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There are several ways that you can market your crafts online. So it may be hard to decide which one will be the right one for marketing crafts online.  But here are 3 easy ways for marketing your crafts and it will cost you just a little time or just a few cents a day.

Twitter.com
By now you should have heard about Twitter unless you have been living under a rock. Twitter.com is a site that allows people to post what they are up to any time they have inkling. Many handmade artists have started to use Twitter.com as a way for marketing crafts online. Twitter is 100% free, but it does take up a bit of time. You see the key to getting the word out about your craft is to get followers. And even then you have to target the right followers. Many handmade artists find that it takes a considerable amount of time getting enough followers to make a difference in the amount of traffic they get to their online shop. Yet there have been some handmade artists to get over 2,000 plus followers and as a result have seen a rise in the amount of traffic to their sites.

ShopHandmadeOnline.com
ShopHandmadeOnline.com is an online catalog that showcases the crafts of handmade artists.  If you have a few handmade craft items that you would like to bring special attention to then this is a great place to advertise. Handmade artists can easily market their crafts by renting ad boxes. Each ad box displays one craft and it links directly to the online shop of handmade artists. The visitors of ShopHandmadeOnline.com often come in search of quality handmade gifts to give to a special some one.

HandmadeCraftShow.com
HandmadeCraftShow.com is an online virtual craft show that showcases the crafts of handmade artists using virtual craft show booths. Handmade artists are able to display up to 4 pictures of their crafts. Each virtual craft show booth also allows for a shop name, url, description, specialty items, price range, and twitter link. Each booth links directly to the handmade artist online shop. Shoppers love this because it allows them to buy handmade crafts directly from the artists. This allows the handmade artists to keep their prices down and pass the savings on to their buyers.

South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become infamous for its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics. The ongoing narrative revolves around four children—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and their bizarre adventures in and around the titular Colorado town.

Parker and Stone developed the show from two animated shorts they created in 1992 and 1995. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, which ultimately led to its production as a series. South Park debuted in August 1997 with great success, consistently earning the highest ratings of any basic cable program. Subsequent ratings have varied, but the show remains Comedy Central’s highest-rated program even after 188 episodes. Parker and Stone, who continue to do most of the writing, directing, and voice acting, are under contract to produce 14 new episodes a year through 2011. Their staff creates each episode with computer software that emulates the show’s distinct cutout animation style.

Following the early success of the series, the acclaimed feature-length musical film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut had a widespread theatrical release in June 1999. South Park has also received numerous media awards, most notably three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.

Characters and setting
The show follows a group of four boys—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and the adventures they share in South Park, a fictional small town located within the real-life South Park basin in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. The town, sometimes described within the show as “a pissant white-bread mountain town”, is also home to an assortment of frequent characters such as students, families, elementary school staff, and other various residents. Prominent settings on the show include the local elementary school, bus stop, various neighborhoods and the surrounding snowy landscape, and the shops and businesses along the town’s main street, all of which are based on the appearance of similar locations in the town of Fairplay, Colorado.

Stan is portrayed as the everyman of the group, as the show’s official website describes him as “a normal, average, American, mixed-up kid”. Kyle is the lone Jew among the group, and his portrayal in this role is often dealt with satirically. Stan is modeled after Parker, while Kyle is modeled after Stone. Stan and Kyle are best friends, and their relationship, which is intended to reflect the real-life friendship between Parker and Stone, is a common topic throughout the series. Cartman—loud, obnoxious, and obese—is often portrayed as an antagonist whose anti-Semitic attitude has resulted in an ever-progressing rivalry with Kyle.[9][12] Kenny, who comes from a poor family, wears his parka hood so tightly that it covers most of his face and muffles his speech. During the show’s first five seasons, Kenny would die in nearly each episode before returning in the next with little or no definitive explanation given. During the show’s first 58 episodes, the boys were in the third grade. In the season four episode “4th Grade” (2000), they—along with the other main child characters—entered the fourth grade, where they have remained ever since.

Plots are often set in motion by events, ranging from the fairly typical to the supernatural and extraordinary, which frequently happen upon the town.[15] The boys often act as the voice of reason when these events cause panic or incongruous behavior among the adult populace, who are customarily depicted as irrational, gullible, and prone to vociferation.[7][16] The boys are also frequently confused by the contradictory and hypocritical behavior of their parents and other adults, and often perceive them as having distorted views on morality and society.

Themes and style

All characters and events in this show—even those based on real people—are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated…..poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone.

