So out of 11 winners, I received only 4 replies from the winners. It looks like my contest was a total disaster which makes me think.
- Is it because blog owners are not really interested in graphic design of their Entrecards?
- Or maybe theres loads of professional designers out there offering their services for free?
- Or maybe they think if it’s for free it’s not of a high quality?
- Maybe I was supposed to let the bloggers know that I am a professional designer with many many years of experience (and awards too) and direct them to my portfolio?
Well, you live – you learn, and this experience was nothing else.
So, I designed Entrecards for Eva, Kevin, Thomas and Eve :). You guys replied to my announcement and you are getting the designs for your blogs. I’ll do my best to make your Entrecerds a success and that’s not all, you are getting 4 designs each!
For all of you who’s looking for free graphics visit my blogffiliate because today is Friday Freeware and I’m giving away 9 Entrecards design.
See you in Tuesday! (or maybe tomorrow?)
Daily Japan Photo Blog (Thomas)
Confessions of a Housewife (Eve)
Ecohacks (Eva)
Pointless banter (Kevin)
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http://dailyjapanphotoblog.blogspot.com
http://www.theartofpeace.blogspot.com
But, ‘cos I’m in a good-mood and want to spread more happiness around the Net – I’ve decided to award all other contestants with one entrecard design! Yes. So, apart from the upper guys, the winners are:
http://www.ecohacks.blogspot.com
http://pointlessbanter.net
http://androidguys.com
http://steveyu85.blogspot.com
http://www.shankerbakshi.com
http://eastcoastlife.blogspot.com
http://nspeaks.com
http://meowlicious.blogspot.com
Please send me your logo (graphics-illustrations (AT) dgdesign.hr – make sure to remove the spaces), typography, photography (if you want something specific) and I’ll do the design.
For the first 3 ones (who just wins two designs) I’ll need 4 days after the received material. For other lucky bloggers designs I need 7 days.
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I was just getting ready to become depressed as nothing interesting was happening today and it was just about to became… boring? until few hours ago I run into that shoemoney blog.
It seemed like every blogger in the universe knows about that guy except for me. OK, I am a designer and a photographer so I guess It’s forgivable. Anyways, if he is to be trusted it seems like that guy is making some serious money with his blog which, of course, grabbed my attention.
Now, among other stuff that he does, he also takes a pictures of himself. A lot. I don’t know, maybe some think he’s sexy being bold with glasses and all. Anyway, if he gets all that attention (like thousands of visitors every day) I thought it would be nice if he published a picture of him self wearing a T-Shirt with my logo on it.
So, to cut the short story long (or was it the other way around) I decided to send him a T-Shirt with my logo on it and let him make one his “Free Shirt Friday” post using it. He gets a shirt and I get exposure.
I was just figuring this whole thing out when the following funny spam email popped in (what a laugh!):
“Award Claim
This is to inform you that your email ID has won US$1,000,000. 00 in the first category of our computer ballot email lottery with the said winning numbers giving below;
Ticket Number: 132/756/40027
Batch Number:VNFL/2986542754/AAFContact the claim dept office:
E-Mail: ecoworldintern3@aim.com, ecoworldintern4@aim.com
TEL: +31-610-698-963
www.staatsloterij.nlYou are also advice to provide the following information:
Names:
Telephone
Ticket And Batch
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Congratulations!Mrs. Mariam Dominquez.
PROMOTION CO-ORDINATOR.”
I’m rich!!! I’m a millionaire!!! Despite the fact that I never played that freakin’ lottery, that woman found me and decided to give me one million dollars! Now, how lucky is that! :)
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Hello: it’s new Photoshop Doodle Brush – Floral for you to download! :-D
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I was a little bit sick for a last three weeks, but I hope that it’s all over now and I promise to draw & upload more in the future.
I had a lot of inquiries for Adobe Illustrator Floral Brushes and Adobe Illustrator Symbols (floral) – those are made in AI CS3 and they don’t work in older versions. The problem is that I had my friends notebook with me then on my vacation with AI CS3 and I don’t have it at my PC! I need some time to solve that issue, so please be patient.
I was doodling something yesterday, and here’s the results :)
Enjoy!
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Here is a good idea on how to make a birthday party invitations – use this ransom note Photoshop brush and put together a following note:
“If you don’t show up at my birthday party at date XX:XX:XX place XXXXX I will be extremely disappointed and apart from that there will be no other consequences whatsoever.”
