Gang,
Today, I want to introduce you to Mary Monistere Dargis. Mary is a passionate scrapbooker who runs a blog and several stores.
In this image she applied several types of Photoshop Brushes (Digital Stamps).
Her blogs and shops:
http://digitalphotobookpages.blogspot.com/
http://www.maryuniqueboutique.etsy.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/NolaOriginals
http://mary-dargis.artistwebsites.com/
Thank you for your contribution Mary!
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Gang,
I really had some rough time last few months. It was a long, cold winter. After years of living in a rented apartments we finally managed to buy (with a little help from the bank of course) an old house that didn’t seem to be in bad condition – at that time.
We were so wrong! After we started renovating it turned out that nearly everything needs to be renovated. It turned out to be a real money-eater so we nearly ended up on the edge of bankruptcy. We’ve been through some really stressful moments, days, nights… I tell ‘ya.
But that’s a whole different story of which I might write a book one day when all these events becomes distant past tense and I hope this day will come soon :)
Still, is there there anything that can stop me from making new free stuff for my dear blog visitors and my GBG members?
Of course not!
So, at this very moment I am finishing up the latest edition of GBG eZine which will be about:
- Spring (aren’t we all desperate for a little bit of Spring already?)
- St. Patrick’s day (Yes, it’s here!)
This means that new edition of GBG eZine will bring you loads of Sprint/St. Patrick’s day themed free and commercial Photoshop brushes, backgrounds, vectors … etc … it is always a big event for me and, judging from your feedback so far, it is always a great news for you too!
So, this is what I had in mind:
- St. Patrick’s Day Bokeh Photoshop brushes set LITE
- St. Patrick’s Day background – HiRes JPG file: 3600×3600 pix (300 dpi) print-ready, commercial use allowed
- St. Patrick’s Day – Classic Ornaments, 6 Photoshop brushes in two sizes! LITE
- St. Patrick’s Day Journal Tags (3)
- St. Patrick’s Day Photo Masks (4), PNG files
- And a regular GBG SPECIAL GBG OFFER (but we’ll keep that secret for the time being)!
- And more stuff, probably a tutorial on how to use St. Patrick’s Day bokeh Photoshop brushes to create nice backgrounds and graphics.
All this should be in GBG members mailboxes within next few days. I hope you will enjoy it.
And I think that’s it in this post. If you’re not a GBG member and would like to get a whole bunch of free downloads and a monthly GBG eZine with even more free downloads you can sign-up here ->
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Oh, I almost forgot!
Let me use this opportunity to announce the second CD from the Graphics-Illustrations.Com factory!
The Graphics-Illustrations.Com Photoshop brushes CD – Special Edition!
Content of the CD:
- 652 unique Photoshop brushes in 18 Photoshop brushes sets
- 20 Video Tutorials
- 4 high-res backgrounds
- 2 scrapbooking sets
In detail:
Photoshop PREMIUM Brushes:
- Valentine’s (21+21) Second Edition + 21 PNG files
- Baby Doodle Photoshop brushes set (20+20) + 20 PNG Files
- Birds Photoshop Brushes Set (45+45)
- Good Old Snail Mail Photoshop Brushes Set (28)
- Winter in Swirls Photoshop Brushes Set (33+33+33)
- Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes Set (120)
- Hawaiian Flowers Photoshop Brushes Set (35+35)
- Floral Ornaments Art Nouveau Photoshop Brushes Set (30+30)
- Renaissance & Medieval Photoshop Brushes Set (42+42)
- Renaissance & Medieval 2 Photoshop Brushes Set (84+84)
- Christmas Photoshop Brushes set (55+55)
- Foliage Photoshop Brushes set (56+56)
Special Edition Photoshop brushes (not available for purchase on-line):
- Photo Frames Photoshop Brushes set – special edition (9+9)
- Christmas Ornaments Photoshop Brushes set – special edition (25+25+25)
- Burnt Paper Photoshop Brushes set – special edition (9)
- Love Bears Photoshop Brushes set – special edition (10+10)
- Valentines Bokeh Photoshop Brushes set – special edition (14)
- Wedding Swirls Photoshop Brushes Set (16)
If those were to be bought individually the price would be $119.88, but if you buy them on this CD the price is $85.00 and you get a whole bunch of bonuses!
