I recently had an inquiry as to if I could colorize some of my design resources for a customer who does not have photoshop and does not use gimp. She stated that she’s using pixlr as an image editor and wasn’t sure if she could do this in pixlr. After giving it a whirl I decided to write […]
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Create a Color Palette from a Photo in Gimp
Here’s a quick and easy way to save a palette of nice colors to use in your gimp design projects. First find a photo with some colors that appeal to you. I’ve used an image called “Tea Still Life” which you may find here: http://morguefile.com/archive/display/604588. 1. Open your picture up in gimp. From the file menu […]
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How to Make a Color Palette from a Photo in Photoshop
Have you ever made a palette from a photo on ColourLovers? This tutorial is somewhat along the lines of that and it’s really easy! This works great for grabbing colors of a header or etsy banner to make a web design that matches the colors in the image. All you have to do is open a […]
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How to Make a Font with FontForge & Inkscape
If you have ever wondered how to create a font, you may find the following tutorials useful for getting an idea of how the font creation process works. The majority of tutorials listed feature the free and open source programs inkscape (vector drawing) and fontforge (font editor). Inkscape and FontForge can be installed on both windows, mac […]
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How to Install Photoshop Shapes
Depending on your operating system the path where your default Photo Shop custom shapes may differ. Please keep in mind that you don’t have to install your presets in this directory (folder). PS just defaults to it by nature, but will remember the path you browse to when loading resources from within PS. Edit: If […]
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How to add your Domain Email to Gmail
Do you have a domain name but are still using the same old email address? Do you have a pop account but use your host’s webmail to check your email? Maybe you just don’t know how to connect them after you register your domain?This tutorial will help you learn to back up your email into […]
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Guest Post: Tutorial by Jaihart Just Lovely Designs
Hello, StarSunflower Studio Readers! How’s everyone doing? It’s FALL-icious around here in Northern Indiana. I love all the changing colors! Anyways, let’s get down to business….. ha! I sounded so official for a second 😉 My name is Jill and I’m from Jaihart just lovely designs. I love to do quick and simple projects.Here’s a […]
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Quick Tutorial: How to Install Gadget Blogger Templates
To resolve any confusion, I’ve put together a tutorial so everyone will know how to set up a html gadget template in the new and old versions of blogger blogspot blogs. We assume that you already have a template picked out and have copied the code for it. 1. Adding the Template Gadget Code Old […]
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Gimp Tutorial – Extracting Lace
This gimp tutorial is using a lace texture, but you could use this technique with many other types of textures. Every now and then I have to wait for some pages to load due to our slow broadband. During this wait time every now and then I tinker with resources I have stashed on my […]
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