I think 2018 is my year to start lettering again, I have taken a few years off now, but I am getting the itch (especially now that my Little is getting older). We compiled a list of faves and some on our ‘want’ list for this gift guide. Enjoy! Feel free to add your faves in the comments!
Our most popular posts of all time here are our posts on how-to draw, watercolor, paint, etc. This gift guide is for you, since it’s always nice to gift yourself a little something during the holidays, no? Make it a resolution to create more and this handy little list will make sure you have all the supplies to get you started.Read More
We had an amazing week with our Lettering Rx giveaway, the tool to help you quickly clean + digitize your lettering and illustrations. Now that you have your lettering and illustrations cleaned and digitized you may want to start placing them on products and getting them photographed and up in your shop. You are going to need a little editing help and that’s where our #1 best seller Shopkeeper’s Helper comes in! Quickly clean + edit your product images, use your beautiful visuals to sell your wares. You only have one chance to make a great impression when people are browsing Etsy and the like, make them want to visit your shop! If you have an online shop this is the time of year to make sure it is in tip top shape with your visuals.
Every Tuesday until the end of November we will be giving away one Foto Rx set to help you up your visual brand presence. Starting today we will be giving away the incredible workshorse Shopkeeper’s Helper, the quickest and easiest way to clean +edit your product photos. Getting a clean white background is finally at your fingertips! How to enter:
Go to our Instagram Foto Rx feed and follow us (if you aren’t already)
-Like the post
-Leave a comment
For additional opportunities to win:
-Tag a friend (or two or….) in the comments on @fotorxco (that friend will win if you do!)
We will announce the winner on our feed on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, Good luck!
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Shopkeeper’s Helper-Easy product photo editing
A mega collection of product photography tutorials
Photo edited with Foto Rx | Stockholm Clean X Minimal
There is still one more day for you and a friend to enter to win a free set of Lettering Rx, the fastest and easiest way to clean + digitize your lettering and illustrations. Michelle put this quick gif together to walk you through the steps from scan to final end use. I love being able to use my original illustrations in brand work, it makes it that much more personal and unique and really makes your designs stand out from the rest. For those that want to sell their illustrations on end products, this is truly the quickest way to get your lettering and illustration ready for its ‘close-up’. We wrote a detailed post on doing ‘print in demand’, where you use your artwork on a a companies products and they print + ship for you (I’ll link to that post in the resources).
Every Tuesday until the end of November 2017 we will be giving away one Foto Rx set to help you up your visual brand presence. Today we will start with the beloved Lettering Rx! It’s easy to enter:
-Go our Foto Rx feed and follow us (if you aren’t already)
For another chance to win:
-Tag a friend (or two or….) in the comments on @fotorxco (that friend will win if you do!)
We will announce the winner(s) on our feed on Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Good luck!
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Digitize your lettering and illustrations start selling in minutes!
Software: Photoshop / Lettering Rx | Paper to Pixel
I think the biggest mistake a lot of artists wanting to use their illustrations for web and print do is think they need Illustrator to do so. This often stops them from taking the next steps to get their artwork to a larger audience or to share for commerce. Illustrator is a wonderful program, but it is complex and expensive. The difference between cleaning and digitizing your illustrations in Photoshop versus Illustrator is Photoshop is a raster graphic and Illustrator is a vector. Raster graphics lose quality the larger you enlarge them so a raster graphic would not be good for signage, but a vector graphic would. What I am seeing though is most artists on the interwebs are wanting to include their illustrations on items that are made to be printed small like an invite or a logo for a web site. If you scan your artwork in a high resolution (this drawing was scanned at 600 dpi) or photograph your artwork at a high resolution you WILL be able to use it, at good quality for a lot of applications, including print! We created a super easy way to clean your lettering and illustrations getting it ready to share for web or print via our Lettering Rx Photoshop action set. Michelle cleaned this for me in about a minute, prior to us creating the set, I don’t think I could have easily coerced her into cleaning my artwork for me, because seriously to do it manually is tedious and takes forever! We created this tool so you can get back to what you enjoy about illustrating–making illustrations! We are giving away a set of Lettering Rx to one individual and a friend, visit our @fotorxco Instagram feed to get the deets!
Every Tuesday until the end of November 2017 we will be giving away one Foto Rx set to help you up your visual brand presence. Today we will start with the beloved Lettering Rx! It’s easy to enter:
-Go our Foto Rx feed and follow us (if you aren’t already)
For another chance to win:
-Tag a friend (or two or….) in the comments on @fotorxco (that friend will win if you do!)
We will announce the winner(s) on our feed on Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Good luck!
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Software: Photoshop / Lettering Rx | Paper to Pixel