tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4873964650576201542024-03-12T15:56:59.374-07:00Gracely Designsgracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-2075583858704158862012-01-21T18:17:00.000-08:002012-01-21T18:17:57.407-08:00how to: center tabs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
i have been doing a little work on this blog today! i designed a new header (which i love, that color blue is my new fave!) and centered the tabs in the list of pages under the header. i'm not completely done with the re-design, i'm still finishing up and i have a few ideas that i think will make it look a lot more professional.<br />
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in other news, with the new year & all, i'm feeling really inspired and i'm wanting to do one (or a few) blog designs! if you're interested, go to my <a href="http://gracelydesigns.blogspot.com/p/blog-design_10.html">pricing page</a> and <a href="http://gracelydesigns.blogspot.com/p/order_14.html">order form</a>. i will be able to start really quickly because i'm officially working on <em>no </em>designs!<br />
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i decided to do a tutorial on how to center the pages because it was so easy!<br />
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- go to your dashboard > template > customize <br />
- scroll down to "advanced"<br />
- scroll down to "add css"<br />
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if you see this box, you're in the right place:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;">save and enjoy your pretty new blog!</span></span></div>
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is everyone having a good black friday?<br />
did you shop 'till you dropped?<br />
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take $5 off your order for the rest of today and tomorrow. <br />
be sure to mention this deal in your order form!<br />
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xo</div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-16672072070301369952011-11-19T20:35:00.001-08:002011-11-19T21:37:33.770-08:00need a christmas card?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you know me personally, you probably know that I'm a big Christmas fanatic. <br />
In October, I start claiming that Christmas is <em>just around the corner. </em><br />
But now, it's really just around that corner. (!!!) And I am <em>mega </em>excited. <br />
My mom is busy making the Christmas cards ... this is a big deal to her. She's usually the first of everyone to send them out. <br />
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i was going to make a "deal" out of this, but i'm not sure how many people will be interested in it, so i'll just post it here. i decided that it would be fun to make christmas cards for people! send me 1-3 pictures, tell me a little bit about what you want, and i'll make you a card in the size that you want. i'll send you a file, then you can order copies wherever your little heart desires! <br />
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here's one i whipped right up. (<em>this isn't actually our real christmas card ... just for demonstration purposes!)</em><br />
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it's $10 for a completed, high resolution image. i reccomend then just printing at costco or any other supermegacheap places.<br />
and bam! all you have to do is mail them out!<br />
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so. <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">email me</a> if you're interested! i'll be waitinggggg. <br />
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xoxo<br />
grace<br />
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p.s. welcome, welome to all of you new followers from <a href="http://www.ashleysisk.com/2011/11/blog-design-giveaway.html">ashley sisk's giveaway</a>!<br />
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oh haiiii. <br />
it's me, grace? i used to post on this blog? <br />
well, I'm back.<br />
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if you follow my <a href="http://www.gracelovesthebeatles.com/">main blog</a>, you know that i just got Lightroom 3. i'm having fun playing around with it, and will hopefully sometime do a tutorial (when I actually learn how to use it.) but, I'm still going to use PSE, unless of course I fall in love with Lightroom and forget about photoshop. but, that probably won't happen. <br />
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<em>anyways, </em>today I'm doing three of my favorite editing tecniques in photoshop elements. I use 8, but I'm 99% sure you can do these things in the older versions (or the newer ones.) <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. editing a JPG in RAW. </span><br />
oh my gosh, it's not hard, but it sure sounds fancy! I don't really need to do a full on lesson on this, because I already did one right <a href="http://gracelydesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/editing-in-adobe-camera-raw.html">here</a>. so go read it for yerself. all the cool people edit their JPG's in RAW. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. adjusting color curves.</span><br />
Go to Enhance>Adjust color>Adjust color curves. Here you can mess with highlights, midtone brightness/contrast, etc. This is one of my favorite things to do but I always forget about it! I love it because you can do a simple tweak, or make a dramatic change and it's super easy!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. levels.</span><br />
