I know, this blog is mostly about Photoshop brushes. Mostly and mainly. It is also about anything and everything that has anything to do with graphics and illustrations. (Nicley put, in’nit?)
Most of the visitors of this blog (around 3000 daily, 80% are new visits) came over here through Google looking for some free downloads or tutorials. Of course, with more than 80 free Photoshop brushes sets, a dozen of free vectors and illustrations I hope no one leaves this site disappointed.
But, sometimes, just sometimes a feel the need to share some of my thoughts with you guys. It’s not like I’m some kind of hermit living in a solitude with no-one to talk to. (Although there are times when I wouldn’t mind living like that :)) But today, I’d like to share some thoughts with you.
So, what Photohop brushes and free downloads have to do with our purpose on this planet, our existence in this time and space? (If time and space exist at all).
Well, believe it or not, I have my opinion about that and maybe you will agree.
First of all (and it took me a while to come to this conclusion), I believe that we are here to be happy. That is our main purpose.
My grandma believes that we are here to good onto others and this fits my theory perfectly.
And that brings us to the topic of this blog – graphics. How?
Say you know how to do scrap booking. And say you know someone who would be glad to receive scrap book or photo album from you. And, say, you want to make this person, or couple – happy. It’s easy. Just find or take a photo of them (or him or her). Frame it properly, add some decorations, print it out and – voila!
For this post I prepared a little photo album front page idea. It’s just a start, but, as an old Chinese proverb says: To start is to have half of the job done.
So, here is this little photo album front page idea, I hope it will help you get some other ideas and make yourself and someone else happy.
Here is what I used in this front page:
1. Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32)
2. Circled hearts, Photoshop brushes set (40+40)
Ok. That’s it for today’s post.
Be happy, make others happy and have fun creating!
Silvia
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Photoshop brushes that are presented in this post are called "Weekdays", actually these are nicely written days of the week. If you are looking for Photoshop brush or brush for photoshop to help you out, say, creating a barbecue invitation that one would help you state a day of the week. This is just one of number free photoshop brushes that are offered on this site.
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- Note: All winners are kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week.
- All submissions can be seen on our Facebook Fan Page
Guys,
Before I announce the winners of the competition, I want to make one thing clear: ALL OF THE WORKS WERE AWESOME!!!!
You guys gave me such a hard time with your submissions … I will never forgive you for that ;)
Had to go through all of 116 banner submissions, one by one, shortlist, then the shortlist was too big, cannot have 50 shortlisted works, then I had to go through that again …
Anyways, thank you all for submitting your work, thank you for your effort – I appreciate it very much!
I hope you had fun creating and to all of you who voted and commented on Facebook, thank you too – it helped me a lot during the selection.
So, the competition was so strong, that I just could not select only seven submissions and leave it there. Therefore, I decided to introduce one more category for those works that did not make it to the top 7 but were very very close and if I had more sponsors those would certainly be rewarded with prizes. So, there are 14 more works with HONORABLE MENTION!
One more thing, some of the winners who submitted more than one work probably deserved more than one prize with your works, but, I had only 7 prizes to give away and hope you will agree with me, I had to give only one prize per author.
OK. Enough talking now.
Ladies and gentleman, it is a special privilege for me tonight and a great honor, to introduce you to
The Winners of the first Graphics-Illustrations Graphic Design Competition – GI 2009
We will start from the 7th place and move on to the 1st place:
7th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jill
Prize: NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
6th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Iyan Ardian
Prize: PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
5th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jessica Weible
Prize: SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
4th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Prize: SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
3rd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Vivayne – vivayne.com
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
2nd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (any – up to $3.99)
1st Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Norma Kennedy
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com T-Shirt + One PREMIUM Photoshop Brushes set (any – up to $9.99)
Honorable mention:
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jennifer
Header submission:
Name of the author: Ashley Murray
Header submission:
Name of the author: Lynn
Header submission:
Name of the author: Shane Shoemaker
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jami Mullett Bova
Header submission:
Name of the author: Tangie Pounds Evans
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rachel L.
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
All winners are kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week. Also, if you have a web site, send your web address too. I am sure that our visitors would love to see more of your work.
