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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

September 24th, 2008

Free online photo editors

What’s Up Wednesday

Fauxto (like “Photo”)
You know how much I rave about Photoshop, how I love it and can’t live without it. So why would I care about free online photo editors? There’s even a free version of PS now that you can download, and if that doesn’t suit you there’s always Gimp, […]

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

September 18th, 2008

Here’s what I made at Animoto

I shared with you about the Animoto site the other day. Well, I tried it out today, and even though the free videos are very short (only was able to include 6 of my 12 images), I am still very impressed with what they’re doing.

Tags: Bead Journal Project, bjp, Book Arts, online publishing, online-tools

By Cyndi -- 4 comments

September 17th, 2008

Make a custom video from your art images

What’s Up Wednesday
Or from any other images that you want to use! Animoto is an intriguing site: it creates a slideshow to the music of your choice, automatically. You have to register to use it, and I have no information to give you about copyright issues, so please read all the contracts if […]

By Cyndi -- 2 comments

September 3rd, 2008

Text in Stitches

What’s Up Wednesday
Here is a brilliant online tool that will allow you to chart your text in six different fonts. These are perfect for cross stitch, backstitch, or even beading! Text in Stitches has been made available by StitchPoint.

Tags: cross stitch, needlework, online-tools

By Cyndi -- 0 comments

August 27th, 2008

A report on MyPublisher

What’s Up Wednesday
You may recall awhile back I asked for reports on the various online publishers that would produce one-offs of your artist books. Well, I got a report about MyPublisher that gave it an A+ on all counts!
Robin Atkins, who started the Bead Journal Project that I participated in last year, has used […]

By Cyndi -- 6 comments

July 29th, 2008

What is a PocketMod?

Since we been talk off and on about organization around here, I thought I should make you aware of an online freebie you can print out for yourself You’re going to love these, and you’re probably going to get addicted to them! Take one ordinary sheet of paper, visit the PocketMod website, select […]

By Cyndi -- 5 comments

July 2nd, 2008

Online publishers for your artist books

Disclaimer: I have not personally used any of these publishers. I believe that in all cases, you retain complete copyright to your materials; these companies are just printers. I cannot vouch for the professionalism or quality of any of them! Buyer beware :-)
That said, here’s a list of publishers who will […]

By Cyndi -- 3 comments

June 25th, 2008

Tessellation tool online

Have fun with Interactivate: Tessellate!
If playing with this cool tool isn’t enough, you can look at lots of tessellation art at the Tessellation Database. In addition, there’s always Tessellations.org …check out the tessellating frenchfries :-)
Here are two of my previous posts with ideas about how to use these patterns:
Expanded Squares
Making a digital stamp
Tags: […]

By Cyndi -- 1 comment

May 28th, 2008

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LINK ǝɥʇ s,ǝɹǝɥ ˙˙˙llǝʍ ɥo ˙ʎɐp s,looɟ lıɹdɐ ɹoɟ sıɥʇ ʇnoqɐ uʍouʞ p,ı ɥsıʍ
What a great little online toy ;-)
Tags: online-tools

By Cyndi -- 5 comments

March 21st, 2008

Color scheme generator

This is an amazing little palette generator! Let’s say that you’ve created a picture in one medium, and would like to turn it into a different medium…like for example, I want to make a beaded piece that uses the palette of the digital image I’ve already created. Which I do, by the way! Run your […]

By Cyndi -- 2 comments