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Greeting Cards as Client Gifts
The act of giving a greeting card instead of simply sending an advertisement to a client is a very powerful tool in creating a bond between customer and business. Too often this tool is wasted by missuses, and if not done correctly it can actually breakdown the relationship.

Choosing the right card is the most important factor! This is an opportunity to make a real impression on your client. This is an opportunity to make them feel valued and appreciated. Sending a card with a picture of ...
Author: Meredith Gossland of lastingImpressions2.com
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Bad photos turned masterpieces
Taking pictures if you are not a professional is really something you find very difficult and frustrating. Something wrong always turns up. It can be the shot is askew, or the focused out of line. And when you finally got the position right, the picture blurs. These are the results you get for spending too much time looking for the right picture and giving so much effort in your new found hobby that is photography.

Being a beginner and an amateur photographer is really exasperating. You f ...
Author: Florie Lyn Masarate
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Photoshop Files and Formats
People often ask me: What image file formats will Photoshop open or save in? What are the advantages/disadvantages?

Photoshop has the capability to open and save many different graphic files. Here are some of the most popular ones.

Note: When you open an image file other than a Photoshop one, that image will default to the background layer.

.psd, .pdd, .eps
Photoshop File. This format preserves the information in all the layers. If you're going to continue working with a ...
Author: Shaun Pearce
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6 Fatal Design Flaws “Newbie” Web Designers Make:These Mistakes Will Kill Your First Website Baby
Even if you’re not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago—you’re teaching yourself web design and you’re starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. You’re so excited about your new bag of tricks—but slow down partner, sometimes less is more. In fact the only time more is more is when it concerns chocolate cheesecake or something like that. (I can never get enough chocolate!)

You’ve worked hard to get the traffic—now ...
Author: Mitone Griffith
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The Proper Way to Put Text Over Your Images
One must be very careful in using photos as backgrounds. If you are planning to have text written atop an image, you must have had acquired the needed software as well as the know-how required in this task. It’s not good to drive your car without the wheels on.

A good way to make you text readable is to lighten your background photos as much as possible in order to give greater emphasis on your text. For this purpose we have particular tools that can be of aid for this task.

Adob ...
Author: Ariel Velasco
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Tools of the Trade: Photo Editing
With digital cameras becoming a hit not only to professional photographers, it is understandable that creations of digital image files are also increasing. It is actually the magic of being able to manipulate your photos – edit and organize them and make certain special effects that digital image files become interesting and essential. In order to keep in line with the best and easiest ways of editing, organizing and storing digital photos, latest software application programs for digital photo ...
Author: Lala C. Ballatan
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How to Put Colors in Your Photograph
Wouldn’t it be nice to see your black and white photos in full color? Learning to create and edit old photos is fairly easy and very worthwhile. Digitally restored photos can be used to make digital scrapbooks, posted to Web sites, shared through email, and printed for gift-giving or display.

To achieve this effect, we will need to colorize using Paint Shop Pro. According to Bill Brewer, “colorizing is a feature built into PSP that keeps the luminance values (the bright and dark parts tha ...
Author: Paul Hood
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Print Shop Deluxe empowering users to do publishing
Professional and business-looking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that it's a lot of work for me.

Broderbund's "The Print Shop" has been doing that for its clients, particularly users who need a quick, easy and affordable way to do basic publishing activities.

Now comes another version of the popular Print Shop program that lets you design or adapt over 11,000 templates of everything--- fr ...
Author: Granny’s Mettle
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Top 5 Free Photo Editors for Windows
If you’re really on a budget, you will be glad to know that there are many free photo editors out there ready for your download. These programs give you basic image editing features to perform standard photo enhancement tasks. I’ve compiled a list of 5 free photo editing programs for Windows which you may like to look at. Do take note, however, that some of these programs may be limited in features unless you buy an upgrade version.

The GIMP
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is ...
Author: Gary Hendricks
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A Guide to Touching Up Your Digital Photos
One problem I faced when starting out with digital photography was how to touch up my raw digital images. Perhaps an image was slightly dark, perhaps it had to be rotated or cropped. Digital photos usually require some form of manipulation before final output. So here's a short guide which I've compiled to help you touch up your photos.

Step 1: Start Up Your Image Editor
The first step, of course, is to fire up your favorite image editing program. For beginners, it's best to get a prog ...
Author: Gary Hendricks
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Simple Graphic Design
THE TIRES ARE TURNING BUT YOU ARE GOING NO WHERE

Sound like a familiar story?