South Park was the first weekly program to be assigned the TV-MA rating,[20] and is generally intended for adult audiences. The boys and most other child characters use strong profanity, with only the most taboo words being bleeped by censors during a broadcast. The use of such language serves as a means for Parker and Stone to display how they claim young boys really talk when they are alone.

South Park commonly makes use of carnivalesque and absurdist techniques, numerous running gags, violence, sexual content, offhand pop-cultural references, and satirical portrayal of celebrities. The early episodes tended to be shock value-oriented and featured more slapstick-style humor.[33] While social satire had been used on the show occasionally earlier on, it became more prevalent as the series progressed, with the show retaining some of its focus on the boys’ fondness of scatological humor in an attempt to remind adult viewers “what it was like to be eight years old”. Parker and Stone also began further developing other characters by giving them larger roles in certain storylines, and began writing plots as parables based around religion, politics, and numerous other topics. This provided the opportunity for the show to spoof both extreme sides of contentious issues, while lampooning both liberal and conservative points of view. Parker and Stone describe themselves as “equal opportunity offenders”, whose main agenda is to “be funny” and “make people laugh”, while stating that no particular topic or group of people be spared the expense of being subject to mockery and satire.

The two insist that the show is still more about “kids being kids” and “what it’s like to be in [elementary school] in America”, stating that the introduction of a more satirical element to the series was the result of the two adding more of a “moral center” to the show so that it would rely less on simply being crude and shocking in an attempt to maintain an audience. While profane, and with a tendency to sometimes be cynical, Parker notes that there is still an “underlying sweetness” aspect to the child characters, and Time described the boys as “sometimes cruel but with a core of innocence”. Usually, the boys and/or other characters ponder over what has transpired during an episode and convey the important lesson taken from it with a short monologue. During earlier seasons, this speech would commonly begin with a variation of the phrase “You know what? I’ve learned something today…”.

Origins and creation

Soon after meeting in film class at the University of Colorado in 1992, Parker and Stone created an animated short entitled “The Spirit of Christmas”. The film, referred to as “Jesus vs. Frosty” by fans, was created by animating construction paper cutouts with stop motion, and features prototypes of the main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman but named “Kenny”, an unnamed character resembling what is today Kenny, and two near-identical unnamed characters who resemble Stan and Kyle. Brian Graden, Fox network executive and mutual friend, commissioned Parker and Stone to create a second short film as a video Christmas card. Created in 1995, the second “The Spirit of Christmas” short (referred to by fans as “Jesus vs. Santa”) resembled the style of the later series more closely. Graden sent copies of the video to several of his friends, and from there it was copied and distributed, including among the Internet, where it became one of the first viral videos.

As the short became more popular, Parker and Stone began talks of developing the short into a television series. Fox refused to pick up the series, not wanting to air a show that included the character Mr. Hankey, a talking piece of feces.[46] The two then entered negotiations with both MTV and Comedy Central. Parker preferred the show be produced by Comedy Central, fearing that MTV would turn it into a kids show. When Comedy Central executive Doug Herzog watched the short, he commissioned for it to be developed into a series.

Parker and Stone assembled a small staff and spent three months creating the pilot episode “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe”. South Park was in danger of being canceled before it even aired when the show tested poorly with test audiences, particularly with women. However, the shorts were still gaining more popularity over the Internet, and Comedy Central agreed to order a run of six episodes. South Park debuted with “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” on August 13, 1997.

Animation
The show’s style of animation is inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons made by Terry Gilliam for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, of which Parker and Stone have been lifelong fans. Construction paper and traditional stop motion cutout animation techniques were used in the original animated shorts and in the pilot episode. Subsequent episodes have been produced by computer animation, providing a similar look to the originals while requiring a fraction of the time to produce. Before computer artists begin animating an episode, a series of animatics drawn with Adobe Photoshop are provided by the show’s storyboard artists.

The characters and objects are composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors. Most child characters are the same size and shape, and are distinguished by their distinctive clothing and head wear. Characters are mostly presented two-dimensionally and from only one angle. Their movements are animated in an intentionally jerky fashion, as they are purposely not offered the same free range of motion associated with hand-drawn characters. Occasionally, some non-fictional characters are depicted with photographic cutouts of their actual head and face in lieu of a face reminiscent of the show’s traditional style. Canadians on the show are often portrayed in an even more minimalist fashion; they have simple beady eyes, and the top halves of their heads simply flap up and down when the characters speak.

When the show began utilizing computers, the cardboard cutouts were scanned and re-drawn with CorelDRAW, then imported into PowerAnimator, which was used with SGI workstations to animate the characters. The workstations were linked to a 54-processor render farm that could render 10 to 15 shots an hour. Beginning with season five, the animators began using Maya instead of PowerAnimator. The studio now runs a 120-processor render farm that can produce 30 or more shots an hour.

