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How to make a great Journal featureJournal Feature Tutorial
How to make a great Journal feature!
This article has been written for #projecteducate by `miontre.
Featuring other artists in your Journal is a great thing to do, because everyone wins! Not only are you supporting other artists by giving them some extra exposure, but you can also earn some exposure for yourself and make new friends too. Additionally, those who view your feature have the opportunity to find some new art and artists. :D
Therefore, it pays to make your Journal features the best they can be. Making a really good Journal feature can involve a lot of time and work - planning, collecting artwork, arranging the artwork in a Journal, publication, and promotion. Taking these steps instead of merely dragging in thumbs from your Favourites will result in an appealing and rewarding Journal feature. In this tutorial, we're going to produce a feature with images arranged like this:
colours of the rainbowHello! :aww:
Here is a group of amazing photos I found and wanted to share!
When scrolling through them quickly, the first word that popped into my mind was "colour" - hence the name! :)
Please add this article to your favourites :+fav: and leave a comment if you like it, this was more people will be able to see it and hopefully enjoy the photos too!


light wondersHere are some amazing photos I found today! :+fav:
Please support the artists (and the hours I spent making this feature with cluttered HTML) with a favourite or comment on the news article! :)


Colours Vol. Two:iconmiontre: Welcome to the second Colours journal feature! :) Please consider adding the feature to your :+fav: to support the artists featured and the time I spent compiling it.
During August, the first #FeedbackFrenzy came to a close - over 160 participants and 40 teams wrote almost 2,000 critiques. I was blown away by the effort everyone put in, and the size the contest came to!! I am so honoured to have been involved of the organisation and coordination of such an event :D
Here is a feature for the winners, as promised. They aren't all photographers, but I thought it would be fitting to include the winners in here :)
First Place (Grand Prize Winners):
Team #18
=dierat | *ZenetianPandaz | =awaicu | *FadedDreams5
:icondierat: :iconZenetianPandaz: :iconawaicu: :iconFadedDreams5:
Second Place:
Team #33
:devKneeling-Gl
Colours Vol. One:iconwildrune11: This skin was deeply inspired by the skins $marioluevanos creates. I like the ways he uses colour and line in his designs. I made and discarded three journal skins while I was trying to come up with a design for this series, and when I had the idea to create a simple but attractive skin like his, I started work on a fourth skin (not knowing yet if I would use it or not). The first thing I did was create a colour palette at colorschemedesigner.com - a simple but powerful colour palette creation tool I recently discovered. As I started creating my skin and applying the colours I had selected, I realised what I would call my feature series - "Colours". The word "colours" can mean many things, and some of these meanings are things I want to achieve in my features.
So, "Colours" will be a journal feature series run by me! :)
Every article will include an interview, a spotlight artist and group, and some selecti
Colours Vol. Three:iconwildrune11: Hello, and welcome to the third volume of Colours! :) I hope you enjoy this article. Please consider adding it to your :+fav: to support the artists featured and the time I spent compiling it.
This time, I'd like to ask the readers a question. What do you think of editing photography? Is it something all photographers should try? Or is it something that should only be used in moderation, or never done? Do you think editing is a part of the art of photography? Or is it completely different and unrelated? Please leave your thoughts in a comment! I will include your opinions in my next article. If you do not wish for your opinion to be shared (or if you'd like to be anonymous), please say so in your comment.

Interview with `dragonfly-oli
Tutorial Writing TipsTutorial Writing Tips
This article has been written both for #projecteducate's Community Week and for the second #FeedbackFrenzy contest.
There are many tutorials right here on deviantART, most of which are provided by other deviants for free. All of us can take a look at these tutorials, and hopefully learn something new. While it's wonderful people spend their spare time helping others learn for free, the truth is some tutorials are much better than others. In this article, I am aiming to share my tutorial-writing knowledge to help others make their tutorials better! After all, if you're going to spend some of your spare time writing a tutorial, you might as well make it the best it can be! :)
What are you good at?
First of all, think about what you're good at! If you haven't already decided what you want to write your tutorial on, you'll need to have a think about the sorts of things you're good at, which you could teach others. You don't ha
Best of the Week XVIIA collection of the best photos submitted to #Breathtaking-photos this week! :+fav:
I apologise for the delay since the last feature! I hope you enjoy the photos. :)







look away by *EbruSidarMisty Forest by ~Justine1985
walking inside by *augenweide
A winter morning by *valiunicAnother Snowy Dream by ~Thinking-Silence
Endless Winter by *LarsVanDeGoor
Keep smiling. by *Lileinaya
Hachiko by ~chaoticfireflies
Spruce leaves by ~Al-Baum
deep in thoughtHere is another feature, filled with photos!
If you enjoy it, please consider adding this to your favourites and leaving a comment! :+fav:
I have a question at the end :la:
Enjoy:



Even More Like This #01Hello! This is `miontre and I'm starting a new art feature series called Even More Like This in #fella. :)
I'll recursively use the new More Like This tool to discover artwork. I'll pick a starting piece, view it's More Like This Results, select a second piece from there, view it's More Like This results, and so on! The art is placed in the order I found them.
I hope you enjoy the feature. :D :+fav:










Karita by ~MiriamJanus
MOSKVICHka by ~sirbion
7583 by ~bebeauty
Thoughts about Photography - part 2In here you will find a few examples of works specific to different types of Photography, followed by various artists' opinion about what they think it's most important regarding their art and how to make it. You will come to see that while on some types of Photography many artists have similar opinions, on others their thoughts differ a lot, so read them all carefully and enjoy the article! - `lintu47
Architecture



~canismaioris says: "The most important in Architectural Photography for me is:1. Finding the right perspective. You should always look for an interesting foreground, first plan can totally change perception. 
2. It's good to use wide angle, show as much as you can, use a wide angle lens or make panorama, but this trick doesn't work in every case and situation. 
3.
Starting with dA CSSBack when CSS was allowed for journals for the first time there had been only a few deviants like `ClaireJones, `Lilyas or =kuschelirmel-stock who provided free skins for everyone. Through the time more and more people enjoyed working on CSS skins and we also got the chance to skin our galleries.
These days, and thanks to the great resources about journal and gallery CSS that have been created, it is possible for nearly everyone to code their own skins and/or to share them with others. Still there are many people who struggle with some basic things, which is why we want to focus on some of them here.
General
:pointr: Where can you use CSS/HTML
On deviantART you can only use HTML and CSS on your journals, group blogs, your custom gallery folders, as well as your groups' galleries.
When you customize your profile widgets you can't add CSS or HTML like you can for journals/galleries. All you can do is using existing dA code that can be re-us
Dark Side of Autumn Contest winners"Dark Side of Autumn" winners
contest hosted by #Trees-With-character
:star: First Place :star:

by *TADBEER
Other works by the artist:

:star: Second Place :star:

by ~Syrjusz
Other works by the artist:

:star: Third Place :star:

by *Nelleke
Other works by the artist:

Runners up
Just a rainy foggy day III... by *MichiLaukeSomewhere in autumn by *HelaLe
Honorable mentions
the turn I by ~stachelpferdchenMagic forest by ~CelavaCesma-krugE n d l e s s by ~dizzylizz
Melancoly by ~Valentina-Mustajarvi
Well done! :iconlawooplz:
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Best of the Week XVIII

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A collection of the best photos submitted to #Breathtaking-photos this week! :+fav:

Welcome to my dream by *RobinHalioua
Face to face by =Fra-EmerFritillaria meleagris 2012 II by ~Aphantopus
Pureness by ~Econita
frozen in time by ~slatkatajnaCrystal Jellyfish by =MayLPhotography
Stay With Me by =MayLPhotography
In a magical forest... by ~MartaCBelize Sky III by `IsacGoulart
the flowers - wallpaper. by ~gloeckchen
Freedom Found In Surrender by =Oer-WoutOrdinary World.. by *Khomenko
-Secrecy of transformation- by *Janek-SedlarRace by ~Northstar76Laguna by ~Chaerul-Umam
Web by ~ChaoticMind75
Last Breath Of The Setting Sun by *KrzysztofJedrzejakCome With The Wave by ~Rawangtak
I would like to be out by ~CelavaCesma-krug
Winter Forest by ~Justine1985Intertwining by *drkshp
Wha choo lookn at foo? by *Amanda-Diaztrembling hearts and feathers. by ~HarlequinFeverAir Melody by *A2Matos
23 by ~sanjalydiaOne Of These Days 2 by ~EdgarBerg
Time to say goodbye by *PawelMatys
dreaming of spring... by ~morgenblindStory of ... by ~RadekDemjan

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A collection of the best photos submitted to #Breathtaking-photos this week! :+fav:
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Mood: Wow! ~morgenblind Jan 23, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
thanks a loooot
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=fluf-studios Jan 21, 2013  Student General Artist
This is a lovely feature!
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`miontre Jan 21, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Thanks! :)
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=DianaGrigore Jan 21, 2013
Add favorite, add favorite, add favorite
Why are you doing this to me? :)) These are beautiful, love the feature!:hug:
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`miontre Jan 21, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Hehe, I know the feeling! :giggle: You did it to me before, this is payback :P
Glad you like it! :hug:
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=DianaGrigore Jan 21, 2013
:rofl: Nice reply :dummy:
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`miontre Jan 22, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
:giggle:
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Mood: Love *Janek-Sedlar Jan 21, 2013   Photographer
Thank you !
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`miontre Jan 21, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
No problem. :)
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~CelavaCesma-krug Jan 21, 2013   Photographer
Thank you so much!
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