Now, I'm sure that most people know what levels are. I literally do levels on 100% of photos. Here's how.<br />
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You want to move the black arrow on the far left, and the white arrow on the far right towards the center a little bit so they're touching either side of the black thing. Does this make sense?</div>
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so, did you learn anything? what's one of your favorite editing tecniques? please share!</div>
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gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-61537523442210621372011-08-07T12:46:00.000-07:002011-08-07T12:46:27.227-07:00hi and bye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">howdy!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I'm going to be gone for a few days at camp, so sorry to those who I am in the middle of a design with! but, I pinky swear I'll work on all of your orders as soon as i get back.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">p.s. plus, i have a few tutorials that I'm in the process of writing, so stay tuned!</span></div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-59995869084644771972011-07-20T19:24:00.000-07:002011-07-20T19:24:58.563-07:00fonts i love and hate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And, can we just talk about the Sanchez Moustache font for a minute? BEST. THING. EVER.</div>
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As you may know, my birthday is coming up in a few days. and y'all get a BIRTHDAY SALE for the special occasion! $5 off a Blogger Bargain package (See the "pricing" page) and whatever extras float your boat.</div>
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Are you excited? You should be. I'm pumped. </div>
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Don't forget to <a href="http://gracelovesthebeatles.wufoo.com/forms/order-gracely-designs/">click here</a> (or go to the "Order" page) if you're interested. I hope to hear from you soon!</div>
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grace</div>
gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-2648625748067480942011-07-14T21:22:00.001-07:002011-07-14T21:44:51.724-07:00what i've been working on lately<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-29945232166326500102011-06-17T15:59:00.000-07:002011-06-17T16:01:08.418-07:00tutorial: actions in photoshop elements<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hi there! Sorry, I've been neglecting this blog. (Spoiler alert: i forgot about it.) I have gotten some great emails requesting tutorials to be posted here, and one of them was actions in photoshop. <br />
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Ok, so, basically, an action is a bunch of steps in photoshop, saved to a file that you download. (Am I right? Let me know if i'm wrong, k?) You can download them from a bunch of places, free or not, and I'll list a few of my faves down below. If you want to use actions, you need to follow <a href="http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/2007/09/installing-coffeeshop-actions.html">this tutorial</a>. It looks a little overwhelming, but just take it step by step and you'll probably survive.<br />
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So, to make this more of a post than just linking to another tutorial, I wanted to share with you some of my favorite places I download actions from, and some of my favorite actions!<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/p/coffeeshop-actions-and-presets.html">The CoffeeShop Blog</a></strong>: This is my favorite. They have <em>sooo </em>many. AND, if you're a Lightroom kind of person, they got YOU covered too. No need to thank me.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/"><strong>Pioneer Woman</strong></a><strong>: </strong>she kind of goes without saying, because, you know... she's famous and stuff.<br />
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<a href="http://amymcmasterphotography.com/blog/?page_id=700"><strong>AMP Actions</strong></a><strong>: </strong>I haven't bought any of hers, (just got a couple of the free ones), but I love mine and I think the paid ones are pretty snazzy too. <br />
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And here are a few of my favorite specific actions.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There you have it, folks. The inside scoop on my favorite actions. What are a few of yours? Free, or not?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm looking forward to not neglecting this blog this summer (mama won't play favorites anymore), but I'm running out of ideas for tutorials. I mean, I'm not <em>you, </em>i don't know what you want to know. You know what you should do? <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">Email me</a> to request a tutorial! I can't promise I know everything, but if I do know i'll share. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">xoxo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">grace</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">p.s. I just realized that I typed "Vintage Truffle" instead of "Velvet Truffle". Silly me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>disclaimer: i was not paid to link to any of these sites. you think i know the pioneer woman? you're crazy. I'm not </em>that <em>cool. yet...</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-25035200905006115602011-05-27T08:21:00.000-07:002011-05-27T08:21:07.824-07:00checking in<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnWkk7A5AsvCn44SRrsW8LgFhmo2EgEo4pSYZXuHuV4qXA37DJRJ_iM_bUtXrdrubcUMRj_wT25bIaPu_6XuQ9XFiPiE43LGqTpoIE5EJ40Tj9imwPsui38mg3UDjXxqXuZIuIqR0i8-W/s1600/11-03-13_0217a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnWkk7A5AsvCn44SRrsW8LgFhmo2EgEo4pSYZXuHuV4qXA37DJRJ_iM_bUtXrdrubcUMRj_wT25bIaPu_6XuQ9XFiPiE43LGqTpoIE5EJ40Tj9imwPsui38mg3UDjXxqXuZIuIqR0i8-W/s640/11-03-13_0217a.jpg" t8="true" width="640" /></a></div>Hi guys! Lately I've been... stumped. Yes, that's the word. I just don't know what tutorials to make! Here's a few ideas that I have:<br />
