E.S. Ivy

author of middle grade books for children

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Backing up Scrivener Files – a quick guide to safely saving your files and backups

26 November, 2014 by ES Ivy

scrivener backing up files tutorialIn this tutorial I’m going take you through the steps for backing up Scrivener files (or projects.) You’re going to save your Scrivener files three places.

1. Save your working copies to your computer hard drive.

2. Save the 25 most recent automatic backups to a second location, such as in the cloud.

3. Save an infinite number of manual backups to removable storage, like a memory card….

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Filed Under: For Authors, Pixlr tutorial, Tech Tutorials

Pixlr tutorial: add author logo to author Facebook page cover photo

3 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 Pixlr tutorial to learn how to edit photos for free, in this tutorial I’ll cover how to unlock layers in Pixlr, how to delete layers in Pixlr, transparent layers in Pixlr, how to flatten an image in Pixlr, the difference between a .pxd and a .jpg file, how to change the font size and font color in Pixlr.

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

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Filed Under: Facebook tutorial, Pixlr tutorial, Tech Tutorials Tagged With: flatten image, image layers, Pixlr image font

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. …

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Filed Under: Facebook tutorial, For Authors, Pixlr tutorial, Tech Tutorials Tagged With: image layers, layer style, resize image

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

1 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. The last previous post in this tutorial was the Pixlr tutorial: how to make an author logo.

If you’re using this as a pixlor tutorial to learn how to edit photos, in this tutorial I’ll cover opening images from your computer to edit them in Pixlr, how to zoom in and out on an image in Pixlr, using the drawing tool in Pixlr to draw a square and filling it with color, adding a gradient in Pixlr, and moving layers in Pixlr. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add some color to your Facebook page cover photo background….

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Filed Under: Facebook tutorial, Pixlr tutorial, Tech Tutorials Tagged With: image gradient, image layers, pixlr draw tools, pixlr open image, pixlr zoom

Pixlr tutorial: add text to image: How to make an author logo for an author Facebook page cover photo

26 March, 2014 by ES Ivy

This is a continuation of the Pixlr tutorial on 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 Pixlr tutorial, in this post we’re going to cover opening a blank image or opening a new image window, adding text to an image using the type tool (I keep calling it the text tool), changing the text font and font size in Pixlr, and working with image layers.

In this post, I’m going to show you how to make an author logo. Basically it’s your name written in a fancy style, with a tagline if you want one. For me, that’s “ES Ivy,” and I’ll add the tagline “children’s author.” (I tried to come up with something catchier, but I haven’t been able to decide on anything.)…

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Filed Under: Facebook tutorial, Pixlr tutorial, Tech Tutorials Tagged With: add text to image, image layers, Pixlr new image, Pixlr save

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