Text= (1) Product Name: Jaguarwoman's "Valentine Paper Kit", Product Copyright: Dana Sitarzewski aka Jaguarwoman, January 2011 (2) Author Name & Email Address: Dana Sitarzewski aka Jaguarwoman, jaguarwoman@jaguarwoman.com "Valentine Papers 2011" has a lush set of romantic papers provided in tasty hue palettes. I have used a single pattern, bevelled and textured, to appy layer effects to monochromatic papers and experimented with multiple layers and lighting effects. I provided a few technique tips in this readme (number 11 below) for how you can create some additional variations for yourself. There are 6 plain, monochromatic textured papers and 26 hue variations with the same gorgeous floral pattern. The monochromatic, un-patterned papers are in a variety of hues, from pastel to dark jewel colors. You can lighten or darken and hue-shift these to match any patterned papers. All the papers are 2400 x 2400 pixels, 350 dpi. If you have a need for a very large paper of 3600 x 3600 pixels, it will take you 4 seconds to enlarge these papers with no loss of resoluton. None of these elements may be used to create another merchant resource background design package which competes with the original product, but the images may be used in personal or commercial products, as outlined in detail in Jaguarwoman's TOU/license. (4) Ownership Statement: All of the content in this package was created by Dana Sitarzewski aka Jaguarwoman, and may include derivatives of the following Vendor/Merchant resources: Floral Vector, TAlex, Vectorstock (expanded commercial use license), http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/11128 (5) System Requirements: PC or MAC plus Photoshop, PaintShopPro or any graphics program that can open psd file format (6) Needed Files: No 3rd party files are needed for this product to function. (7) Installation Instructions: Unzip the zipfile using Winzip or Stuffit (if you are using a Mac), open your graphics program, navigate to the directory and folder into which you unzipped the zipfile, and open any of the psd files. (8) Usage Tips/Limitations: If you want to reduce the size to a specific width or height, use your "Sharpen" filter AFTER reducing it for best effect. These images reduce very nicely in dimension, but may require a bit of sharpening when reduced by 75% or more. (9) Files Included jag_paperkit1.zip jaguarwomanlicense.txt paperkitjagreadme.txt jag_valentinepaper1.jpg jag_valentinepaper2.jpg jag_valentinepaper3.jpg jag_valentinepaper4.jpg jag_valentinepaper5.jpg jag_valentinepaper6.jpg jag_valentinepaper7.jpg jag_valentinepaper8.jpg jag_valentinepaper9.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper1.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper2.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper3.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper4.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper5.jpg jag_unembellishedpaper6.jpg jag_paperkit2.zip jaguarwomanlicense.txt paperkitjagreadme.txt jag_valentinepaper10.jpg jag_valentinepaper11.jpg jag_valentinepaper12.jpg jag_valentinepaper13.jpg jag_valentinepaper14.jpg jag_valentinepaper15.jpg jag_valentinepaper16.jpg jag_valentinepaper17.jpg jag_valentinepaper18.jpg jag_valentinepaper19.jpg jag_valentinepaper20.jpg jag_valentinepaper21.jpg jag_valentinepaper22.jpg jag_valentinepaper23.jpg jag_valentinepaper24.jpg jag_valentinepaper25.jpg jag_valentinepaper26.jpg (10) USAGE TIPS! This product includes blank, slightly textured, monochromatic "base" papers. Check my Ownership Statement to find the address of the floral vector pattern that I licensed for use in this product. By adding this overlay to one of the monochromatic bases and shifting hues, changing saturation and lightness/darkness, and addition layer effects (either in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) you can create additional versions of these papers for your own needs. Here is one technique I use to create the variations in papers: I create up to 4 or 5 duplicate layers of the same base paper and/or the overlay. You can have many layers of both the overlay and the papers. Then I just experiment by shifting the hue, layer effects, opacity, and saturation of each layer. I also take a large grunge brush or cloud brush and experiment by erasing various layers to allow underlying colors to peek through. You can also add grunge or shading with various brushes on top of this aligned "stack" using Dodge and Burn or Vivid Light or any of the layer effects. When you like the combination you have achieved, merge it! If you give yourself some time experimenting with this technique of blending layers you can surely arrive at some combinations I haven't thought of. From there you can add additional embellishements, cut the papers into shapes for other projects, or use them to texture objects. (11) Jaguarwoman Designs License: You must understand and agree to my Terms of Use and license in order to buy products in my store. If you read anything here that you don't understand, write me at jaguarwoman@jaguarwoman.com and ask for further explanation. Firstly . . . The licensee is not aquiring the ownership of the original images, but is aquiring the right to use the images under specific circumstances. The copyright (i.e, ownership) is not being transferred to the licensee and Jaguarwoman Webdesign or other copyright holder continues to own the graphic images themselves, but through the licensing agreement grants the right to use them in specific circumstances, such that the basic right of the original artist(s) to profit from them is preserved. Secondly . . . As in the case of software, the license is not transferrable. A customer may not redistribute or share the product files with one OR dozens or hundreds or thousands of other people through filesharing groups and thereby deprive the original owner of the images of the rightful profit of their labor. Thirdly, the use of licensed imagery in both personal and