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Question by curious cat: What graphics software can I use to design Primitive Country Clip Art for web pages and business logos?
I really like the look of the country primitive graphics and would love to know how to make them myself.
Are there tutorials out there that demonstrate how to go about creating such a clip art style….with tips and techniques?
Is one software better than another for this type of usage?
I am not a professional graphics person, but a hobby crafter. So, software for someone without a detailed graphics background might be better.
Any and all info is helpful! Thank you!

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Answer by ranten
Hi…

Really don’t know what exactly is “Primitive Country Clip Art”.

But for your software needs, you might want to check out these two OpenSource softwares for starters.

InkScape is a free Vector Art software, that does ths same things as the costlier Adobe Illustrator.

GIMP is a image editing software, similar to Adobe Photoshop.

You can get the here:

http://www.inkscape.org/

http://www.gimp.org/

Both have online tutorials and help forums…which I am sure you can easily find.

Hope that helps

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Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (New Rules Social Media Series)

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The LEGO Stop Animation Video Camera is a great way to capture both regular video and make awesome Stop Animation videos for any LEGO fan, big or small! Use the included LEGO Stop Animation Studio software to edit the videos you capture or hook your camera up and use the included tripod and two LEGO mini figures to create amazing Stop Animation videos. It’s easy to upload your video creations to YouTube using the LEGO Stop Animation Studio software to share them with family and friends.

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Ny TV Festival, Boston Film Festival, Temecula Valley Film & Music Fest, Business of Film Conference 2008, Gene Autry Film & Music Festival, New York

IMFF Cinedays M, taking place in Skopje through September 7, celebrates the past, present and future of the music and film. The Festival’s focus is on music-related content, including feature films, documentaries and short films submissions that have an emphasis on music – rock, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, punk, pop, reggae …. old and new. River View Players based in Harlem open a new performance series on September that will present readings of plays (featuring DuEwa Frazier, Lit Noire Publishing), short stories, poetry, music and films every Sunday from 4 to 6 in the back room of Cafe Largo. Free food tastings will be offered from the Cafe on this occasion, and the event is free and open to the public.  indieWIRE presents filmmaker Alan Ball and actress Summer Bishil in a discussion of their new film, ‘Towelhead,’ at the Apple Store, SoHo, September 8. “The Down-Low on Distribution” is a seminar on September 10 in Los Angeles attempting to decode the different distribution deals so that you can get the best rights in your agreement. New York Television Festival which has featured acclaimed independent pilots that were purchased by networks such as NBC Universal, A&E, and the like, will feature an “Industry Day” session in which industry leaders participate in a number of panel discussions, when it runs September 12-17.

At this year’s Boston Film Festival a program of shorts, documentaries and feature films premieres during the festival’s run from September 12-19,  and  evening  receptions are hosted by regarded chefs and restaurateurs providing the ideal scene for filmmakers and talent to network as well as sponsors to entertain. The IBC 208 Conference and Exhibition, September 12-28 in Amsterdam, addresses personalised content over the web; future broadcast businesses and the changing audience; the “digital dividend” and the battle for bandwidth; production and protection of all types of content, and other areas. At “Fund Your Film Workshop With Stu Pollard,” key elements of an independent film business plan, including structure, layout and research and a primer on private equity financing for truly independent projects, will be reviewed when the one-day session meets September 13 in Dallas. Independent Film Week, formerly know as the IFP Market, is still a gathering for industry professionals where pitch meetings search for new talent, and cash, product donations and services are awarded to participants. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival’s social calendar starts with Opening Night Festivities on September 17, followed by daily and nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party (September 21) and Best of Fest special screening presentations and more. The NBC Universal Women Writers Workshop, September 18-25 in Toronto, will target intermediate women screenwriters who have a treatment or first draft, and will work toward the development of their next draft of a feature script. It will focus on script development and building on concepts introduced in the Feature Film Writing Program emerging module.

