HOW TO CREATE AN OLD IMAGE TAKEN TODAYWritten by Ruby Lorena
Want to make a signboard that will take you back to 60’s?Sign boards are one of important things a business should have. It is another way of promoting or advertising a company or product. To make a sign board more appealing think of a design that will catch eyes of potential customers. Consider making a sign using old letters. Old letters are unique and interesting because of special feel they create. Here is a step-by-step procedure in making an antique-looking sign board. Before making sign, familiarize yourself with old letters. Look at sign boards, posters or pictures that contain old-style letters. Research on layouts and colors used before. First off, prepare all materials you need in making sign. What you will need are a flat wood for frame, clear non-polyurethane or oil-based varnish, water-based cracking varnish, gloss varnish, black patina, sandpaper and color paints. Start making frame. Choose a flat wood. You can use an old frame, driftwood or stair boards. Measure size of letters. Make sure that it will be visible and it will fit on frame. Clean board using sandpaper to smoothen surface. Lightly paint it with varnish or paint it using light color paint for background. Light colors make crackling effect more visible. Then add a tinting effect.
| | Tools of the Trade: Photo EditingWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
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 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 best and easiest ways of editing, organizing and storing digital photos, latest software application programs for digital photo enhancements are being introduced. Here, we give you an overview of features of some of newest tools to maximize your digital image editing efforts: 1.Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 – this latest offering of Adobe offers enhanced features not only for editing your digital photos but also helps you in organizing your files. Ten new features makes it an all-in-one home photo solution: 1)could perfect, transform, organize and share your digital photos; 2) ability to brush away flaws on your photo; 3) can create dynamic slideshows; 4) can send themed photo e-mail; 5) you can enjoy flexible print options;6) you could get high quality images with camera raw and 16-bit support; 7) you’re given chance to pick your best shot from among many; 8) photos for safekeeping can be archived; 9) gives you full color range, and; 10) have intuitive capability to instantly fix common flaws. Can’t wait to get your hands on this new software? You may expect its shipping on November. It costs $99.99 and can be ordered from Adobe Site!
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