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I'm sure most of you have heard of Anne Frank, even if you don't know who she is. Well, I'm definitely not the Anne Frank expert, but I was really touched by her family's story during the second world war, especially on how she kept a diary and only just didn't make it out of that horrible situation... I wanted to color her picture, but GOD didn't release me to do that, until this morning. Almost as soon as I was properly awake, I was commanded to do so, so here it is in color:


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Today I would like to share a little educational fan artwork of Jules Verne (Sci-Fi writer from the 1800's).
This is a public domain portrait of Jules Verne that I found on wikipedia. See here. Felix Nadar took it in 1878. The one I specifically used, was cleaned up a little (thanx to Quibik, Centpacrr and Jbcollins13 for all the enhancements!!)


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Now this is one I am really glad to share with you all. I am working on a project that requires some seriously old printing techniques and when I found this filter in gimp, it was like yey!

What filter is that? It's the one that looks like this:


Why is this so important? Well, in the late 1800's there were already various printing techniques, but for the most part, to my limited knowledge, you needed engravings for images. In a lot of cases even today you still do, but there was t...
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