<ul><li>adding a texture to your photos</li>
<li>clones in your photos</li>
</ul>Yes, if you notice, they are all. about. photography. <br />
This is supposed to be a blog design site, right!? I think we should have more blog design tutorials. : ) You can request one by emailing me <a href="mailto:gracelydesigns@gmail.com">here</a> or commenting.<br />
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xo<br />
grace</div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-74467788746173617452011-04-29T17:43:00.000-07:002011-04-29T17:43:37.527-07:00how to save your images for the web<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center">I just opened up Gracely Designs to post my saving images, and I did a double take at the followers widget. </div><div align="center">63.</div><div align="center">63?!<br />
63 people like my blog enough to get updates of it! Holla!<br />
That makes me <em>so </em>happy. I mean, I only have 25 posts!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Well, that made my day, now moving on to our last photoshop tutorial before going back to our regular blog design posts. I have a few in mind that I will post in the next few weeks, so stay tuned y'all!</div><div align="center">now, moving on to how to<span style="font-size: x-large;"> resize for web</span>. i'm a rule follower at heart so credit needs to be given where credit needs to be given... i learned this from my mom,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11653810052122146804"> rachel</a> at <a href="http://andthenshesnapped.blogspot.com/">and then she {snapped}.</a> i think she just thought this up by herself!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">first step... open your photo and do all of your pretty editing stuff to it! </div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once you're happy with your photo, go to File > Save for web. This box will pop up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't worry, it's OK. Just click "yes".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, you get to this page.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First thing we're gonna do is change is "Custom" to Jpeg High, Medium, or Low. Here's an example of all three.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, as you can see, the quality goes up or down (Low being the lowest quality) so it's really just up to what you're using the photo for. For blog posts, I usually use High, but keep in mind that I do XLG pictures that take up most of my blog, so it has to be pretty high quality. If you're doing Medium or Small photos, Jpg medium or low would be fine. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, this is where you change from "Custom" to "Jpg High/Low/Medium".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next you're going to change the numbers (you can see where on the photo below) to make the Width 800. It will automatically change the height.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When you're done with that, well, you're done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you have any questions, <a href="mailto:gracelydesigns@gmail.com">email</a> or leaving a comment is the best way of contacting me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But really, how else would you contact me!?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Friday guys.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-63156587940491182992011-04-25T18:45:00.000-07:002011-04-25T18:45:03.857-07:00some new stuff.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center">salutations people!</div><div align="center">we've gotten almost 10 new followers in the past day. </div><div align="center">CRAZY!</div><div align="center">i just want to say welcome to our new followers. i hope you like it here!</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">another thing is that this blog got a makeover. It's been many designs in the past week or so, but i think this one's here to stay for the month of May... maybe. please replace my orange flowery button with the button on my sidebar. thanks!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">many of my new followers have stumbled upon this blog from<a href="http://andthenshesnapped.blogspot.com/2011/04/very-hoppy-giveaway.html"> and then, she {snapped}'s awesomesauce package giveaway!</a> if you haven't entered, you have until friday. you could win a free awesomesauce package! i'm sponsoring many giveaways, so if you don't win this one, please don't cry. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I learned how to do removable backgrounds and will adding that to my packages. you can see an example of the background<a href="http://gracelovesthebeatles.blogspot.com/"> here, on my personal blog</a>. just know that if you buy the sweet blogger giveaway or the awesomesauce, you get a background too. you have to purchase a scrapbook kit for this, however. more information on this later, pinky swear!