
I’ve been playing around with Paint Shop Pro since the 1990s. It made for incredible art therapy as I learned how the program worked. I then moved on to creating signature tags using other people’s artwork, then learning to do special effects with fonts to create more original works. I finally began to learn how to draw and paint on my own and I loved it. I created a couple of paintings with a focus on florals. During all of this, a free email program came out called IncrediMail. The community was very excited! If you paid for the Pro version, it came with the Letter Creator and you could create your own email stationery. This was a huge passion of mine for several years.
I have to admit that at first, I didn’t understand copyright laws and I would use whatever artwork I liked at the time. As the copyright awareness began, I read and studied the law for a long time. Once I was satisfied with a certain level of understanding, I started teaching a free, online class on Yahoo with a couple of other women. We learned about emailing artists for permissions and now, most artists post their Terms Of Use (TOS) on their sites. From then on, I only used my own art or work that I had permission to use when I created IncrediMail Letters.
Since it is free, I hope you will take advantage and make sending emails more fun by downloading the IM program.
If you already have it, that’s wonderful! I just created my first stat in probably a year or so and I’ll eventually share it all. Hope you like it!
(This particular one was made using a free vector graphic from Dry Icons.)
Click on the image below to download the zip file.
Unzip and double-click on the .imf file and it will automatically load into your IM program.
I should be posting at least one of these a day for a while in addition to whatever else I find to chat about!
xoxo ~ Melissa
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