Screenwriting and the Business of Hollywood, will be conducted September 19 and 20 from Rock Island, by Act One Seminars, intensive, practical workshops for aspiring and professional writers and entrepreneurs who are serious about their Christian faith and who dream of creating culture that respects and enriches a global audience. SWAMP and TALA present the Business of Film Conference 2008, a September 20 event at Rice University Media Center focusing on the business of making movies with professionals from the film, legal and financial worlds that address a wide range of topics, including budgeting for film, funding resources, music rights, distribution and more. The Film, Stage and Showbiz Expo will allow participants to showcase their film/video/movie reel for Producers and Production Companies at a private screening area all day at the Expo, and Telsey + Company will conduct an open talent search for some of the hit Broadway shows they represent at the one-day event, September 21, in New York. In Gene Autry, Oklahoma, the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum celebrates the legacy of the singing cowboys with its Film & Music Festival. It’s a gathering of cowboy and country singers, cowboy poets and storytellers, Western film stars and look-alikes, and it happens from September 24-28. The 17-day New York Film Festival gets underway September 26 in New York, with its program of emerging and international filmmakers. Black Entertainment Magazine in conjunction with Talents Connection hosts the September 27 Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, with slated workshop sessions on “Surviving Hollywood,” and “Getting your children in commercials,” and a premiere screening of soon to be released BEM film ‘True Riches’.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of ‘True Riches’ a collaborative production of Talents Connection, and BEM Films, slated for a premiere screening at the Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference, September 27 at LA Convention Center. Strange comedy from The Pimps Horror House™ TV show Cleveland. The creative duo of H.G. Robert and Wayland Anderson, that form DANCEWORDZ, a production company that writes, choreographs and stages shows for professional companies and art programs. The Actor’s Checklist now lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple’s iTunes, updated on an hourly basis.

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YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business (2nd Edition) (Que Biz-Tech)

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Enhance your Website with Business Icons

Designing your website can be a tiresome and complicated task. You have to create a company logo and header graphics, then you have to use some business icons and have placeholders for content and also decide which kind of font to use as well as the size depending on what your business area is and who your prospective customers will be. Your prospective customers would like your website to be user friendly, have appropriate toolbar icons and be easy to navigate and use.

The first and foremost thing to do then is to decide who the major chunk of the audience of your website will cover and accordingly who should decide on a suitable name for your website, the hosting provider, and the design style and content. In the beginning, it is better if you tried to come up with a layout and color scheme based on the customer expectations. Accordingly, you can then select suitable business icons and toolbar icons for your website depending on the kind of business your company does.

When you are designing your website keep in mind that different colors stir up certain emotions in different groups of people. Bright colors give you a lively and dynamic feel and your visitors will find it a pleasure to visit your website; this will work well for a night club but for some other business this might not go down well at all. If you are building a website for a consultant, then the look should be calm and sober. Avoid too much of graphics and keep the colors cool and light. Make sure your toolbar icons and business icons too match this look which will tell your visitors that the site stands for stability and professionalism.

While creating your website remember that simplicity means beauty. Business icons which are simple and typography that is clear and neat indicate that your company has great potential, is safe and stable. Colors that you would normally make use of for your toolbar icons or web icons would include white, black, blue and gray. Verdana is considered to be the most readable of fonts so it is always recommended for text if any in your business icons. You can even make use of an icon editor to make changes as per your requirements.

Black text looks classical on white business icons. You should keep the blocks of content in pastel colors if not white. Keep the look of your website sober; don’t use too many colors unless called for and keep the use of graphics to a minimum. Today, you can even purchase toolbar icons and business icons over the Net as per your needs. They will go a long way in enhancing your website so that you existing customers as well as prospective ones will linger on at your website.

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The Art of Making Simple Business Powerpoint Presentation Slides

It is normal for people who want to be outstanding in their presentation as they regard “simplicity” as being lame. Most of them are willing to spend enormous amount of time in their presentations such as putting complicated multimedia and trendy Powerpoint templates. You might ask yourself whether these enhancement are necessary in your business presentations. There are times that a presenter with good oral skills could not close a business deal due to over-complicated presentation slides. Therefore, it is time for a good chance by learning the art of simplicity.

What is the art of simplicity?

First of all, being simple does not lull your audiences into a state of boredom. In fact, it can make your audiences focus at the text-contents on white-colored background slides. For example, if you use black-colored fonts on your white-colored background slides, your messages are able to transcend into the minds of your audiences.

Basically, types of fonts are important in delivering clearer messages to your audiences. Ideally, types of fonts which are mainly use are Arial, Century Gothic and Times New Roman. For best results, it is preferably to use Arial and Century Gothic fonts which are easier to be viewed by your audiences. Do not attempt to use non-formal fonts such as Comic Sans which could undignified the whole presentation.

For better slide enhancement, you can include images from Microsoft Clip Art. It is better to use related images in slide which corresponds to your text-contents. It is pointless that you put images that are totally irrelevant with your slide contents. Always bear in your mind that time is precious for your audiences, so you need to capture your audiences’ attention as fast as possible.