PowerAnimator and Maya are high-end programs mainly used for 3D computer graphics, while co-producer and former animation director, Eric Stough, notes that PowerAnimator was initially chosen because its features helped animators retain the show’s “homemade” look. PowerAnimator was also used for making some of the show’s special effects, which are now created using Motion, a newer graphics program created by Apple, Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. The show’s visual quality has improved in recent seasons, though several other techniques are used to intentionally preserve the cheap cutout animation look.

A few episodes feature sections of live-action footage, while others have incorporated other styles of animation. Portions of the season eight (2004) premiere “Good Times with Weapons” are done in anime style, while the season 10 episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” is done partly in machinima. The season 12 episode “Major Boobage”, an homage to the 1981 animated film Heavy Metal, implements scenes accomplished with rotoscoping.Since the beginning of season 13 (2009) the show has been broadcast in high definition, and season 12 was released in high definition on Blu-ray Disc format.

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Advertising crafts online is a great way to reach a larger audience of shoppers that you might other wise miss if you only advertise your crafts offline. Many handmade artists overlook the benefit of marketing crafts online or they don’t believe it is worth their while. But with more and more people shopping online everyday, advertising crafts online is definitely a smart way to go.

The cost of advertising crafts online can be way lower then using other mediums such as the newspaper, craft magazines, or even traditional craft shows. And thanks to the rising popularity of virtual craft shows like HandmadeCraftShow.com, advertising crafts online has never been more affordable.

HandmadeCraftShow.com is a virtual craft show that promotes handmade artists all over the web. They use a very aggressive online craft marketing program that drives quality targeted traffic directly to the online shops and web sites of handmade artists. Their online craft marketing programs include traditional and creative online marketing techniques that bring thousands of targeted visitors to their virtual craft show.

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For graphic designers, it is important that you deliver finalartwork in a print ready status to your client. There are several important points for your attention. I am eason, have worked in the artwork department of a card printing factory for a couple of years. So i know a little bit about the print ready artwork process. So i come here to shear my experience with your guys, especially for the freshmen in this field. I am not a native english speaker, so it must be a lot mistakes in my writing. Please understand. Thanks. Ok, let start now.

1. Software, file format: Most plastic card manufacture use coreldraw and illustrator. They accpet various file format like: .cdr, .ai,. eps,.tif…etc. Personally i recomment cdr or ai version. Many people export file in pdf, but for some special effect in the artwork, it may affected after plasticcardonline printer import artwork into their software. So it is best that you can supply a very “original” artwork.

2. Vector or bitmap: This is always a very tuff thing for plasticcardonline printers. Many clients supply low resolution photos (Below 300dpi), usually it looks blur in monitor, these files is not good for full colour plasticcard printing. According to my experience, if the photo is small sized one, resolution is not a big problem, some times 72dpi also works. As client like get photo from internet, these photos are always low res at bout 72dpi. If shrink the size to 25% the resolution will be enough. When you design an artwork it is ok to keep photos as bitmap, but make sure the rest text and colored blocks/shapes/linearts are vector. It for the best result for printing, vector artwork can make the printed shapes very sharp and clear. And another thing you need pay attention is if client supply logo as a low resolution jpg file. You have to recreate it , make it vectorized. No body want their logo unreadable.

3. CMYK,RGB, Spot color: For printing CMYK is the most popular setting. RGB is for web, never use it. And some clients need accurate color, so you have to use spot color for pantone match.

4. Text and font: As i mentioned above. Text must be vector to make sure the best result for printing. You must pay attention when you exporting finalartwork, all fonts must be converted into outlines. Or you must supply used font with artwork. Otherwise, when the plasticcardonline printer open your artwork, the font will change. That is very dangerous. Not only the font, as it changes, the layout may also be affected. So this is quite important and always ignored by some designers. And for some artwork, even it is confirmed currently, you or your client may change the text contact in the near furture. For this consideration, do not outline the text, store the font file with artwork. This can save a lot of time. Other wise you may never kown what font is.

5. Bleed!Bleed!Bleed! This is the most common mistake for new designers, artwork for plastic card must be NO LESS THAN 3mm. The bleed area must be consolidate with the main artwork , this area will me cut off. When factory do cutting, they can not always cut very accurate. So make sure text, logo never too close to the egde of the card. The following size spec may helps. And if you need vector coreldraw template file, you can download here.

