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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Making your photographs look professional with a little help from Image Editing.

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Balloon News and Events. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Making your photographs look professional with a little help from Image Editing. Ow many times do you take a photograph of a design or of decor that you have made hoping to use it in your portfolio or on your website and are really disappointed with how it looks in the picture? Even with a great camera we don't always get the perfect photograph. Maybe the background is not great or the lighting is too dark? Stand at Spring Fair. My aim was to make my d...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Part 4. Beginners Guide to the Elements & Principles of Design - Rhythm

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Balloon News and Events. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Part 4. Beginners Guide to the Elements and Principles of Design - Rhythm. As we continue our journey to having a greater understanding of the elements and principles of design, the next principle of design that we are going to look at is RHYTHM. There are four main ways of creating rhythm within a design:. The primary purpose of rhythm is to guide the eye to the focal area but without trapping it there. This design also uses repetition. Through repet...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: August 2015

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Balloon News and Events. Friday, August 28, 2015. A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words! A smile may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes, it seems as though its value is so much more. A simple smile creates its own message without words. In many cases, the smile takes on a specific meaning because of the surroundings or situation in which it occurs. A quote from My Well-Being Presented by Humana. There are many occasions that it could be used for;. Smile Face for Birthdays! 40 Brilliant Star #24170.

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Part 2 The Beginners Guide to Elements & Principles of Design - Line

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Balloon News and Events. Monday, August 25, 2014. Part 2 The Beginners Guide to Elements and Principles of Design - Line. Last week I posted part 1 of this new series of beginners guides to Elements and Principles of Designs, just in case you missed it you can click HERE. For a link, it's all about colour! Today I want to look at 'LINE'. The outline of your design or arrangement-. Lines can work in different ways;. Creates drama and impact. Lets look at LINE. Within a selection of designs:. This arch has...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Wedding Balloons and the great outdoors!

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Balloon News and Events. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Wedding Balloons and the great outdoors! Will be decorating a wedding later this year. The bride has been pretty specific with her decor ideas with thanks to Pinterest. Don't get me wrong, I love Pinterest and think that it is a great source of inspiration. But I think that many of us are aware that a great deal of the shots, especially wedding designs are staged and therefore are not always as practical as they appear in the picture! If you have to use da...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Part 6 Beginners Guide to the Elements and Principles of Design - Unity & Harmony

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Balloon News and Events. Friday, October 24, 2014. Part 6 Beginners Guide to the Elements and Principles of Design - Unity and Harmony. I would like to conclude this series of blogs by taking a look at Unity and Harmony. Unity refers to the relationship and incorporation of all the elements in a design or decor such that it imparts a sense of wholeness or 'oneness'. I find it very easy to create unity when I am working with Qualatex. Farm Centrepiece by Anne Cahill McGovern CBA. Balloon as the starting p...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: An interview with Brazilian Balloon Artist Luiz Carlos Da Costa Silva of Cenário Balões.

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Balloon News and Events. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. An interview with Brazilian Balloon Artist Luiz Carlos Da Costa Silva of Cenário Balões. Ast month I was very excited to make my first trip to Brasil to spend a week working with Team Pioneer Brasil at their Head Office in Jundiai. During my visit I had the opportunity to visit Cenário Balões. And to meet up with owners Luiz Carlos Da Costa Silva and his wife Rosana along with their very talented team at their amazing facility in Sao Paulo! We are dedica...

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The Very Best Balloon Blog: Part 5. Beginners Guide to the Elements & Principles of Design - Proportion and Scale

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Balloon News and Events. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Part 5. Beginners Guide to the Elements and Principles of Design - Proportion and Scale. Scale and Proportion are closely linked and both are concerned with size. So let's consider how important is it for us to understand proportion and scale when designing our everyday displays. Here is a scenario - " I have been asked to create table arrangements for a party in a venue that I have never visited". What is the size and height of the room? This is the siz...