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Prepare my business card artwork for PDF (Bleed and Crop Marks) for perfect printing – CorelDRAW 12 and Adobe Illustrator CS3

Most people in today’s digital world already use some type of graphic software and have some idea of how to put together a business card, flyer, brochure or postcard with with no, or little, problem. The problem is their work is unfinished – unfinished meaning their artwork does not have any needed ‘Bleed’ values and/or ‘Crop Marks’ on the PDF. Both bleed values and crop marks are needed in printing so the printer knows exactly how to handle and cut your product. Have you ever wondered why the graphics are not centered or something important is cut off? The reason is because you, through your artwork have allowed the printers to have thousands of options and ways to print your product. So, basically, it is a gamble to send your artwork to the printers without any bleed values and/or crop marks.

Bleed Values:
Bleed values are needed in order for the printers to print ‘Beyond’ your product size – in result, the the edges of your products are printed with your graphics and colors and not some white line showing up on the face of your printing product. If there is no bleed in the file, the printing shop might or usually ‘Stretches’ the file to the bleed in order to print beyond the entire product. This may function for you, unless of course, the stretch process stretches your important text/graphics and then cuts it off or the artwork is not centered in your end product. Printers have very limited control of the out come without bleed values. I will explain to you quick and easy ways to add bleed values to your artwork.

Crop Marks:
Crop marks are needed for printers to align and center your product and most importantly, where to cut your product. There can be thousands of ways to place your product on the printing plates and thousands of ways to cut your product without crop marks. Using crop marks on your PDF, there is only ONE way to place and cut your product. The odds of “one” are best.

CorelDRAW 12 – Instructions for Bleed and Crop Marks
Most people who read this will already have their artwork done, so let’s move on to make the project flawless with any printer shop. A standard business card is dimensioned at 2″ x 3.5″ -  this will also be the ‘Paper Type/Size of your Corel project in both Method 1 and 2 below. Next is the bleed. At this point, it is important to know the bleed value of your printer shop – some are .25″ and really good printer shops are .125″.

In CorelDRAW 12, there are 2 ways to create bleed.

Method 1 – (Ex. Business Card – finished size: 2″ X 3.5″ with bleed of .125″: 2.125″ X 3.625″)
Add bleed to you output print settings. Go into File, Print Preview, Settings, Layout – Check mark the ‘Bleed Limit’. Keep in mind that you just can’t type in the bleed value into the field. You have to think: The Corel bleed value extends on all 4 sides if the project – If you enter in a bleed vaule of .125″, you will have .125″ on the top, .125″ on the bottom, .125″ on the left and .125″ on the right. So if you do the math: business card dimension 2″ x 3.5″. Height: 2″ + .125″ +.125″ = 2.25″ Wrong! Width – 3.5″ + .125″ + .125″ = Wrong again! You will have to take the bleed value that the printer shop gives you (ex. .125″) and then divide it by 2 (for two sides) = .0625 This is correct! So enter in .0625″ into the ‘Bleed Limit’ field and press ‘apply’ and ‘OK’.

Note: Add guidelines to your project that don’t get printed. This will give you a ‘Guideline’ as to where NOT to put your important text or graphics. With a bleed of .125 the guidelines need to offset the business card dimension by .0625″ which is .125″/2 since we have two sides.  So, the guidelines dimension vertically would be for example: -.0625″, 0.0″, .0625″, 1.375″, 2.0″, 2.0625″. Horizontally is: -.0625″, 0.0″, .0625″, 2.9375″, 3.0″, 3.0625″.

Crop Marks:
Go in File, Print Preview, Settings, Prepress. Check mark the ‘Crop/foldmarks’ and ‘Exterior only’. Press ‘Apply’ and ‘OK’. You now have crop marks on your PDF. Publish to PDF – Done.

Method 2 – make your image sizes to the bleed value. Example: 2.125″ x 3.625″. All we did here was add the bleed value .125 to the width and height of the images. Once you center your images, you now have bleed.

Note: Add guidelines to your project that don’t get printed. This will give you a ‘Guideline’ as to where NOT to put your important text or graphics. With a bleed of .125 the guidelines need to offset the business card dimension by .0625″ which is .125″/2 since we have two sides.  So, the guidelines dimension vertically would be for example: -.0625″, 0.0″, .0625″, 1.375″, 2.0″, 2.0625″. Horizontally is: -.0625″, 0.0″, .0625″, 2.9375″, 3.0″, 3.0625″.

