Software/Tools – Cherished Solutions – Design, Illustration, Web Services, Art Licensing, Coaching, Art, Cards & Gifts https://www.cherishedsolutions.com Visual Solutions for the Young at Heart Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.cherishedsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cherishedsolutions-logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Software/Tools – Cherished Solutions – Design, Illustration, Web Services, Art Licensing, Coaching, Art, Cards & Gifts https://www.cherishedsolutions.com 32 32 65654252 Artlandia https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/artlandia/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:47 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=20 Continue reading Artlandia]]> Artlandia® SymmetryWorks® is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. By making patterns live and interactive, SymmetryWorks transformed pattern design, which used to require long, tedious, and painstaking manual work, into easy, fun, and rewarding activity. Released in 2001, and currently in its fourth major release, the plug-in won recognition and user loyalty and has grown to become an indispensable tool for individual designers and organizations. It is now incorporated in high-school and university courses and is widely used throughout the world for creating surface designs for wallpaper, fabrics, quilting, tilings, sculptures, post cards, web pages, and other applications.

Artlandia® SymmetryShop® is a feature-rich plug-in that fully automates the workflow of creating repeat patterns in Adobe Photoshop. The plug-in gives the user full control over all pattern parameters and easily produces pattern designs from scanned hand-painted motifs, high-resolution photographs, and other complex raster images.

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wordle https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/wordle/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:46 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=123 Continue reading wordle]]> Something to Cherish Worlde

If you haven’t had a chance to play with this little online program, you might want to put down your mouse and have some fun typing keywords into Worlde.

This little program will automatically generate designer-looking word clouds of any words that you enter. The more your enter a word, the larger it will appear in the grouping. Looking at a group of words together can really convey a message all its own and give you a greater appreciation for the language you employ.

Try your family members names, your mission statement, your favorite poems, quotes, speeches, blog posts, website categories, friends . . . the list of possibilities goes on and on.

Shake it up by letting it randomize the fonts, colors and positioning. Try customizing the settings too for even more control. Perhaps it will inspire you on a design you are working on that needs a little extra push.

This sample is from somethingtocherish.com. Now it’s your turn to worlde: try it out at : wordle.net.

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Sell on Amazon the Easy Way https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/sell-on-amazon-the-easy-way/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:39 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=218 Continue reading Sell on Amazon the Easy Way]]> I was working on Amazon today and ran across this and thought you
might be interested for future product ideas. . .

https://www.createspace.com

This is crazy easy to make and sell physical products and digital
products on demand and make a healthy royalty with little or zero cost
to you.

WOW! Check it out and let me know what you think. I havn’t seen the
print quality or anyhting yet, but it sounds like a wonderful program.

Authors
Musicians
Filmmakers

Books on Demand
CD on Demand
DVD on Demand
Kindle
at dtp.amazon.com
MP3 Download

If you go in this direction, I would love to help you get your
graphics formatted and files set up with them so you can start selling
on Amazon.

Something to think about . . .

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Create Custom Weaves in Corel Painter https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/create-custom-weaves-in-corel-painter/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:36 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=453 This is a very detailed outline on how to create custom weaves in Corel Painter:

PART 1 – by Robin Wood

PArt 2 – by Robin Wood

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HTML to Kindle HTML Converter https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/html-to-kindle-html-converter/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:22 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=402 Continue reading HTML to Kindle HTML Converter]]> HTML to Kindle HTML Converter

  • Reformat footnotes into a Kindle-friendly format.
  • Remove excess tags that the Kindle cannot understand.
  • Turn characters written in the Symbol font (Greek, etc) into images so that they may be seen on the Kindle. (An image of the characters that can be displayed as text on the kindle can be found here
  • Return a Zip file that contains the your modified html file and any accompanying images created by our system.
  • Click here to get started.

Kindle on Amazon

Then publish you book on Amazon with their Digital Text Platform.

Amazon’s quick start guide to publishing on Kindle can be found here.

Other sites on Kindle Formatting:

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SubscriptionRocket.com https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/subscriptionrocketcom/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:14 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=139 Continue reading SubscriptionRocket.com]]> Use the most powerful opt-in list generating system that delivers highly responsive targeted subscribers in less than 48 hours, for free!

www.subscriptionrocket.com

This was sent to me my a friend who does Internet marketing. The service is being reconstructed, but you can still get on the list to be the first to know when it relaunches.

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E-Junkie – the “FAT FREE” shopping cart https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/e-junkie/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:08 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=119 Continue reading E-Junkie – the “FAT FREE” shopping cart]]> If you are shopping around for a new shopping cart, I encourage you to take a serious look at E-Junkie.