6. Corpmark, cutline: Make sure finalartwork has corp mark shown on artwork, it helps your plasticcard manufactor locate the cutlines.

7. Signature stirp, mag strip, embossing, sequential number: When you do design, if it has embossing like memership cards. Pay attention to the back, so that embossing arrea will not affect the signature on the back if it has one. Same are the texts. Embossing text font name is OCR. Thermal printed sequential number is black only. So need pay attetion to the background color. If it is too dark, add a white square. Emobssing can be gold, silver,balck tipped.

8. Silver foil, UV: If you want add silver foil/UV to the plasticcard. Make a separate layer with corp mark. Solid black, so the plasticcardonline printer can locate it correctly.

That all i have recently , i will keep updating this guide hope it is helpful with the new guys. Any body who want to give me suggestions or need help , pls email me: artwork at plasticcardonline dot com.

Photoshopping is a process of manipulation of digital photographs. It has become more popular after a fall in price of digital imaging software and hardware. Photoshopping is now a widely popular pastime on the internet. Many of the editors considers this image fakery to be a form of new creative art, when photoshopping is applied as a means of funny spoof. It is although a good pastime of part-time pixel pushers; even working persons are getting involved into this act to shape up their talent and to take a break from the seriousness as well as from the monotony of the scheduled work.

Photoshop contests, or commonly called as Photochop contests, is a game played online, in which the person using an internet forum or website sends an initial image generally a photograph and then asks other candidates to manipulate the images. Such editing of images can be done by using some commonly used image editing software, like Corel Photopaint, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP etc. The players of such online Photoshop contests find it very interesting not only as their favorite pastime but also as a means of earning quick money.

In such Photoshop Contests, the users are generally asked to edit the image in a funny way, or if specifically mentioned then according to the given theme. Then, the users move away and manipulate the image as asked and send the resulting image back to the website. When versions of the image are submitted by all users at the website, they have to vote for the best image. The candidate whose resulting image gets the maximum number of votes wins that Photoshop contest.

In many such Photoshop contests, a major element of the humour involves the practice of clichés. Such incredible repetition of a joke from an image often results in the replacement of the initial joke by the clichés itself. Such pictures can also sometimes become major internet phenomena. Most commonly used clichés are as follows:

• Domo-kun

• A foreign tourist on the WTC with an airplane about to hit the building.

• Admiral Ackbar and his phrase “It’s a trap”.

• A picture of untidy James Brown.

• “All your base are belong to us”.

• An (often obscure) reference to goatse.cx.

• The famous O rly owl.

• A picture with the captions ‘X is watching you poop.”

• The usage of a photo which looks like a lolcat.

• The famous Preved Bear- from the customized John Lurie’s work of art, Bear Surprise, is to be found in videos, photographs and pictures

Nowadays, such Photoshop contests are able to find increasing candidates in a large no. of blogs. The Photoshop contests are gaining immense popularity, mainly due to the underlying humor or taunts which are generally associated with the edited images. They act as a stress buster for many and a source of income for some.

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If you need help advertising your handmade crafts online then you should visit HandmadeCraftshow.com, virtual craft show, and rent a booth. You will be able to easily advertise your crafts 24/7 and get targeted visitors sent to your online shop. It really is a very easy and simple way to advertise crafts online.

Do you wish there was an easy way to advertise your crafts online? Are you tired of trying to find affordable and effective ways to market your crafts online? Well then you should consider renting a craft show booth in a virtual craft show to meet your craft advertising needs.

A virtual craft show is a web site that helps handmade artists promote their crafts around the web. It is perhaps one of the most easy and affordable way to advertise crafts. The person who manages the virtual craft show really does all the work. Leaving the handmade artist, free to do other things like make more crafts.

Virtual craft shows like HandmadeCraftShow.com even include such great features such as online shop descriptions and a list of specialty items as part of their craft show booths. Not only that, handmade artists who rent regular size booths are able to advertise on a minimum of 2 aisles. This increases their chances of shoppers visiting their online shop. Each booth is linked directly to handmade artists’ online shops. There is no site wide shopping cart. Shoppers appreciate being able to buy directly from handmade artists.

HandmadeCraftShow.com uses a great craft advertising program that has helped them move up the search engine page rankings. So they are currently holding the no. 1 spot for popular keyword search terms.  They also have several inbound links that allow shoppers who are searching for handmade crafts to easily find them.  Yes HandmadeCraftShow.com does all the tough online marketing work so that handmade artists don’t have to. This is one reason they are one of the most popular and affordable craft advertising programs around. Renting a booth with them is like hiring your very on SEO firm to market your crafts online.

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