commercial projects is permitted with specific provisos and exclusions. You can use the images in commercial projects such as webdesign, 3d texturing, advertising, illustration, printables projects, candy wrapper businesses, card making, signage, role playing games, and as photographic backgrounds. There are limitations for commercial usage in specific areas, so please read them below. Fourth, the terms of use are specified in the Readme.txt document included in the product zipfile. Over the years, early products may have an earlier text version, but the essence of the license is the same: the licensee may not resell or redistribute the original files, as is, in any way or in any environment. This means the licensee must understand what "resale and/or redistribution" means. Much of the rest of this page is an attempt to make clear what those words mean in specific usages. If you do understand what it means, I apologize for boring you. The explanations are intended for those who do not. You may recolor them, but you may not resell or give them away as grayscale, or create templates, actions, scripts, layer styles, brushes or other presets from them. Dana Sitarzewski aka Jaguarwoman is the author and copyright holder of the images in this product package and retains copyright and ownership of the images included in this zipfile, and your license gives you the right to use the images under specific circumstances. You may use this images to create your own derivative projects for personal or commercial sale, with no restrictions other than these: (1) you may not resell the original files, as is, in any venue. (2) you may not redistribute the products in filesharing groups. (3) you may not resave them in another file format and redistribute them, either for sale or for free, in filesharing groups or any other online or offline venue, (4) this license is non-transferrable. If you have any questions, contact Dana Sitarzewski at jaguarwoman@jaguarwoman.com The concept here is that when I license my images, they are intended to be used as design resources and to be incorporated into the licensee's own commercial products and/or into derivative designs or individual projects for commercial sale. It is never intended that the individual images be repackaged, with little or no design input, and be resold under another designer's name. This is why the products can not be used in scrapkits, for example. "Design resources" can not be simply repackaged and turned around to be resold as "design resources". Only I can sell my own work as design resources. The key here is in the word "derivative design". If you wish to create derivative designs using my design resources, I'm overjoyed and that's what I sell them for. But to create another set of products from them which you will them sell as a design resource, you must DO something with them that is makes them into your own unique design. The buyer is not permitted to simply recycle or reshuffle the original work into a new package and call that their artistic product. Or, individual images may also be used in a one-time basis in commercial projects (such as webdesign or illustration or advertising or signage). But the original "out of the box" images may not simply be repurposed or repackaged to be resold as another design resource under a new name. I'll bet this seems obvious to a lot of people and they wonder why I'm so pedantic in explaining it. Thousands of people have done it. And you'd be surprised how many people read this paragraph and still tell me they do not understand. Buyers can use the image resources by incorporating them into a design or product or their own which changes the original work in a transformative way, making it their own, new design. Or, the images may be incorporated into print compositions which will be sold in a different form than than the original digital files. The digital files may not be resold as digital files. The buyer can not resell or give away the original files, as is, in any way, such that my work is competing itself in the graphics marketplace and thereby undermining the market value of the original product. This is the common sense behind copyright protections. There are a million ways to use the design resources and create derivative products for commercial sale. But they cannot simply be repackaged with a new name and under a new design label, and provided for sale or for free, as is, or with changes so minor that it "change" becomes a mere technicality. Specific Restrictions for Specific Product Categories: DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING All my products may be used for personal scrapbooking kits ONLY and are licensed to a single licensee and the elements may not be redistributed or given away in filesharing groups offline or online. As of September 11, 2009, Jaguarwoman design resources purchased in my store from this date forward may not be used, in whole or in part, in any scrapbooking kit for commercial sale without an extended Commercial Use Licenxe. Jaguarwoman grants such licenses privately and totally at her own discretion. Without this license, Only I, Dana Sitarzewski, aka Jaguarwoman, or my designated agents, can produce kits to be sold outside this store from this date forward. For Jaguarwoman Design image resources sold before this date, the same license and TOU as previously existed still prevails: As always, they may NOT be put into scrapbooking kits as individual elements as png or psd files, as is, with transparent backgrounds, so that the designer is simply repackaging my work into a new product and calling it by another name and claiming to be the designer (this would fall under the category of resale/redistribution of the original product). It is now and always was a copyright violation to simply repackage my design elements for resale or redistribution as is, or even with modification, even as a "freebie" or within a filesharing group, as a scrapbooking "kit". If