Armchair Astronaut

In case you’ve missed it, Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, currently stationed on the ISS,  has been posting his stunning photos to twitpic and posting about his experiences on Twitter.

Thank you NASA for really embracing social media and letting us enjoy the results.

Vintage PI Goodies for Valentine’s Day 2010

This is a new set of much-requested Vintage Cutouts, available for you to download through the end of this month.  Again, these cutouts were created using Caroloyl’s excellent tubin’ tutorial with the exception of my preference for using a Wacom tablet and a small paintbrush to tidy the cutout rather than the Path/Bezier tool in selection mode.

In addition to the Vintage Cutouts Library UOL, I’ve also included in this download a toolset to help you make your own cutouts:

• A Custom Brush preset for cleaning up your objects (no drawing tablet required, though preferred)
• A” Zoom to 600%” SMP for easy zooming.

Click on the image to download and save the 3.9M zip file to your computer’s hard drive. Apologies for the file size, but these are fairly large image objects. If you have any problem with the download, please leave a comment. See also the ToU included in the file for any additional limitations on use of these Vintage cutouts.

Fontaholics will recognize the font here as French Script MT, available on most computers running an MS product.

This PI Goody is being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. As always, any question about this license or how to use my Goodies are always welcome.

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PI Goodies for Valentine’s Day 2010

First of a two-part PhotoImpact Goody available for download through the end of this month.

This download includes:

• All the heart shapes you see in the image below in a UOL Library and
• The heart-themed Frame&Shadow SMP file used below and
• All the Magic Fill materials used in creating this Goody in an SMP file and
• Reissue of my Chocolates preset and
• Reissue of my Black Lace Frame&Shadow preset

Click on the image to download and save the 495K zip file to your computer’s hard drive.

This PI Goody is being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. As always, any question about this license or how to use my Goodies are always welcome.

For the fontaholics among us, the font used here is Dinc‘s Cinema Aisles.

A second set of special PI Goodies for Valentine’s Day will be available tomorrow, so stop back then. Don’t want to miss out on new PI Goodies? Sign up for updates by email or subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed. You can do both over on the right in my sidebar.