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Corner Design Photoshop Brushes - Part 2 2007-12-10 18:33:00 I’m coming back now with another 3 sets of corner design photoshop brushes. These brushes have swirly curls, two of them are foliage style and the other one is kindda psychedelic to me.
The shapes were designed in half parts that consist alone as photoshop brushes, so it would be easier for you to customize them. Make a copy in a new layer and create the reflection of them by rotating and flipping, and then you can find interesting corner design ;). The result of these photoshop brushes...
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My Lucky Number 13 First Contest - Win $100 2007-12-03 19:15:00 Diana, has a very interesting blog, titled : "My lucky number 13".
It's a A blog about her life experiences including personal matters and professional career. Recently, her personal blog is also nominated to win Blogger Choice Awards in Best Blog About Stuff category.
I love her blog since she wrote good and informative articles about blogging tips and only in two months, now she helds a first contest :)
To enter the contest is easy. Here is how:
Write a post about My Lucky Number
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Collin James De Ruyck’s Abstract Paintings 2007-11-30 21:55:00 I always fascinate to abstract paintings. I found sort of well mixed medium of abstract paintings collection of CollinJames
De Ruyck , and I’m also amazed how he lined up the geometric shape and colors to create 3D texture effect. I should call it: “Decorative AbstractPaintings
”
Somehow each of them can be part as an interior decoration. His abstract art works are able to bring a boring plan room to a very exciting room filed with great colors and style.
Here a short conversation about his...
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Creating MattsNutts Logo and Web Header 2007-11-26 19:41:00 MattsNutts is one of Chris's Blog that talks about SEO and Blogging. Recently, I wrote a blogger guest entry in short explanation of MattsNutts Logo and Web Header design process. Will appreciate your comment on the finishing result ;)
If you want me to design your logo or your web header, please contact me via email that you can find in About Me menu links on the top of my page. A discussion will be the follow up step to find best design or theme that will fit to your blog (web) at a very...
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Corner Design Photoshop Brushes - Part 1 2007-11-23 01:29:00 I made 3 sets of corner design photoshop brushes. Actually the shapes were designed in half parts that consist alone as photoshop brushes. Make a copy in a new layer and create mirror FX of them by rotating and flipping, so then you can find interesting corner design ;). The result of these photoshop brushes mirror effect could be various, so I suggest you to give a bit of try.
It was inspired by Design Fruits Tasty Tattoos, which are more complicated in shape and design than mine. He he he, I...
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Cool RSS Buttons for Free 2007-11-18 19:33:00 I've been searching for cool RSS buttons to download for free...and maybe you will like these:
Bloggers Journey - 51 RSS Button For Your Blog
Photosopit - Free Web 2.0 style RSS feed icon
Randa Clay - A Rainbow of Free Round RSS Icons
Design Bliss - Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons
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Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes - Part 2 2007-11-12 19:07:00 Talking about flowery style, and many experiments I’ve done to create foliage shape in Illustrator, so now I share them with you: my Fantasy FloralPhotoshop
Brushes – Part 2.
There are only 3 sets of photoshop brushes inside .ABR file…not much, but I’m sure you can use them as decorative corner element in your design, or as blending shape vector to the background. Do rotate things and add some style into it.
When I have a chance to design again, I‘ll be back with more simple photoshop corner...
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Quick ways to Create Buttons using Photoshop and Illustrator 2007-11-09 20:30:00 These are lists of my old favorite tutorials to create button in quick steps. You can learn both in Photoshop
or Illustrator
;)
I’m curious finding quick techniques to create buttons. You can find wide range of button type tutorial such as, rounded corner to glossy button, iconic to nice aqua button and many more. If I find something interesting, I will update this post for sure…
Stay tune and Enjoy !!!
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Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes 2007-11-04 02:40:00 I have a new collection of Photoshop
Brushes set, and this time I made floral or foliage vectors using Illustrator. These 4 sets of Fantasy Floral
vectors were compiled in single ABR file. ;)
I called it Fantasy floral or foliage, since the shapes are far from real (can only be found in another planet LOL or here)
Each of brush is categorized as small in size (900px - 1024px).
I would like to remind you that all of my 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But...
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My Design is Beautifully Ripped Off 2007-10-30 20:55:00 I was shocked knowing that one of my Photoshop freebies being hijacked by some other Bloggers for their own benefit. Since this was my first experience, I’m getting intense to find out how to prevent this issue. You can tell how your work of art becomes popular using site tracker tool. As I’ve been checking my stat regularly, I found that, one of my Photoshop freebies gets good attention from some reader segment. I used “Round Corner Photoshop Brushes” as anchor text for every link related...
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Click Comment: Cool Widget for Blogger 2007-10-26 03:52:00 Blogging is about posting or reading an article and also get interact with other people in comments. Would it be cool to have click comment widget on your blog? Post Reach introduces a new way to comment on a blog.
