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Dec, 2009
Are you looking for a way to decorate your home inexpensively and give it a warm and inviting feeling? Displaying photos of family and friends around your home immediately invites people to get a glimpse of what is important to you. It also helps to make them feel welcome in your home.
There are many items on the market right now to make this process easy. Wall ledges with grooves to hold frames in place can be found at many stores. Hanging two or three ledges on an expanse of wall and placing large framed photos on them is an eye catching way to decorate with your personal photos.
Sets of table top frames can be purchased. These sets contain two or more (sometimes even as many as 15) coordinating photo frames in various sizes to make decorating simple. Placing coordinating frames around a room – some on a side table, some on a mantle, some on top of a bookcase – can help give your room a pulled together feeling.
To complement your holiday decorating, buy some seasonal frames and place personal photos of past holidays in them. Place them around the house at holiday time. You can change out the photos from year to year, making this a very inexpensive way to change your decorating each year.
If you’d like to put a little more work and creativity into decorating your home with personal photos, try one of these ideas.
Create a Wall Collage of Black and White Photos
With today’s digital technology, making copies, cropping, and color enhancing your photos is easy and affordable. Try using this technology to create an inexpensive collage of black and white photos on a large open area of wall space in your home.
If you have old black and white photos of relatives you can mix them with recent photos. Vary the size of the prints and purchase inexpensive mats and frames for them. For added pop and contrast, vary the width of some of the mats, also.
You will need to create a template for your collage. Measure the dimensions of the wall space you will be using. Tape together pieces of newspaper to the exact dimensions and lay them on the floor. Then arrange your framed photos on the newspaper until you find a configuration you like.
Once you’ve found an arrangement that pleases you, trace each photo frame onto the newspaper. Then mark the spot where the hook is to be placed. Tape the newspaper onto the wall, nail in your hooks, and then remove the paper. You’re ready to hang your black and white photos.
Use an Old Wood Window as a Frame
Purchase, grab from your basement, or trash pick an old wooden window with grills. This makes a one of a kind frame for your personal photos. Clean up the old frame and paint it. Or, leave the old, distressed paint on the window for a vintage decorating style.
You will need as many personal photos as you have panes of glass. Make sure the photos are smaller than each pane, leaving some open glass to show the wall behind. This creates a mat for your photos. Affix the photos onto the glass and hang the old window securely on the wall.
With a little time and thought, you can bring photos that have been stored away in dark closets into the light. This simple, creative, inexpensive way of home decorating with your personal photos will make a big impact on those who enter your home.
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22
Dec, 2009
Picking out your wedding color combination is key to getting started with your wedding planning. Although bridesmaids dresses and décor may be the first thing on your shopping list, wedding invitations will be the first thing the guests see of your wedding theme and colors. Make sure to browse not only for stylish dresses for your maids, but also for matching wedding stationery to go with your color combo.
Burnt Orange & Burgundy
Orange is certainly in right now, and there are numerous colors that go great with it. One more regal color combination is burnt orange and burgundy. Have your bridesmaids wear burnt orange dresses with burgundy sashes, and choose wedding invitations with majestic falling leaves in these hues.
Dark Green & Gold
Although the leaves are changing from green, dark green is still a great fall color. Dark green dresses will stand out nicely in front of a background of autumn hues, and gold accessories are easy to find. Wedding stationery depicting golden yellow leaves with a hint of green will go great with this elegant combination.
Plum & Champagne
If purple is one of your favorite colors, stray a bit from the norm with the splendid combination of deep plum and champagne. The light and dark contrast will look stunning for your table and ceremony décor, and silver accessories would add a nice sparkle. For this color combination, choose contemporary, modern or elegant wedding stationery. Try stripes or designs in these two colors on a trendy square card.
