Episode 23 – Basic Photoshop Tutorial – Adding Borders

 

This video is a basic Photoshop exercise showing how to add a border to a painting. I know Photoshop can be intimidating at first, but learning a few techniques will save you a ton of time during your licensing career. If you are new to licensing your art, you will find it a real benefit to create several borders in different color palettes using different patterns, then saving them in a file on your computer titled "borders". If you are creating a plaid or stripe, you could simply paint one strip approx 16" long by 2" wide (depending on what size you usually paint) and use that one strip to create all four sides of the border. You could also paint a toss or all-over pattern in the same fashion.

If you don’t have time to spend creating borders, no worries, after you’ve been licensing your art for a while you’ll have a large inventory of paintings with borders and can re-use those borders for new art. Either way you slice it, you will be glad to know how to use Photoshop to add borders and help save time.

Enjoy the video!

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Is there a Photoshop tutorial you would like to see? If so, contact me and I will see if it’s something I know how to do and, if so, I would be glad to share it with you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 22 – What You Say When You Talk To Yourself

 

 

What do YOU say when you talk to yourself? Are you feeding yourself with positive or negative self talk. Sometimes you don’t even realize what you are saying to yourself is bringing you down and creating more of the same negative thoughts and feelings. You can be your own worse enemy. Even simple things such as, "I’m always late", "I am forgetful", or "I’m so clumsy" can create more of the same problems.

Programming > Beliefs > Attitudes > Feelings > Actions > Results

Negative programming can come from anywhere. It could be a parent, teacher, friend, sibling or coach that said some negative things to you in your past. At the time, you may have let it roll of your back but if you heard it enough times, you start to believe it. Maybe you didn’t experience that as a child but somehow, over time, you created your own negative self talk. The good news is, you can reverse it! You can re-program yourself and kick the negative thoughts to the curb and replace them with positive thoughts through self talk.

Author, Shad Helmstetter, goes into detail on the subject and offers many examples of positive self talk. Learn how to change old negative programming into positive programming and watch your life change. I recommend this book to everyone; no matter what age whether you’re rich or poor. It can help everyone.

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The book is available on Amazon, or he offers it in PDF format here. Personally, I think you should buy the book and then pass it on to someone else icon smile Episode 22   What You Say When You Talk To Yourself

 

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Episode 21 – Feeling Grateful

May 16, 2014

Tweet Episode 21 -  Feeling Grateful   Episode 21 – Thank you from Teresa Kogut on Vimeo. Today’s video is about you and for you! I am grateful for everyone who has inspired and encouraged me throughout my career. I am grateful for all of you who have supported me by purchasing my work whether [...]

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Episode 20 – Art Licensing Is A Business

January 22, 2014

Tweet     Episode 20 -  Art Licensing Is A Business   Rule number one, art licensing is a business. Throughout your licensing career, you will meet some amazing people. You will connect and build relationships with them. You will build trust. However, remember, art licensing is a business. As long as your art is [...]

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Episode 19 – Bloopers Part 2

December 26, 2013

Tweet   Episode 19 – Bloopers Part 2 I really enjoy creating videos to inspire and share information with you….but I must say, thank God for editing! Seriously, if I had to create a video with no mistakes, it would take me days to complete a 4 minute video! Hope you enjoy watching some of [...]

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Episode 18 – How to Create An Optin For Your Blog Using Aweber

December 3, 2013

Tweet Episode 18 – How to Create An Optin For Your Blog Using Aweber (intro and outro song is Sunnyside by Leftover Cuties) In Episode 17 I spoke about the importance of building your email list. As promised in that episode, this week I am showing you step my step how to create an opt-in [...]

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Episode 17 – Most Important Tip For Your Business

November 20, 2013

Tweet   Episode 17 – Your Email List Is Most Important For Your Business Even in the world of social media, email marketing is still the most powerful and important tool for your business. While it is important for you to relate to your audience via social media platforms, your top priority is to get [...]

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Episode 16 -Create a PDF Link Within Your WordPress Blog

November 5, 2013

Tweet music credit: Sunnyside by Leftover Cuties Create a PDF Link Within Your WordPress Blog There will be times when you want to link a PDF that you’ve created for your clients & followers to your blog. I searched and searched YouTube and Google for instructions on how to create a link for a PDF [...]

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Episode 15 – Learn Why You Should Join The Gather, Dream, Create Inner Circle

October 24, 2013

Tweet  Learn Why You Should Join The Gather, Dream, Create Inner Circle   Episode 15 -GDCIC from Teresa Kogut on Vimeo.     GDCIC (Gather, Dream, Create Inner Circle) is a private membership site for all people who love creativity…….watercolor, acrylic, oil, mix media, sculpture, 3-D art or fiber art. Whether you are an artist [...]

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Episode 14 – Questions Part 6

October 15, 2013

Tweet Episode 14 – Questions part 6 (last one)       Back in July, I sent a mass email to my list letting folks know they could ask me anything they wanted about my art and licensing career. There were several questions and some of the answers are lengthy so I divided it up [...]

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