Sentences with phrase «vellum made»

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This was a laborious process that involved carving letters or pictures onto a block of wood, inking the finished product, and pressing it onto vellum (a surface made from calfskin) or paper (invented in China and introduced to Europe by Arab traders in the thirteenth century).

Package up small treat bags of gold wrapped candy or chocolates such as Rolo, Ferrero Rocher or chocolate gold coins by making your own St. Patrick's Day treat bag by printing the horseshoe bag template on pieces of vellum paper to make your own mini bags.

As for the stuff of the manuscript itself, the Sotheby's catalog described it as vellum, or fine parchment usually made from young animals, «probably calfskin.»

Hi there I am assuming that Vellum create an ePub 3 version of the book as it's iPad friendly fortunately I use a Mac and have been doing a lot of my ebook conversion using InDesign followed by changing code to make it look pretty... however all this takes considerable time I haven't created one yet but before I go the whole hog and purchase I really need to know if it created the latest ePub i.e 3 etc and create perfect code so I don't keep having to mess with it after validating which takes sometimes hours to do.

Vellum is only made for macOS, so it will only work on Mac desktops or laptops.

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So basically, right now I'm wavering between using Scrivener, which I already own, or spending money for Vellum, which may or may not make the process smoother, easier, and prettier.

While Vellum's price tag is supposed to let authors make one version of their ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the app.

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The app, Vellum, is supposed to make the entire formatting and distributing process even easier and more professional - looking, with real time live previews, then allow authors to distribute that same file (re: the same work they did once) to all of the ebook retailers.

It's free to do, easy with Vellum to lay out, and makes your $ 2.99 electronic price look pretty good with the $ 4.99 paper there linked.

Now, I used Vellum on my Mac and that makes it so easy to just put together a pretty decent format out there that looks good, whether it's e-book or print.

You can tell Vellum which stores you'll distribute to, and it will generate separate folders with the necessary files for that store; it makes uploading to distributors simple.

If you're formatting anywhere except Vellum, you'll need to make sure the files are compliant with ebook standards before you upload them anywhere.

It helps that I'm comfortable with the technical tools of self - publishing, such as Vellum for creating ebooks and Joel Friedlander's book design templates, which make formatting paperbacks easy.

I format my own books, using Vellum, so that I can make them look pretty.

And so we wanted to make the experience of creating a print book be just as easy and fun as creating eBooks with Vellum.

It really makes formatting a lot of fun and you can read why I moved from Scrivener to Vellum for formatting here.

We can do the work for you, cleaning up your manuscript to fix common problems hidden in Word, and providing you with a ready - to - use Vellum file that you can easily edit if you ever want to make changes.

This series, Exit / Dark Matter, which Parrino made in the 1990s, comprises 41 ink, graphite, and spray - paint drawings and paintings on vellum, using images he appropriated (to use that quintessentially»80s word) from comic books, artists like Goya and Robert Smithson, bikers, rock musicians, the killer Charles Manson, and various faces and events, all of which depict action and riot.

Julie Gross» large site specific gouache on vellum window installation also makes use of clean lines and color that vibrates.

Her work for the exhibition is a series of pieces made from vellum, which is calf skin parchment, examining the cellular morphology of lymphoma, personally significant after the illness and subsequent death of her partner.

Made over a three - month period when the apartment was between occupants, the blue - pencil - on - vellum rubbings capture the bathroom, kitchen, entrance, floor and front windows of the artist's former dwelling — as well as various fixtures like the bathroom sink, toilet and tub — in ghostly detail.

This collaboration can be seen quite clearly in a series of «accidental drawings» Naschke - Messing made by painting a salt - and - water paste on pieces of vellum.

In late 2001 Mary Temple began making ink on vellum drawings of a repeated and overlapping elliptical shape.

I suppose this ties into the stained glass window question, too, but it made me want to ask why you were drawn to work on vellum, how you think about the transparency / opacity of paint, and then too, the fragility of a work of art, both as a material object and a site of personal... I want to say expression, but that seems like the wrong word somehow.

Paper, that stuff our money used to be made out of, that intermediate medium between vellum and pixels — the afterlife for some 150,000,000 forty - foot trees each year in Canada alone.

Make It: Cut the top off of a plastic water bottle and wrap with vellum; secure with double - sided tape.

Make your own gorgeous Christmas garland with vellum and pearlescent cardstock.

The other garland was made using vellum I picked up at Hobby Lobby at 50 % off.