OK. I know it would be much better to use the similar ransom font, but hey! I had to make some kind of introduction and you must admit that the idea itself has a glimpse of humor in it, innit?
Another usage of this brushes would be Digital Scrapbooking!
To make the long story short, the only limit is your imagination. Let me know how you used it, gimme some feedback and let’s share the ideas!
If there was more free brushes like this – this world would be a better place.
Of course you are always free to utilize the appreciation button in the right hand corner of this blog. But, even if you don’t it’s fine. I have this nice neighbor that let’s me eat the leftovers of his lunch :) Appreciation button removed!
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Cheers!
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Sticky note
You can start your business online in no time. All you need is a good web hosting services from good provider which offer different services like email hosting services, marketing services etc. These providers will provide website design solution with the help of different tools including photo shop brush, fireworks, dream weaver etc. Like netfirms give all these facilities to its clients. You can also take help from web design consulting services offered by different companies online. The most popular web server software scripts are created by utilizing all methods of PHP, Perl, ASP and javascript. There are other soft-wares like pay per click software or program which helps your website to boost the revenue as well as website traffic.
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UPDATE: February 2nd, 2008: Photoshop swirls brushes – Photoshop 7.0 available for download!
New free Photoshop brush set is here! Swirls, set of 10 high res (2217 – 2500pix). –>Subscribe to my newsletter and download Swirls brushes (20MB)<–
My site has been reviewed by Jeremy Steele. Thanks J! There’s more work to be done on my blog, I know.
I know I need to improve blog design and I don’t have any ideas what to do with the language problem!
I’ll write more soon!
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Sticky note
You can begin an affiliates marketing business right away but for this all you require is to have a good quality website hosting to design a site. The domain name search tools offered by website making companies is also very important to find a name for your website which is different, short, easy to spell, easy to memorize and type. The internet marketing has got fame on the big scale, having accessibility to the wide range of potential customers. With the help of affiliate program the small businesses can start their business profitably as affiliates. The subscribers of various telecom companies get calls from computer to computer, having internet phones connection. Some companies provide wireless connection with the help of wifi service. The hosting companies have powerful servers to look after all online backup data of numerous customers effectively.
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UPDATE January 28th 2008: Illustrator CS version “Floral brushes” available for download! Yet another addition to Illustrator freebies section :)
Greetings from Rovinj!
That’s funny, because here, in this beautiful Mediterranean city in Croatia is the home of the biggest tobacco company in this part of Europe and guess what: “Pozdrav iz Rovinja” (translation: “Greetings from Rovinj”) is their well known slogan…
Living here is not a simple task (like living anywhere is… ), I’m on a slowest GPRS wireless connection ever! Thanks to my provider and former employer company VIP (Vodafone). I literally have to open the window and put the notebook there in order to get G3 connection, but hey – only for a few minutes. Then it breaks and it takes me five to ten minutes to get the connection again.
Anyway, for today we have an Adobe Illustrator floral brushes for download, and the correct path where the file should be saved is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Brushes
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UPDATE January 28th 2008: Illustrator CS version “Leaves and flowers symbols” available for download! Yet another addition to Illustrator freebies section :)
For today I wanted to create a Photoshop custom shape. So, I drew some flowers and leaves in Illustrator… Big mistake.
If you want to create Photoshop custom shape, you have to do it in Photoshop using path tool. Oh, yes. I didn’t draw custom shapes in Photoshop for a long time – so I forgot about this little step. Of course, you can use Magic tool and then create path from the selection… but the results will be awful.
So, instead of Photoshop custom shape for today I offer Adobe Illustrator symbols for download, and the correct path where it should be saved is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Symbols
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And today’s brushes are about kissing: Photoshop kiss brushes (free download is here <– (set of 19)) great Photoshop brushes set for your Valentine’s designs.
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So, love each other and peace be with you. Enjoy the brush! (Just remember to praise me when you use it and make links to this blog :)).
Kisses!
P.S. Since I still did not go visit dentist, the scary dentist brush will have to wait. But you can Join GBG and get immediate access to loads of free Photoshop brushes and other freebies!
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I am receiving a lot of questions about commercial usage of my brushes and other artwork that is available on this blog. Most of you, naturally, understand that I invest lot of work, time and effort to create and offer free brushes and other free resources on this blog.
