Archive for April, 2011

Mother's Day Greeting Cards by Cherie

Mother’s Day Greeting Cards by Cherie

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

Mother's Day Greeting Cards by Cherie Mother's Day Greeting Cards by Cherie
Mother's Day Greeting Cards by Cherie 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!

Swirls Floral brushes set (42+42) Second Edition + 42 PNG files

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.

Click here for preview:
Swirls Floral brushes set, 42+42, second edition

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 brushesVectors and IllustrationsSpecial Offers

Also, you might want to check my latest shop at CommercialPhotoshopBrushes.Com.

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Tutorial: Loading Photoshop brushes in Photoshop Elements 9

Tutorial: Loading Photoshop brushes in Photoshop Elements 9

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

9. Paint Shop PRO

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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Earth Day 2011. - Free Quick Page and A New Photography Technique

Earth Day 2011. – Free Quick Page and A New Photography Technique

In this article we will be talking about:

  1. Earth day and growing your own vegetables without pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals (huh?!  I know …) ,

  2. There will be one Quick Page Earth Day (Free Download)

  3. A few words about the new Photography technique called TtV

  4. 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 :)
through the viewfinder through the viewfinder
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.

P.P.S.
Did you check my 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET page? Well, if you are remotely serious about the graphic design, you should go click here and check it out ->

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Spring Love, Photo Masks and Photo Frames - Photoshop Brushes

Spring Love, Photo Masks and Photo Frames – Photoshop Brushes

Gang,

This one will be interesting for GBG Platinum Members who, apart from 24 PREMIUM Photoshop brushes of their choice, also get access to loads of EXCLUSIVE downloads at GBG.

We just added new FREE Photoshop brushes set for GBG Platinum Members: Spring Love, Photo Masks and Photo Frames – Photoshop Brushes!

You can use them in photo albums, wedding invitations, wedding thank you cards, birthday cards… they came with commercial license so feel free to make money with them :)

| Preview Spring Love, Photo Masks and Photo Frames – Photoshop Brushes |

| Become a GBG membership |

To make the graphic above I used a photo from my little cutie named Garf  (now he is in his new home with his new family :))

Garf

So, here’s what you get when you become a Platinum GBG member:

  • pick any of 24 products from GreenBulbGang.Com Shop! Any!
  • get 18 Photoshop brushes sets from Platinum members area
  • get 10 Photoshop tutorial videos from Platinum GBG members area
  • get 21 Photoshop brushes sets from Gold GBG members area

So, as I promised, those Gold and Platinum free download areas are getting bigger and bigger! :)

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Spring Time 2011. Free Photoshop Backgrounds

Spring Time 2011. Free Photoshop Backgrounds

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

| 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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