ConvertKit

Start your beautiful blog in 20-30 minutes, and a lifetime of shared experiences.  We can develop and design a blogging site for you or, through our courses, teach you how to start you own beautiful blogging site, and then build others on your own.  Message us to begin the conversation about your blogging development needs.

We will build, develop, design and start your own beautiful website of five plus pages.  Message us to begin the conversation about your website development needs.

With your photos of landscapes, favorite vacation photo, family, pets, we will create a piece(s) of digital art through water colors, acrylic or sketches.  With the image you or we can have the image printed pretty much as large or as small as desired and framed, imprinted on coffee mugs, throw pillows, etc.  Again, message us to begin the conversation about your digital photo art needs.

Give me a call if you need some simplified graphic design solutions say of social media templates – business cards – cards – posters – etc.  If you are just not sure which program to use (no commas on my keyboard today???) or how to use it learning the system – paying a subscription – we can create pretty much anything you need with  my design and subscription through Canva.  For those simplified graphic design images you need created we will those social media template images you need created but unsure how to or where to go I’d be happy to work with you.  We can create images for Pinterest Instagram Facebook as well as invitations business cards posters pretty much what ever you are thinking we can create.  Drop me a note.

Design Cuts

Design Cuts offers quality design resources such as graphics, textures, patterns, templates, fonts with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Procreate at affordable prices.  If you’re looking for professional fonts, graphics for corporate branding and logos, graphics for cards, Photoshop actions, this is the place to start!

Canva

Canva is a design graphics site.  We use teh paid version, but the free option provides plenty of design possibilities from the usual trifolds and cards to the various social media template sizes to create images for Pinterest, Facebook, etc.  Check out the free trial Pro Version to play with all the components.  If you have any experience with graphics type programs you’ll fall right into Canva creating cool stuff.  If not, the learning curve is very doable, especially with tutorials.

Pixabay

Pixabay has been an excellent source of quality stock photos.  In fact, the two images on this page are from Pixabay…you know, not the good lookin guy photo, but the other two!  Anyway, a nice source of photographs, and free, to download.

I’ve been working with the Affinity programs since the first of 2021 and am very impressed.  Last I looked there were the three main programs; Photo Publisher and Designer.  Photo and Publisher are my go to’s and I play around with Designer.  The Adobe products of Photoshop and InDesign are still awesome but if you haven’t heard of Affinity yet check them out!  Photo and Publisher and I suspect Designer are right up there with Photoshop and InDesign and the pricing may be what takes you over!

Adobe

I’ve been using a few of the Adobe products for years, and wish I had started with Photoshop and Lightroom years earlier, however being part of the A/E industry I was working primarily with AutoCAD and SketchUp.  But anyway, the little bundle of Adobe products I subscribe to, are affordable, and fun, even playing with a few commands to edit family and vacation photos, let alone create birthday and holiday cards.  Photoshop and Lightroom, as well as Bridge are not tools one just jumps right into intuitively, at least most of us, but there are so many tutorials on Youtube, as well as Adobe’s excellent tutorials, as well as maybe checking out your local community college are all nice resources to get you up and editing family photos and more.  So, if you’ve been pondering to give it a try, go for it.  Nothing like learning a little bit!