Hi, my name is Reinier van Antwerpen. On the internet I am usually known as Judobreaker.
Welcome to my photography and graphics blog.

Name: Reinier van Antwerpen
Nickname: Judobreaker
Email: info@judobreaker.com
Location: Holland
Hobbies: Photography and Photoshop

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Software: Photoshop CS4

My work:
I like to just go out into nature somewhere and make my photos there. People also ask me to take photos on special occasions now and then.
Besides making photos I also like to manipulate them now and then just for fun.
I also design websites whenever someone needs one. A friend of mine started his own website business recently and wants me to do the layouts.

How did I get into photography and digital graphics:
My first encounter with Photoshop was in the time I had started playing a bit with html and websites, somewhere around the year 2002.
My dad had a computer with Microsoft Frontpage on it and he got me a little web space on our home server.
After a while I discovered that people made a lot of nice layouts using Photoshop. A friend of mine happened to have a copy of Photoshop 6 so I started practicing with it a little.

I stopped working on websites after a while when I got into online gaming around 2003. This did not stop me from using Photoshop however, as signatures are a very popular thing on game forums. I have had a lot of practice making signatures for other people.

About a year later I started working on a website again. A classmate of mine had a website and I thought it was fun so I started creating my own again and because I had practiced a lot with those signatures I was now able to create layouts which I liked a lot more then the ones I made before.
Because a lot of people from the online game forums I visited a lot asked me if I could help them with Photoshop I decided to make a website with Photoshop tutorials.
I started writing a tutorial now and then and the reactions I got from them where really positive.

The positive reactions I got on the tutorials and the fun I had writing them made me decide to officially launch a graphics website of my own, not with some free domain name but with a serious commercial domain.
I launched this site on March 21, 2006.
The site got quite popular amongst the few sites I visited regularly and my msn friends. Because of this I started regularly updating the sites code, which gave me a lot of html and php practice.

Because I wanted the site to cover a lot of Photoshop knowledge I started doing some photo manipulations so I could make a few tutorials on those.
Photo manipulation had always been something I really liked but I never really tried it before. It turned out to be at least as much fun as I thought.
Because of this I started using photos more regularly in all of my Photoshop works.

In december 2007 I decided to buy a photo camera so I could start making my own photos which I could then use in my Photoshop works.
I didn’t shoot a lot of photos but whenever we went walking in nature or to a museum I took the camera with me. Who knew, maybe there was something nice to use in Photoshop.

During 2008 my interests slowly started to shift a bit more to photography itself, which at last got me to the point where I had two hobbies instead of one: Photography and Photoshop.

Other interesting facts:
I’m colorblind.
Yep, laugh if you want to, this photoshopper is colorblind. It’s kind of annoying now and then but it also gives some interesting results.