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A Beginner’s Guide to Spiffing Up Your Hand Lettering in Photoshop
This post is in response to a comment in one of this past week’s Board postings, asking how one cleans up a file in Photoshop. I’ve been a member of this amazing Pinterest Hand Lettering board...
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How to fake a chalkboard effect in Photoshop
Resources: How to Spiff Up Your Hand Lettering in Photoshop Free Downloadable Chalkboard Backgrounds Hey look…a new Foolish file! Hi-Res Chalkboard backgrounds in 3 flavors! By popular demand we’ve...
View ArticleExcellent hand lettering tutorial
I found this piece by designer Sean McCabe to be right on point, especially if you’re just now becoming interested in hand lettering. It squares with everything any teacher has ever told me about hand...
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High Resolution Chalkboard Backgrounds
NEW! Now get the original .PSD files in high-res In response to multiple inquiries about a customized version of the background, I’m making the original .PSD files used to create the files available in...
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A Foolish Fire Tutorial :: How to Make a Collage in Photoshop
I’ve been making collages in one form or another since I was old enough to wield scissors and paste, which turned into long hours during the summer and after school stuffed into a poorly ventilated...
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The Best of Foolish Fire Readers’ Chalkboards
In past chalkboard-related posts I’ve put it out there that I’d love to see what chalkboard background buyers/downloaders are making with these files. On occasion I hear back… So thanks, Marilyn...
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How to Make Kombucha in 6 Easy Steps :: Anatomy of a Runaway Infographic
I’ve been a serious Kombucha drinker for some years now and started making my own in 2013, partly to save money as store bought Kombucha runs about $3-4$ per 12 oz. bottle, as opposed to around...
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Without aspirations we are nothing but meat with habits :: Nancy Ellen Abrams
I read this quote in a recent article by scientist/philosopher Nancy Ellen Abrams on the NPR website and let out a “bwaaa-hah” that sent my cat into the next room. Love the pull-no-punches ideas from...
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Tutorial: How to convert your hand-lettering into vector shapes using Adobe...
Stuff you’ll need if you want to try the techniques in this tutorial: A smartphone or tablet running the Adobe Shape app A copy of Adobe Photoshop CC and/or Illustrator CC A Creative Cloud...
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