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This Year’s Calendar Contenders

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I have made up a gallery of photographs that we are thinking of using for this year’s calendar for our customers, and thought that it would be a good idea to get feedback from the members of this blog. Remember that I need to pick 12 from this gallery, so please let me know which you think that I should include and those which you think I should not include. All constructive comments would be welcome. It would also be useful to know your thoughts as which photos should go with which month. Continue reading →

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A Postcard from India (Part 1) – Goa

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As promised, here are a few snaps that I took while on my recent holiday which are Creative Commons licensed and therefore available to be used in your own work under the restrictions given below. All images have been reduced in size to speed up the download. If anyone wants the full-sized original of any or all of them, please let me know and it can be arranged.

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This work by PomPrint Designs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Creative Commons and FOSS

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I just came across a set of posters by my friend Martin Owens that I set as favourites on deviantArt some long time ago, and thought that it would be a good idea to upload them to this site in an attempt to explain the concepts of Creative Commons and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).

In an age where everyone is complaining about austerity, I find it amazing the people are still buying software and using operating systems that require you to buy more software in order to be able to use it safely, especially when FREE and OPEN versions are readily available to download!! Without any worry about piracy laws!! I can only assume that the reason for this is that the public are unaware of the alternatives available.

The posters in this gallery are devised to help us all to make people aware of CC and FOSS, so please feel free to use them.

Ensure that you accredit the original artist by using this link.

You will notice that these licenses are used extensively around this site, especially in our clip art galleries. Please make certain that you obey the conditions of the license if you use anything that is not Public Domain (CC0).

More about Creative Commons can be found here.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Tutorial – Creating your own Photo Clip Art – Part 1 (Introduction)

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As promised over the last few weeks, I have put together this small tutorial, designed to help our customers to produce quality photo clip art using their own photographs and Free Open Source Software (known as FOSS). My aim is to get as many people as possible contributing to this blog and as a consequence, helping us to produce a helpful resource library of images and clip art that can be used by our customers, artists, children, and anyone at all who enjoys producing digital images for pleasure. In order to make it as palatable as possible, I have split it into ‘bite-sized’ chunks, as I intend to go in depth on most of the topics covered. This first part is designed to serve as a ‘Prologue’ in the hope that it will gather a bit of interest amongst our readers. Continue reading →

Introducing – Open Clip Art (dot Org)

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Hardly a week goes by where we do not have a customer walk through our doors asking us to put a picture of a celebrity or a cartoon character on an item of clothing, a bag or a mug. When we explain that we are unwilling to fulfill their request because of copyright, I often feel that this is the very first time that anyone has ever mentioned the word to them. I even get requests where the customer presents me with an image that they have downloaded complete with Shutterstock watermark, and ask me to use that!

Not only are these images protected by copyright and are therefore not available for use, but they are invariably low resolution images deliberately optimized and compressed for quick download for people with slow connection speeds.

Given the amount of hen nights, stag nights, holidays, sports events, concerts etc. for which we are required to provide both legal and good quality designs, how is this achieved? Continue reading →