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">the next tutorial will be how to <span style="font-size: x-large;">save you images for the web. </span><span style="font-size: small;">this is super easy and super helpful! i've seen on a few blogs that they have ran out of space in blogger and it wants to charge them. if you use this, your images will take up virtually <em>no space </em>in blogger. ta da! so that's coming soon, so stay tuned... probably Friday at the latest. that will be my last photoshop post, and then back to blog design tutorials! if you're strictly here for the blog design tutorials, please forgive me. i just wanted to have a little more variety with my tutorials. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">i hope you lovelies all had a <em>lovely </em>Easter weekend... i sure did! have a nice week and i'll see you sometime in the week. :)</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-76689147735882701762011-04-23T20:30:00.000-07:002011-04-24T15:29:29.339-07:00Editing in Adobe camera Raw<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today is a <em>very </em>special day because (1) It's the day before Easter and (2) we're going to talk about editing in .jpg RAW! Now if that's not the most exciting thing you've heard all day I don't know what to tell you.<br />
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So lately this has been a mostly blog design blog with a little bit of blog design tutorials and that's not how I want it to be. I want to teach people about blog design, if blog design isn't your thing why not learn about photography and editing? When I started this blog I knew that it would end up pretty random because I'm a random person. If you read my <a href="http://gracelydesigns.blogspot.com/">other blog</a>, which has everything from POTD's to fashion to whatever, I would be surprised. <br />
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So that's why I've decided to not care about being random and talk about random stuff! If that even made sense. Let's get started, shalllll we?<br />
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Today I'm going to talk about <span style="font-size: x-large;">editing a .jpg in RAW. </span><span style="font-size: small;">It sounds so nerdy! It kind of is, too, but frankly, I don't care about being nerdy if it means my photos turn out good. This tecnique I've been using a <em>ton </em>and it's super easy. When i just need a simple touch up this is what I do. I've been hardly using any actions lately because I can get the same affects of some of my favorite actions just by using this. </span><br />
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If you didn't know, I'm using Photoshop Elements 8. I'm not sure but I know you can do something super similar to this in Lightroom (the link to a great video explaining doing this in Lightroom is <a href="http://phlearn.com/sync-photos-in-lightroom-episode-30-thursday/">here</a>.) Go to File > Open As. Choose your photo but don't open it! <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2uYOjR1fcYQMzcFJtw_ZTnghRpl1BXNjzZcb_VOyDEkyEc3V5XLiI3Pr2n_9buLeoEFLv6H4eyrFwV9B8jEigZPpY8hY_gkg2IIgy9xRlXWY3Zpq2sdcocMiwgOHyP_zrxdKhxGTe57m/s1600/jpgraw3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2uYOjR1fcYQMzcFJtw_ZTnghRpl1BXNjzZcb_VOyDEkyEc3V5XLiI3Pr2n_9buLeoEFLv6H4eyrFwV9B8jEigZPpY8hY_gkg2IIgy9xRlXWY3Zpq2sdcocMiwgOHyP_zrxdKhxGTe57m/s640/jpgraw3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then this purdy little box will open. Just play around with it! It's awesome!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's the same photo (it was <em>blah </em>SOOC but it was in focus, so I still liked it) edited in different ways using this method.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There's so many more combinations but this is just a few.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope this helped you! If you have any other questions just leave a comment here or shoot me an email.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left">Oh! That reminds me! Gracely Designs got it's own email. The email address is now <span style="font-size: x-large;">gracelydesigns(at)gmail(dot)</span><span style="font-size: small;">com<span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">I've actually had this email address since Gracely Designs started, but I forgot about it since I do things like that. From now on, all orders and questions/comments about tutorials, or anything regarding Gracely Designs will got there instead of my personal email address. Cool, right?! <em>Suuure, Grace. Totally cool. </em></span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Happy Easter everybody! Have a great Easter Sunday!<span style="font-size: small;"></span></div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-28306645363257683912011-04-10T20:47:00.001-07:002011-04-10T20:47:31.262-07:00read all about it!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center">hey!</div><div align="center">happy sunday!<br />
