Happy T.G.I.F guys! I hope you are having a wonderful start to your day! Today is another hustle day for me. I have my training at 6pm, because my health is one of my top priorities for this year. I want to reach my goal of 150 lbs, but also maintain it for life. Maintaining it is harder than losing it, but its doable. Tonight I will finish editing/upload my fitness vlog on some of the meals that I currently eat and that have helped me lose weight. You can find it on YouTube: Alondrita Fitness. After that, I need to clear out my memory cards and prepare my camera for tomorrow’s 15era photoshoot. I plan to go to bed early so I can wake up at 5:30 to get my workout done early. I hope you guys have a productive day, remember if you are not doing tasks that will get you closer to your goals and dreams it’s time to change that! Have a blessed day and let’s go out there and get creative. #AL_Designs #TheCReativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #TGIF #TheGrindIncludesFriday

Hey guys! Today is Thursday’s Designer Tip. But I want to start with a quote: “Creativity is nothing but a mind set free.” –Torrie T. Asai. In the design world or any creative industry the main ingredient is creativity. If you are a designer, photographer or and other creative person you know first hand that there are times when you are lost for ideas. So what do you do when that happens? I do the following 1) I will search online for design ideas and see what others are doing, 2) I open up my program #illustrator or #photoshop and begin designing something, I usually start with my text and advance from there. I noticed that as soon as I create one design a new idea pops in my head and eventually I have 4-5 new designs. The 3rd thing that helps me is hiking, when I am out in nature my mind tends to clear out, I feel relaxed and stress free, I breath in clean air, I listen to sounds and quietness of my surroundings, I let the fresh breeze hit my face. By not stressing myself out about p

Hey guys! Here are Wednesday’s Words of wisdom: Not every day is good. But there is something good in everyday. I agree with this 100%. Somedays are better than others, but there is still something we can be thankful and grateful to have or experience even on bad days. Even the simple things we take for granted like: another day of life, our eyes to see, feet & legs to walk, hands to grab, ears, mouth and our brain and it ability to learn and think. The trick in life is to stay as positive as much as you can. Have a blessed day and lets go out and get creative. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #Positive #Positivity #WednesdayWordsOfWisdom

Happy Tuesday everyone! Here is Tuesdays #photography tip. When shooting sports, make sure you have a shutter speed of 600 and above. This will guarantee that you freeze the action. You can set your camera to shutter priority (S) on #Nikon and (Tv) on #Canon With shutter priority you dial in the shutter speed and the camera will set the corresponding aperture based on your ISO. Remember on a nice sunny day keep the ISO at 200. Now go out there and practice! Play with different speeds. If this helps you connect with me and let me know. Twitter @al_designs Instagram @alondralopezphotography Facebook Alondra Lopez Designs #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #PhotographyTip #ShutterSpeed #Sports

Hey guys! Happy Monday and welcome to a new month! A month with 30 new days to work hard, smart and with passion. Here is your Monday’s Motivation: If you dream big it won’t cost you any more than if you dream small, so you might as well go big. I like that statement because its true, dreaming costs us nothing yet we always limit our thoughts of dreaming big. We think we can never accomplish that or we are crazy for even think that. But guys we have to dream big, that is the only way we are going to get anywhere in life. Since this is a new month it is the perfect time for you to set your goals for the week/month. These are a few of my goals for the week: daily reading, diet and workouts on check, lose 2lbs, film my fitness vlog update, finish editing my family vlog, take more photos and apply to more openings. I invite you to set your goals and to increase your dream size. Get at it, dream it, set it and work at it! Have a blessed day! #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog

Hey guys! This is the last Friday of the month so make it count. How was your month overall? Take a look back at your month and #1 count your blessing #2 ask yourself if you accomplished your goals for the month #3 did you try something new?. My month was a good month, came up short on a few goals, but I have another day of life to tackle them. I set deadlines for myself even on non-paid projects like my family vlog on #YouTube called Salvajes Al 100 and my fitness #vlog Alondrita Fitness so that I am disciplined in creating the content. I hope you guys give the last Friday of the month 100%. Have a blessed day and let’s go out there and get creative. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #TGIF #FridayMotivation #TheGrindIncludesFriday

Hey guys! Today is Thursday’s designer tip! When I create graphics my main design program is Adobe Illustrator. I use Illustrator because it creates vector files (a digital graphic file that its made up of many lines and curves or better known as paths). With a vector file you can stretch out your design as big or small as you want without losing resolution quality. When I edit photos, I use Photoshop because PS creates a Raster image (an image composed of pixels). You can design in either programs, I just prefer Illustrator for designs and Photoshop for photos. When I open up a new Illustrator file, I create the document using the final size of the project including the bleed when required. For example, a business card is 3.5” x 2” if it does not require a bleed I make my doc size 3.5” x 2”. If my card requires a bleed my doc size will be 3.75” x 2.25” giving me a .25” bleed for trimming. Inside the card I will also keep an inner safety border of .25” all around. I work with layer so

Hey guys today’s Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom are a of a great poem I read in a book and I like to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it. Be Deaf when Someone Says You Can’t Grant Cardone Be deaf when someone says you cannot do it! Be deaf when someone says it is impossible! Be deaf when anyone tries to put limits on you! For these people who make efforts to limit you and suggest that you cannot fulfill yours dreams are dangerous people. These people have given up on their dreams and seek to convince you to do the same. And do not be confused by them when they suggest that they are only trying to help you! Help is not what they offer. What they really seek to do is have you join the ranks of slaves, the apathetic, and the hopeless. Be deaf to all of them. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #WednesdaysWordsofWisdom #poem #wisdom

Hey guys! Here is your Tuesday’s photography tip. When shooting outdoors on a nice sunny day we already talked about setting an ISO of 200, but it is important to always meter for the sky first so that when you take your photo your image will have a nice blue sky vs a blown out white sky. Here is how you do it, set your camera on auto, yes is said auto. Now point your camera to the sky (where its all blue and no clouds) press the shutter half way down, this is when the camera meters its surroundings. Now take the photo, preview your photo and check the setting that your camera set. Now switch back to manual mode or aperture priority and dial in the settings your camera set in auto. You have now metered for the sky and you are ready to shoot. Enjoy this quick tip, go out and practice and if you have any questions lets connect on twitter @al_designs | Instagram @alondralopezphotography | Facebook AlondraLopez.Designs | Youtube Alondra Lopez Designs. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #T

Your well being physically & mentally should be your top priority. We live in such a busy time right now, that we neglect to take care of ourselves. We look out for other first before we tend to our personal needs. I’ve seen it amongst my family and friends, heck I am guilty of it myself. We need to stop that cycle. If you don’t put YOURSELF first there is going to come a point where you wont be able to care for yourself or anyone else. That is the worst thing you can do, because life is about helping each other and caring for each other’s wellbeing, but if you are not at your best physically and mental how can you help others? Today I invite you to stop for a moment and ask yourself a few questions like: What can I start doing today to improve my quality of life and health? What are the areas physically or mentally that I am in need of help? And by taking care of myself first how many more people can I help? Taking care of ourselves first is hard, but it is doable and so important for