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Scrivener – How to open an existing Project in Scrivener for Windows, fully explained

7 October, 2014 by ES Ivy

Are you not sure what to click on in Scrivener for Windows to open an existing project? Are you depending on “Recent Projects” in Scrivener to find your files? Then this Scrivener for Windows tutorial is for you! (If you’re really in a panicked rush and just want to know the steps, check out my post How to open a File or Project in Scrivener for Windows, A Quick Guide. To understand fully why it works this way, read on.)

Maybe it’s just me.

But I couldn’t find a good explanation of how to open an existing project in Scrivener anywhere. Instead of risking messing something up in the all important project folder, I resorted to depending on Recent Projects. For obvious reasons, this method eventually broke down.

It’s just opening a file! How hard could that be?…

Pixlr Tutorial: add photo to image: add book covers to your author Facebook page cover photo

2 April, 2014 by ES Ivy

This is a continuation of the Pixlr tutorial: how to make a Facebook page cover photo for your author page in Pixlr with a Pixlr template.

If you’re using this as a Pixlor tutorial to learn how to edit photos for free, in this tutorial I’ll cover how to resize an image in Pixlr and keep the proportions the same, how to copy an image into another image in Pixlr, working with layers in Pixlr, and adding a shadow around the image in an layer in Pixlr (Layer style outer glow).

In this tutorial, we’re going to put your book cover images on a Facebook page cover photo. …

Pixlr tutorial: How to make an author Facebook page cover photo

25 March, 2014 by ES Ivy

If you’re using this as a Pixlr tutorial, we’ll be using Pixlr for free photo editing. In this post you will learn how to open an image from a web URL in Pixlr, how to undo in Pixlr, and I’ll introduce layers in Pixlr and image size in Pixlr (in other words, on images, what does 200 x 200 mean? What are pixels?).

I will assume that you know nothing about using Pixlr for on-line free photo editing. I only started using it a few months ago, so I really know what it’s like to know nothing. 🙂 Fortunately, I have a little Photoshop in my distant past and a resident Photoshop whiz, TechnoTim, for consulting.

In this series of posts, I’m going to show you step-by-step how to create a stunning cover photo using Pixlr for free online photo editing. I’ll even provide a free Pixlr Facebook page cover photo template for Pixlr to make it easier!…

How to create a facebook author page, step 1- Facebook Profile or Facebook Page?

4 March, 2014 by ES Ivy

This is the first in a couple of posts that will show you how to create a Facebook author page for an author or book series.

I know that Facebook’s popularity has been waning. Apparently there have been some changes in their rules that meant that book sales driven by author’s Facebook presence dropped off a cliff. Younger people are said to be leaving Facebook in droves. The number of new users was flat for the first time last year. So why am I taking the time to create a Facebook page?

Reaching readers and buyers of middle grade novels is difficult, if not impossible on-line. An informal survey of moms has shown me that Facebook is just about the only place they go on-line besides their personal email. Other web users may be going elsewhere, but quite frankly moms don’t have the time to learn anything new until what they’re using is completely broken. So I’m hoping Facebook won’t completely break for a few more months, at least.

Before I set up my Facebook author page, the above was all I knew about Facebook. I’ve never had a personal Facebook profile, never wanted one, never needed one. So, once again I’m a complete newbie when everyone on the web just assumes you know how to do something. A lot of the information I did manage to find was out of date. So I’ve summarized what I’ve learned here….