It happened again!
The other day I received a beautiful email! It was from Cherie. She wanted to share with me some of the designs she made with a little help from my Photoshop brushes. And I always love to receive emails like that!
So, naturally I checked it and .. wow! These were good! Did not think twice. I kindly asked Cheri if it would be ok if I made a little blog post about her work and, as you can see, she agreed!
So, ladies and gentleman, I proudly present you
Mother’s Day Greeting Cards by Cherie
So, in case you were wondering about these swirls in the background, Cherie made a good use of Swirls Floral brushes set (42+42) Second Edition!
Apart from Photoshop brushes, this set also contains 42 .png files at 300 dpi, 2500×2500 pix – transparent, so you can easily use them in any photo editing software.
This set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Anyways, great work Cherrie! Thank you for sharing your designs with us and we are looking out for more, now :))
Love,
Silvia
P.S.
More links to my little shop: Photoshop brushes – Vectors and Illustrations – Special Offers
Also, you might want to check my latest shop at CommercialPhotoshopBrushes.Com.
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Video on How to load and use Photoshop brushes in Photoshop Elements 9
Gang,
Many of you ask me whether the Photoshop brushes from my shop are compatible with Photoshop Elements 9.
Well, the answer is: Yes.
Actually, here is a little video I made to show you how to load and use Dandelions Photoshop brushes and Spring Foliage Photoshop brushes set (56+56) .
How to load Photoshop brushes from GreenBulbGang.Com and Graphics-Illustrations.Com into Photoshop Elements 9
As a matter of fact, all Photoshop brushes I ever made (or will ever make) are (and will remain) compatible with:
1. Photoshop 7.0
2. Photoshop CS
3. Photoshop CS2
4. Photoshop CS3
5. Photoshop CS4
6. Photoshop CS5 (and future versions, I test them on each new version)
7. Photoshop Elements 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
8. GIMP
10. With a little help from abrViewer (freeware application) you can use my Photoshop brushes in pretty much any software that works with .png files.
Also, all of them can be used in your commercial projects, as long as they are used to decorate your designs and not re-sold in their original shape. They are all hiQuality brushes that can freely be used for print and not just web / video projects.
So, I hope this clears things up a little. I also hope more of you will decide to buy some of the brushes as they are (unlike most of the stuff being sold on Internet) useful to anyone who is into any shape or form of graphic design, photography or digital scrapbooking.
And finally, for those of you who’d like to buy everything I ever made for an affordable price here is what to do:
1. Buy 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET I (that’s 50% of Photoshop brushes I ever did)
2. In the purchase confirmation you will get a “50% off everything” COUPON CODE
3. Use that coupon code to get 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET 2 for half the price
And that’s it. All of them are yours!
Guys! I wish you a very HAPPY EASTER! Enjoy it!
Silvia
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In this article we will be talking about:
Earth day and growing your own vegetables without pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals (huh?! I know …) ,
There will be one Quick Page Earth Day (Free Download)
A few words about the new Photography technique called TtV
We will NOT talk about the royal wedding (sorry, no royal weddings here)
Yes, it’s Earth Day! And this year we are celebrating it by planting and growing our own vegetables in our own garden. The permaculture way! (read all about permaculture on wikipedia)
Why? Well, everyone knows that food prices are going up. No matter where you live – the food is getting more and more expensive every day. In addition, growing food in the old fashioned, industrial way, is not the way to the healthy snack. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are heavily used in conventional industrial food production, so that is one more reason to start growing your own food if you have a garden. Even if you don’t have your own garden, there are ways to grow your own food (see: Organopónicos )
So, we decided to grow our own food without any chemicals in the process. No. We are going the permaculture, Ruth Stout “no-work”, “no-dig” gardening way :) All about Ruth Stout you can view in this nice little video here
Now, I assume you were a bit surprised to read about the home food production on graphics-illustrations.com site, but it’s just that I thought it’s important. That’s it.
Now, the topic. Free quick page :)
You can see what the quick page looks like on the header image. Just add your own photos and that’s it. Dimensions are 12×12 inches @300 dpi and it is a PSD (Photoshop layered file). You can download it here. It’s about 40MB, so please be patient while downloading. On the other hand, you will get a high quality printout out if it.
And now about this totally cool photographic technique called TtV.
Look at the images below. To get this effect there was no Photoshopping whatsoever. These photos are just made with the TtV technique – Through the Viewfinder. Basically I pointed a 60 years old 6×6 (medium format) analog camera at the objects I was photographing, and then, with my Canon 5D I took the shoot of this old cameras viewfinder.
(Sadly, I didn’t use the paper shade as it is shown on the link above, but, in future, I will. It’s really hard to shoot without the shade.)
And I just love the retro look of these photos. I hope you like them too :)

More of my TtV photos can be found @Flickr
And that’s it. I hope you enjoyed this article.
Have a nice day and love our mother Earth :)
Silvia
oh, ps: For the decorations in the Quick Page I used Wedding Photo Frames (squares) Photoshop brushes set (25+25+25) + 25 PNGs – Photoshop brushes for commercial use.
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And, today, ladies and gentleman, I present you with 4 FREE Photoshop backgrounds for your commercial and non-commercial projects! Now these are really HUGE. We’re talking 3600px bx 3600px at 300dpi so you can make large printouts with them if you want.
Here is a detail of one of them at 100%. Bamboo background.

These should fit perfectly for your design, scrapbooking papers or photo books design projects (even commercial ones). Basically, they’re fit for any kind of design project you might have in mind.
Of course, I created them using my Photoshop brushes, some of them are free for all GBG members, some of them are available exclusevly for GBG Gold and Platinum members.
Happy Spring!

| Spring Time 2011. Free Photoshop Backgrounds DOWNLOAD (9.8 MB) |
OK. I hope you like these. That’s it for the time being.
Have fun creating!
Silvia
P.S.
And if you are after the final solution for your Photoshop brushes collection, I think I’ve got it.
Just click here: http://www.graphics-illustrations.com/800-photoshop-brushes-mega-set
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