Kenneth Ham » Photoshop

Texas A&M University – Kingsville Computer Science Website

kham — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:00:51 +0000

Main Website Template:

Teacher Website Template:

Tahoe Trucking Website

kham — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:12:53 +0000

This site was designed using a completely custom wordpress theme. The logo was completely redesigned and the header image was shot over the course of a few days and stitched together using Photoshop. Since this site was implemented with wordpress, the customer can edit the content like a Word document with no HTML knowledge required.

Site link: TahoeTrucking.com

DoveCom Website

kham — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:05:18 +0000

This site was a blank slate as far as projects go. While working for Integrity Communications, I was asked to create a website for a sister company called DoveCom that, at the time, had no logo, content, or identity of any kind.

With this in mind, I created a logo and layout that reflected the company’s name while at the same time using a few design trends of the time like reflections, gradients, and darker colors.

Dell Sweepstakes Hack (Dellf Project)

kham — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:39:39 +0000

Dell ran a Christmas themed contest a few years ago (2004-2005?) called the Dellf Sweepstakes. The idea behind it was pretty neat at the time: register your email address, fill out a CAPTCHA box, and you get three chances to win prizes.

The CAPTCHA design made it very easy to reverse engineer (an evenly spaced grid, solid background, unaltered text). By using the photoshop API and a custom written action I was able to take this:

and turn it into this:

From there, I sent the edited image to the Office API and did a quick OCR command to get the text from the image. Then, using the WebBrowser control, I scripted the actions to put the text into the web page and register an email address.

Here’s a view of the program in action:

It’s important to note that I didn’t collect any prizes. This project was more about the thrill of the chase and not so much the actual prizes. I ended up "winning" almost every prize including the grand prize, a 42in. plasma TV.

TAMUK 3D Campus Walkthrough

kham — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:59:03 +0000

This is a trailer for a 3D engine that I created to allow students to "fly" through the campus. The interface could be controlled using the typical WADS + mouse combination or by using an XBox 360 controller plugged into your PC.

The engine was created using C# and the DirectX API. The model was created using 3DSMax and Photoshop. Here are a few images that follow the project from inception to completion:

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