OK. As I promised in my previous post, today I will show you how to display your work on Zazzle and give yourself a chance to sell some of your work done with my Photoshop brushes.
So, dimensions of our Christmas Party Invitation were 5.25” x 5.25” which is 2550 x 2550 pixels. It is important to start the document in proper dimensions. If we don’t do that – later on the things might get complicated.
Here are some explanations that you know before starting your own designs (explanation from Zazzle):
“Bleed” is a printing term used to indicate the area that will be trimmed off after the job is printed and cut down to the finished size. This ensures that the design is printed to the full edge of the product. Our paper products contain a Safe Area and a Bleed Area. Always make sure any important parts of your design fall inside the Safe Area, and that your design background fully extends through the Bleed Area. Whatever is in the Bleed Area will get trimmed off, leaving your design printed all the way up to the Product Edge.
Zazzle supports images in JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Adobe Illustrator (AI) formats – so, if you are working with transparent images PNG, PDF i AI formats will be the formats of your choice.
So, let’s roll the sleeves and start having fun! :)
Once you start a new project on Zazzle you will be offered several templates to start with.
A well done wizard will guide you through the creating process:
Pick the invitation size:
And add images. Basically, images are front and back size of our invitation in .jpg format.
So, let’s select “My computer” option …
And upload our invitation.
Not much to do from this point on. Here is the preview of the front side:
Now, let’s pick the back side:
And add the back side of our invitation:
Voila!
Now it is only a matter of posting our invitation in our store and making it available for purchase:
Of course, we will need to add some details to to, like entering a Title, Subtitle and the Description of our product:
That’s it! We’re done! Time for a cup of tea … or coffee!
Or, even better – make another product! Make a mug, or T-Shirt, or baseball hat, badge …. etc … etc …
It was pretty simple and fast – you will agree! I hope you like the idea and I hope you see, once again, on this example, how Photoshop brushes can be of a great help when it comes to speeding things up or bridging the creativity gaps we all run into from time to time.
OK. That’s it for today. Have a great weekend and have fun creating!
Hugs,
Silvia
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Create unique Christmas Party Invitations for your friends and family or start a new job and earn some extra money. Here goes another short tutorial where I’m trying to prove, one more time, how easy, fast and fun it can be to use Photoshop brushes.
I this little tutorial I will show you how to use your passion and love for visual arts, turn your creative juices into something new and surprise your friends and/or family. In part two of this tutorial I will show you how to upload your Christmas Party Invitation to Zazzle and try to make some extra $$ with it!
And it will be fun!
So, for starters, let’s what we’ll need. Uhmmm … first we will need some nice, fancy-schmancy holiday font. You might have some already, but I always like to explore new stuff and I just ain’t gonna miss the opportunity to visit my favorite fonts places: www.dafont.com.
For this little occasion of ours - I picked this Santa’s Sleigh typography.
After downloading and installing the font (I hope you know how to do that, if not here is the hint: put them into Fonts folder :), we are going to open our good old Photoshop and create 5,25″x5,25″ document at 300 dpi. These dimensions (especially the dpi) are required by zazzle.com, so we’ll stick to it.
In this case I will load my favorite Christmas Photoshop Brushes set (55 brushes) (available in my shop for only $9,99), or you can use FREE LITE version (7 brushes) from GBG download area.If you are a GBG member you already have the download link and if you’re not – now here is a great opportunity! Become a GBG member and get access to 80+ Photoshop brushes sets including the FREE LITE Christmas Photoshop brushes set and FREE LITE Snowflakes Photoshop brushes set!
Press F5 to display Photoshop brushes window, load them and press B to activate Brush tool.
Because our Christmas Party Invitation has front and back side, we are going to organize our work in two Layer Groups, first Layer Group will be used for the front side of the invitation and the second Layer Group (which we will create on a later stage) will be used for the back side.
Now, let’s use some brushes! Press B to activate Brush tool, set foreground color to some light gray and simply add the brushes to our canvas.
Now, let’s add some snow!
Let’s add a new Layer (we are going to need it later) pick the snowflake brush and bit lighter gray color. Play with the brush settings as demonstrated below: adjust Shape Dynamics, Scattering for dispersion and Other Dynamics for the various tones of gray color and Spacing to adjust space between the snowflakes.
Now, just a few strokes with our brush on the canvas and voila! It’s snowing!
Now add desired text using Santa’s Sleigh font (downloaded from www.dafont.com).
And the front side of our invitation is over!
Now, let’s do some work on the back of the invitation. Create a new Layer Group and duplicate the layer with the snowflakes only.
On the back of the invitation type RSVP and make a dashed line with the Text tool (T). Spacing between the characters should be set at 100 (or more).
We are done :) Now print this card on your printer or use your local printing company or create account on zazzle.com.
That was simple, easy and fast, wasn’t it!
