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      APPart – Back To Basics: Creating A Background Textural Library

      2012-12-01 / 14 Comments

      Wow, it’s Saturday again and that means just one thing over here at theappwhisperer.com HQ, Mel Harrison’s weekly Column – APPart. Every Saturday we will publish more of Mel’s incredible work which focuses on digital art and collage images. Each week Mel will be incorporating different ‘mainstream’ editing apps to inspire you to try some APPart of your own. In this weeks’ Column Mel takes us back to the basics, explaining how to create a ‘background library’. All links to the apps used are at the end of this post. Over to you Mel…. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).   If you are working with collage/art images the first step is…

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      APPart – Mystic Cat Created

      2012-11-24 / 4 Comments

      It’s Saturday again and at TheAppWhisperer.com that means just one thing, APPart, Mel Harrison’s new weekly Column with us. Every Saturday we will publish more of Mel’s incredible work which focuses on digital art and collage images. Each week Mel will be incorporating different ‘mainstream’ editing apps to inspire you to try some APPart of your own. All links to the apps used are at the end of this post. Over to you Mel…. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).     Mystic Cat was a bit all over the place with apps used so there is no one feature app this week.   Step 1   Mystic cat starts in Juxtaposer.…

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