Thank you all, once again, it was a great pleasure to organize this competition! I hope I will be able to organize one more competition soon and would like to use this opportunity to invite potential sponsors to help me out with the prizes. Once again, BIG THANKS goes to our sponsor Katie Cotton (Katie Cotton blog). Katie creates paper makup stamps and here is the link to her Paper Makup Stamps Blog ->
What can I say? It was fun! It was a great experience! There was a total of 116 submissions which were seen by thousands of graphic design enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs alike and I think it is a great success for all of us!
Love you all and never forget: Have fun creating!
Silvia
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Guys,
This the last day of the Competition. If you still did not submit your work – now is your chance.
I wish the best of luck to all of you.
And here is a little something I just did for those of you who love photography. I shot this image a few years ago, there was this beautiful olive tree plantation and the clouds were just magical. The shot was taken in Istria/Croatia and I must add that this area offers loads of opportunities for photographers and people who like photography.
After I did a little “touch up” in Photoshop (wanted to emphasize the oldness of the tree and the magic of the surroundings) I placed the photo on one of the background from 2 Pack Graphics: Old Grunge Paper images 3. This was done using layer multiply effect.
I placed the whole thing on the paper that I did for this purpose (plain brown background with texturizer filter applied).
The cornders come from Photo Corners (20+20) Photoshop brushes.
So, basically, to get an effect like this is more simple than it looks, isn’t it?
So, I hope you like it. Feel free to browse through my little shop for some other HiRes Photoshop brushes, background images and vectors.
Love ya all,
Silvia
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Guys,
I am so grateful for today! Received so many good news (business wise and life wise), sales are going well (more and more people see how they can benefit from my products), there are more enrollments for the competition than I ever hoped for, the weather is perfect, after two years of writing and creating content for this blog I made a lot of new friends who I love and respect. Last but not the least, we have a new cat arrival (Peacco, 7 weeks old) and everything is just so perfect that I had to share it with you.
I hope you are having a great one too. If not, I suggest you start creating something (do some designs in Photoshop, could be something for the Competition). It might be a little difficult in the beginning, but if you are persistant, in the end, your effort will be rewarded and you will feel good :) Guaranteed!
Oh, before I forget, some of you asked me about the prizes for the Graphics-Illustrations 2009 Competition.
So, there are 7 prizes all together for 7 best designers.
1st Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com T-Shirt + One PREMIUM Photoshop Brushes set (up to $9.99)
2nd Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (up to $3.99)
3rd Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
4th Place:
SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
5th Place:
SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
6th Place:
PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
7th Place:
NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
So, these are the prizes and a reminder: to enroll the Competition download these blog headers:
Give them you special “touch” and finish them up.
Then send your work to my email or submit to Graphics-Illustrations.Com Fan Page.
Wait until 12th July when the winners will be announced.
That’s it for today!
Love ya all, have fun creating!
P.S.
Of course, if you are serious about graphic design or scrapbooking I just cannot recommend my products page enough :)
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Gang!
What I’ve got here is something completely different. Something new. And one of those “how did I not think about this before!” things.
It’s useful for all of you who have photos of your friends, family, pets, photos from travel or important and not so important events.
So, if you don’t have any photographs, that’s fine, I respect that, but then it just might be a little harder to apply the brand new, amazing, one and only:
Photo Corners Photoshop Brushes set (20+20)
Yes, that’s right. Photo Corners. Great add-on decoration for your photos. Whether you are into scrapbooking, photography (especially wedding photography) or just a photographer enthusiast, these will come very handy and will add that final add-on to your photos to make them stand out and get the treatment they deserve. Whether it be photos of your parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, girlfriends, boyfriends … you name it.
So, as I said, there are 20 of them and then another 20 – inverse. It is a wide selection that should cover all of your photo corners needs.
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As usual, I also prepared something to give away for free. A LITE version of 3 (+3 inverse) brushes.
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What else to say?
Photoshop brushes Photo Corners are here for you to use them and enjoy them and create more great graphics.
Have fun creating!
Love,
Silvia
P.S.
If you want the PREMIUM 20+20 version of these brushes for FREE, go and get 24 Photoshop brushes set (800+ PREMIUM commercial brushes) for 1/2 the price and I will send you this one for free.
