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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2009 12:04:31 GMT -5
I need to get my licks in before everyone leaves :-)
OK, so I have been learning about scrapkits this week right? Well, Yahoo has groups with the scrapkits there. Are they safe to play in? I wouldn't join until after I get back from Florida, but I figured I would ask about freebie groups. Or is it a bad idea? I love the scraps so much! If I could make a tag of all scraps I totally would!
My other question is where do you guys find the cute cartoon like tubes? Like what was on Huronna and Flopsie's attitude tags? Are theose pay tubes?
Huronna, I know you have a lot of artists who give you permission. Do you have to tube the original work yourself or does the work come in tubed form?
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Post by susy on May 15, 2009 12:24:34 GMT -5
Here's my answers.
1. Yahoo groups is your choice, JUST READ THEIR TERMS OF USE AT ALL TIMES. They usually email the tubes to you, which is whoohoo at first and then after a while you go out of town and come back to a gazillion emails and they keep buikding up and building up. To me, it's one of the downfalls using Yahoo groups. Sounds yummy but it's not. Remember this is my own opinion and I'm sure some others will agree cause "been there, done that!" LOL....butttttt..... they have scrumptious tubes. LMBO!
As far as tags made with all scrapkits.......don't know why you can't if there's a scrap in the kit that can be used as your focal point but I don't know why you'd want to do that. Some do have like dolls or bears or ornaments (Christmas) that can be the focal point and then add text and credits. It would have to have a credit.
2. To find the tubes that Huronna and Flopsie used, that's what the url is on the tag for hon. Just type that url into your browser and go see what they have and again READ THEIR TERMS OF USE AT ALL TIMES.
3. If they have galleries with images that you're allowed to use, you have to tube them yourself.....or.....put a big ole smile on your face and ask Huronna to show you how. LMBO.....that's if you want it tubed or you can just mist the image. As Huronna explained to me, about her one tag that's credited to a blog.......blogs don't have tubes, they have links to image galleries and they have to be tubed by you but they get the credit for the image. You don't take any credit for tubing them.
It's entirely up to you whether you want to use pay tubes. Granted I feel that PTU's are a lot nicer tubes, but, you get what you pay for.
I personally, and I've stated this many times before, think it's a waste of money to buy them when there are thousands of free ones out there to use.
Hope some of this helps.
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Post by Huronna on May 15, 2009 12:47:13 GMT -5
Not much left for me to answer here LOL I have bought some PTU images and actually they aren't always perfect. One of the sets I bought were the mice I used for all those elegant mice tubes. I bought them and when I checked with the select all, float, I almost pooed. They were horrible. I had to retube all of them and then I wrote the company and sent them screen shots of what they had sold and then what I did to them. To say the least they were a bit embarrassed. They got one of their other tubers to redo them (and then they were excellent) and as an "I'm sorry" they sent me the next two sets that were put out by this artist, free of charge.
Many of the PTU images I use I actually won in PSP contests on other sites.
And then there were a couple I bought from artists who had never allowed their work to be used, and I loved their work, so I bought them.
There were a couple of others , like Barb Kermis, she had been free to use and I had made so many tags with them, but then she went PTU and all prior permissions were revoked. O I purchased the tubes that I had previously used...and lots more because I love her stuff...and then I could use my old tags by just adding my liscense to them.
There are a lot of tubes available on Artists that Allow, but personally I have found that many are of lesser quality.
I get a lot of my tubes from a ©compliant yahoo tube group. There aren't many of those as many yahoo tube groups just tube anything and everything without proper credits. You really have to be aware.
Also what I do when I get an artist permission, I usually will tube tons of their work and then pass them on in the tube group I belong to. It's kind of a thrill when someone says...doesn anyone have any John Lund tubes and lots of people will put up tubes they have collected and I see my name in the file name. Makes you feel good that people are using what you donate.
But as Susy says, there are so may free to Use artists that buying tubes is unnecessary. It's the same with scrap kits...so many free one there, why buy them. I have never ever bought a scrap kit. Once I went to do a tut and they had a link to a PTU scrap...bah humbug, I just made my own. Lots of work, but the results was work it. But I won't do that anymore
I probably got my first permission from an artist back in 2003. And since they I think I have collected about 300 other personal permission and then there are all the general ones.
There are a couple of artists that actually offer tubes images on their site. One of them in Popeye Wong. But a lot of his images are not suitable for AL. That reminds me, I once won a signed print from him in a contest he judged. It was really cool receiving not only the print but a hand written letter from him.
Ok I think all your questions have been answered.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2009 13:33:58 GMT -5
Yep they have been!
I am not adept at tubing, and I doubt if it's a practice issue. I think it is a vision issue, so I kinda don't want to tube if I can avoid it. Like with PTU, why would I make my own when there are gobs out there already? It's just a matter of finding them.
I do want the scraps, I surely do. I will just have to go over the groups with a fine toothed comb. I figure If I just had a few scrapkits from each color family, I can re-use them over and over, and if I get ones with generous TOU I can colorize them.
I feel like a kid in a candy store with these scraps. Nobody loves them more than I do right now :-)
I never knew about the cartoon tubes. Are they vectors? I am very interested in them.
Thanks for all the help you all so generously give me.
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Post by Huronna on May 15, 2009 13:39:12 GMT -5
Have no idea if they are vectors, you'd have to ask the artist
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2009 13:41:39 GMT -5
Everything about PSP is so good. I never knew a computer could do all this. It's like learning something brand new every day. I wonder if this is what we went through when we were babies and we learned such a tremendous amount so fast?
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