I love the fact that you can use it with your existing website and it implements creative solutions to keep buyers focused thereby decreasing shopping cart abandonment.

I also like that you can sell actual product AND digital downloads in the same cart and it takes care of everything in the back end with the utmost professionalism. I have personally tested over 20 shopping carts, and I really like this one the best – especially since their services start at only $5/month and they have a free trial.

Easy to use, centrally managed service
Digital storage & delivery for files & codes
Supports multiple payment processors
Copy-paste Buy Now and Shopping Cart buttons
Supports variants for tangible products
Shipping and packaging calculator
Sales tax and VAT calculator
Packaged products
Inventory management
Product promotion
Discount codes
Affiliate management
Autoresponder, updates & newsletters
Sales tracking, built in support for Google Analytics
Customization
Download link renewals
Easy integration with 3rd party and custom services
Logs & e-mail notifications
Globalized
Extras

E-junkie Shopping Cart and Digital Delivery

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PHP List https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/php-list/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:31:53 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=133 phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat. phplist is sponsored by tincan.

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Multi-page PDF’s with Adobe Photoshop https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/multi-page-pdfs-with-adobe-photoshop/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:31:52 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=458 Here is a great tutorial on how to create a

Multi-page PDF’s with Adobe Photoshop Alone

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Gmail Keyboard shortcuts https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/gmail-keyboard-shortcuts/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:54 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=498
Multimedia keyboard
Image via Wikipedia

Keyboard shortcuts help you save time by allowing you to never take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. Check out these handy shortcuts for those of you who use gmail:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&answer=6594

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Custom Video Players https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/multimedia/custom-video-players/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:52 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=182 Continue reading Custom Video Players]]> The KickApps Hosted
Video Solution

Create Custom Video Players, Deliver,
Manage & Monetize Your Content

Great video content drives deeper engagement with your audience, makes your site stickier and commands higher CPMs from advertisers, so it’s important you get as much value from it as possible. Whether you have editorial videos, user-generated content or both, KickApps’ video applications put you in control with a full suite of tools to deliver, manage and monetize your content. Create custom video players to match your brand and post them on any blog or website (including Facebook and MySpace) with a single click.

KickApps is free, and there are never any hosting or bandwidth costs.
Sign up now to get started
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HootSuite – Combined Twitter Management Tool https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/hootsuite-combined-twitter-management-tool/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:51 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=444 Continue reading HootSuite – Combined Twitter Management Tool]]> HootSuite.com

HootSuite is The professional Twitter client! If you manage multiple Twtitter accounts or share your Twittering duties with friends or co-workers, HootSuite’s for you. If you’re interested in tracking how many people click the links you tweet out, HootSuite can help you. If you want to pre-schedule your messages or feed your blog to Twitter, we’ve got you covered.

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iContact https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/icontact/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:27 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=64 Continue reading iContact]]>

Easily Create, Send, and Track Email Newsletters, RSS Feeds, Autoresponders, and Surveys!

iContact: Do More With Your Online and Email Marketing Campaigns


With iContact’s extensive features, you can easily create
Email Messages, send them to your subscribers, and track their performance. When you apply
Autoresponders to your email marketing campaign, you can stay in the forefront of your customer’s
mind with automatic messages based on timed sequences or customer actions.
Surveying provides you, the marketer a platform to collect data from your customers and
iContact provides you with the real-time results of your data.


RSS Feeds are the latest direct online communication tool. Your customers will immediately receive your most recent messages when they sign up for you RSS feed. iContact is a leading on-demand email marketing service. iContact allows organizations of all sizes to easily create, send, and track email newsletters, RSS feeds, blogs, surveys, and autoresponders.


Learn More about Marketing Online with iContact with a 15-Day Trial

Standard Features
(Included free with your account!)


Mail-merge Personalization

Forward-to-a-Friend

SpamCheck™

Bounce-Back Handling

WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor


Message Scheduling

Assured CAN-SPAM Compliance

Open and Click-Through Tracking

Subscription Management

Over 300 Templates Included

Advanced Features
(Also included free with your account!)


List Segmentation

Multiple Message Autoresponder

Integrated Surveying

RSS Feeds


Advanced Analytics

Event Management

Industry Leading Deliverability

Public Newsletter Archive

Example Templates

Here are some example templates.

iContact Screenshots

Here are some example screenshots.

