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Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Many of us like to work with old vintage images and they’re a great source for greeting card designs, but leaving a vintage photo or image as is and using it with all it’s faults does not usually make for a good greeting card. Cleaning up and improving spots, poor contrast, scratches and in general poor image quality does not mean you are losing the ‘vintage’ feel of the image and ... Read Entire Article 
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 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  ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Here’s a great tip: Even if you’re designs have the year as Custom Text, if you used a year that has gone by, take the time to update those cards. Any card that is out of date will be ignored by a large percentage of customers. I tend to ... Read Full Article and Get Links  © Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Today I offer a few links to some fun goodies that will inspire you to think about Dad while making your designs for Father's Day ... Read Full Article & Get Links  AFTER Blending ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog One of my favorite ways to create is to do so using many different bits and pieces of photographs to offer a visual image as a new derivative work. Of course to do this, you must become a ‘master’ at removing the background from an element. Though there are many tricks and ways to do this, the bottom line is unless the image you are ‘cutting out’ has crisp lines and a solid background in a color not in the section you wish to cutout … Read Full Article & Get Tutorials  by ~cat-woman-amy--stock Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog Definition from Reference.com: “Retro is a term used to describe, denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, modes, or fashions, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into American postmodern art, advertising, mass media, etc. has occurred from around the time of the U.S. industrial revolution to present day.” ... Read Full Article & Get Links  ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration
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  ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog The best time to create cards for ringing in the New Year is now! Get them into the review cycle with plenty of time to give the search engines the three to four months it takes to bring them to the forefront of those customers searches! Here are some fun brushes and styles ... Read Full Article & Get Links!  ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog For a bit on Spooktacular Inspiration and some great Halloween goodies for your tool box ... Read Full Article & Get Links |
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