November 2009 Clip Art of the Month salutes the Holiday Season!
Businesses shut down. Productivity slows to a halt. Shopping malls are so full of people they’re bursting at the seems. These are just some of the ideas brought to mind as the end of the year approaches and a new Holiday Season is upon us.
A source of stress, at times, the Holidays can also be a time of togetherness and unity for people. Clip art images by liftarn (above) and bloodsong (below) beautifully demonstrate how simple and effective imagery can articulate these same feelings.
Vector graphics have also been stylistically implemented by mcol’s Christmas tree in the spirit of the Holiday Season.
The Open Clip Art Library is always evolving and welcomes contributions from everyone around the world.
Clip Art of the month is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional label manufacturer.
“Clip Art of the Month” honors for October of 2009 go to raulxav for his unique spin on the RSS feed icon.
Regular internet users know that RSS feeds can significantly reduce time spent finding new content on your favorite web pages. With this influx of content flooding users’ RSS Readers, content producers must find ways to attract new subscribers and keep them reading.
While valuable content is the surest way to accomplish this, the importance of catching a reader’s eye cannot be ignored.
Raulxav has demonstrated other ideas for RSS icons, and I encourage you to consider ways in which you might catch a reader’s attention.
Visit the Open Clip Art Library to learn how you can contribute.
Clip Art of the month is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional label manufacturer.
Akkana Peck’s Gimplabels is a set of scripts for the Gimp image editor that make creating labels and business cards a snap. A .tar package is available on the Web site, but the contents are simply a Gimp script named labels.scm and the utilities needed to rebuild labels.scm. Gimplabels was originally written for an older version of the Gimp, so if you are using the current revision (2.6) and it doesn’t work, try the rebuilding instructions inside the package. You should be able to install the script by copying it to the /scripts/ directory inside your Gimp configuration folder (i.e., /home/username/.gimp-2.6/).
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Virtually any photo manager out there lets you perform mundane tasks like adjusting contrast, adding a watermark, or applying effects to your photos. But even the most powerful applications like digiKam or F-Spot can’t really help you when you need to perform the same action (or a sequence of actions) on dozens or hundreds of photos. For those tasks you need a batch processing utility like Phatch. This nifty tool can perform no less than 35 different actions on your photos, and its user-friendly graphical interface makes it easy to create advanced multi-step batch rules (or action lists in Phatch’s parlance).
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Free Halloween shipping labels in fillable PDF label templates printable on your laser and inkjet printer. Each design available in two different type templates, each label cell for different information and autofill. The autofill will allow you to place your info in one label cell, hit tab and the complete template will populate with that info.
Use Worldlabel.com Product number WL-125 (same size as Avery® 5163) to print.
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Scribus is free software page-layout tool applicable to designing all sort of documents: from newspaper ads to fliers to whole books. Because it can precisely position both images and text, it is also the preferred type of tool for designing mailing labels and business cards. A word processor has weaker features for working with pictures and other graphical elements, while a Photoshop-like image editor makes changing text an unnecessary pain. To get started with Scribus, download the latest installer for your operating system.
Designing a sheet of labels is a straightforward process with Scribus: you import the proper template, lay out one label the way you want it, then duplicate your creation to fill the rest of the slots on the template. To get the best results, however, you will need to make use of some specific Scribus features: layers, text styles, and export options.
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A device that allows blind people to attach and read audio labels on everyday objects has gone on show. The PenFriend uses minute barcodes which – when scanned by a digital pen – trigger MP3 files recorded on the unit.
The PenFriend has been developed by a UK firm together with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
It costs less than £60, and can be used to label foods and medication as well as clothing, personal documentation and film and music collections.
“At the moment we are just scratching the surface: we are starting development of address books, organisers, diaries and calendars,” explained Alison Long of the RNIB.
The PenFriend is the result of collaboration between the charity and London-based company, Mantra Lingua. It uses optical identification technology (OID) to print microdots on to adhesive labels which are then read by the scanner in the tip of the PenFriend.
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Free Halloween labels in fillable PDF label templates printable on your laser and inkjet printer. Each design available in two different type templates, each label cell for different information and autofill. The autofill will allow you to place your info in one label cell, hit tab and the complete template will populate with that info.
Use Worldlabel.com Product number WL-875 (same size as Avery® 5160) to print.
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Worldlabel.com is a large manufacturer of blank custom labels for laser printers as well as inkjet for both personal and business applications. If you cannot find the labels you’re looking for at World Label or anywhere else, contact us now! We can easily create any label configuration you require with both permanent or removable adhesives. No Matter how complicated, no matter the quantity. For address, shipping, specialty product labels, bottles and more.
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