This comment widget allows your reader to comment simply by clicking one of the Icon Sets to appreciate an article that they have read. This is so much easier for some reader who choose not to type few words to comment ;)
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Round Corner Square Photoshop Brushes 2007-10-23 22:48:00 This is my first collection of Photoshop
Brushes that I designed a month ago. I made only 7 set of Photoshop brushes. These are actually sort of Round Corner Square
vectors and after I finished, I put each of them in my Photoshop Brush preset to be compiled in single ABR file. I think each of brush can be categorized as medium in size (1613px – 1977px).
I would like to remind you that all of my ‘Free Design Box’ files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But after I found that my...
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How to Install Photoshop Brush Set 2007-10-20 08:38:00 Photoshop Brush
es usually available in huge size files. This is because some designer made high resolution brushes to get high quality for Printing Standard. The size of each brush can be range between 1500px – 2500px. You can imagine if a series of certain theme brush being compiled together in one file. I’m not talking about hundreds of kilobytes, be patient to download more than 10 megabytes .ABR file in archive folder.
Photoshop Brushes by default, saved in a specific file known as: .ABR...
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How to create Swirly Curls in Illustrator 2007-10-15 08:56:00 It’s been more than a week since my last tutorial article. Hope you would love this one ;)
Today’s tutorial is different than before. I want to share you an easy tutorial of how to create
Swirls in Illustrator
.
Decorative swirls are loved nowadays; people always use this style along with natural element into their design. I know that there are lots of tutorials which are sound similar with mine. Well the idea is to create swirly curls, but my technique would probably different than any...
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Blog Action Day : Environmental Awareness 2007-10-15 06:52:00 October 15, is Blog Action
Day , and the theme this year is "environment".
Joanne of Laidback Buddhist, pointed me out about the Blog Action Day. I've been planning to write a short post about a beach near my hometown, in north-east of Surabaya, Indonesia.
There is a small population of fishermen, where all the people depending so much to find living from the seashore until 5 kilometers far of radius from it. The fisherman community would about to vanish in another 5 years or shorter.
It...
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Grunge Text Effect in Photoshop Action – Part 3 2007-10-07 18:48:00 Another grunge text effect photoshop action to download today ;). You should try this tutorial because this kind of text effect is neater than the Part 1 and Part 2. Still result in destroyed fonts but I exclude random rustic details at the text background which belong in previous version.
Download the Graphic Identity - text grunge 03.ATN (2Kb) inside a WinRAR archive file.
Graphic Identity - text grunge 03.rar (1.2 KB)
If you don’t know what PhotoshopAction
is and how to install it, you...
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bla.st – Graphic Identity card submission 2007-10-04 05:12:00 Have anyone hear about bla.st ? It’s an interesting website where you can upload your business card for free and they will show your card to other member in card ranking system.
Card rankings will change over time as cards expire, and new cards are added.
If you want to boost your card rank, you can add money to be placed above the free cards. Pay as little as 1c/day* to be placed above the free cards.
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Grunge Text Effect in Photoshop Action – Part 2 2007-09-30 03:57:00 As I promised you, I will share another grunge text effect photoshop action today. You will find more destroyed fonts in result with the same kind of random rustic details at the text background which I could not control the size to display. For a better text effect, I think you would still need to do the retouch manually and I will show you how.
Download the Graphic Identity - text grunge 02.ATN (2Kb) inside a WinRAR archive file.
Graphic Identity - text grunge 02.rar (1.12 KB)
If you...
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Photo Contest 2007 - “Photos On a Theme” 2007-09-25 23:42:00 Jordan McClements of IrishViews.com with 70,000 visitors per month have started a photo contest this week. It’s an interesting contest to join and the submission entry is labeled “Photo
s on a Theme
”.
If you have at least 6 really good photos on a specific theme, which you think would look good as a Desktop Background / PC Wallpaper, and then you have a chance to submit them right away.
Some examples of themes are:
“Scotland”, “London”, “Fishing”, “Snow, “Glaciers”, “Forests”, “Rivers”,...
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Grunge Text Effect in Photoshop Action – Part 1 2007-09-24 22:37:00 This was my weekend experiment, trying to capture best photoshop action series of grunge text effects. As an experimental work, in the finished text effect there are random rustic details at the text background which I could not control the size to display. You would still need to do the retouch manually and I will show you how.
Download the Graphic Identity - text grunge 01.ATN (2Kb) inside a WinRAR archive file.
Graphic Identity - text grunge 01.rar (1.12 KB)
If you don’t know what...
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Your A-Z Blogs: Viral Linking to Increase Technorati Ranking and Google Page Rank 2007-09-16 05:52:00 The first time I know about ViralLinking
after I read Rocky John Tayaban post in his blog: Blogging Mix.
Here are the simple instructions you should follow to join this activity:
Copy and paste the links provided below. (From Blog "A - Z")
Replace the link to which the first letter of your URL starts with. (e.g. "G" for Graphic Identity) You may choose to use anchor text to link to your blog and replace the link to which the first letter of your anchor text starts. (e.g. "S" Search Engine...
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CSS Tab Designer 2.0 2007-09-16 05:33:00 Price : Free
File size: 1.35 MB
Download : http://www.highdots.com/css-tab-designer/
Understanding CSS may take times for some of people. Especially if it is dealing with CSS tab buttons for the website. CSS Tab Designer
will make that easy for you. Because you don’t need to be a master of CSS script to implement amazing horizontal menus (tabs) or vertical menus design in your website.