Mocha & Ginger
This warm combination would look great on almost any skin tones and would also match with a background of fall foliage. Decorate your tables with gingerbread cookies tied with a mocha colored bow, or send your guests away with delicious hot chocolate wedding favors. Have a casual coffee themed reception, and accent your bridesmaids’ outfits with delicate gold jewelry. Look for a wedding invitation in this great color combination to set the theme for your fall wedding.
Orange & Watermelon
Orange doesn’t only go well with darker colors, but it also looks great with bright colors like watermelon. If you want a lighter look for your wedding, choose this fantastic color combination. Watermelon dresses for your gals paired with orange accessories would really pop in photographs. Why not accent your dress with a little orange flair on the neckline or with orange accessories? With orange being so popular right now, you’re sure to be able to find cute orange trimmed wedding invitations in any style. Add on a watermelon ribbon and your wedding stationery will surely brighten guests’ days.
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14
Dec, 2009
Adobe Photoshop is an image editing software. You can edit and manipulate images in a breeze with this powerful software. Whether you are a graphic artist, web developer or a photographer, this is a tool, which can surely help you do the job with less time and effort.
Adobe Photoshop is the leading graphic application used in digital image editing, web graphics, prints and other multi media requirement. Photoshop is widely-used by millions of graphic artists, web developers, photographers, as well as ordinary people. Because of the popularity of the software, it has been accepted as a print industry standard.
Most likely, posters, magazine covers, book covers, brochures, and ads have all been created or edited with Photoshop. With the powerful tools that Photoshop offers, there are a lot of features that can be used to create, even the most complex digital art in a breeze.
One of the great features of Photoshop is that it consists of a user-friendly interface that is very easy to navigate. Tools are organized into groups of palettes, which you can customize according to your working preference. It also comes with shortcut keys that you can use to quickly apply commands or switch on or off a group of tools.
In addition, Photoshop comes with a sub program called Adobe ImageReady. This added program is basically used to create graphics and is enhanced for web design purposes that greatly reduce the file size in making a certain website faster to load. GIF files can be reduced as small as 10 to 50% with its compression abilities. The software is also capable of making animated graphics or GIF. With Adobe ImageReady, you can design interactive JavaScript rollover without the need of writing any programming code. Simply slice the image and link rollovers and create different variations of slices.
All products of Adobe Systems support layer effects. When working with Photoshop and ImageReady, you can easily apply effects to an image or text like drops shadows, inner and outer bevels and other layering effects. A great advantage of working with layers is that you can preserve the original state of an image while manipulating another version of it through another layer. You can add as many layers as you want depending on your needs. These layers are independent of each other, meaning, if you edit one layer for instance a layer of text, it does not affect any other layers.
Photo editing or photo manipulation is a difficult task without the right tool. But with the use of Photoshop, you can easily edit a photo in lesser time and little effort. Photoshop comes with powerful tools that can be utilized to perform photo-editing tasks.
You can crop or resize pictures without losing the quality of an image. Also, you can easily remove the background with an eraser tool. With Adobe Photoshop, it is easy to select precise parts of an image with the use of the magic wand and lasso tools. The software also comes with tools like: brightness and contrast, color balance, hue and saturation, levels, curves, and many more which are useful in enhancing or changing the color of an image.
Also the software comes with a variety of built in plug-ins that can be used to apply variations to your designs. Some of these plug-ins are custom brushes, filters, effects, and many more.
Adobe Photoshop is integrated with the other softwares of Adobe Systems. Photoshop shares the same user interface like in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects. With the integration you can work seamlessly and produce great work results.
This software has also the capability to utilize color models such as lab, RGB, CMYK, binary bitmap, grayscale, and duotone. It also supports vector and raster formats such as: .PNG, .EPS, .GIF, Fireworks, .JPEG and lots more.
The latest version of Photoshop is the Photoshop CS3. The latest version offers additional enhanced features. Some features include the application of non-destructive filters and the new selection tools such as the Quick Selection and Refine Edge.
With all the great features that Photoshop offers, you can do any work of graphics that you can imagine. You can create outstanding graphics without limiting your boundaries.
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