CRAFT:

Make Your Own Handwriting Font

I used to write all the time as a kid and practice my handwriting over and over. These days, I'm lucky if I can read my own chicken scratch. Thank you to Jessica at How About Orange for pointing us to Fontifier. a site that can convert your handwriting into a font for just $9. Try it with your kid's writing or have grandma with that excellent penmanship take a whirl at it. Seems like a more personal way to create fonts to use in your design, photos, or craft projects. [ via ] Link.

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HOW TO - Make Patterns with Photoshop

Craft Chi expands on her great tutorial on how to design your own patterned paper with this one showing you how to create repeating patterns by using Photoshop. Link.

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HOW TO - Design Your Own Patterned Paper

Craft Chi shows you how to design your own patterned paper for scrapbooking or any kind of paper crafts. Amy recommends using label paper but you can also use a Xyron to make stickers or different sized paper/labels. Link.

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ROUNDUP: Cool Tools for Craft Bloggers & Digital Designers

Jessica at How About Orange shares her cool photo find, PicoBrowser, which lets you create slideshows of an entire Flickr photo set right from a blog post. - Link.

Lisa at U-Handblog tested out a cool free blog editor called Qumana. - Link.

Tina at Swissmiss links to Crestock's post on "The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources, & Cheat Sheets of 2007". I like this tutorial on ebin that shows you how to turn your ordinary photo, into a movie-like effect with Photoshop. - Link.

Veer points to some fun insect-shaped Photoshop brushes called Beautiful Buggers by Departika. - Link.

A German typography site called drweb.de has compiled a list of the coolest 35 free fonts available from around the web. My favorite so far today is Moderna above. Thanks Olivia! - Link.

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HOW TO - Style Your Photos

Taking a great photo may not be enough when you're trying to sell your goods online. SusyJack on Etsy shows you how to style your photos in her article, "Give Props". Link.

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HOW TO - Turn a Digital Photo into Watercolor Art

Donald of I Make Projects shows us how to turn a digital photo print into a beautiful watercolor through his technique of "reverse painting". Link.

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