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There will be a totally FREE photo restoration class held over at Scrapaneers starting on Monday. This class will be self-paced so you can sign up now and get started any time after it opens up on September 1.
This class will teach you the basics of restoring old/damaged photos including how to scan, color correct & retouch.
This is a great chance to learn some new skills in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. And hey, did you get the part where it’s FREE?
To kick off August, we have a great designer feature with Kim Cameron. This week, you can read about Kim’s work and grab a limited time free commercial use digital scrapbooking template. Next week, there will be a chance to with a gift code for $10 worth of Kim’s fantastic products!
Let’s find out more about Kim!
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. I married my high school sweetheart, and we have now been together for over 23 years. We had 3 beautiful children and a grandson that we adore. We all love to travel and vacation on the ocean. When we can’t take long trips, we enjoy visiting the many parks and waterfalls around our home in the northeast Georgia foothills. How long have you been designing CU products and how did you get started? I have been designing CU products for many years now. I originally got started designing CU products when I couldn’t find what I needed for my own kits. Do you design PU products as well? Yes, I do design PU products. I really enjoy creating kits and often save what I make for CU products. What programs do you use to design your products?
I mostly use GIMP to design with, and sometimes will use Photoshop for things that GIMP doesn’t have.
Here is a look at some of the fantastic products that Kim sells at CUDigitals – everything is on sale!!
What is your favorite time of the day to design?
The morning is definitely my favorite time of the day to design. Can you give us a great tip for using one of your products to create digital scrapbooking kits? I mostly design element templates. I try to keep them simple with as few layers as possible. I highly recommend using them as a starting point, but then add more to it to make it unique. NOTE: See yesterday’s blog post for some ideas, too! What are a few of your favorite products that you’ve made? At the moment, I would have to say my favorite products are my Southwestern collection. I had so much of fun making them.
What is your best-selling product? Here are a few of my top selling products at the moment:
Do you have plans for your next set of CU products? At the moment, I am sorting through a large folder of CU templates that I have made over the last few months. I plan to organize them in packs that I hope to start adding to the store very soon. What do you love to do when you are not working? When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with my family at the parks around my home. I also enjoy playing video games and gardening. What is your favorite beverage? I only drink two kinds of beverages: coffee and water. So I would have to say that coffee is by far my favorite. If you could learn anything what would it be? I would love to learn more about photography and editing my photos to look professional.
During her feature, Kim is offering this really cute layered template freebie through the store. Stop by before Aug 15 to download a copy!
We are pleased to announce that it’s time for another featured designer series where you can learn more about one of the fabulous CUDigitals designers, get some fantastic deals, and grab a free CU/Commercial Use free download. Next week, there will be a chance to win your choice of $10 in free product from this special design too!
Let’s meet eqrAveziur!
1. What is your real name if different than your design name?
My Real name is Eva Quevedo Ruiz and known as Aveziur.
2. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family.
I'm from Spain. A Spanish "rare" since I'm petite and blonde :) I love the sun, the sea and the mountains and I have the good fortune to live near the capital, with all its benefits without its problems. Torrejón de Ardoz is a small town, but with all needs met, and all by hand. You do not need a car to live, there is very good public transport (train, metro buses...) and very fast. I live with my husband Juanjo (gunner of the Spanish Army) during the last 15 years and our son Carlos, an intelligent and hyperactive boy of 11 years, the focus of my love, concerns and work. Also with Goldby, a small dwarf Griffon, which looks like a circus dog.
3. How long have you been designing CU products and how did you get started?
I've been working in a multinational company, and during the summer of 2006, without much work, I decided it was a good time to learn Photoshop, and looking for tutorials I was confronted with digital scrapbooking, and since then I have not stopped. At first I had problems because my English skills, but through the years, this work has also helped me to learn English without big problems. I started my first designs in 2007 and at the end of the year, I had my first sales. HERE ARE SOME OF EVA’S BEST-SELLING PRODUCTS
4. Do you design PU products as well?
Yes, I do. But CU products take me the most of the time. Most of my products are extractions of my photos. I must confess I'm not a very good photographer, so in most cases I have to work a bit more than necessary to make the perfect products.
5. What programs do you use to design your products?
Photoshop and Illustrator CS6. Sometimes Perfect Effects 8 and Repper Pro.
6. What is your favorite time of the day to design?
Early in the morning. If I start early, I work spreads far and confuses me less. Although as a night person, not always manage to get up early.
7. Can you give us a great tip for using one of your products to create digital scrapbooking kits?
Most of my products don't have a defined style, so they are very easy to use as ornaments. A tip that I use in my PU kits, is to choose one of these real elements and use it like a brush, changing the color and blending mode.
8. What are a few of your favorite products that you’ve made?
Definitely my favorite product is my Ornamental Pumpkins. I planted them, watered them, I saw how they grew, plucked from the bush and shoot them incredibly well.
10. Do you have plans for your next set of CU products?
I have a lot of material to extract, but extracting is so boring lol
11. What do you love to do when you are not working?
I'm a computer addict, so checking other pages as Pinteres, Facebook, watching videos of dancing, or sometimes learning English as well. I have to tell you that my mobility is not very good, so I had to leave my travels and my trips to the mountains.
12. What is your favorite beverage?
"Tinto de Verano", red wine (mine is without alcohol) with sweet soda and a lot of ice blocks. Typically Spanish beverage!
13. If you could learn anything what would it be?
I have left many things without tapping on the list of my life: dancing, skating, painting, growing 10 centimeters more lol, but now I'm learning manual scrapbooking. And even if you will not believe, I find it easier.
Eva is having a big sale in her store for the next two weeks. Now is the time to grab some of her carefully constructed designs for your next project. Here are a few owner picks:
Along with this sale, you can also get this wonderful free digital scrapbooking download in the store – Commercial Use OK!!
Be sure to stop back next week to enter for a chance to win a $10 shopping spree in Eva’s store.
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