In the next tutorial I will show you how to make this invitation available for sale.
Whatever you do, do not forget: Have Fun Creating!
S :)
PS:
Of course, if you don’t feel like doing the whole thing by yourself, just DOWNLOAD this Christmas Party Invitation template in psd format HERE –>>
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Note: Santa’s Sleigh font is not included in the download (you will have to download it from www.dafont.com!)
And yes, you can sell stuff that you created with my Photoshop brushes! That’s because all of my Photoshop brushes come with a CU which stands for Commercial Use License, meaning you can create stuff with my brushes and sell it. So, get more great brushes from my Photoshop brushes shop and start creating ->
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Guys,
I get so happy and excited when I learn about new start-up business that came out as a result of love and passion for graphic design or scrapbooking or any other form of visual arts!
My pleasure is even bigger when I know that my Photoshop brushes had a role in such project and I can’t even tell you how thrilled I am to I learn that it is a woman entrepreneur who stands behind the new business start-up.
And this is exactly what this post is about.
Ladies and gentleman, I proudly present you Ms. Angie Sheffer and her For All Time Clocks web store!
On http://www.foralltimeclocks.com Angie sells hand made clocks and here is what she says about her business and the idea behind it:
“My love for handmade, personalized clocks originally came about as a result of my love for graphic design and scrapbooking. As I began to look for clocks that fit my style, I found that I was having a difficult time finding something that really matched what I was looking for. I also knew that I had been blessed with a talent in graphic design and that I had to find a way to use my design skills in a unique and creative way.”
And here is some of her work:
I am proud to say that Angie uses my Photoshop brushes on many of her clocks and that is why I always happily emphasize that my Photoshop brushes are coming with Commercial license! Good work Angie!
Another great sample of using Photoshop brushes in clock design!
As I always say, only sky is the limit when it comes to the application of Photoshop brushes. My older visitors will know that they’ve been used for:
- car decorations,
- boots,
- mugs,
- wedding invitations,
- wedding albums,
- photo albums,
- desktop backgrounds,
- software interface design,
- web templates,
- banners,
- badges,
- apparels,
- calendars,
- name tags,
- business cards,
- and all kinds of other commercial products.
Here is another Angies clock:
What can I say? It just makes me happy and I hope you will find some inspiration in Angies story too.
Angie, do I need to say? I wish you all the luck in world!
P.S.
I know you have all kinds of ides on how and where to apply Photoshop brushes in your present and future commercial and non-commercial projects. Needless to say, I have a package that will set you up for a long time: 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET ->
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Guys,
You know what’s the good thing about having a blog with so many daily visitors (approx. 3000 in my case)? Although this blog is mainly about photoshop brushes, every now and then you get approached by various companies and they ask you to make a software review for them, in exchange you get a free copy of the software.
I know, you didn’t notice much software reviews on my site. That’s because I don’t want to review software that will not be interesting to my visitors. I mean most of you are here because you are, one way or another, into visual arts. Being it graphic design, web design, scrap booking or photography.
So, you guessed, I received an email the other day (ok, of Friday to be more precise) where a group of young Romanian developers asked me to make a honest review of their software called Batch Photo which they present as “The fastest photo editor”.
“OK” I said “Tell me one thing. Will I be able to select, like, hundreds of RAW files from my photo camera and transform them to my hard disk re-sized and in .jpg format?” I asked that because that’s just what I need to when I shoot some social event and I need to distribute small .jpg’s fast.
And they said “Yes. Here is your copy. Try it. And speak freely about your impressions”
“OK. I’ll do just that”
And here we go …
You know, I value the quality of the software by my ability to work with it without reading the manual. I don’t know about you, but I am not very patient when it comes to gaining knowledge about new software that I am about to use. This peace of software was not different. I wanted to do my stuff without reading any manuals, or FAQ’s or watching videos. It had to be intuitive and easy to use.
Installation was quite simple and straight forward (standard clicking on “Yes”, “Yes”, “Next”, “Next” and stuff …) and it was installed and up and running in no time.
Then I inserted the CF card from my Canon 20D in to the card reader and started the software.
Clicked on Add Photos.
Selected all 135 photos in CR2 format (which is RAW format of my beloved Canon 20D) and pressed NEXT.
At this stage I had to “Add filter” and select “Resize Advanced”, now that gave me the option to make all of the photos 800 x 525, then I pressed Next again. Select the format, and the quality …
Then I select thed the output folder, file format and the quality …
And clicked on “Process” …
It detected my 4 Cores CPU and I apperciated the fact that it reported a launch 4 threads. That should speed up the things.
And, voila! After 5minutes and 42 seconds 135 RAW images (CR2 Canon raw format) of 3596px x 2360px were converted into 800px x 525px in jpg format.
