Wouldn’t it be cool if we had some kind of magic desktop wallpaper that will trigger the emotion of happiness every time we look at it? Hmmmm …. that’s a thought.
So, while you download this prototype, I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on happiness with you and I hope you’ll find them inspiring.
This post is about our pursuit of happiness.
Even the Declaration of Independence states that everyone has inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. Only some US states included this right into their Constitutions, but I believe that it should be included in all constitutions of all countries in the world.
Why?
Because, from the moment we wake up and open our eyes in the morning – until we fall asleep in the night, all we do is pursuit of happiness. Of course, we don’t define our actions that way. We have breakfast (or at least some of us lucky enough) and everything else we do for the rest of the day is we try to create environment and the conditions that will help us experience the emotion or feeling of happiness.
Unfortunately, we can not provoke that feeling ourselves. The best we can do ourselves is try to think about the times when we were happy, but for many of us even that could invoke the feeling of sadness instead.
Remembering the good times is just not enough.
What we strive to do is create the conditions and the environment that will trigger the events that will then trigger the feeling of happiness. That’s what we do at all times. But, to be happy, we need the “co-operation” of other people. For instance, when we love someone. We do our best to appeal to that someone so that our love is returned to us. And if we find out that we are loved by that someone then we feel true happiness and that’s the feeling we’re all looking for.
As you can see, we need somebody’s help to reach that emotion.
Or, another example, we feel happy when something we do is recognized and liked or loved by someone else or by many. The recognition of our work will also trigger the emotion of happiness, but again, we need other people to help us reach the emotion of happiness.
Now, here the thought. WE ARE that “other people” for the rest of the world. Aren’t we? Now, just think about it for a second. We are the only ones who can help other people reach that emotion, we are the other people and others depend on us. How about that?
So, in my mind, it is all about giving and receiving. It is a “dual channel” process. Once, when all people become aware of this, this world will be crowded with happy people.
In the meantime, in our pursuit of happiness we can do two things:
- make other people happy (as there is no happiness without giving)
- create environment where other people will also be given a chance to make us happy
Giving and receiving. Can not have one without the other.
The more we give - the more we will receive. And receiving then gives us me more energy to give back again.
Unfortunately, many of us still have problems with the “giving” part. That’s because we tend to believe that we are limited with the resources and the more we give the less we have. I think that is one of the the main reasons for the existence of unhappiness in this world.
So, inspired by these thoughts I thought I’d make this wallpaper on the topic of happiness. I hope you will like it.
I did that one using the following:
- Swirls Floral LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Grunge floral shapes LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Photoshop Brushes – Floral Shapes (37) – PREMIUM (There is an extra promo gift that comes with this set!)
- Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32) - PREMIUM
Download the wallpaper in following sizes:
Love, give and thau shall receive.
Silvia from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
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Gang,
I’ve been thinking about taking the whole Photoshop brushes thing to the next level. Say … animating it.
It could be cool for video scrap booking, or should I say, scrap video. I mean it’s basically the same thing. It’s just that, this time, Photoshop brushes are used in video. So, I played around with After Effects for a while and made this little video. Kind of introduction to the whole new era – VIDEO SCRAPPING!
So, for starters, I made a little video from my brushes and background. This font is actually a brush: Grunge alphabet and numbers with swirls, Photoshop brushes set and a background is from my background set: “2 pack graphics: old grunge paper images 1″.
I hope you liked it. If you’d like to have a video produced from some of the materials that you have at home, drop me an email.
Cheers,
Silvia
P.S.
And if you plan to do a video by yourself you will still need a good resource of High Resolution brushes, yes I am talking about 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET. More than 800 Photoshop brushes is waiting for you to create graphic static or moving miracles.
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I was going through my emails the other day tryin’ to catch up and see if there are any unanswered ones.
I really try hard to answer all of your emails and all of them are really great. Some of them really pop-out and make my day such as the one from Gordeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. It contained just one sentence: Thanks for downloads and this beautiful graphic that she designed using my brushes. That was her way to say “Thanks!” and a really cool one:
So, thank YOU Gordeeeeeee for this wonderful image and I hope you will use many more of my brushes for your work in the future.
Godspeed!
S
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Swirls
Gang! I was so happy with the latest Art Nouveau Photoshop brushes (see my last post and download some free brushes) that I just had to run over to Vienna this weekend and pay tribute to some of the original artists of the Art Nouveau movement.
So, my hubby and myself, we decided that we want to visit Klimt exhibition. Klimt was, in our opinion, a really cool artist, painter who worked in the era of secession and influenced it – a lot.
Of course, we had to visit (again) the Hundertwasser House, it was designed, of course, by Hundertwasser and the way he did it is unique! It’s what arhitecture should strive to today. Also, we went to Vienna Kunst Museum which is almost all about Hundertwasser – by the way, find out more about Hundertwasser here ->
The Klimt exhibition was held in so called Bellevue park and museum. Belvedere is really a huge park decorated with no more, no less than – live swirls. So, there, another way to use them Photoshop brushes swirls – design your garden in swirls shapes! Even in Autumn. Here is the picture (more images at bsilvia.com):
OK, guys, now that I’ve seen yet another way to use them swirls shapes, I think I’m, gonna head over and start working on a new swirls set.
In the meantime, feel free to check on my swirls special edition 101 swirl Photoshop brush (at discounted price) or my Ultimate swirls pack 215 (8 PS Brushes packs!)
Have fun creating!
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Hi Gang,
I was playing around with one of my sunset photos and wanted to find out how could I use my Swirls Photoshop brushes there.
So, here is the result. I hope you like it.
The recipe:
- Photo of a sunset
- Loads of Filter -> Stylize -> Gloving Edges
- Loads of Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur
- A bit of Layer Blending Options
and the Swirls Brushes set! Get it here ->!
Have fun creating,
S :)
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So, as I promised, I am gradually adding Photoshop 7.0 brushes that are also compatible with Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Today, I present you, Photoshop 7.0 Swirls brushes – 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!
Very popular set (high res, set of 10 brushes) is just about to become even more popular (my old post with Photoshop Swirls brushes is here)
Don’t forget to stop by my shop and check out for some really cool packages (well, just one for now). I’m offering the best of the best there.
OK folks, thanks for stopping by, I hope you’ll enjoy these brushes and don’t forget to let me know when you applied it and show me your work. I’m really interested.
For today I have one Entrecard design for Brenda (Meowlicious blog, winner on my Entrecard contest)
Gotta go now, see ya later!
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