I have known this tool since two years back and still rely on it quite sometimes. The tabs in my Graphic...
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BlogsRecord : a review 2007-09-10 19:47:00 It's a new Blog Community, where you can build interactivity by joining certain Groups or Forum. Blogsrecord is also an interesting blog directory which designed to find information on anything blog related.
There are a lot of benefits you can gain by interacting with others in a forum.
Why you should join to Blogsrecord?
1. Blogsrecord will increase your blog visibility
Chris, our friendly admin, guarantees you to have all your blogs would be easy to read in Blogsrecord user list.
5...
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$4,000 David Airey Blog Anniversary Prize Draw 2007-09-07 19:47:00 David Airey, a graphic designer from Northern Ireland, is holding an anniversary prize giveaway. Started on September 1st, 2007, there’s more than $4,000 worth in free prizes! :) You can achieve the maximum number of draw entries and chances to win are open wide.
Talking about Blog Designing? Check out the list of Design and Blog Review Prizes from Top Designer and Excellent Blog Reviewer Sponsors. They will contribute their time and profesional skills to design and to review the lucky...
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3 Free Destroyed Typewriter Fonts 2007-09-02 21:33:00 I’m coming back with another font review, and don’t be so surprised since this post is closely related to my previous font review: 6 Free Graffiti, Grunge, and DestroyedFonts
.
I think I’m addicted to dig any kind of font that looks ruin apart, dirty and destroyed ;)
Junko’s Typewriter
By: Junkohanhero 2006
Site: Junkohanhero.com
Free for personal use
Junko’s Typewriter reminds me to an old typewriter, because the baseline of this font is not inline or unordered. Not much textures, but...
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Blogspot Design Showcase Blogs 2007-12-14 20:24:00 When it comes to do the illustration or design search for your inspiration, sometimes search engines just provides you enormous list. But I wonder if any of you know that some of Blogs
pot Bloggers are actually dedicated their time to build interesting design showcase for your eyes! Such of hidden treasures I found for this lovely weekend.
These blogs are pretty new, some of them even started on November, and here comes the parade:
Photoshop Heaven
Poerty is the author, and used to write...
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How to Create Water Droplets in Photoshop 2007-12-22 08:11:00 It's been quite a while since my last Photoshop
Tutorial guys :), anyway I spent my long holiday to write another tutorial, which is how to create water droplets in Photoshop.
I also included the photoshop action to create this water droplets effect, and there are two kinds of action for creating: bigger water droplets and the smaller one.
This tutorial is very easy for photoshop beginners, but actually there are also another ways of technique to create water droplets using Photoshop. The...
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Blogspot Design Showcase – Part 3 2008-03-06 20:19:44 Been very busy with things to do on February :D, so this post kind of hold up a bit. These Blogspot blogs just grabbed my attention for the first time I saw them. You know I love to catch a glimpse on paintings and artistic illustrations and sense the story behind them. So today, the reviews will include 4 Blogspot blogs which has crazily updates their post with breath taking arts and illustration. Buckle up guys!Dot Dot Design Guga is the the author for Dot Dot Design blog. He is enjoying life by featuring wonderful list of designs, beautiful things and wonderful stuff at Dot Dot Design blog to the internet audience. …visual filtration of ideas, aesthetics and amusements.Dot Dot Design now appears with minimalist single column blog theme. Guga tends to carefully pick design photos or gr
Graphic Design Group Writing Project Articles 2008-03-06 17:02:44 “Graphic
Design” is not that hard to imagine. When you start typing words using your keyboards, graphic design could give you tremendous outlines to your imagination and actually you are unconsciously experiencing it in every single day of your life. You see it, you touch it, you need it, and you feel it!The first Group
Writing Project
that I have entered came up with wonderful selected articles. Jacob Cass was organizing this cool group writing contest nicely.If you’re one of the Graphic Design
lovers, I send a bit of warm invitation for you to read the articles, socio bookmark, to link up and subscribe!I tried to categorize these articles so it would help you to grasp the headlines a little. Please correct me if somehow I made some mistake in sorting them. Enjoy!Designer BitsCreati Read more:Articles
Feed Flare Grand Opening Contest! 2008-03-05 11:27:15 FeedFlare
.ca has been launch just over a month. Collin, the owner of this fantastic Feed Flare community site has starting out a grand opening contest with total prize packages are worth just over $5200.00 (cash value) plus the 25,000 Entrecard credits. THE LONG LIST OF PRIZES I have informed you in my previous post that Graphic Identity blog has been taking part to sponsoring Feed Flare first contest. One of these prizes might be yours if you become one of the lucky winners of this amazing contest! Mini Unix web hosting package free for 1 year - Donated by BlurFur web hosting services (value - $70.00) - random drawAdvertising voucher with Bidvertiser worth $200.00 in free clicks (value - $200.00) - random drawBlog branding package which includes (Favico, header, Read more:Contest
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