Short stories are often a fiction writer’s first introduction to writing, but they can be frustrating to write and difficult to master. How do you fit everything that makes a great story into something so short? And then, once you do finish a short story you’re proud of, what do you...
4. How to Create the Pop Art Letters Step 1 Let's get into the more interesting part of creating text with pop art effects. Pick the Type Tool (T) and focus on the control panel to set the settings for the text that you're about to add. Select that Etna font as your typograph...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to outline text in Photoshop and how to customize it to your needs. With this simple trick, you'll be able to outline any text or font in minutes! As a bonus, I will also show you how to edit the outline separately from the letters using Laye...
One woman claimed that, “I would never talk to my friend and say things that the coloured person could overhear, like say, ‘they hadn’t ought to be here’”.Footnote27The woman indicated that being White played a crucial role in determining what could or could not be said in conversat...
On the inside of the tube, very close to the phosphor coating, there is a thin metal screen called a shadow mask. This mask is perforated with very small holes that are aligned with the phosphor dots (or stripes) on the screen. When a color TV needs to create a red dot, it fires ...
You can stop here to look like a green fresh stem, or you can add a little brown paint to make your pumpkin stem look older and a little more dried out. Add brown paint to the “underside” of the pumpkin stem to darken it and add a shadow. ...
my shadow painted on the pavement—there it is—a self so stretched I can't see past its point of disappearance. What draws me here? When I look back I see our house, the one we've finally moved to out here in the country, living now—we are—closer to cliffs and claws, our doo...
Stephen King famously wrote hundreds of short stories that were rejected by editors before his first one was published. He would put a nail through rejection letters until he had a stack of them almost as long as the nail. Then he would start the next story. ...
Louis teaches one called the archetypal tarot spread, which is based on the Celtic cross but rather than focusing on an outcome, it looks at where you are in the present. “I focus on higher calling and understanding shadow in that reading,” she says. “It brings it a little bit more...
A tech coaxes some letters in the water tray to one side with a tong... revealing a pencil (conte crayon) drawing of a woman. Brock looks closely at the drawing, which is in excellent shape, though its edges have partially disintegrated. The woman is beautiful, and beautifully rendered....