Add your Crop Marks as explained above. Publish to PDF – Done.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 – Instructions for Bleed and Crop Marks
1. Set the Document Setup dimensions to 3.625″ X 2.125″
2. Align all your images to the dimensions above. (keep in mind the Safety Margin. All important text should be in the window of 1.875″ X 3.375″). It is good practice to use ‘Guidelines’ offset-ed .0625 of all 4 sides “IN” of the B-Card size of 2″ X 3.5″.
3. Re-Set the Document setup dimensions back to 3.5″ X 2.0″ and leave the images as they are in step 1. This step will leave the needed Bleed to print perfectly to the edges and the Crop Marks will come in at the document setup dimensions of 3.5″ X 2.0″.
4. Align some of the graphics IF required.
5. Save as PDF – Preset to “Press”. Marks and Bleeds Tab, “All Printer Marks” will be selected and set to Bleed to zero, because no matter how much you play with the bleed, no effect seems to be the result.

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Learn The Dynamic Adobe Photoshop Software with Wide Application in The Digital Imaging Business and Applications

All of us can learn Adobe Photoshop. It is dynamic software that is focused on every aspect of image editing. It was initially used for paper print editing, but with the advent of technology it has gained wide application in the Digital Imaging Business and applications.

Well you have taken a digital image, you load it in your computer, you open it, and you adjust the size, preview then print the image. Well, you adjusted the image size, that is the basics of Photoshop. Because all that Photoshop software does is adjustment, adjust color, in dots, in pixels, don’t get thrown away by all these technical terms, Photoshop is nothing but color adjustment. Color adjustment that is done in different methods. Graphics is an advanced form of mass color adjustment. Cool! Are you feeling a little close to Photoshop? Lost a little fear, fine!

You can animate a speech bubble with Photoshop. You can change the color of the lipstick color, the eye color, the color of the dress and every nook and corner of any image using Photoshop. There are thousands of methods followed in animating an object. Many combinations, adjusting aura, red eye correct, 3D mirage and on and on and on for every task you can write pages and pages and pages of articles, but the foundation for all this is just the few commands in the file menu, edit, insert and view options.

Well you have decided to learn Photoshop. Do not go to any website or any tutorial if you are a beginner, just go to the help command and mug it up, mug up all the commands possible. Then just run each command individually, this is nothing new; this is what all of us did when internet explorer was first launched. It may be hard the first few times, then you will get used to. Then with a little editing sense and practical knowledge apply the commands to edit any picture.

Nothing works better than a trial and error practice. If you do not know the basic commands in Photoshop do not browse for any further tutorial. Go to the help menu and go through the help menu, and go through command by command and try practicing. Sitting wide-eyed before a browser opening a link understanding nothing of the technical stuff, you are going to land up nowhere. How can you read a good when you don’t know what A, B, C is!. So work out a few commands, do some basic sketch work in Adobe and then browse through the ocean of Adobe Photoshop Tutorial! You may land up reaching the shore with a bunch of creative pearls and 3D-graphic skills!

Do what your heart tells you cannot! that is the key to success. Only baked bricks last long. So spend some hard time running the basic Adobe Photoshop commands. It will have it’s own charm.

Adobe Photoshop, is just like any basic application, in short it is a digital crayon set. The only difference is we have seen only 7 colors in a crayon, but adobe comes out with the millions and millions of color combinations and goes in depth to edit every color of nature. Every color of nature! Well it is a never ending project! Photoshop For Newbie Tips
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Help of 3D Illustrations for Business

3D illustration is the representation of an object in the virtual 3D world. It is very effective for displaying and communicating design ideas for various types of projects. Many times, a simple image on a paper is not a true representation of that object and many aspects may be missing. In such cases, 3D illustrations are very helpful for displaying what the object actually looks like.

3D illustration can be a very useful tool for many types of businesses. For marketing firms, 3D illustrations are essential for making logos and promotional campaigns. In today’s world the logo of a product makes a big difference in its success and a 3D logo is something that stands out and catches people’s attention.

3D illustration is also very helpful for production firms. Before a product is finalized, it has to be designed and finalized. One of the best ways to do this is through 3D modeling which can help build up a close prototype of the product. In this way, any design and functional flaws can be identified before the product is finalized.

Engineering firms can also greatly benefit from 3D illustration. They can use this technology for making engineering models which can greatly help in the development phase of any engineering project. 3D illustration will help expose any design flaws and lay down a foundation on which the actual work is to be done.

Many garment manufacturers are using 3D illustration for their customers. These illustrations can help the customers see the finished product virtually from all angles before finalizing a sale. This is helpful for the manufacturers because it helps finalize the end product.

3D illustrations are most widely used in architecture firms. Drawing manual sketches of designs and layouts are a thing of the past and nowadays everything is being done through computers. 3D illustration can help the clients get a real feel of the architectural design before it is built so that they can design and change accordingly. It is also extremely helpful for architects to understand the plans and layouts. This makes their work much easier and helps increase customer satisfaction.

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