there's been a big change in blog design... both with price and quality. </div><div align="center">click <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://gracelydesigns.blogspot.com/p/blog-design_10.html">here</a></span> and read all about it!</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-71269269889894446402011-04-06T21:06:00.000-07:002011-04-06T21:06:01.447-07:00how to make your blog 3-columned<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center">this might be a "DUH" moment, (i know it was for me) but i finally figured out how to make my blog 3 columned! turns out, it was all in template designer! ha! silly me.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">so, go to you dashboard and click on design. from there, click on "template designer", and from there click on "layout".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVonjF-Zo7-hSKJs_vGJOMIq8ItgIa7nEg4FWfDfHXGFHEFIROtNcngcGMGIlvRAhyphenhyphentvAVRCyfyDUdxuK8fTCKO9Br46G__hTH3OcM6ENLMf1DL4LtaCvNStfQUx18ZDjYTTEFDWU8eiGL/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVonjF-Zo7-hSKJs_vGJOMIq8ItgIa7nEg4FWfDfHXGFHEFIROtNcngcGMGIlvRAhyphenhyphentvAVRCyfyDUdxuK8fTCKO9Br46G__hTH3OcM6ENLMf1DL4LtaCvNStfQUx18ZDjYTTEFDWU8eiGL/s640/Untitled-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">see?! so easy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">{<em>kudos to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04237131932499582713">nicole </a>for helping me "figure this out". ha!</em>}</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">happy thursday friends!</div><div align="center"></div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-79262834821575998672011-04-04T11:27:00.000-07:002011-04-04T11:27:11.864-07:00how to schedule a blog post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center">hey! it's been a while since my last tutorial (not really) so i wanted to put a new one up. again, this might be super obvious, but i go looking on the internet for super obvious things to. so. <br />
the first thing you need to do is... {obviously}... write your post. <br />
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</div><div align="center">i knew this would happen. i just <em>knew </em>it. i would start blog design and then totally neglect the tutorial part of it. i have been thinking all dang week for a tutorial to do, (so if you want me to do one, i'm not an expert or anything, but leave a comment or <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">email me</a>!) and so i am just going to share how to use the Snipping Tool on Windows 7. I'm not sure if this works on windows xp or any mac stuff, so sorry. you can try it, but no promises. ;-)</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">so the tool is used to "cut" stuff from the page and you can save it to your desktop and then upload it to blogger, FB, etc. EXAMPLE:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5DJyqGE7pIZ8V0bUMbjla4dzyFkMICj2Kr4WTw2V2WCqSZVeyKq-V4dQnBz7oVn8XPR4j6sVkI7rtdlgr-MTeCERJpUtegRDesvyHAiVzRTKi8zgqL1iqvZ-LTGj9psLZOQQZWMOV9EQ/s1600/winner.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5DJyqGE7pIZ8V0bUMbjla4dzyFkMICj2Kr4WTw2V2WCqSZVeyKq-V4dQnBz7oVn8XPR4j6sVkI7rtdlgr-MTeCERJpUtegRDesvyHAiVzRTKi8zgqL1iqvZ-LTGj9psLZOQQZWMOV9EQ/s1600/winner.PNG" /></a></div><div align="center">(i use this a lot with giveaway winners.)</div><div align="center">so y'all want to know how to do it?</div><div align="center">*YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!*</div><div align="center">ok, let's get started kids!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">so here is my page that i am going to "take" something from. (this is just a screen shot, don't freak out.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmMpcBesUr2_Bxalsy7D-j2J_ske0TVq51wji8r2waartuZ2Cp8T2fGbaLZ7e4TRUkyiBKAgvmoDSmDNzWCFOHsD4ekfYA5eJ8ubYuIfHT9fm9xLBJ3XDVEteNaZ7D7xZCDE0Sr2dIvSd/s1600/snippingtool1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmMpcBesUr2_Bxalsy7D-j2J_ske0TVq51wji8r2waartuZ2Cp8T2fGbaLZ7e4TRUkyiBKAgvmoDSmDNzWCFOHsD4ekfYA5eJ8ubYuIfHT9fm9xLBJ3XDVEteNaZ7D7xZCDE0Sr2dIvSd/s640/snippingtool1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">if you're using Random.org, you'll need to pick your number first.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, click this button on your keyboard:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPnJY1tJH1O7WRroyzq5iGnrsGhjHUJeYO5G7vPJit3CaYwhQRBE1x-ZFu3Wy2Tg3rCclGqjoEnVbz6uMO0Lrk3B1Ol_m4JTTZIZGwqABnV8xgUOKqpqblXD10b6EnIoFiwxyl-4sJI9o/s1600/windows-logo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPnJY1tJH1O7WRroyzq5iGnrsGhjHUJeYO5G7vPJit3CaYwhQRBE1x-ZFu3Wy2Tg3rCclGqjoEnVbz6uMO0Lrk3B1Ol_m4JTTZIZGwqABnV8xgUOKqpqblXD10b6EnIoFiwxyl-4sJI9o/s320/windows-logo1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">mines in black and white, but i dont know about yours. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zoCqECmORN1xbcBW8Z4mvMbnag9wHLnPGuAVeYHhTvb7cLSFPpkRyeYVNYKqUmuKGu5pdV5msL3jClJb5Tg2qrMPw79QFOz-zWp568oCENnC7v9k_4KU5H-Jr8LRxrVjsqJGgziUNr_x/s1600/snippingtool2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zoCqECmORN1xbcBW8Z4mvMbnag9wHLnPGuAVeYHhTvb7cLSFPpkRyeYVNYKqUmuKGu5pdV5msL3jClJb5Tg2qrMPw79QFOz-zWp568oCENnC7v9k_4KU5H-Jr8LRxrVjsqJGgziUNr_x/s640/snippingtool2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then, on the menu that *should* pop up, click the "Snipping tool" button thingy. then, it should make your screen white-ish, like this. Then, just "crop" the place that you want and a new box should pop up. then just save the picture as a JPG to your computer and do whatever you want with it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">well, bifornow!