©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I ran across this article Digital Artistry Series #1: Planning Your Work by Tom Ross and thought it worthy of sharing for this week’s topic. Because whether you are creating a greeting card or a masterpiece of fine art, the tips apply ... Read Full Article & Get Links
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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 ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I’ve created hundreds of Custom Front cards for GCU and as ALL design software, GCU’s personalization software has it’s own little quirks that you can learn to work around. So I thought I’d offer a few tips ... Read Full Article & Get Fonts! 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for GCU Community Blog Definition from Reference.com: “Retro is a term used to describe, denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, modes, or fashions, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again.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 Card by Maria Dryfhout, this image has great lighting, beautiful still-life setting, and perfect color! Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Food photography is one of the most difficult areas to master. So, if you choose to create a card using food as your imagery it’s imperative that you know HOW to take a great food shot. Here are some important things to remember when setting up a food shot ... 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 For a bit on Spooktacular Inspiration and some great Halloween goodies for your tool box ... Read Full Article & Get Links Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog 1) Poor Lighting Lighting can make or break a photograph, after all a photograph IS a collection of light. Harsh lighting causes washed out detail in the highlights (whites) and lens flare. Low lighting can cause color shifts, muddy blacks without detail, color noise and blurry edges due to camera shake. On camera flash often causes the a flattening ... Read Full Article! Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Overlays can be wonderful tools for making backgrounds, patterns and photo cards. There are two types of overlays. Those which are imagery and textures which you overlay onto a new image or color, then adjest the opacity to create a texture and/or pattern which you can use in many designs. Today I offer you tutorials if overlays are new to you and links to many ... Read Full Article & Get Links |
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