Nice, smooth and easy. There was a whole bunch of other effects or adjustments I could have done, here are some of them
Of course, for all details and free trial you are welcome to visit http://www.batchphoto.com/ and give this software a try.
I’d say it’s a perfect choice for situations like “OMG, I just came from this kids birthday party with, like 200 images in RAW format and now I need to get them real small in jpg and they need to be sharpened out and satrutation needs to be a bit increased and it just has to be done in no time.” If it sounds familiar then this Image Converter Software is for you.
OK. I hope this post was useful for you. If not still stay tuned as I will come up with some new free downloads from my little graphical factory. Until then, stay well and have fun creating!
Love!
Silvia
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Guys,
Here is the idea on how to get (for free)
1. Commercial scrapbook kit Grunge Love (BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET): $4.99
15 elements (JPG and PNG), high resolution 12×12 inch scrapbook page kit
4 custom background papers in red hues
3 frames, two Swirled and one with Hearts
1 wire / swirl
1 gold Heart with flowers and Swirls
1 brown-glass Heart with Swirls
1 brown Heart with Wings
1 aged Tag with Swirls
2 big Hearts with Swirls
1 “LOVE” sign: Grunge Letters with Swirls
Click here for preview:
2. Commercial Photoshop brushes – Photo Corners (20+20) (BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET): $9.99
- Set contains 20 HiRes Photoshop brushes + another 20 inversed
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
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3. Commercial Photo frames PREMIUM Photoshop Special Edition brushes set (2×9) – NEW BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET! Not for sale!
- 2×9 Photoshop brushes
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
Click here for preview:
4. Commercial PREMIUM Photoshop brushes set Calendar 2010 – NEW BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET: $9.99
- 36 brushes in 1673-2473px + 36 in 980-1500px
- 36 transparent PNG files
- all PNGs are in 300dpi (3500×3500 pix)
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
Click here for preview:
I guess you know everything about how to use Calendar Photoshop Brushes, but here is one sample on how to use Photo frames Photoshop brushes
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Why?
- Because it will bring you 800+ PREMIUM Photoshop brushes for 1/2 price
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- It will also give you the option to buy all other brushes (present and future brushes) for 1/2 price
- Because it is an ultimate solution for your commercial projects too
- Because so many people liked it that you just can’t go wrong with that one, here are the TESTIMONIALS ->
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Guys, It’s this special Halloween time again and we want to be creative with Photoshop brushes again. So today, I prepared something special:
Paper Halloween candle shades made with Photoshop Brushes!
I’m sure you like what you see and you’re all eager to start.
OK. Requirements for this project are as follows:
- 3 glass jars
- 3 candles
- 3 sheets of paper
- Cool free downloads with Halloween graphics (that’s where I come in)
- transparent adhesive tape
- Pre-production checkup personnel (here performed by Poofah and Peeko, please see below)
So, let’s start.
Download the paper shades and print them out on your color printer (click on the image).
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Then find some glass jars, candles and transparent adhesive tape:
But, wait! We need someone to approve the supplies :)
Here you can see Poofah and Peeko carefully examining the quality of the supplies. It was a tense moment.
OK. Now when it’s all approved we will print out these three images, put the candles into the jars, lit them up and simply wrap up the glass jars around and stick it with a tape.
Now, how simple was that!?
By all means, you are encouraged to get the brushes and make something special for this Halloween!
So, get these packages and let your imagination go wild:
* Halloween Photoshop brushes set LITE edition (FREE after joining GBG—>>)
* Swirls 2 Photoshop Brushes set PREMIUM edition! There are, like 36 PS HiQuality brushes in this set, they’re just perfect for Halloween decoration and you can have them for just $9.99!!!
Check them out (click for preview):
* Swirls 2 Photoshop Brushes set of 36 high quality brushes for your designs!
* This set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
* PC/Mac compatible.
* Commercial use included!
GET THIS SET FOR 1/2 PRICE IN 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET! ->
Guys, I hope I tickled your imagination at least a little bit.
Note: do not be lazy like me – wash out the jar stickers :) so you can get nicer Halloween lightning!
Have fun creating and have a great HALLOWEEN!
Always yours,
Silvia
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Gang,
Here is a little video demonstration showing you how fast work can be done when you have proper Photoshop brushes at hand.
For this one I used a photo and the Photoshop brushes Calendar 2010
Click to buy Calendar 2010 Photoshop brushes set for $9.99 only
Click on the image to watch video:
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Christmas is coming. And maybe I would not notice too if the sales of Christmas Illustrations didn’t go up sharply in the last few days.
Obviously, designers, desktop publishers, art directors and marketing managers don’t waste time. After all, almost every one of us prepares at least some kind of graphics for Christmas, I thought I’d help you out by selecting and showing you some of my Christmas Illustrations.
