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valorie wilson
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  • Apr 5
  • United States
  • Deviant for 17 years
  • She / Her
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My Bio
Current Residence: Texas
Favourite genre of music: ALL
Favourite photographer: Dorothy Wallace
Favourite style of art: anything original, do something that's individual
Wallpaper of choice: Anything William Morris!
Favourite cartoon character: Gordon/Catscratch,Edna Mode/Incredibles...too many to mention!
Personal Quote: better to try and fail than to quit or settle

Favourite Visual Artist
Frazetta (hail the King),Millais, Mucha,Chris Owen,Kinuko Craft, Linda Ravenscroft too many 2 name!
Favourite Movies
Milagro Beanfield War, LOTR, POTC, Baby Boom
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Steve Wariner,Elton John,Kumbia Kings,Steve Riley & Mamou Playboys
Favourite Writers
Tolkien,John Nichols,Isabel Allende
Tools of the Trade
Pencils,pens,a fat kneaded eraser and great paper, paints and multiple canvases!!! or a pc and PS
Other Interests
Art,painting,illustration,anything creative
happy Christmas, New Years, Valentines - am I forgetting anything? Miss any? Slightly before Easter....Catch that next time.
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October entry

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Just dropped in to see who's still around. Happy Halloween to all! Val
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Hey, Val,
I'm just online for a sec and thought I'd give you a shout. In a week or two I'll be back online for good and will note you then. Just wanted to say Hi and see how you were.
Pepper
Thanks for the fav~
Glad you like my butterfly photos thanks for the comment.
Thank You very much for the :+devwatch:! :rose::hug:
Tips from Cherish Flieder on protecting your artwork online:



1- Watermark EVERYTHING that is a basic jpg or gif file. You want to have a way to trace it to you, or at least make it difficult for them to use. My husband who puts his cartoons online also includes his url to they can track the cartoon back to the source.



2- For ANY jpg or gif file of your art, DO NOT use keywords in their name, numbers and random letters will be less likely to be noticed in the search engines and will help bury them down in the Google image results. This has been the number one way people have found my art and in most cases, these were not the paying clients I was looking for.



3- Use a Flash format to show your portfolio, but noy your whole site. This will go along way to hide your images from the search engines, is fast and effacement and I like the free simple viewer ([link]) or PictoBrowser to show Flickr images (which are set to download a spaceball.gif (basically one pixel) instead of a real image file download).



4- When I post high res files for media, I "ZIP" or "Stuff" the files so they don't get out too much beyond their intended purpose. I also password protect these areas whenever possible (i.e. Client Logins)




5- Lastly, nothing is safe from "Print Screen" unless you have a way to impose some fancy code. (If anyone knows what that is, please send it my way.)



Of course, you need to consider that anything that you do successfully license, you will be putting out there for anyone to potentially scan or photograph . . .call it orphaned . . .modify it without your permission . . . copyright it in their name and put it out there again for sale competing with your original work . . . putting you out of business etc. . . . That is why it is SO critical that we all continue to put the pressure on our congress to NOT PASS these horrible bills. [link]







Anyway, I hope this helps.



Many thanks,

Cherish Flieder
thanx for the fav^^