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04-Oct-98: the Newsletter
FreeGraphics.com, the Newsletter Not sure how you got on this list? The only way is to sign-up at FreeGraphics.com. Either you or some rapscallion who knows your e-mail address submitted you. If you have no interest in free graphics (say it isn't so), just stop by http://www.freegraphics.com/ and this time, when you submit your e-mail, click "unsubscribe."
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WELCOME The format of this newsletter is still taking shape and will be for several weeks (so don't expect next week's to look exactly like this week's). Feel free to write me and let me know what you like and/or dislike -- you are the Charter Members, gracious readers, and as such, play an important role in shaping this little communique. If this newsletter is not formatted correctly (weird line breaks, no line breaks, etc.), please drop me a note, mailto:webmaster@freegraphics.com -- it looks fine on my end, but until I hear from you, I don't know how it looks in the various mail readers. Now, on with the content.
GREY DAY REFLECTIONS You see, the organizers of Grey Day offered three separate options for participation: 1) Provide a link to the Grey Day site; 2) Put up a grey page as your main page (Oct. 1) that linked to both your site and to Grey Day; 3) Close your site for one day and link only to Grey Day. Originally, I chose the second option. I did so, I told myself, because I had an obligation to advertisers and to visitors. But that decision weighed on me. I knew more people were likely to go to greyday.org if there was NO link to freegraphics.com - was this an issue I believed worthy of the publicity or not? Yes. In the short lifespan of FreeGraphics.com (it opened Aug. 2), I have seen no less than four web sites shut down by their ISPs for what reason? Theft of my work. And here is my site, FreeGraphics.com, promoting the type of work (primarily linkware) that people are most likely to steal. So I closed FreeGraphics.com for the day, no friendly little backdoor link. And then I went surfing. Visiting the sites of so many great artists who give their work away to make the web a more attractive interesting world... and I saw site after site after site, all closed for the day... and I must admit to getting a little teary. All sorts of people working together to promote ethical use of the wonderful free work available on the web. Twas a good day.
MOYRA, HOW *DO* YOU DO IT?
WEBCARDS (Promotion)
WEEKLY DOWNLOAD
INFO FOR LISTED ARTISTS If you'd like to increase the traffic to your listed site (and keep me from going nuts creating graphics each week), drop me a note and tell me what you'd like to offer (matching set, font, bullets, etc.)
NEW SITES
WebVoodoo's Free Graphics 10 Tutorials : Photoshop
All tutorials added this day are by GraFx Design.
GrafX Design tutorials are written by award-winning digital
artist, and published author, T. Michael Clark. Michael has
written, and illustrated, online tutorials for Photoshop, Corel
DRAW!, Paint Shop Pro, Animated GIFs and general web
graphics topics. http://www.freegraphics.com/New/29-Sep-1998.htm
All tutorials added this day are by GraFx Design.
GrafX Design tutorials are written by award-winning digital
artist, and published author, T. Michael Clark. Michael has
written, and illustrated, online tutorials for Photoshop, Corel
DRAW!, Paint Shop Pro, Animated GIFs and general web
graphics topics. Like this newsletter? Feel free to pass it on to a friend, just keep everything, including that all important copyright notice, intact. Copyright 1998, Claire Amundsen Schaeffer, All Rights Reserved. http://www.freegraphics.com/
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