The Photoshop brushes and other resources on this CD will be of a tremendous help to all:
- Photographers wanting to make their own photo books
- Scrapbookers
- Designers (professionals and enthusiasts alike)
I was even contacted by some schools who see my CD’s as a tremendous help in their classes! Great!
OK, thank you for your comments on this blog and Facebook, love you all, take care!
Hugs,
Silvia
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Gang,
Summer’s almost here, innit?
And no matter how cheese some of you might think it is, somewhere deep inside we all actually love the sunsets in the summertime.
And why is that? I’d say it’s quite simple. On summer, when we were teenagers, there was no school and, one way or another, it was the time to do what we want to do, time to experience freedom, new friendships and more often then not – our first kisses happened exactly in the summertime while the sun was “settling” down.
For photographers, sunset is the best time to take pictures. Due to the sharp angle of sunlight as it hits the earth, colors become more vivid, more “reddish”, colors slightly shift from “normal” to “romantic”. But if you are passionate photographer in love, here goes the trouble :) Kiss or shoot? ;) Just kidding, of course, the choice is obvious, no? I know, it depends on who you ask and what kind of camera you hold. I tell ‘ya, one Hasselblad would surely make me think twice (or once) :))
And, then, once the summer is gone, we all end up with a bunch of photographs, that many of us just love to organize in scrap books. We might even want to prepare a video, a DVD with menus that have backgrounds, many of us are in wedding photography business or just graphic design business, no matter what it is, ladies and gentleman, it is my pleasure tonight to proudly present you the latest Graphics-Illustrations product:
Summertime Sunset Backgrounds
Yes, and they come in high resolution so you can even print posters without any fear for the quality of the printout, we’re talkin’ 16×11 inches at 300 dpi (5000×3500 pixels) resolution!
It is 5 of them, backgrounds and I prepared them as a combination of photos and illustrations to awake that warm summertime sunset emotion :)
As usual – commercial license is included and they’re jpgs.
I made this little picture down there using one of the Summertime Sunset Backgrounds AND Photoshop Brushes: Birds (45+45) (dark trees and birds silhouettes) AND Floral Signs Photoshop Brushes set (20) (this little number five in floral shapes).
[ PREVIEW Summertime Sunset Backgrounds (5) here ]
[ Buy 5 HiRes Summertime Sunset Backgrounds FOR $3.99 ONLY ]
Of course, for those of you who can not afford, as usual, I prepared a little something for free.
Here is one Summertime Sunset Background at the smaller size but still very good quality- 2500×1750 pix at 300 dpi (8,3×5,8 inches – print ready):
[ Download Free Summertime Sunset Background 2500x1750 pix at 300 dpi sample ] Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
So, I hope you liked them because I know, they like you. I know, I made them :) Like Gepetto! (I hope you know about Pinocchio ->)
By the way, Pinocchio was one of my favorite stories when I was just a small little kid (as if I am much different now :)). Actually, my mother bought it on a vinyl record and I listened to it on the gramophone over and over again. For younger visitors, I suggest looking up gramophone and vinyl records in Wikipedia.
Anyways, I’m not gonna bother you with my memories any more (sometimes I got really sad listening to that story though …).
I hope you will like the free download.
I would be hilarious if you decided to buy the pack and I would go totally EUPHORIC if you decided that you want to have this 5-pack for free by buying 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET by 10th June 2009.!
Love ‘ya all!