Learn More about Marketing Online with iContact with a 15-Day Trial

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LightWave® Rendition https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/lightwave-rendition/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:19 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=19

LightWave® Rendition for Adobe Photoshop (about $900)

Realize the full potential of the new 3D capabilities in Photoshop CS3 Extended with this new render plug-in, powered by the Emmy-award winning lighting and rendering system found in LightWave 3D®.

Developer: NewTek

Works with Photoshop CS3

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Feedbooks https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/feedbooks/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:09 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=425 Continue reading Feedbooks]]>
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A place to discover and publish e-books

E-Paper Devices

Discover

On Feedbooks you’ll discover thousands of public domain books and original books from new authors that you can read on any mobile device.

Publish

Turn your book into a high quality e-book with our publishing service or contribute to our collection of public domain titles.

Feedbooks can distribute e-books to a whole ecosystem of reading platforms and reach a global audience of millions of users.

Converts RSS feed to PDF, .mobi, Kindle and other files. Can combine multiple RSS feed to create a newspaper.

Doesn’t yet support photos.

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Social Cord https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/marketing/social-cord/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:10:02 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=379 Continue reading Social Cord]]>
Social Cord - Monetizing Social Networks

Social Cord is the simplest way to offer premium content to your audience. Use our platform to monetize by offering mobile content subscriptions in your Twitter, social network, website or blog.

Social Cord Alerts

With social cord alerts you can promote a specific daily SMS subscription to your audience. We have the following subsriptions that your audience will love:

  • Green Tips
  • Bible Verse of the Day
  • Beauty Tips
  • Dating Tips
  • Fitness Tips
  • Men’s Style
  • Celeb Dirt of the Day
  • Know your Booze
  • Know your Beer
  • Pick Up Lines
  • Travel Tips
  • Sports Updates

The subscription includes a message written daily and is delivered to the member’s phone by SMS. Subscriptions are $5.99/month and are billed directly to the member’s mobile phone bill.

Social Cord Fanclubs

Have an audeince that loves the content you create? Then start a Fanclub!

A Fanclub is an SMS subscription where you create premium content that your fans pay you for. Your Fanclub subcribers will pay $5.99 per month. This fee is billed directly to the mobile phone bill.

You are required to deliver at least 3 messages weekly to maintain your Fanclub.

Social Cord How to Monetize your Twitter with Tipcup

Artists, celebrities, and media companies are using Tipcup to offer premium content to their Twitter followers!

Tipcup is a Twitter plugin for Social Cord that allows you to create to promote your fanclub to your Twitter followers. Your subscribers can decide whether they want to receive your updates as a direct message to their Twitter inbox, as a text message delivered to their phone or both.

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lynda.com https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/lyndacom/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:49 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=134 Continue reading lynda.com]]> About lynda.com

lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.

The lynda.com Online Training Library® and CD-ROM courses include such subjects as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Office, digital photography, Web design, digital video, and many others. lynda.com’s all-star team of trainers and teachers provides comprehensive and unbiased movie-based training to an international membership of tens of thousands of subscribers. Considering the speed at which technology evolves, the Online Training Library® is a great solution for keeping your skills current. Library subscriptions begin as low as $25 a month, with no long-term commitment required.

lynda.com celebrated ten years online in 2005!

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SnapTweet https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/multimedia/snaptweet/ https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/multimedia/snaptweet/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:13 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/solution/390 Easily Share Flickr Pictures on Twitter

You can now Tweet your Flickr posts to Twitter. . .

Go to SnapTweet to check this out. . .

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PayPal Business account https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/social-media/paypal-business-account/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:11 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=350 Continue reading PayPal Business account]]> Many people ask me the best way to sell things online and after trying several forms of shopping cards, merchant services and terminals, I will tell you that PayPal has consistently performed the best at the best price. So, if you are looking for a way to accept credit cards on your website, check out PayPal’s options.

With more than 150 million accounts in 190 countries and regions, PayPal offers a fast, affordable and convenient online payment service for businesses of all sizes.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

The PayPal Business Account features:

  • Low cost. No start-up or monthly fees, no cancellation fees, and no minimum payments. Lower transaction fees than other merchant accounts
  • Quick setup. Sign up and get started in minutes. No extra software or hardware needed
  • Security. As an industry leader in fraud prevention and risk management, PayPal has 60%-70% lower fraud loss rates than other merchant accounts
  • Network of buyers. One in three online buyers in the U.S. has a PayPal account, and over 58,000 users worldwide sign up for PayPal each day.
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http://4images.malediven-bilder.de/ https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/software/http4imagesmalediven-bilderde/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:08:57 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=104 http://4images.malediven-bilder.de/

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