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRE8n_WRXDOBS9Tdydva67EC3aYuDaj0-oVpDwZkJIqGg-yQ6eY3Ys-w-tVx25VTFgCg6trnd3739UsPpEnvOouqUTkQ1XepmNBr_2JUSMGzpgo_e5l2sBWVjU0aLH-3vH2UX_-hvwW9DG/s1600/peaceoutyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRE8n_WRXDOBS9Tdydva67EC3aYuDaj0-oVpDwZkJIqGg-yQ6eY3Ys-w-tVx25VTFgCg6trnd3739UsPpEnvOouqUTkQ1XepmNBr_2JUSMGzpgo_e5l2sBWVjU0aLH-3vH2UX_-hvwW9DG/s640/peaceoutyo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-72584464843812208562011-03-07T14:17:00.000-08:002011-03-07T14:17:28.071-08:00portfolio 3/7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N1alMPDizy_UD6P9NCTlj9nttSe3NYcOGI7BPNPW5YzOlxu_C2LTXzDXFMxgQVGqMwl9s3IInRvMNztj90BznW_E49P132dI4kWuJISuAM6YpOFzc_zV2poNiSOp3qnuzkuvzotfGprU/s1600/alexandraheader2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N1alMPDizy_UD6P9NCTlj9nttSe3NYcOGI7BPNPW5YzOlxu_C2LTXzDXFMxgQVGqMwl9s3IInRvMNztj90BznW_E49P132dI4kWuJISuAM6YpOFzc_zV2poNiSOp3qnuzkuvzotfGprU/s640/alexandraheader2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfFA6QiAaG91aAOFIj5_RDAxSdNZ8We17xWSN8cqzxFI8sqx6byF2qO-VH5_Yd4Akk6UILoP2Fd5RG1HPFBRyCD_cZ57tk9UdpNg70NTGSTz7CwLaUgPugHGcrIIblvZR17vSjae8icK9/s1600/amandaheader_edited-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfFA6QiAaG91aAOFIj5_RDAxSdNZ8We17xWSN8cqzxFI8sqx6byF2qO-VH5_Yd4Akk6UILoP2Fd5RG1HPFBRyCD_cZ57tk9UdpNg70NTGSTz7CwLaUgPugHGcrIIblvZR17vSjae8icK9/s640/amandaheader_edited-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">want me to make YOU a header/button? gracie{dot}drechsel{at}gmail{dot}com</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-61683549701894134342011-03-04T21:00:00.000-08:002011-03-04T21:00:09.098-08:00premades<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Damask premade:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdq-P4-jOD9bgey6ImdofLV2WECzo_BVWQFv2FQ4QZt40MWT5Y0r6o0djP3VVVxHsl0NuOd4Dw7iZ2r-TQNLC3aqjWNfPhMgWfmwO63x6vuiCCYH3NfaDiVbUopN3ngAg4pY7sgVzmaQSj/s1600/damaskheader.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdq-P4-jOD9bgey6ImdofLV2WECzo_BVWQFv2FQ4QZt40MWT5Y0r6o0djP3VVVxHsl0NuOd4Dw7iZ2r-TQNLC3aqjWNfPhMgWfmwO63x6vuiCCYH3NfaDiVbUopN3ngAg4pY7sgVzmaQSj/s640/damaskheader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Bv6uP_4NCGDwJj2wYpwkQ93NxvgjiaKW9cQDyimklmEWxY_galoWbaPBwfUJH9zmRtVKzElwPQu7QvMr4SrYOQxJCGmd8ysvgepwF_qRUPxguc9DWF1p4eZVWzawJV5SXi-IKvh2T3sb/s1600/damaskbutton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Bv6uP_4NCGDwJj2wYpwkQ93NxvgjiaKW9cQDyimklmEWxY_galoWbaPBwfUJH9zmRtVKzElwPQu7QvMr4SrYOQxJCGmd8ysvgepwF_qRUPxguc9DWF1p4eZVWzawJV5SXi-IKvh2T3sb/s1600/damaskbutton.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Deep Sea premade:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOTAwjMYYWkaJyMczLpLKZF1j90TXNx9pASHC-a8gJ1Xb65mRDzUtRq1a7BLdM0kmwHzQBkGbSpgIy6XeffOV0GuxCJGg-QYAveczxbnjatJPZTXBw1hZr9TyEFUEhb0qNOtMef4SOV6Y/s1600/deepseaheader.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOTAwjMYYWkaJyMczLpLKZF1j90TXNx9pASHC-a8gJ1Xb65mRDzUtRq1a7BLdM0kmwHzQBkGbSpgIy6XeffOV0GuxCJGg-QYAveczxbnjatJPZTXBw1hZr9TyEFUEhb0qNOtMef4SOV6Y/s640/deepseaheader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkktY_PMOnGjHbXIT9zHGY-sQJm-GtFnKprk0MMBsPPKEKmFqZpIpaLYp_ewtBfoG_hwdeeqLyzgLMZKhk-B-5BFZDxAVjlPV7wxpCUEwH2j6TkRLYfduxBIvOlFL3AJBT6hHar0G5jcU/s1600/deepseabutton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkktY_PMOnGjHbXIT9zHGY-sQJm-GtFnKprk0MMBsPPKEKmFqZpIpaLYp_ewtBfoG_hwdeeqLyzgLMZKhk-B-5BFZDxAVjlPV7wxpCUEwH2j6TkRLYfduxBIvOlFL3AJBT6hHar0G5jcU/s1600/deepseabutton.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">{the background of the seahorse print is also avalible in greyish purple, a darkish blue, a yellowish green, a dark purple, simple white, orangeish yellow, orange, red, and maroon-y red if you're not feeling the hot pink.}</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">minty freshness premade:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KOexDlLecjfi-VtWvRFNLqH5PeUfkk8Py1QBbSPXpvEthsbSN6C0w7tHMK2pk3lu4SEl_i5rivw9zJNcecFK4orGyH6G25p5-aLoky4NQM8WIrFp-3mAyOQGfLK5zqlBUlCeizgA2wQj/s1600/mintyfreshness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KOexDlLecjfi-VtWvRFNLqH5PeUfkk8Py1QBbSPXpvEthsbSN6C0w7tHMK2pk3lu4SEl_i5rivw9zJNcecFK4orGyH6G25p5-aLoky4NQM8WIrFp-3mAyOQGfLK5zqlBUlCeizgA2wQj/s640/mintyfreshness.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PySox_8uefRrgcPQLSx3sVJCNDWq_ru3gJmMzWSLMQSzXw7cZODy7UYVR4X0pKxsONEJAoj-FzbkGP25LBEemrdMYjyoKvcPb7btQ0UpOUC06q8GeuTrO-oiwJup9v-YmxUgrAEGc2G4/s1600/mintyfreshnessbutton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PySox_8uefRrgcPQLSx3sVJCNDWq_ru3gJmMzWSLMQSzXw7cZODy7UYVR4X0pKxsONEJAoj-FzbkGP25LBEemrdMYjyoKvcPb7btQ0UpOUC06q8GeuTrO-oiwJup9v-YmxUgrAEGc2G4/s1600/mintyfreshnessbutton.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so. hi there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been getting requests for blog designing and it is so fun and awesome! srsly. I want to make it easier... easier for you and me. i will be making premades. your design can be the exact replica of a premade, inspired by the premade, or have nothing to do with any premades. just make sure to mention in your email if you have your eye on one of these. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(and also, i will be making more, so don't you fret if you dont see one tha makes you go OHMIGOSHIWANTTHATPREMADENOW.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">kthanksbye. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-7653369163960956192011-02-21T20:28:00.000-08:002011-02-24T19:43:29.093-08:00Portfolio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_K8tIj4DmAeZqWd6X5kQYdElRWvljbW28-x1PQFkFSAs5zD_0s-M9f-qornFDIgQZOZ2rbJ0tGoUt_NYwJLJCF8loirnS2148wZy67dblm4kknEHnwFb5i8Q_4n57u_tnVaYlFYB4ksJ/s1600/gracelydesigns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_K8tIj4DmAeZqWd6X5kQYdElRWvljbW28-x1PQFkFSAs5zD_0s-M9f-qornFDIgQZOZ2rbJ0tGoUt_NYwJLJCF8loirnS2148wZy67dblm4kknEHnwFb5i8Q_4n57u_tnVaYlFYB4ksJ/s640/gracelydesigns.