So you've got a great concept or idea but you just can't seem to get it down. You have been working on your computer for hours, days, weeks but just can't seem to accomplish anything concrete.

STOP. Think about it! How can you realistically create an effective graphic design if you don't know what you are trying to create? Take a breather and think about what I am about to suggest to you. Let’s s ...
Author: Robert Kennedy
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Publish a web album using Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Dreamweaver- Part 3
So now we have you pile of images looken real good, nicely organized in directories with an index.htm file, nice. Are we ready to publish this on the net? Well, yes…but. There always is a but. Here are a couple of suggestions that will help you enhance your online photo album.

1)Make sure your album (folders and all) are in the correct location with the website contents that you publish from, usually it is best to create a new folder in the root of the domain that will display the photo a ...
Author: Robert Kennedy
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Ten Tips for Affordable, Efficient Holiday Decorating When You’re Busy & Broke
Fall is harvest time so take advantage of the bounty of nature. It’s Thanksgiving time, so take advantage of the generosity of others. Some clever hunting and gathering can help you save time and money and still have a festively decorated home for the holidays.

1. Gather branches, leaves, seed pods, pine cones, acorns and anything else from your yard that fits with the fall color scheme.

Even without a glue gun you can arrange attractive centerpieces and mantel displays.

2. ...
Author: Susan Dunn, MA, Personal Life & EQ Coach
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Versatile webcam software.
Willing Webcam 2.9, as the name makes it clear, is a web camera software application that makes it possible to broadcast video or pictures over the Internet. Besides web cameras, the program also works with camcorders and digital cameras that have FireWire, S-Video or Composite output, USB based video capturing devices as well as IP Network Cameras with JPEG output.

Willing Webcam 2.9 can be used for a variety of applications. Program’s motion detector and sound/e-mail alarms, time lapse ...
Author: Oleg Detistov
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12 Tips for Creating an Artist Website that Sells
Summary
Here’s the scoop on what you must know when designing a website to showcase your art, impress galleries, and win over collectors. Learn how to avoid the mistakes most emerging artists make when creating their online portfolio.

1. You need an artists website

Any artist who can classify themselves as either “emerging” or “mid-career” will definitely benefit from having their own website to promote their work. At this stage of your career it is important to be able to have ...
Author: Josse Ford
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Ten Traffic Jamming Ways To Cleverly Promote Your Website

Website promotion is a crucial activity in web commerce that you must learn to master.Your website is your public face and should be made prominent from the very start.The more people who come to know about your site, the more visitors you'll get.

Increased web site traffic means more potential sales and an growing numbers of customers. Here are a ten key tips to increase your site's visiting traffic.

1. Register Your Clever Domain Name.

People will never forget catchy ...
Author: Ross Storey
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How Using A Drop Capital Increased My Ebook Sales By 40%
You will often find me with my head in a book, studying the marketing and copywriting experts from the past.

It was whilst reading one such book, that I discovered how using a drop capital, can increase readership of advertising.

The book was: 'Ogilvy On Advertising' - by David Ogilvy

In the book, Ogilvy, an advertising and marketing legend, discussed the merits of using a drop capital (also known as a drop initial).

Ogilvy was renowned for producing advertising whi ...
Author: Jason Lewis
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Start Up a Travel Photography Business
Too many people have the idea that being paid to take photographs of exotic places is the ideal job. It may take years of effort to be paid by magazines such as the National Geographic, but are there better ways to become a travel photographer. As most people have more leisure time, more holiday time, and more disposable income, the demand for travel photographs has increased dramatically. Not only are they in demand for travel brochures, but they're also used extensively in other advertising co ...
Author: Roy Barker
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How to Save an Image in a SQL Server Database?
Most of the web applications have a lot of images used in it. These images are usually stored in a web server folder and they are accessed by giving the relative path to the file with respect to the root folder of the website. .Net being the platform for distributed application now, ASP.Net can be used to store images that are small to be stored in a database like SQL Server 2000 and later versions. For this purpose the SQL Server database provides a data type called “image” which is used to sto ...
Author: Balaji B
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Travel Photography

To many people the idea of being paid to take photographs of exotic places is the ideal job. It may takes years of effort to be paid by magazines such as the National Geographic, but are there better ways to become a travel photographer. As most people have more leisure time, more holiday time, and more disposable income, the demand for travel photographs has increased dramatically. Not only are they in demand for travel brochures, but they also are used extensively in other advertising copy ...
Author: Roy Barker
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