Of course I'm not a designer, but do have a few ideas that may help some of you
- For those who haven't seen it, AtomicCupcake.com is a neat site with lots of Photoshop actions... but be careful - it's almost addicting!
- If you want to make an alpha, check out
KevinAndAmanda. I used one of these fonts and combined it with an action from atomiccupcake to make the yellow alpha for the "Imagination" kit.
- look for "Commercial Use" items to give you a jump start. Of course all our favorite stores have CU categories. There are a few CU digiscrap sites that sell CU items at budget prices, but just because it is on their site doesn't mean it is that useful/interesting (e.g. why anyone would want to buy an extracted photo of a shrub is bewildering to me). Just think about how you would use it personally.
- a way to test for stray pixels is to do a wide stroke border around your objects. If you have stray pixels, you will see them easily as they will surrounded by the outline.
Now I was curious about clipart, so I wrote to Clipart.com today:
My questions:
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Two questions regarding terms of use on your images:
1. Is a person allowed to modify any of your file types and include the modified version in a digital scrapbooking kit (available for sale to others on the web)?
2. similar to first question, but would a person be allowed to modify an image and give it away for free on their blog for digital scrapbooking purposes?
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Their answer:
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Hello,
Yes, you can for both questions.
Kind Regards,
Getty Images, Inc.
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If you use work that you didn't originally create, remember to give it proper credit in your TOU file! (unless it says 'credit not required')
Edit - here is another cute site I stumbled upon:
http://www.scrappindoodles.com/index...ain_page=index. Note that you need to modify these graphics in some way, and you cannot give them away as freebies. See their TOU page.