 Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog First let’s talk about the horizon line in visual art. If you’ve ever taken a beginner’s drawing class, one of the first things you’ll be taught when learning how to draw is to first establish your Horizon Line by drawing a faint horizontal line on the paper. In photography, the subject of today’s discussion, the same theory applies when framing through the viewfinder. A Straight Horizon is one of the first things taught in a beginning photography class ... Read Full Article & Get Tutorial Links
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Post for GCU Community Blog What are Layer Styles? These are wonderful non-destructive additions to an individual layer which allow editing at anytime without making any ‘effect’ permanent or un-editable. When working in layers, any blending options which are applied and combined ... Read Full Article and Get Links!  ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog We’ve chatted in the past about background removal, but some … in fact most photographs … need a bit of cleanup to make them worthy of the professional marketplace. Sunspots, unwanted hot spots, background bits which are distracting and even unclean lens can leave marks on your finished photograph. Remember the basic rule of thumb for photography: “If it doesn’t ADD to the overall image, it is distracting.” ... Read Full Article and get Tutorial Links  Introduction to Contrast in Monochromatic Digital Photos by SunAtNight Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog ... Though I’m glad to be out of a chemical darkroom, those dodging and burning techniques are still quite valuable and critical to the digital photographer. No matter our experience level, we all have photos that are taken ‘in the moment’ where we either could not modify the lighting, our position or offered no time to adjust the camera settings. Often those images are just too far gone, but just as frequently in the digital darkroom of today, these images can be turned spectacular using a variety of techniques ... Read Full Article & Get Links  Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I created a couple summer color palettes for you and have also provided links for you to learn how to create your own color palettes from photographs. This is a wonderful way to get inspiration for a new design ... Read Full Article & Get Palettes  Image by Sharon Bree© Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Keeping it simple this week with a focus on images to inspire Easter creations and some tools to get you started ... Read Full Article & Get Links  Image Courtesy of Kristen Kelly© Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog This will be the last Dash of Inspiration post until the 9th of January. I’m about to get lost in the holidays for a couple of weeks, the only time off I take the whole year, and I imagine most of you are as well. So I leave you this year with a White Christmas ... Read Full Article and Get Links to Brushes & More  ©rozairo.deviantart.com Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog Along with the Holiday Season, one of the largest selling greeting card occasions is Valentine’s Day, and this day of love is what we should be focusing our design efforts on for the month of October. So I pulled together some goodies for Photoshop, PSP, Elements & GIMP users so there is a little treat for just about everyone to help inspire new designs for the upcoming season of love ... Read Full Article & Get Links  GIMP Tutorial Clipping Masks & Overlays
Here is a great tutorial for my GIMP friends on using Clipping Masks and Pattern Overlays. This comes to us from the fine folks at Star Sunflower Studio. LEARN . CREATE . INSPIRE! View GIMP Tutorial  Fabric Textured GIMP Patterns
GIMP PATTERNS: For my GIMPY friends, here's a nice set of fabric textures with lots of uses. These come from StarSunFlower Studio! ENJOY! Download Textures |
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