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Diary of a POD Person

Diary of a POD Person

http://p-o-d-person.blogspot.com/

About creating graphic designs for print-on-demand services such as CafePress and Zazzle, photography, GIMP, Inkscape, and life in general.

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  • Fun Tutorial: Easy Photo Grunge Effect

    Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 in , gimp

    Yesterday I found an interesting Photoshop tutorial on Digg that shows how to use self-compositing techniques and filters to create a grunge effect.I tried it in GIMP, substituting the Unsharp Mask filter for the High Pass filter. I also used RGB Noi...

  • I Started Zazzle-ing Again

    Posted on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 10:23 in , no symbol, zazzle

    When I first tried designing for print-on-demand sites early last year, I started with Zazzle. The site just seemed easier to use than CafePress. I soon found some severe limitations, however, the most notable being that I could not delete my images ...

  • Special Characters: Using Unicode Character Codes in Gimp and Inkscape

    Posted on Saturday May 10th, 2008 at 21:45 in , how to, inkscape

    Special characters can be accessed in the same way in both Gimp and Inkscape using hexadecimal unicode character codes.First open up a text box by choosing the text tool and clicking in the image window. Then press Ctrl+Shift+U, type in the code, an...

  • What Time is Love? Heart Clock Face Design

    Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 09:30 in , Clocks, templates

    citrine 2007This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License with an additional restriction:do not re-distribute in electronic format.Commercial use for print media is allowed.Here's another free clock face design....

  • Classic Roman Clock Face Template

    Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 11:07 in , Clocks, templates

    citrine 2007This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License with an additional restriction:do not re-distribute in electronic format.Commercial use for print media is allowed.Here's another free clock face design ...

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Liane

Liane Schmidt

Great blog! Love the design and subject.

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Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.

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The Minimalist

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