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How to make a great Journal featureJournal Feature TutorialHow to make a great Journal feature4 months ago in Art Blogs & Mags More Like This
How to make a great Journal feature!
This article has been written for #projecteducate by `miontre.
Featuring other artists in your Journal is a great thing to do, because everyone wins! Not only are you supporting other artists by giving them some extra exposure, but you can also earn some exposure for yourself and make new friends too. Additionally, those who view your feature have the opportunity to find some new art and artists.
Therefore, it pays to make your Journal features the best they can be. Making a really good Journal feature can involve a lot of time and work - planning, collecting artwork, arranging the artwork in a Journal, publication, and promotion. Taking these steps instead of merely dragging in thumbs from your Favourites will result in an appealing and rewarding Journal feature. In this tutorial, we're going to produce a feature with images arranged like this:
Do-It-Yourself Journal SkinDo-It-Yourself Journal SkinDo-It-Yourself Journal Skin2 months ago in Art Blogs & Mags More Like This
Get into Journal skinning by learning how to create your own Journal skin in this tutorial!
Written by `miontre for dA Related Week in #projecteducate
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Heya everyone!In this tutorial, you'll be learning how to create your own Journal skin on deviantART. This tutorial takes a "Do-It-Yourself" or "Assemble-It-Yourself" type approach. I've pre-created a design, and it's up to you to put it together and customise it - with instructions, of course!
Note that you need a Premium Membership to use Journal skins!
This tutorial is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting to create Journal skins on dA using CSS. Those who don't know anything about CSS yet can follow along, and hopefully learn something along the way! Those who are beginners with CSS can learn how to turn a design into code, and how to use CSS to create a Jo
light wondersHere are some amazing photos I found today!light wonders1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
Please support the artists (and the hours I spent making this feature with cluttered HTML) with a favourite or comment on the news article!
colours of the rainbowHello!colours of the rainbow1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
Here is a group of amazing photos I found and wanted to share!
When scrolling through them quickly, the first word that popped into my mind was "colour" - hence the name!
Please add this article to your favouritesand leave a comment if you like it, this was more people will be able to see it and hopefully enjoy the photos too!
Colours Vol. One:iconwildrune11: This skin was deeply inspired by the skins $marioluevanos creates. I like the ways he uses colour and line in his designs. I made and discarded three journal skins while I was trying to come up with a design for this series, and when I had the idea to create a simple but attractive skin like his, I started work on a fourth skin (not knowing yet if I would use it or not). The first thing I did was create a colour palette at colorschemedesigner.com - a simple but powerful colour palette creation tool I recently discovered. As I started creating my skin and applying the colours I had selected, I realised what I would call my feature series - "Colours". The word "colours" can mean many things, and some of these meanings are things I want to achieve in my features.Colours Vol. One10 months ago in Art Features More Like This
So, "Colours" will be a journal feature series run by me!
Every article will include an interview, a spotlight artist and group, and some selecti
Trolls: A Field GuideTrolls: A Field GuideTrolls: A Field Guide2 months ago in Art Blogs & Mags More Like This
Identify, avoid, and deal with various specimens of troll!
written by `miontre for #projecteducate's Community Week
Trolls are everywhere on deviantART. In the forums, telling you that your site suggestion sucks. In your gallery, saying that you're doing it wrong. In your journal, asking you if ur mad. And of course there are numerous lone trolls roaming around, looking for n00bs (such as yourself) to prey on. Naww, I'm just kidding! You're not a noob.
Trolls live to make you upset. They want to insult your ideas, artworks, interests, and so forth; because they love provoking people and getting a reaction out of them. It's important that you know how to identify, avoid, and deal with the many types of troll which roam and predate deviantART.
Identifying Trolls
There are a few different types of trolls, and it's important that you can identify and distinguish between them so that you know what you'r
Colours Vol. Two:iconmiontre: Welcome to the second Colours journal feature!Colours Vol. Two8 months ago in Art Features More Like ThisPlease consider adding the feature to your
During August, the first #FeedbackFrenzy came to a close - over 160 participants and 40 teams wrote almost 2,000 critiques. I was blown away by the effort everyone put in, and the size the contest came to!! I am so honoured to have been involved of the organisation and coordination of such an event
Here is a feature for the winners, as promised. They aren't all photographers, but I thought it would be fitting to include the winners in here
First Place (Grand Prize Winners):
Team #18
*dierat | *ZenetianPandaz | =awaicu | *FadedDreams5
:icondierat: :iconZenetianPandaz: :iconawaicu: :iconFadedDreams5:
Second Place:
Team #33
:devKneeling-Gl
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Colours Vol 004ColoursColours Vol 0041 month ago in Art Features More Like This
Vol 004
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Colours photography feature series - it's coming back with a brand new look!
Contents:
Interview with =Nilanja
Reader Opinion
Spotlight Artist
Spotlight Group
General Feature
Interview with =Nilanja
Nilanja has a gallery full of imaginative and creative conceptual photos. They're all very surreal and other-wordly - Pezi makes use of crafty trick photography to create an unlikely by extraordinary scene! Petra's photos often have interesting and thought provoking meanings hidden within them. This is especially noticeable in the photos produced during her recently completed A is for Alphabet Project!
