Today we’re launching a new series of tutorials designed to teach you different ways in which you can use digital collage sheets. In our first lesson, you’ll begin by learning to digitally manipulate the images on a collage sheet using Photoshop to make a simple ACEO / ATC sized collage suitable for printing.

Simple Collage by Kenneth Rougeau

Using Digital Collage Sheets: Lessone One, The Simple Collage
click here for the full tutorial

It comes with a free digital collage sheet with all the source images you’ll need for the lesson, as well as a few extras to help spark your creativity. Future lesson plans include further photo manipulation as well as digital colorization, so keep checking back with us for the next tutorial!

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Hello everyone! Thanks for bearing with us during our recent difficulties. Our e-commerce setup is fully functional again & I’m rebuilding our selection of collage sheets as quickly as I can get them listed.

Superhuge mega-thank you to Thomas Howard, a brilliant programmer who took the time to help us resolve the issue with our PDF downloads. Yes, that’s right, PDF files are now available for instant download as an alternative to JPEG files! I’m altering the existing product listings at the moment & they should all be working shortly!

UPDATE 7/27/2009:
All products should now be available as your choice of JPEG or PDF.
Sorry for the wait, but the editing is slooooow work.

REVISED UPDATE 7/27/2009:
PDF files are unavailable once again due to a glitch in the Wordpress eCommerce suite. I’m trying to pick Tom’s brain again & hope that he’ll have a solution for us soon. Bear with us and we’ll hopefully have it all straightened back out.

Another Update – 7/28/2009:
Sadly, I’ve discovered a few other problems with Wordpress eCommerce’s current handling of “variations”, the settings that allow me to offer both PDF and JPEG downloads. I’ve taken them down completely now & will try again once the great minds over at Instinct get the kinks worked out. For now, all digital collage sheets are available instantly as high quality, high resolution (300 dpi) JPEG files. If you’d like the PDF version of anything you see, just email me and I’ll get it to you as quickly as I can. Thanks again for you patience everyone!

Recent updates to our product categories:

• ACEO Backgrounds - backdrops for making art trading cards
• Text & Ephemera – handwritten poetry, letters, old mail, and more
• People – Women – added a couple sheets of vintage pinup girls
• Holidays & Occasions – Valentine’s, Christmas, Halloween, and birthday cards
• Steampunk & Science Fiction – gears, cogs, boilers, engines, vehicles, people, & more
• Science & Technology – 2 sheets of antique kinetoscope film strips

Lots more to come, including the return of the Catch of the Day collage sheets, so stay tuned!

Have fun!!
- Kenneth Rougeau

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