkieman]

yeah, you americans are weird.....
flan is a savoury dish. it's a pastry crust with an eggy yellow mess in the middle. you stick in onions and tomoatoes and courgette and any other vegetables. it's basically a quiche, if you know what that is.

Real men don't eat quiche! :P





C'mon...someone had to say it!

Give me 6 eggs over easy, hash browns, 4 slices of toast and a side of angioplasty

You forgot the sausage.

[northcat_8]

While we are on the subject of breakfast......

One thing that pisses me off is when you go somewhere for breakfast.

Pancakes = 3 silver dollar sized pancakes
Bacon = 2 strips
Sausage = 2 patties or 3 links
Milk,OJ,Tomato juice = 8 oz
Gravey and biscuits = 2 biscuits

Now if I can take just a minute to rant....WTF??? Am I the only one who looks at 2 strips of bacon like "you are joking right?" This is not breakfast you cheap ass corner cutting bastards. When I cook breakfast I cook at least a 1/2 a pound of bacon and usually the whole pound, my pancakes are 10-12 inches in diameter, I can only cook one at a time in a single skillet and I cook 5-10 of them. I cook a whole package of sausage...3 links is a ******* insult. Less than 6 eggs for breakfast??? Not in Northcat's house.
I know a resturant where I go (because they don't try to **** you)....I order a "truckers breakfast"...which is 2 eggs, you can get 4 if you sweet talk the waitress, 2 pieces of toast, fried potatos, 3 biscuits. This is all severed on a platter with sausage gravy poured over all of it. On the side you also get a bowl...A BOWL of bacon, which has 10-12 strips in it. The drink is 12-16 oz. You can get everything seperated but you know...what's the point. This whole meal...and it is a whole MEAL is $4.95.

Meanwhile, I go to Perkins against my own will but it was a department thing and didn't have a choice...I get 2 eggs, my 2 slices of bacon, 2 pieces of toast and a 8 oz glass of OJ for $5.99

You big business fuckers screwing people out of their ******* money giving a little spit on the dish as breakfast, who the hell eats what I got at Perkins for breakfast and is filled up until lunch??? Hell, I left there and cruised through McDonalds and got a couple of Sausage egg Biscuits to hold me to lunch.

The same thing is true about supper menus. Texas Roadhouse, while I like their food and I like their steaks...but damn, a steak, a baked potato and another side dish is suppose to fill up who? That's why places like the Golden Corral are popping up all over the place and are almost always packed. Our Golden Corral has all you can eat steak....the buffet is $11.99. They are losing money on me. But at least for $12 bucks I can get an entire ******* meal and I don't walk out of there thinking I would like a Big Bacon Classic from Wendy's.

Sorry to rant but dammit that pisses me off. Those little pussy assed servings...just infuriate me.

Bastards.

[northcat_8]

Also spare me the whole cholesterol, heart disease speech. I don't believe in it.

My grandparents ate bacon, eggs, buttermilk, etc every day of their lives. Hell my grandmother only cooked with lard (pig fat) and they lived to be 78 and 82 and neither died of anything heart related. Grandpa died from stomach cancer caused by the chemicals they sprayed on crops (they didn't wear respirators back then) and my grandmother got a blood clot in her leg that somehow got to her brain and caused a stroke.

I never once sat down at my grandmother's table where she didn't have bacon on the table.

I'm going to eat it, I like to eat it and if it eventually kills me then well...everyone has to die of something.

[Capmaster]

I'm with you on that rant northcat. It's insluting what they put in front of you for "breakfast". When I make myself breakfast at home, I usually make a 5-egg omelette or several over medium eggs, 5 thick patties of Owens hot & spicy sausage, two pieces of toast, and plenty of tabasco sauce on the eggs. I want to be able to belch, loosen my belt, and push back from the table with a glazed look in my eyes ......I'm not some little forest creature who can fill up on canteloupe and juice

[indolikaa]

I try to limit my daily cholesterol and fat intake to twice the recommended daily allowance. But when you have a wife that's as good a cook as mine, well...

McDonalds used to have this thing called a Bacon Cheddar Sausage McMuffin. I could have two or three of those for breakfast, with a couple of hash brown, and not think twice about it. And I wonder how I got to be 225 pounds...

[flaninacupboard]

I try to limit my daily cholesterol and fat intake to twice the recommended daily allowance. But when you have a wife that's as good a cook as mine, well...

McDonalds used to have this thing called a Bacon Cheddar Sausage McMuffin. I could have two or three of those for breakfast, with a couple of hash brown, and not think twice about it. And I wonder how I got to be 225 pounds...

My thoughts exactly!

I don't even eat breakfast....

[northcat_8]

well flan, I had a flan all drawn up but my notebook froze while applying a blur filter. I guess I should work in a size smaller than 2048x2048 on my notebook since it doesn't have near the RAM of my desktop

[flaninacupboard]

well flan, I had a flan all drawn up but my notebook froze while applying a blur filter. I guess I should work in a size smaller than 2048x2048 on my notebook since it doesn't have near the RAM of my desktop

now there's an idea

Don't worry about the flan, i'll snap a pic next time there's one in the fridge. i -should- be able to add it in myself....

[flaninacupboard]

just in case anyone was interested...

www.flaninacupboard.co.uk/flaninacupboard.avi

[tekkieman]

[northcat_8]

How's this? Better/worse.....that's probably the best "flan" I can make since I've never actually seen one on my plate...you bloody wankers eat some odd food.

[Doramius]

Heck, If I were into flan and had a website for it, I'd use your scheme. It's pretty good.

I do know what flan is and have had it. it's a bit sweet to my liking, but I also like thing with a strong tart that'll throw your lips on the back of your head. I love sour candies.

As for breakfast. I Buy eggs by the 18 count at the smallest. Usually the 5 doz. stay well in my fridge for a month. When, and if, I make eggs in the morning, about 6-8 are for me alone. I'll make them according to how I feel each day. Sometimes poached, over, scrambled, sunny-side, omelette, etc. I also find the best way to make pancakes is to get the 'just add water mix' and add about 1/2 cup extra powdered mix (according to the instructions for the fewest amount of pancakes to be made). I then add 1/4 cup milk. 8Tbsp of soft margarine or butter. And 2-3 large eggs. makes them a bit fluffier, tastier, and you don't have to line the skillet or gridle with grease.

5-6 pieces of bacon and maybe 6-10 sausage links. I don't like traditional patty sausage, unless mixed with tomato sauce for spaghetti. traditional link sausage have a less spicy and a more sweet taste to them.

And I gotta have a hearty portion of hash browns. I will say I like McDonalds HashBrown patties, but I always enjoyed homemade, skillet fried, diced browns.

[stiltman]

Flan

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=flan

[northcat_8]

my flan appears pretty bright yellow for some reason....it didn't look like that in Photoshop...at least I don't think it did.

That's what I get for Photoshopping sober

[Grimey]

I think Flan should provide a picture of flan as he knows it, so everyone knows exactly wha the hell he's talking about.

[northcat_8]

so if flan eats flan would that be considered canibalism?