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Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14

Posted by Ivan

Vector Elements for Illustrator

Well, I suppose this doesn't qualifies as brushes, but hey, if you aren't going to use this on Photoshop, you can go read something else. asdf.

In any case: Dezignus again delivers a huge amount of FREE floral swirls, vector flowers, vector swirlds or any combination on that area, in EPS (encapsulated post script, for Illustrator) format to work with.



I personally love the swirls and curves, but most of the stuff is good so there's no waste on anything.

Wednesday, January 7

Posted by Ivan

RSS Icons for Photoshop

What is RSS?

RSS stands for 'really simple sindication', and it's part of the web feed formats. It's probably one of the most common things you can see on blogs but you have no idea what it is nor interest about it.
By suscribing to someone's RSS you get a summarized entry of updated news everyday (in case there are) with its author and date. As far as I know, FireFox has an option over markers, and it says "Suscribe to this website" or something like that, which acts with RSS. If you really are lost, you should see this video for more information about RSS and its use.

On the blog topic: I'd like to bring you by courtesy of dezignus (a site I got to know lately) some RSS Icons to use on your blog or website.



Dezignus - RSS Icons or RSS Icons, direct link on Mediafire

If you don't know how to install them, the process is simple: You just need to click with your right button over the Shape Tool and go to "Custom Shape Tool".



Now, on a new canvas, use right click and click over the little arrow on the north east of your window to open some options. Select "Load Shapes" and now just find your RSS shapes.



For example, I worked with them and did this:

Sunday, December 28

Posted by Ivan

1000 Photoshop Brushes

Or probably more; I came across with this post on Noupe with a massive amount of Brushes of all kinds.

Even if you don't work with a lot of paritcular themes, they have enough variety to entertain you for a while.



1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

Posted by Ivan

Installing Wordpress locally and a Watercolor Menu

Another tutorial; This time, for a watercolor-like notepad and some interesting stuff about Wordpress (which tragically, I know almost nothing of it).



Watercolor Menu tutorial



Installing Wordpress

Posted by Ivan

3D Pixel Stretch

Not because I enjoy doing publicity to other sites, but because I found a great tutorial for making (grungy?) backgrounds filled with colors.

The only trick on it, is getting handle of the CTRL (or was it ALT) + T thing, which looks easy at the very beggining but after a while you notice it's not so-so.



3D Pixel Stretch tutorial on this website