There are hundreds of graphic design tutorial sites online, but few of them are educational. Even though they are written for Paint Shop Pro versions 9, 10 and 11, Manon's tutorials are some of the best that you will find for actually learning how to create graphics. If you have a basic familiarity with where things are located in your favorite graphics program: Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or any other, you easily duplicate her lessons and learn how to create some awesome effects for personal and/or business use. Just remember that if you are going to use the finished product in a commercial manner, make sure the images that you use are either in the public domain, your own, or licensed for that purpose.

As always, these images make terrific digital gifts for friends, family and colleagues. If you know someone who would love some unique graphics for their Web site or to use as a signature tag in their emails, then this type of thing will just tickle them pink :)!

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Hafapea
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Just in time for Christmas, a beautiful signature tag that you can make to sign your messages with! It would also make a great gift for all of your online Christian friends. Don't use sig tags? Me either. These tutorials are a great way to learn how to use Paint Shop Pro. I made Websets and sigtags for years so I could learn :).

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Hafapea
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NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Directors of Marlborough Gallery announce the opening of Rashaad Newsome’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. A multi-media artist, Newsome will present his dramatic and opulent new collages, sculpture, video and installations on both floors of Marlborough Chelsea. The exhibition continues through December 3, 2011.

Rashaad Newsome’s work comprises a visual vocabulary that combines high neo-Baroque style with low pop-advertising imagery in obsessively-handmade collages. His richly detailed compositions form a kind of Rosetta stone for the hip-hop culture. Newsome culls familiar images of luxury goods from glossy consumer magazines: sports gear, jewel-encrusted brooches, rings, watches, furs and yachts, which he meticulously affixes in richly layered compositions with patterned backgrounds and a distinctive use of central space with crests and shields built from unexpected details.

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If you are a collector of Asian Art, you may want to check this out :)

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Hafapea
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