Using the iPad for promo materials

Here's what I created this morning in honour of Darcy Pattison's RANDOM ACTS OF PUBLICITY, a week in which people (especially authors) are encouraged to post a review of an author friend's book on Amazon, Goodreads, Library Thing or somewhere else online:

Here's how I created it:

- Downloaded a free cardboard texture from CGTextures.com (my favourite texture source).

- Use the Ransom Letters app to create the cut-out letter words (took about 2 minutes), e-mailed the image to myself.

- Used Corel Painter to select out the individual words then pasted them onto the cardboard image, rotated some of the words to make it look more homemade.

- Used the Chalk brush (Dull Grainy Chalk variant) in Painter to write the rest of the text by hand in black.

To find out more about Darcy Pattison and the Random Acts Of Publicity Week, see:

http://www.darcypattison.com/