© Photographer: Bsilvia | Agency: Dreamstime.com
Also, in my little shop of wonders I have something very special and very Christmas. Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55). And, along with this set, comes a gift! Actually two gifs! But, I will not tell you what are the gifts as it wouldn’t be a surprise, now would it? :)
This special edition set contains:
- 55 HiRes Photoshop brushes (300 – 2428 pixels)
- 55 smaller Photoshop brushes (130-1400 pixels)
Commercial license included and it’s compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5. You can use it on PC and MAC.
Click here for preview:
This set will help you make:
* Christmas scrap books
* Greeting cards
* Gift wrapping paper
* Even decorating your apartment
* Make a gift like a mug or t-shirt or clothing on Zazzle or Cafepress
* Let your imagination go wild as of this line :)
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Get Christmas Photoshop bruhshes set (55+55) now for $9.99
As I said, being so grateful to all of you who buy my brushes, who support my work and benefit from it at the same time. I prepared a little something for all buyers of this Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55). I want this little something to be a little Christmas surprise gift for you!
So, after buying this Photoshop brushes set, be prepared to receive two surprise gifts!
Have fun creating!
S :D
P.S.: You can get my Christmas, Winter and New Year related Illustrations on Dreamstime:
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Last year I prepared and published Calendar Photoshop brushes somewhere in November.
And then I was told it was too late.
OK. “You live, you learn” I said to my self. “Remember that for the next year.”
Now is the perfect time to start preparing for New Year, we don’t want to go through “last minute” panic and stress, don’t we?
And, there it is! Now it’s October (beginning of October to be more precise) and VOILA!
My dear visitors and GBG members, scrap bookers, designers and graphic artists,
It is my honor and a great pleasure (as always when I’m introducing new brushes and stuff) to proudly present you with my latest Photoshop brushes set: Calendar 2010 Photoshop Brushes set (US calendar version)!
- Calendar is made in 3 different design styles so you can choose the one you like the best
- Each month is represented with one brush – 37 brushes (12 months x 3 design styles + 1 background brush)
- Each brush is available in two sizes
- Also, included are 37 PNG files 3500×3500 px@300 dpi
So, to sum it all up, in this set there are:
- 36 Photoshop brushes in 1673-2473px,
- 36 Photoshop brushes in 980-1500px
- 36 transparent PNG files
- all PNGs are in 300dpi (3500×3500 pix),
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
PNGs are transparent, so that you can easily use them in any photo editing software, but also in text editing software like MS Word or similar.
- PREVIEW Calendar 2010. (US version) Photoshop brushes set (36+36) -
And if you decide to visit 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET page and purchase this set by 1st of November – you will get Calendar 2010 Photoshop brushes set for FREE!
[BUY Calendar 2010. (US version) Photoshop brushes set (36+36) PREMIUM EDITION NOW! ]
Of course, as always, I prepared a free download too!
It is not really a calendar. This set consists of 12 New Year 2010 themed brushes.
[PREVIEW Happy New 2010. Photoshop brushes set (6)]
[DOWNLOAD Happy New 2010. Photoshop brushes set (6)]
OK. I think that I’ve said enough. Let me know if I missed something.
By then – stay happy!
Love,
Silvia
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Finding a title for the book is a tricky job. I thought it would be the best if I ask my visitors.
Read More Post a comment (16)Ladies and gentleman, present and future GBG members, dear visitors!
It is my honor and great pleasure, tonight, to proudly present you with my latest product, actually a major upgrade, to the legendary Tattoo Designs, Photoshop Brushes set!
Why upgrade? What’s in the upgrade? I hear you ask.
Well, here is what this new, upgraded set contains:
- 30+30 Hi Quality Photoshop brushes,
- 30 Photoshop brushes in 1361-2429px,
- 30 Photoshop brushes in 543-969px, NEW!
- 30 transparent PNG files, NEW!
- all PNGs are in 300dpi (2500×2500 pix),
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
PNGs are transparent, so that you can easily use them in any photo editing software, but also in text editing software like MS Word or similar.
And the beauty of it is - price remains the same: $9.99!
[PREVIEW Tattoo designs Photoshop brushes set Second Edition (30+30)]
[BUY Tattoo designs Photoshop brushes set Second Edition (30+30) PREMIUM EDITION NOW! ]
Of course, as always, I prepared a little free download 8 PNG Tattoo Design files (smaller size).
For those of you who already purchased this set, you will get the link to free update to your email address!
For those of you who still did not order anything from me – you see now how I care about my customers! I just love them!
Now, for the second part, this set is also included into, just as much legendary 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET! So, if you just can’t settle for partial solutions then 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET definitely is a COMPLETE solution to ALL your Photoshop brushes needs.
OK. I think that I’ve said enough. Let me know if I missed something.
By then – stay happy!
Love,
Silvia
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