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July 31, 2008

HOW TO - Design Mini Icons in Photoshop

Web Designer Wall zooms in and shows us how to design mini icons in Photoshop, including a handy photoshop file and mini icon set you can download. I used to do designs for mobile phones and zooming in is key! [ via swissmiss ]

July 30, 2008

HP's Free Online Digital Photography Classes

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If you are interested in digital photography, HP's got a bevy of free digital photography classes online. Current classes include: Share your family stories in albums and photo craft projects, Beginner's guide to saving, printing and sharing your digital photos, Adobe Photoshop for photographers, Create your own photo book (quick lesson), and more!

July 17, 2008

HOW TO - Giant Papercraft Gandhi

Just what I've always wanted for my desert cardboard sculpture garden: instructables user delappe created this tutorial for turning your Gandhi avatar (or any 3D avatar, really) into a cardboard sculpture. Via Collin @ MAKE.

Posted by Becky Stern | Jul 17, 2008 04:00 PM
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July 8, 2008

Food & Doll Photography by BoopsieDaisy

BoopsieDaisy creates beautiful and whimsical photo prints full of ultra-saturated colors, vintage doll parts, and food! Check out her shop for many more prints, and even some handmade dolls.

July 5, 2008

HOW TO - Make Wine Charms

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Crafty Daisies has a giveaway and tutorial on how to make wine charms. This one is great because you'll also learn how to make the actual hoop while also making your own charms using special ink jet shrink film.

July 3, 2008

HOW TO - Take Better Photos

BurdaStyle shares some helpful hints on taking better photos, which should be useful to crafters, bloggers, or anyone who likes to share their creations online.

June 19, 2008

HOW TO - Eliminate the Background in a Photo

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Pink Penguin has a quick Photoshop tip on how to eliminate the background in a photo.

June 2, 2008

HOW TO - Pixels to Painting

Will at Wubbahed writes:

Every year on vacation I like to do a big arts/crafts project. This year, I came up with a system that lets me turn digital photos into plans to make a painting of that photo.

This fantastic tutorial guides you through the image manipulation and painting process. I love it when artists use digital tools to make traditional work.

Posted by Becky Stern | Jun 2, 2008 02:00 PM
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High-Res Image Textures

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Smashing Magazine's recent texture contest resulted in a vast supply of beautiful high-res image textures that anyone can download and use in their projects. [ via How About Orange ]

Digital Design Tips & Tools Roundup

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My latest post on PC.com is a roundup of digital design tips and tools where you can find the best resources on design, Photoshop tutorials, color trends & palettes, and typography. It's a handy list to keep in reference!

May 26, 2008

Print Out a Pinhole Camera

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Want to print out a pinhole camera that uses regular film? Corbis has free patterns and instructions on their site featuring several different designs.

Posted by Becky Stern | May 26, 2008 03:00 PM
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May 25, 2008

Jing Project - Capture Images and Video from your Computer

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Danielle points us to Jing Project, a free and easy way to capture images and video with sound from your computer screen. It's great for making short craft tutorials or sharing ideas with others. You can take the video tour to get a quick idea what it's about.

May 19, 2008

Generations Photo Coasters from Old CDs

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Anitra of Coffee Pot people shows you how to recycle old CDs and turn them into generations photo coasters. Thanks Diane!

Critter Font by Craig Frazier

Swisss Miss found this critter font designed by Craig Frazier. Each letter corresponds to the first letter of the critter's name. "X" is for xenopus.

May 13, 2008

Advice to Sink in Slowly Postcards

University College Falmouth art graduates create posters containing advice to incoming students. These gorgeous posters are now available as a postcard pack!

Check out all the posters featured in the pack at this Flickr set.

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Advice to Sink in Slowly Posters

Posted by Becky Stern | May 13, 2008 02:00 PM
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Fun with Flickr

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Just posted on PC.com is my Fun with Flickr roundup sharing some of the fun things you can do with Flickr and your photos, from widgets to making wallpaper desktop calendars (shown above).

May 12, 2008

Woven Factory Photograph

Theresa writes in about the Raw Silk blog's recent project to realize a photo of a factory through weaving. The results are quite lovely!

Posted by Becky Stern | May 12, 2008 02:00 PM
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HOW TO - Create a Repeating Pattern

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On design*sponge this week is guest blogger illustrator and pattern designer, Julia Rothman. Here she goes through the steps on how to create a repeating pattern.

May 11, 2008

FontStruct - Build Your Own Modular Fonts

The HOW blog points to a new site from Fontshop called FontStruct, an online tool that will help you build your own modular fonts.

May 5, 2008

Injket Image Transfers

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The cool peeps at Photojojo got inspired by our post about Craft Chi's inkjet transfer stamping and created their own version using photos with their inkjet image transfers tutorial. I love the idea to transfer photos to a Moleskine notebook cover.

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