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRQ405X3q8J7n3ZR7OSgudYjx568rf6MyNDHP71jjMy42knW3tLxjWnAvtGbzmyFStwi6iy0SFe5YV2NlG-yXiG2AOhwyX-EvLwWwDfX3Uhhv_-pAJbZtk0NumRJRENcD6amEeQ5Eyv9o/s1600/flowersforchildren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRQ405X3q8J7n3ZR7OSgudYjx568rf6MyNDHP71jjMy42knW3tLxjWnAvtGbzmyFStwi6iy0SFe5YV2NlG-yXiG2AOhwyX-EvLwWwDfX3Uhhv_-pAJbZtk0NumRJRENcD6amEeQ5Eyv9o/s640/flowersforchildren.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9thJqs5W_mraQh2J3MSm7GszubabwbidNZ8Mx2dYA2W388WtW2mJLaXjK8Z63bzt9ty8UbGwYH_wFHqkUjEAEYldEEcj2NriFlutq6zCdNclY0GLZk-WJOtQwpKrjM3vmk-lnQXD5eFg/s1600/simplysulee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9thJqs5W_mraQh2J3MSm7GszubabwbidNZ8Mx2dYA2W388WtW2mJLaXjK8Z63bzt9ty8UbGwYH_wFHqkUjEAEYldEEcj2NriFlutq6zCdNclY0GLZk-WJOtQwpKrjM3vmk-lnQXD5eFg/s640/simplysulee.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjVJcbJYywPKHrzEimYzdhiONtl6YcisSO3OUvE7QgLIt_d9KKPO5I8b1JDO0rBMpECWC5OvbY7b1Y3Ee1o8Bg7pXvmx2r0phuu0t96i9xafkOxX8zzNymFlFBmOX0WfQdZF-73aFl0RH/s1600/heidihasahobby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjVJcbJYywPKHrzEimYzdhiONtl6YcisSO3OUvE7QgLIt_d9KKPO5I8b1JDO0rBMpECWC5OvbY7b1Y3Ee1o8Bg7pXvmx2r0phuu0t96i9xafkOxX8zzNymFlFBmOX0WfQdZF-73aFl0RH/s640/heidihasahobby.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is so fun for me so far. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-32006987827517600822011-02-21T16:46:00.000-08:002011-02-21T17:13:26.846-08:00Blog design is starting. Yeah. For realz. (Yes, realz.)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CyLpGQaDje6yqKOc-qgQgCsothoY4rA2fio44yb8mFAj3G7pmv0IfsNAsJYe9H0foZEnDbRaUDjQWhK7IV7QSAAhJjyXpcnMiPEBWJvH4eORBMMr7efAfpJMuHtx-ekgpqUMYOYkTGMu/s1600/038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CyLpGQaDje6yqKOc-qgQgCsothoY4rA2fio44yb8mFAj3G7pmv0IfsNAsJYe9H0foZEnDbRaUDjQWhK7IV7QSAAhJjyXpcnMiPEBWJvH4eORBMMr7efAfpJMuHtx-ekgpqUMYOYkTGMu/s640/038.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I know this is sort of random... but I am a random person and I like cupcakes.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Greetings! (Just kidding, I don't actually say "greetings". Ha.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you haven't noticed, Gracely Designs got a facelift. (I'm still working on it, but at least you can read the words.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have learned a scary amount of HTML in just a few hours. Seriously. Scary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really enjoy it, though. I think it's fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's why I'm starting blog design. For YOU. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm not awesome, nor a pro at this. I'm not going to charge you guys for the time being. I'm going to work hard on your blogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will be writing more about this later today. (Ya know, the deets.) Expect another page titled "blog design". If you are interested, you can <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">email me now</a> or <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">email me</a> in a few hours when I have the post up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think this will be fun!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*<em>confused? Olivia of Robin Blogs put my post up for Grace Loves the Beatles earlier today, so I didn't do that. I did, however, design this blog you're looking at right now. </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-61814234482756395292011-02-18T20:22:00.000-08:002011-02-20T10:00:34.135-08:00How to make a header for your awesomeness blog.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Level: Medium</span></div><div align="center">want to know how to make an awesome header?! fantabulous. (fantastic+fabulous, if ya didn't know.) i use pse8, but you could probably use picknik. or gimp. or whatevs. (i'm not familiar with those so, srry yall.) </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Make a new document. (CTRL+N). Your blog has to be 1000 pixels wide for this. Make it about the size below:</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Are you a photographer? want pictures on your header? it's your lucky day!! {not a photographer type? don't you fret! just scroll down and i'll show you how to make a pretty header without a nikon/fstop/d-whatever stuff.}</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhByMki_J_GPMvbiyDyAU9BuJoOJikTtDL6DbcG7jlifAkiEyEVhNek1s0If20tolBtk8oOQb-2BE19CMt8OTF-6rgjqaU-oVUW5lfLsyPl3NgJ1eiUM6uYSu8i6ISQy4FW4RBMF0xB6lCc/s1600/makeaheader1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhByMki_J_GPMvbiyDyAU9BuJoOJikTtDL6DbcG7jlifAkiEyEVhNek1s0If20tolBtk8oOQb-2BE19CMt8OTF-6rgjqaU-oVUW5lfLsyPl3NgJ1eiUM6uYSu8i6ISQy4FW4RBMF0xB6lCc/s640/makeaheader1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So now you have a <em>big. white. box. </em>Painfully boring, i know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First, to make it not boring, you should choose a color. You can use the dropper tool if you feel fancy, or you can just choose a color from the color-chooser-thingymabob.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvi4j40n5xwhQq_EjPsHM9IPBr_2CtVoFXKqxdqKzTEnYI34oIrrQaVRDxY0FSJKj2Elnrn9QS3Q4BT9-8XK9-YMwXScoUHxNSXqMJHtjw8k9q1_uCQTHcz4eBhogvOHu_WzMqbrkGOASZ/s1600/makeaheader2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvi4j40n5xwhQq_EjPsHM9IPBr_2CtVoFXKqxdqKzTEnYI34oIrrQaVRDxY0FSJKj2Elnrn9QS3Q4BT9-8XK9-YMwXScoUHxNSXqMJHtjw8k9q1_uCQTHcz4eBhogvOHu_WzMqbrkGOASZ/s640/makeaheader2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See? Not <em>as </em>boring. But it can still be better. just saying.