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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:
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! :)


Do-It-Yourself Journal SkinDo-It-Yourself Journal Skin
Get into Journal skinning by learning how to create your own Journal skin in this tutorial!
Written by `miontre for dA Related Week in #projecteducate
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Heya everyone! :la: In this tutorial, you'll be learning how to create your own Journal skin on deviantART. This tutorial takes a "Do-It-Yourself" or "Assemble-It-Yourself" type approach. I've pre-created a design, and it's up to you to put it together and customise it - with instructions, of course! :D
Note that you need a Premium Membership to use Journal skins! :)
This tutorial is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting to create Journal skins on dA using CSS. Those who don't know anything about CSS yet can follow along, and hopefully learn something along the way! Those who are beginners with CSS can learn how to turn a design into code, and how to use CSS to create a Jo
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!


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
Colours Vol 004Colours
Vol 004
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Colours photography feature series - it's coming back with a brand new look!
Contents:
Interview with =Nilanja
Reader Opinion
Spotlight Artist
Spotlight Group
General Feature


Interview with =Nilanja
Nilanja has a gallery full of imaginative and creative conceptual photos. They're all very surreal and other-wordly - Pezi makes use of crafty trick photography to create an unlikely by extraordinary scene! Petra's photos often have interesting and thought provoking meanings hidden within them. This is especially noticeable in the photos produced during her recently completed A is for Alphabet Project!

=Nilanja
Pezi
Hobbyist Artist
Female from A
Best of the Week XVIIIA collection of the best photos submitted to #Breathtaking-photos this week! :+fav:












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
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:



solitudeIt's a dark, rainy, stormy day here today.
So I thought I'd make a feature to match! :aww: Kinda
The photos start off dark, and then I have some brighter ones at the end :)
Hope you like this feature! If you do, I'd really appreciate it if you gave it a :+fav: and a comment :D


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
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Hello! :wave:
Here is a selection of photos that somehow relate to seasons! :D Kinda :blushes:
Although there isn't much Autumn ^^;
Have a great week :hug:

I'd appreciate it if you faved this article and left a comment :)

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~Aphantopus Apr 7, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Thanks :)
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`miontre Apr 7, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
You're welcome :)
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~WildFreeCareless Apr 6, 2012  Student Photographer
Thank you for the feature! :hug:
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`miontre Apr 7, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
No problem! :)
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~MisterKey Apr 3, 2012  Professional Photographer
Thank You :heart:
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*fotomademoiselle Apr 2, 2012  Student Photographer
Beautiful, as always! Love these!!
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`miontre Apr 5, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
So do I! :D
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Thank you kindly for the feature :handshake:
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You're welcome! :)
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