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Inkscape

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Some time ago I downloaded Inkscape, a free “Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw”. I hate learning new things and because I’m so familiar with PSP, I wasn’t really willing to give Inkscape a try. But I opened the program, tried some things, made a mess, closed it again […]

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Approaching Loss

Friday, February 5th, 2010

A dear friend of mine recently learned that she has cancer in the final stage. She keeps a blog which she updates daily, in the most optimistic and realistic way. I admire her for that. It’s almost as if she feels she has to support and comfort us – her family and friends – who […]

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Mary Poppins

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Regular visitors of my blog will know that I’m a huge musical fan and I love the TV-searches for the lead in a musical. This year they were searching for the – very first – Dutch Mary Poppins. The musical has never been staged here and Manon, Sabine and I were looking forward to the […]

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Padded Letters Tutorial

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Be gentle people, this is the first full tutorial that I’ve written and I have to admit, writing tutorials  is harder than it looks. Many many thanks to all the people who put tutorials online! I would never have learned how to use PSP, without those tutorials. I’m quite comfortable with PSP now, but I […]

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Sample

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Last month – which seems ages ago now – I asked for layouts made with my graphics and Judith replied with the following Winter layout: No Photoshop or PSP, it’s made on a Macbook. It’s hard to believe that it’s her first layout ever! Great job Judith, the way you split the picture and put […]

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