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Creative Life

Fun With Photoshop – How To Ink and Color a Pencil Drawing in Adobe Photoshop

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Everyone dig out that little pencil sketch you’ve got stuck in a drawer or on a bulletin board.  You know the one, the one you want to add some color to, but you don’t want to mess it up.  Let’s digitize your artwork.  It’s easy!  I’m using Photoshop CS3, but this tutorial will work with [...]

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101 Ways To Use a Note Card

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101 ways you can use a simple note card to enrich your life and the lives of those you care about… Send a thank you note for a gift received.  Your mother always said to send thank you cards.  Your mother was right.  Everyone appreciates being appreciated. A friend is recovering after surgery, send her [...]

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Cultivating Doodles

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  Are you a doodler?  I am.  Let me introduce you to Pokey the baby dinosaur.  Pokey has graced the margins of my notes since junior high.  I draw him on napkins, on scraps of paper while I talk on the phone, on painfully blank dry erase boards and even on my websites for luck. [...]

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Learning to Paint Novels

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Before I sat down to write this article I looked up “writing for artists” on Amazon.  My search came back with dozens of books on basic grammar, technical writing and sentence structure for us language impaired visual artists.  This was disappointing.  I wanted to find references on learning styles and creativity that focused on cross [...]

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Making the Switch: PC to Mac

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My first computer was an Apple 2C.  My dad bought me a “drawing” program that let you color pictures like a digital coloring book.  It was crude, awkward, had only eight colors and was utterly magical.  My current computer is a brand new iMac, complete with Adobe Creative Suite 3, which allows you to color [...]

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Don’t Just Run… BE a Runner

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I am a runner.  I do not run fast or far, but I do run, and that is what counts.  Deciding to BE a runner instead of just going running was a breakthrough for me.  I removed the option of not going.  I could not BE a runner and not run.  It was a part [...]

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