Antique Trader Magazine features Terry Kovel and Kovels’ 2023 Price Guide

By Janet Dodrill

The November 15, 2022 issue of Antique Trader magazine features the 55th edition of Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023, and Kovels (http://www.kovels.com) business owner, Terry Kovel. 

I took the photograph of Terry Kovel for the magazine cover and an inside picture of her holding a teapot. 

Terry is my boss at Kovels and I have been very involved with the book for 12 years. I worked with dozens of auction houses to obtain the images for the price guide, as well as outlined and edited the images for the book directly for the publisher, Hachette in New York. The 2023 guide includes over 3150 images. 

In addition to working on the images for the price guide, both print and online versions, I also designed ads for the back of the book, and work on marketing materials for the book for its promotion and release, including brochures, buck slip inserts, email blast graphics, and social media ads.

Antique Trader magazine featured story November 15, 2022

https://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques-news/kovel-price-guide-antiques-and-collectibles

Antique Trader magazine, November 15, 2022 issue.
Photo: Antique Trader

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023

Other recent Antique Trader magazine articles about Kovels:

December 1, 2021

https://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques-news/kovels-price-guide

May 15, 2021

https://www.antiquetrader.com/collectibles/terry-kovel-antique-treasure

Copyright article and images. All rights reserved. Not to be used without permission.

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Peninsula Art Academy Photographers International Digital Exhibition and Competition, 2022

By Janet Dodrill

The 2022 Peninsula Art Academy (PAA) Photographers International Digital Exhibition and Competition
Participation in digital revolving gallery kiosk displaying entrants and winners, four entries in categories Land, Air, Nature, Imagination.
August 2022 – October 2022
Peninsula Art Academy
1600 Mill Street West
Peninsula, Ohio 44264

Judges:
Kevin Wilson
Woody Walters
Michael Ayers (judging panel chair)
Robert Hughes
Charles van den Ouden

Sponsors:
Tamron USA, Inc.
Freestyle
The Dodd Co.
The Digital Academy

Photography by Janet Dodrill

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The Effects of Waterlogue

By Janet Dodrill

Have you heard of the iPhone and iPad app called Waterlogue? The app converts your photos into beautiful watercolor-like images. It is published by Tinrocket, LLC and was co-created by John Balestrieri (Tinrocket, LLC) and Robert Clair (Chromatic Bytes, LLC). Available on iTunes for $2.99, it has a 4+ customer rating.

It is one of my favorite art apps to use. I create custom note cards using images that I first shoot on the iPad and then run them through Waterlogue.

Below are a few images (before and after) I created using various filters in the app.

iPad photo and Waterlogue app image.

iPad photo and Waterlogue app image.

Art Apps for iPad, ArtStudio and Inkpad

By Janet Dodrill

ArtStudio for iPad
By Lucky Clan
$4.99
v5.16 (Oct. 2013)
Sylwester Los
(iPhone c.2010; iPad c.2012) iPad Mini, iPod

Offers In-App Purchases:

1. Pack 1 $4.99
2. Watercolors $.99
3. Hair $.99
4. Fur $.99
5. Fire $.99
6. Oils $.99
7. Smoke $.99
8. Grass $.99
9. Markers $.99
10. Trees $.99

Selected Specs/Features:

-Raster-based
-iOS 4.3 or later
-21.5MB
-5 Star Rating
-Export as JPG/PNG/PSD to camera roll, email, clipboard, iTunes
-450 Brushes,150 free
-Sizes (In-App) 1024 x 768 iPad (approx. 14 x 10.5″ at 72ppi, 2.25MB/2.5 x 3.5″ at 300ppi); 2048 x 1536 (approx. 28 x 21″ at 72ppi, 9MB/6.75 x 5″ @ 300ppi); iPad with Retina; Max image size 3264 x 2448 (approx. 45 x 34″ at 72ppi, 23MB/10.75 x 8″ @ 300 ppi), other presets

Resources:

Lucky Clan http://www.luckyclan.com

Twitter http://twitter.com/lucky_clan

Manual http://www.luckyclan.com/artstudio_manual.pdf

Features http://www.luckyclan.com/artstudio/?page=features

Examples of what can be done in ArtStudio (videos) http://www.luckyclan.com/artstudio/?page=videos

ArtStudio Flickr Gallery (iPhone) http://www.flickr.com/groups/artstudioimages/

ArtStudio How to get started digital painting on iPad, David Allen 6:59 (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBfeKFYc5xU

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Inkpad
By Taptrix, Inc.
FREE
v1.2 (Mar. 2014)
© Steve Sprang (Creator of Brushes App)
(c.2011)

Selected Specs/Features:

-Vector-based
-iOS 7.0 or later
-5.1MB
-5 Star Rating
-Export as JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), SVGZ (Scalable Vector Graphics compressed), Inkpad
-Sizes (In-App) Sizes i.e. Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4, other standard sizes, or Custom Pixel; Portrait or Landscape options

Resources:

Twitter http://twitter.com/taptrix (No Tweets!)

Inkpad Demo, TaptrixInc 3:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU2UFmrDGk4

Apps Tutorial – Inkpad, John Patten 14:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZwrecRbsRo

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Note: This material posted in preparation for Cleveland Digital Publishing Users Group’s “A Quick Tour of Art Apps for iPad” presentation, March 27, 2014. Featured speakers include Nancy Dinger Aikins, Henry Lee, Janet Dodrill, Marvin Sable.

Photo-Editing Applications To Try

Article Review by Janet Dodrill

Do you work with digital images and need a photo editing software? Recently, I read a informative article on photo editors (Maine Antique Digest, May 2011, “Photo Editors” by John P. Reid) which, suggests good less-expensive alternatives to industry leader Adobe Photoshop, for under $100 or even free. The free photo editors are used online through your web browser, and they are:

Pixlr (www.pixlr.com)
FotoFlexer (www.fotoflexer.com)
Free Online Photo Editor (www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com)
Pho.to (www.pho.to)
MyTheme Animator (www.blibs.com/editor)
piZap (www.pizap.com)
Kizoa www.kizoa.com)
Splashup (www.splashup.com)
flauntR (www.flauntr.com)

Traditional software-based installed photo editors include:

Google Picassa 3 (picasa.google.com)
Adobe Photoshop Elements ($99.99, currently only $69.99 – Enter code ELEMENT11 at checkout.) (www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel)
Corel Paintshop Photo Pro ($99.99, currently only $39.99) (www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1208716806081)

The author of the article recommends that last two mentioned. Photo editors in different price ranges are reviewed at TenTopReviews (www.photo-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com).