If you already purchased 24 Sets package just drop me a line and I will send you this one for free too :)
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I had this idea for a while. And if you’ve been browsing for brushes around the net you’ll understand why.
The main problem out there is that, once you find a good resource (web site), you can’t really see all the brushes of all the sets in one single place. You need to open set by set preview (if available) to see what do you actually get.
So, I did a catalog of Photoshop brushes. All of them in one place. Clearly displayed, one brush set per page and each individual brush is there. It’s a Flash document with page flip effect so it looks cool.
Anyway, enough talking, click here to access the catalog, flip through pages and browse through the brushes. Get the ones you like the most and have fun creating!
Love,
Silvia
PS: That’s my sister’s friend Ina on the photo :) (another photo of Ina with old camera, Ina with dreadlocks)
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So finally, after a long time, they’re out to the light of the day:
Swirls II - The Resurrection Set!
(Do I sound like an Alien movie fan? :) I’m not!)
For last two years (or so) swirls are unchallenged on their throne of the modern graphic design elements. Swirls are used extensively in web and print banners, blog graphics, magazine front pages, scrapbooks, webs, posters, marketing campaigns, advertisements even at NYSE green Guinness background (just noticed that on CNN :) … can’t miss them.
And what I like about them is that in every illustration they can be used differently. Each graphic designer can find their own unique way to use them in their graphic design project.
And that is what I like about them. This brand new set contains, again, different kind of swirls, the ones that will bring out that special unique touch to your work. I designed them to help you make great graphics and, due to the sole nature of the brushes, they will empower you to make your graphics fast!
So, get up on the fast track - download Photoshop 7.0 Swirls brushes, make a few strokes with them (in your Photoshop 7.o or later or Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, or even Gimp) grasp their potential and make great graphics – now! (check out my graphics for some inspiration: Black and white background or Retro grunge background illustration or Brown and yellow illustration background)
Swirls II Photoshop Brushes LITE edition (6 brushes free download – GBG membership needed)
Swirls II Photoshop Brushes PREMIUM edition - $9.99 (full version, 36 brushes set)
Have fun creating!
S :)
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OK. Gang! I have two good news for today. Actually two really really GREAT news!
For the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day I have decided to reduce the prices of my most popular Photoshop brushes and keep them reduced until 28th of March. And yes, St. Patrick Day Photoshop brushes PREMIUM edition are on the list! (PayPal and Credit Card payments accepted!)
So, here are the most popular brushes that I put on sale today (12th of March 2008):
 | St. Patrick’s Day Photoshop brushes set Before: $9.99; Now: $5.99 |
 | Tattoo designs Photoshop brushes set (Photoshop 7.0 brushes, set of 30) Before: $9.99; Now: $5.99 |
 | Swirls Photoshop brushes set (Photoshop 7.0 brushes, set of 42) Before: $9.99; Now: $5.99 |
Enjoy!
P.S.
I am always happy to find out how people are using my brushes on their webs, blogs, squidoo lenses and so on…
Squidoo Magic just informed me that she used my St. Patrick-s Day Photoshop brushes to create St. Patrick’s day graphics on her blog. Check it!
And Shannon used my Grunge stars Photoshop brushes on her blog to create the Stars papers! Now that feels great! I tell you! As a creator of these brushes it means a lot! So, Squidoo Magic and Shannon I’m gonna put you on my “Hall of fame” list, I’m gonna place your links here, you’re gonna get exposure and you will be very glad that you informed me about the ways you use my Photoshop brushes. Now if those girls made such a great graphics with LITE version of the brushes, just imagine what can happen if you unleash your creativity with the PREMIUM versions of the brushes which are ON SALE NOW!
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Hi Gang,
A friend of mine who’s producing woman stockings asked me if I could do a photo session for her marketing campaign. Always being a good sport as I am, of course, I agreed.
So, here is one of the images I took that day. For the final touch, of course – I used my Photoshop brushes:
I hope you like it! If you created some artwork with Photoshop brushes let me know. The best two will be rewarded with one PREMIUM set of Photoshop brushes!
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The story about Photoshop brushes has some controversy in it.
On one hand, many people, even experienced Photoshop users, don’t really use this feature very often. Maybe because it was pretty limited before and not so widely known among early Photoshop adopters.
On the other hand, beginners know even less about it as it sounds like some advanced users tool.