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, open your picture, and click CTRL+A so the little ants start crawling around the picture. Then click CTRL+c to copy. Go on the brightly-colored header layer and click CTRL+V to paste. Then use the arrow tool to resize and drag it around until you like it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">There has been some problem through blogger that if you upload your header from your computer, it gets all blurry and icky and OMG if I don't get that fixed I am going to flip out-y. (well, maybe that's just me.) But anyway, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. IT'S BLOGGER'S FAULT. And heres how y'all's can fix it.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">You have to have a <a href="http://www.photobucket.com/">photobucket</a> account. Not a flickr, a photobucket. Design your header however you want it (if you don't have it already) and then upload it.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If your header is perfectly centered, that is great, don't do anything from here. Mine wasn't, so i had to take these steps. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are going to use some HTML. Don't freak out, it's ok. CTRL+F really helps. Click CTRL+F and in that box, search for <span style="color: red;">[[><b:skin></span>. Directly before that, paste the following: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ok. ready to get started?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am going to be using pse 8 for this. But really you can use any photo editing software you feel like. There's <a href="http://pixlr.com/">Pixlr</a>, <a href="http://www.picnik.com/">Picknik</a>, whatevs. moving on, children, moving on... Now you have to make a new document (control + n on photoshop elements) and make it 125 pixels x 125 pixels. Now you design your little heart out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFErGA682Hy8xnSJC4UlfTmSEt9KcsM7iiOU1c1OStm7245sGYL-FC5yhMUVjb51O8SbbKx3zEskAZX10GcrRrOvu9o9CFhIlZzeTsZyrxqbYYK8jEc4yBxtOjzSZKBcBY1HqSGZFwcyz/s1600/makeablogbutton1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFErGA682Hy8xnSJC4UlfTmSEt9KcsM7iiOU1c1OStm7245sGYL-FC5yhMUVjb51O8SbbKx3zEskAZX10GcrRrOvu9o9CFhIlZzeTsZyrxqbYYK8jEc4yBxtOjzSZKBcBY1HqSGZFwcyz/s640/makeablogbutton1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*hint: don't make it say that. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Did you have fun designing your little button? I'm glad. Save it as a jpeg on your desktop, or somewhere it is easily accesible. now you have to sign up for <a href="http://www.photobucket.com/">photobucket</a>. Sign in, and upload your button. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Enjoy your beautiful new blog button!!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Seriously.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">*<span style="font-size: x-small;">also, please don't copy and paste, k? i just spent a good 45 minutes on this tutorial, just for you guys. :)</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">♥</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">did this tutorial not work for you? do you have additional questions/comments? just want to say how much you looove gracely designs? email me, at gracie (dot) drechsel (at) gmail (dot) com or just click that pretty little comment button down there. </div></div>gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195747190145124466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487396465057620154.post-69051264381787487272011-01-17T18:28:00.000-08:002011-01-17T19:55:01.896-08:00how to watermark your photos<div align="center">alternative title: my first photoshop tutorial</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Level: medium and a half</span></div><div align="center">Yes, this is my very first photoshop tutorial. I will use PSE8 for <em>all </em>of my tutorials. I think that watermarking is a great idea... it gives your photos a personal touch and keeps bad guys from stealing your pictures. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">The first thing you need to do is start a new document. {<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">control+n}. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn't really matter the size (it just can't be super tiny) because we will crop it later. In the drop down box, make sure it says "transparent."</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-X2nd1lr8wNsId25Dx4K6CpgRMz5OVM-xw3Rd2_dZhu54G6xXDOBt5-_LytyXQp7K8cyD6ttyfUWf0zLrSwHWV7E1x-YjX91MXF_uVfnF-c4a2P3V6Lr3jb9EFk9Pf41-87g7vbt-Hij/s1600/watermarkyourphotos4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-X2nd1lr8wNsId25Dx4K6CpgRMz5OVM-xw3Rd2_dZhu54G6xXDOBt5-_LytyXQp7K8cyD6ttyfUWf0zLrSwHWV7E1x-YjX91MXF_uVfnF-c4a2P3V6Lr3jb9EFk9Pf41-87g7vbt-Hij/s200/watermarkyourphotos4.jpg" width="36" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to watermark them, you must be on the brush tool. Go to the drop down box and scroll down to the bottom. You will find your watermark there. Then, simply stamp the watermark on your photo. You're done! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">questions? email me at <a href="mailto:gracie.drechsel@gmail.com">gracie.drechsel@gmail.com</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">peace out, yo!</div><div align="center"><br />
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