To Strike While the Public Domain Iron is Hot, You Must First Find the Iron!Written by Charles H Smith
Surely you have heard of Ted Turner and Walt Disney, but do you know what they have in common? Both of these men started companies based public domain materials. Walt Disney updated or modernized characters from Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Ted Turner founded Turner Classic Movies using many public domain movies.With public domain materials rapidly becoming a very hot commodity these days, your competition for these materials gets more demanding daily. If you go to Google.com and search for Public Domain, there are over 40 million sites resulting from this search. So, how do you weed through these millions and millions of sites to find actual materials in public domain? Your search for these materials has just been simplified. We have compiled a toolbar containing almost 200 direct links to public domain materials and 7 public domain search engines into a free public domain toolbar. Imagine; if you will, searching Library of Congress, eServer or Project Gutenberg; among others, directly from your toolbar. Simply for your convince, we have included a few links to old book resellers to search bar. With your keywords in hand, this feature has proven extremely valuable in locating original public domain manuscripts or books for scanning and editing. Although, some of public domain materials are donated and have special terms and conditions for using material in commercial websites, your due diligence and discovery of special cases is warranted and advised.
| | Simple Scrapbooking Tips & Ideas Written by Tara Grant
Scrapbooking is a great hobby and a wonderful way to preserve your photos with style! The art of scrapbooking is not hard at all! All you really need is a creative mind and urge to create masterpieces! Once you have general idea of scrapbooking down, use these ideas to create more meaningful pages! Your Photos- The photos you use in your scrapbooking layouts will reflect moment you want to save forever. Instead of having everyone pose for photos, try to take pictures without poses. The pictures you catch in action, also make great photos for layouts. If you use pictures that have been professionally taken or pictures that were posed for, try to also add some pictures that capture actions and faces, instead of all posed pictures. Color Schemes- When you are selecting color papers to use with your layouts, try to coordinate with your photos. This way you do not draw to much attention from photos. When your pictures, paper, and embellishments coordinate with each other, your pages will stand out more than if everything clashes. If you have an idea for a layout and your pictures just don’t match, try to edit pictures with any photo editor and make pictures black and white, or sepia. These tones seem to work well with any color schemes,
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