there is still confusion about what can and can't be done with Jaguarwoman graphics, here are some specific examples for clarification: "Anatomy of a Flagrant Copyright Violation" This stipulation about the use of images "as is" includes the case where an individual element may be re-colored or hue-shifted. Also, very small changes in a design element which do not significantly change the footprint or the appearance of the image do not count as "derivative design". (Please see my discussion of "derivative design"). In short, only I can sell my own work as an original design resource or merchant resource. The buyer of the license can use them commercially as a design resource and can also use them to create derivative designs which may be sold, but may not resell the original work with little or no change as a design resource or redistribute in any way, in any venue. This is the essential spirit and meaning of copyright in graphic resources, designed to protect the investment and market position of the original artist. Second Life As of June 14, 2010, I have rescinded my legal agreement with Liz Gallagher of TRU Textures and from this date, none of my work may be used in any form in the environment of Second Life. That means that nothing can be resold there and no derivative products which incorporates any of my products may be used in Second Life. For the ethical texture artists of Second Life, I regret this decision was necessary. It is simply too difficult to control or police the filesharing and digital piracy within that fantasy world. The numbers of abusers are simply too numerous, they are anonymous there, and the procedures to file DCMAs with Second Life are too creaky and slow. It is simply not worth the effort; it's a bad bargain for any producer of original digital image resources to try and deal with it. In other words, SL is a bad market for digital artists. CafePress, ImageKind, Zazzle, and similar online mass market, image-based stores Buyers are not permitted to upload Jaguarwoman files or products, as is, to create products on a mass market basis online in their own stores. That is akin to providing my original work in its original form to a mass market under your own name. You may, however, create a unique design of your own using my products (like a collage background with figures or various design elements on it) and upload that as your own product. This leaves plenty of room for the use of the design resources for these venues. But you can not simply upload my images, in their original form, as the basis of a mass marketed product. I have always had my own accounts in these stores there's no reason for my products to compete with themselves, eh? Please note: this is a stronger rewording of an earlier statement in an effort to clarify the "no resale/redistribution" prohibition in this specific category of usage. There is no intention to confound anybody. The concept is the same: You can use the products to create your own derivative designs but you can not simply resell my work, and especially not in the same stores in which I am selling it. Printwork For Mass Production You may not use my products to mass produce any product for sale as a print product (as in stamped or printed graphics for publication) beyond a certain number of impressions without an extended license. The sale of any digital product created as a derivative of any or all images in this archive is limited to 100 copies, unless prior permission is granted via extended license. Decoupage Companies, Digital Embroidery Companies, etc. You may use my products to create derivative designs which may be sold in the form of downloadable printable sheets or pattern sheets (in jpg format). But you may not use my images "as is" to simply provide the original images in jpg format in decoupage sheets, without your own design input. If you want to take my work, as is, and simply translate it, without any design input of your own, into a jpg decoupage sheet to be downloaded from your website as a printable decoupage product, you will need to purchase an extended license, at a price to be negotiated with me. Usually I multiply the standing price by 2 or 3. This is in keeping with the kind of price structure which I myself pay when I pay for an "extended commercial license" for Vector images or photos for specific commercial use. It is not an unusual practice, but common usage to protect the original artist's interests. If you are interested in an extended fee for the "as is" use of my work for a decoupage kit, contact me directly at jaguarwoman@jaguarwoman.com Regarding new usages which may arise in the future or usages I may have overlooked . . .I reserve the right to interpret the basic license in the future in a way that protects my copyright and position as the author of my own work appropriately, so that customers may use products for derivative design but not resell the products in a way that damages my position as the originator of the original works. People often ask why TOUs are permitted to changes at all. Changes in usage happen daily. When artists create works, within weeks, there are usages that arise that were never imagined when the artists first painted or rendered something. We constantly have to cope with new ways in which our work(s) can be exploited that we didn't foresee. So naturally we have to adjust to the constantly changing technology horizon. The music business and the movie business never saw digital piracy bearing down on it. Digital art did not anticipate Rapidshare. But everybody has to adjust their business models in order to be able to stay in business. I think it's clear we have a right to survive to paint another day. Please note that the TOU for specific products in this store may vary slightly and you should read the README and TOU for each product. Generally, it will follow the principles outlined above. You can always email jaguarwoman@jaguarwoman.com to ask about usage permissions.