And it’s not. I’d even say that Photoshop brushes are great tool for beginners.
Why?
Because, you can make a great looking graphics in literally 10 seconds with Photoshop brushes. Period.
Once the spacing and scattering parameters (and others) are adjusted (and anyone can do that) it is only a matter of making several strokes with the brush along your working area.
You don’t need to know how to draw, how to work with paths, how apply special effects, play with masks … as I said – Photoshop brushes are perfect beginners tool which can, in hands of an advanced user, create a graphical symphony in no time.
See more in the “Introduction to Photoshop brush settings” video ->
Have fun creating!
S :)
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Corner designs (great for all kinds of graphic design and especially great for scrapbooking)
Benefits:
- Fast way to create
- great scrapbook albums
- eye catching ads
- web designs
- backgrounds
Or you can just play with those brushes and apply the results to your graphic design projects. That’s offenly the best way to get inspired! So, these are all ready for download in two versions:
- Lite edition: Corner designs, swirls ornaments – set of 4 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 compatible – free download, Join GBG for free downloads)
- and Premium edition Corner designs, swirls – set of 20 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 compatible)
Swirled Corners Photoshop Brushes set (20)
This Photoshop brushes set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 (and all newer versions), Photoshop Elements 3.0 and newer versions!
Click here for preview:
Eh, there goes another idea! You can even use them for Easter crafts this year: print it – cut it – stick it to the egg! Cool , in’nit? Or, you can make a Happy Easter cards. Stay tuned, because I’m planning to publish new stuff for crafts soon - printable Easter cards, free Easter cards, Easter bunnies, Easter eggs… well, Easter is coming so we better be prepared!
Like always – stay cool :)
Love,
S
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| Swirls Floral brushes set (42+42) Second Edition + 42 PNG files Set of 42 brushes in two sizes compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5. Set contains 42 .png files at 300 dpi, 2500×2500 pix – transparent, so you can easily use them in any photo editing software (zipped) - COMMERCIAL LICENSE | Tattoo designs Photoshop brushes set Second Edition (30+30) - 30 Photoshop brushes in 1361-2429px, |
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Well, here in Croatia today was a last day for a tax reports. I thought again, when juggling with a papers today: why we are still using so much papers for something that is anyway, stored as a digital data?
Not to mention that, like always, all that bureaucracy made me mad; felt helpless, hopeless and defenseless. While waiting in the queue, I heard one guy talking to the office lady about his new born child. He was happy to announce that he has become a father for the first time, all proud and happy. Office lady talked to him about social security numbers, reports and all in all… that moment I felt like a slave. Real slave with an invisible number stamped on me right after my birth.
My government wants to keep me blissfully ignorant, half healthy half cozy. They want me quiet, servile and on the short and strong leash.
It wasn’t one of my happy days, nor mediocre (I don’t want to say bad or ugly!). But I managed somehow because it’s Fridayyyy!!!! So, for today I have grunge styled letters and numbers in a form of Photoshop 7 brushes set. Divided, as usually, in two editions:
- Lite edition grunge numbers Photoshop brushes numbers set (please, join GBG for free download) – numbers only (set of 10)
Grunge alphabet and numbers with swirls, Photoshop brushes set
- Covering standard Latin alphabet and decimal numbers from 0-9
- PC/Mac Compatible
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 (and newer versions)
- compatible with Photoshop Elements 3.0 and all newer versions
It will help you with:
- scrap books, quick pages
- greeting cards, birthday cards
- backgrounds
- computer desktop wallpapers
- photo album decorations
- let your imagination go wild from here…
For commercial use!
Click here for preview:
Have a nice weekend and make great graphics with these new brushes!
S*
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Yes it is, it’s true: new Photoshop brushes set (Photoshop 7.0, of course – compatible with Cs, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 too) is here – Tag shapes with swirls decorations in grunge style! (looong description)
Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. However, you can still get those! Join GBG and enjoy this free Photoshop brushes set + more than 1500 other free downloads. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
1. Tag shapes PS brushes set – Lite version contains 4 tag shapes and is free:
2. Premium set of Tag shapes PS brushes with swirls decorations in grunge style
- contains 24 different tags + 5 tags with the cat silhouette
Enjoy,
S
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