Silvia & the “hilarious hoping to become Euphoric”
:)
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Gang,
I just need to share this with you. And I’m gonna make it worthwhile for those of you who bear with me till the end of this post. :) It just might become a new tradition on this blog (wink-wink :)
So, just the other day I received this email from Ms. Anna Owczarz-Dadan from PhotoshopPad.com.
She is a Photoshop expert from Poland who made a bunch of Photoshop books and now she created a Photoshop keyboard shortcuts mouse pad. In her email she kindly asked me if I could announce her product on my blog. She did not offer any affiliate program, she just kindly asked if I could announce her mouse pad on my blog. OK, fair enough. No problem there.
But – Gosh! Again?! Someone beat me to my own idea again! I was planning to do the very same thing myself!
Bugger! It happens to me all the time. Do I get too many ideas? Or am I not fast enough? Well, I’ll let someone else to decide on that but, something else occurred to me!
It doesn’t matter if she made these pads before me! It really doesn’t! It is a great idea, and the best thing I can do now is – help her out!
That’s what I want to do! I mean, she is an independent entrepreneur woman (just like me after all) so why don’t I not buy her mouse pads and send them over to you for free??!?!
Then again, I can’t really afford to send them over to all of my visitors (there are about 4000 unique visitors every day on this blog last time I checked, here is a good chance for you advertisers). But, there is something I can do.
Hear me out:
For all of you, who purchase my 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA Pack (which is a great deal by itself already, check it out here ->) between now and, say, next 7 days (That’s something like next Monday 20th of April), I will personally go to PhotoshopPad.com web site and order one Photoshop shortcuts mouse pad to be delivered to your address. Free of charge. You don’t even get to pay shipping. Or packing. Nothing. Nada. Zero costs for you.
How about that for a deal? I’d say it’s also a statement (support women entrepreneurs)! Not just a good deal!
So, support women entrepreneurs, purchase the ultimate tool for creation: 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET and get the Photoshop shortcuts mouse pad delievered to your door for free - all in one go!
Well, it turns out that we all are getting a great deal here! Gosh, these things just make me happy! And I’m sure it will make you happy too! Cause you’re gonna have great fun creating beautiful stuff with this set and you’re gonna have a great mouse pad with Photoshop keyboard shortcuts in sight – always.
So, here is what to do:
- On my products page there is a presentation of 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET, you will get an amazing value there cause when you buy this ultimate set as you are actually getting all of my PREMIUM PRO sets for 1/2 the price. (Read more here ->)
- As soon as your order is received you will get the link to download page and
- I go over and purchase one Anna Owczarz-Dadan Photoshop shortcuts mouse pad to be delivered to your address.
- And that’s it!
You will have fun creating great stuff with my MEGA SET and always have the Photoshop keyboard shortcuts in your sight when you need them to speed up the creation process!
What else is there left to say?
Love ya all!
Silvia
P.S.
And for my old customers who already purchased 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET, you know I always have something special for you guys. Because, once you are my customer, I always take care of you.
Although, I would love to send free mouse pads to all of you – I just can’t afford it (yet :))
However, here is what I can do! Just drop me an email with your order number and let me know what product from Graphics and Photography in my shop do you like the most and I will send it to you for free!
P.P.S.
I don’t know why I’m doing all this. Call me crazy. I’ll blame it on this beautiful weather. Whatever it is, stay well, love and care for each other. At all times.
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Gang,
It’s Thursday and today I bring you HiRes textures again. Whether it be for your scrap booking needs, or you are preparing some graphic design project it is always good to have some HiRes textures handy, because you never know when will they fit in, just perfectly, into your project.
Besides, I received such a good feedback on Thursday textures so far, it seems to me that there is no need to explain the usability of textures any further. You all know what I’m talking about :)
So, today I bring you 5 textures. They are in JPG format and are HighRes 300 dpi and are FREE!