=Nilanja
Pezi
Hobbyist Artist
Female from A
Colours Vol. Three:iconwildrune11: Hello, and welcome to the third volume of Colours!Colours Vol. Three8 months ago in Art Features More Like This
This time, I'd like to ask the readers a question. What do you think of editing photography? Is it something all photographers should try? Or is it something that should only be used in moderation, or never done? Do you think editing is a part of the art of photography? Or is it completely different and unrelated? Please leave your thoughts in a comment! I will include your opinions in my next article. If you do not wish for your opinion to be shared (or if you'd like to be anonymous), please say so in your comment.
Interview with `dragonfly-oli
Best of the Week XVIIIA collection of the best photos submitted to #Breathtaking-photos this week!Best of the Week XVIII4 months ago in Art Features More Like This
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deep in thoughtHere is another feature, filled with photos!deep in thought1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
If you enjoy it, please consider adding this to your favourites and leaving a comment!
I have a question at the end
Enjoy:
Starting with dA CSSBack when CSS was allowed for journals for the first time there had been only a few deviants like `ClaireJones, `Lilyas or =kuschelirmel-stock who provided free skins for everyone. Through the time more and more people enjoyed working on CSS skins and we also got the chance to skin our galleries.Starting with dA CSS5 months ago in Editorials More Like This
These days, and thanks to the great resources about journal and gallery CSS that have been created, it is possible for nearly everyone to code their own skins and/or to share them with others. Still there are many people who struggle with some basic things, which is why we want to focus on some of them here.General
Where can you use CSS/HTML
On deviantART you can only use HTML and CSS on your journals, group blogs, your custom gallery folders, as well as your groups' galleries.
When you customize your profile widgets you can't add CSS or HTML like you can for journals/galleries. All you can do is using existing dA code that can be re-us
Tutorial Writing TipsTutorial Writing TipsTutorial Writing Tips5 months ago in Art Blogs & Mags More Like This
This article has been written both for #projecteducate's Community Week and for the second #FeedbackFrenzy contest.
There are many tutorials right here on deviantART, most of which are provided by other deviants for free. All of us can take a look at these tutorials, and hopefully learn something new. While it's wonderful people spend their spare time helping others learn for free, the truth is some tutorials are much better than others. In this article, I am aiming to share my tutorial-writing knowledge to help others make their tutorials better! After all, if you're going to spend some of your spare time writing a tutorial, you might as well make it the best it can be!
What are you good at?
First of all, think about what you're good at! If you haven't already decided what you want to write your tutorial on, you'll need to have a think about the sorts of things you're good at, which you could teach others. You don't ha
PE: Decorating Your ProfileDecorating Your ProfilePE: Decorating Your Profile1 month ago in Art Features More Like This
Your profile page is the first thing people will see when they click on your name, so it's very important to leave a good impression! This article will provide some useful tips and tricks for both premium and non-premium members who want to convert their profile into their own, unique page. First off, some Do's and Don'ts of profile decoration:
Do:
Use dA's profile widgets-- there are lots of great options to chose from
Show off some art (that's what people are here for!)
Express your personality through colors, stamps, gifs, etc.
Don't:
Add so many images that your profile takes forever to load
Use garish or headache-inducing colors
Make text difficult to read with dark backgrounds
Master Profile Decorators
Here are some very epic deviants I've come across with mad profile decorating skills. Check out their profiles for some inspiration:
*YuikoHeartless *sara-satellite=Mimru:deva
Retro / Vintage Photo EditingRetro / Vintage Photo EditingRetro / Vintage Photo Editing2 weeks ago in Art Blogs & Mags More Like This
Turn your digital photography into film-photo resembling pieces of art with these tips!
written by `miontre for Community Week in #projecteducate
Photo editing is fun. It gives you a chance to add something to your photos, and really bring out expressions you may or may have not realised were there. Lately, I've been obsessed with retro and vintage editing effects in my editing, to try and replicate film photographs. Of course, it's impossible to replicate actual film photos, but I think that's what makes it fun: you can do anything you want and it doesn't matter if it looks realistic or not. It's about artistic freedom, and enjoying yourself! I've found myself in a vast world of endless possibilities and I can't wait to continue and try new things. I've found that it's a difficult category to work in, since there's not such a large support community for it on deviantART, but I enjoy it nonetheless!
First up, let's take a lo
Interview with *MadspeitersenMads Peitersen is a professional digital artist that lives in Denmark. His gallery consists of unique artworks, so i advise you to make him a visit after reading what he has to say!Interview with *Madspeitersen5 months ago in Interviews More Like This
First, please introduce yourself to those that might not know you yet.
My name is Mads Peitersen. I am 33 years old and I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Early in my life I quit highschool in order to pursue an education in Animation, Illustration and Art. Since then I have been working with everything, from Creating art for animation, Tv Series and movies, computer games titles to advertising. Right now I am working for Tactile Entertainment, creating iPhone and Android games. It is very fulfilling and I really love doing it
You are a very successful artist, what do you believe are your most important features that made y
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