Now, here is the deal:
ALL WORK ON GRAPHIC-ILLUSTRATIONS.COM BLOG IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED.
OK. So, general idea is:
All artwork here is offered for you to create your own designs with it. Naturally, you are then the owner of all artwork you derive from the artwork offered on my blog.
Here is more details:
1. COPYRIGHT OF THE FREE BRUSHES AND OTHER FREE ARTWORK OFFERED ON THIS SITE
1.1. YOU MAY NOT re-sell any of the work from this site in it’s original form. Remember, make your own artwork and do what you want with it;
1.2. YOU MAY NOT re-distribute (offer for download or share or copy on any other digital or analog media) artwork from this site in it’s original form (e.g. “.abr” files) without my permission;
1.4. YOU ARE KINDLY ASKED to provide a back link to my site if you use my free downloads :)
1.5. YOU MIGHT even consider purchasing the PREMIUM version of the brushes
2. COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTWORK THAT IS PURCHASED AND PAID FOR
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You MAY:
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2.1. YOU MAY use the content to create layouts for your own personal use, commercial and non-commercial use like scrapbook kits, wedding invitations, birthday cards, ads, web sites and other commercial and non-commercial projects.
2.2. YOU MAY make gifts for family and friends.
2.3. YOU MAY alter size, color, etc. to suit your layouts.
2.4. YOU MAY submit project for publication using these graphics.
2.5. YOU MAY make one copy of this set for backup purposes only, but not with intent to redistribute.
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You MAY NOT:
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2.6. YOU MAY NOT Claim brushes as your own.
2.7. YOU MAY NOT share this set in it’s original format with anyone.
2.8. YOU MAY NOT redistribute or resell the file(s).
2.9. YOU MAY NOT remove any notice of copyright included in the content.
2.10. YOU MAY NOT make any of the graphics into brushes again and redistribute them.
2.11. YOU MAY NOT offer these brushes on any web site as downloads or send them through a news list or any other way. This is pirating, and is ILLEGAL!
That’s it!
Thanks everyone and have fun creating!
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UPDATE: January 31st, 2008: Download FREE Photoshop plants brushes – Photoshop 7.0 (compatible with all newer versions of Photoshop!)
I don’t have a story related to this Photoshop brushes. You can Download Photoshop plants brushes for free, that’s it. High resolution, set of 23.
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Nice day, isn’t it?
Love,
S :)
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This is the first post in my blog which will, eventually, become one of the most popular blogs on graphics and illustrations in a time to come.
It’s a hard work and I have a long way to go, but I intend to make it so useful, that you will just love it. (If you are in any way in graphics/design/photography business).
OK. Now, where do we start … just like in old-fashioned books on theory of something let’s see what wikipedia has to say on the definition of graphics and illustration.
graph·ic (gr?f’?k)
adj. also graph·i·cal (-?-k?l)
- 1. Of or relating to written representation.
b) Of or relating to pictorial representation.
c) Of, relating to, or represented by or as if by a graph. - 2. Described in vivid detail.
- 2. Clearly outlined or set forth.
- 4. Of or relating to the graphic arts.
- 5. Of or relating to graphics.
- 6. Geology. Having crystals resembling printed characters.
n.
- 1. A work of graphic art.
- 2. A pictorial device used for illustration, as in a lecture.
- 3. A graphic display generated by a computer or an imaging device.
A visual representation such as a photo, illustration or diagram. A graphic may contain text, but text by itself is not considered a graphic unless it is done in a stylized fashion. In the computer, a graphic is a file such as a JPEG or GIF.
il·lus·tra·tion (?l’?-str?’sh?n)
n.
- 1. The act of clarifying or explaining.
- 2. The state of being clarified or explained.
- 3. Material used to clarify or explain.
- 4. Visual matter used to clarify or decorate a text.
- 5. Obsolete. Illumination.
Visual element in an advertisement. The illustration is an efficient way to represent an idea and works in concert with the headline to attract the reader to the advertisement. It is the illustration that helps to make the copy believable.
Graphics
are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style.
Graphics can be functional or artistic. Graphics can be imaginary or represent something in the real world. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may become blurred.
An Illustration
is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.
Source: wikipedia.org, answers.com
Illustration: Marijana Jelic
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