You can download all textures in one ZIP file HERE (approx. 46Mb)
Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. However, you can still get those! Join GBG and enjoy this free Photoshop Textures + more than 1500 other free downloads. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
But, wait! Here comes a special surprise for those of you who read the whole article instead of just clicking on download links :)
I prepared one more free Photoshop brushes set too! It contains 10 brushes: 5 brushes in maximum size and 5 small brushes (up to 850 pixels) derived from the large ones. I know you’ll just love them and use them in your digital scrap book projects. Download is available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
These are compatible with 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5! And come with the Commercial License too! So you can use them in your commercial projects, with no obligation towards me, except maybe to say some nice things not necessarily about me or to me, but to anyone who deserves it. Just make someone happy with a word or a smile :)
So, ok. Be good, be lovin’, be givin’ and the same will come to you.
Hugs, or as Micki would say: Sunflower hugs!
Silvia
P.S.
If you like my brushes and the work I do, please consider purchasing my 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET (these are, bascally, all my PREMIUM Photoshop brushes for 1/2 the price). You will love them.
Of course, they come with the Commercial License.
Of course, they come with my support should you need any help using them.
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Hello again gals’n'guys!
It’s been a while since we had last festive, innit? Yeah, it was summer and all, sunny days, every day is celebration for itself. Now, fall is here, winter is coming, not so much sun outside so we could all use something to cheer us up. So, here comes the first one!
Halloween!
It’s getting busy for all of you graphic designers, advertisers and package designers. But also for DIY guys like scrapbookers. No, I haven’t forgot about web designers, we all need to decorate our web sites for the occasion, at least a little bit.
So, I kept my self busy for a while and all this just to bring you
Halloween Background Package (5 HiRes pieces)
So, what’s in the package:
* 5 HiRes Halloween Backgrounds in JPG format
* And when i say HiRes I’m talkin’ 3600px x 3600px at 300dpi, so I’m talkin’ huge here
See what it looks like:
And you can drastically cut down the time you need to do your next Halloween project for lousy $5.99!
[ HALLOWEEN BACKGROUNDS PREVIEW ]
Of course, as always, I have prepared something for free too. Here it is, one Halloween background, 2100px by 2100px (7×7) download it for free! As usually, subscription-free for the next 5 days! – Now available after joining GBG!
That’s all for now folks! Stay tuned, love ya all,
Silvia
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I was checking, the other day, some scrap booking and design sites. Just couldn’t help noticing how popular Paisleys are. And for a good reason too! They are beautiful shapes indeed.
If you go to Google images and enter “Paisley Designs” you’ll see what I’m talking about. I’m talking about perfect decoration for all kinds of design projects. Like a perfect back-vocals at some music performance. Graphic elements that have a great potential of spicing up any visual design project.
But, we all know how hard it is and time consuming to make such designs, whether it be in CorelDRAW or Illustrator – it’s really tough. Particularly shapes like these. I’d say, it more difficult to make those, then any other design shapes because of so many details that also make them so beautiful.
So, I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be nice to have some nice, high-quality Paisley Designs Photoshop brushes?
It surely would!
So, it took me while to make them, it wasn’t easy at all.
But, ladies and gentleman, now they’re done, completed and ready. I proudly present you – Paisley Designs – Photoshop Brushes set 75+25!
As always, these brushes are high-resolution and compatible with Photoshop 7.0 up to Photoshop CS5. They’re here for you to take make new design projects whether it be digiscraps (digital scrapbooking), wedding invitation designs, web design, print design projects, paper towels, wallpapers, tee shirts and … possibilities are endless!
Also, I added one additional feature to them too: You can place smaller ones inside bigger ones (up to three) and create brand new, unique and totally yours new paisley shapes!
So, for those of you who want to start creating immediately – put your hands on the real thing – here is a PREMIUM version Paisley Designs! Total of 25 Paisley Designs Brushes divided in three sections (75 brushes!) and 25 paisley designs = 100 brushes [Preview].
As usual, they come with commercial use license. [Add Paisley Designs to cart]
This set is also available in my legendary 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET!
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