Hello you Photoshop junkies! I don’t know about you but I haven’t slept much last night. And here is the reason why.
I was making a brand new, yet unseen, absolutely fresh Photohop brushes set that I named: Circled hearts.
As usual they come in two editions:
1. LITE Circled Hearts Photoshop brushes set edition, 6 brushes in a set (available in 2 sizes! Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 compatible.) Subscription-free download will be available for the next 5 days! – over!
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2. PREMIUM Circled hearts Photoshop brushes edition – 40 brushes in a set (also available in 2 sizes! Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 compatible.)
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As usual, next thing you know, I’ll present some new graphics and tutorials based on this new Photoshop brushes set!
Slogan of the day: Don’t watch TV. Create!
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OK. So for those of you who want to do everything by yourself, here is the tutorial, or should I say – a recipe!
So what we need is:
1. A brand new image sized 400 x 425 pixels (of course, you can make it any size you want)
2. Rockwell font (This one has to be bought, but I recommend dafont.com as a great resource for free fonts so if you don’t have it and don’t want to buy, you can take the one you like from there.)
3. Butterflies Swirls. Those can be bought too, set of 20 for $9,99 or downloaded for free, set of 5.
Now, many of you have asked how to get free version of butterflies. Here is how:
1. Subscribe to my super-dooper newsletter (where I only write about cool stuff!) Subscribe by clicking here –>!
2. You will receive the link to the freebies (43 free sets of Photoshop brushes, Butterfiles are among them)
3. Click on the link (or image with the Butterflies brushes) and – voila, just download them.
(OK, I’d prefer if you buy it. If you can’t afford, drop me a mail.)
So, we’re ready to start.
It all starts with a gradient from blue to black as shown here:
Then well add a elegant glowing line with few sparkles. Line was done with a pen tool. Then, when in a new layer, select Brush tool and select simple good old fashioned Photoshop default brush like this:
Now select Pen tool, position it above the path, right-click the mouse select stroke subpath, make sure Brush is selected as well as Simulate pressure, you can now hide the path with Ctrl+H and – Voila! Nice! In’nit?
Add a few dots using really small brush add some outer glow, here are the settings:
And this is the result:
Now, let’s add text and butterflies and after a bit of playing with the same effects that we used for sparkles and the stroke we get:
And finally, I wanted to add some more color to the graphics:
As you can see this was done by adding two more layers, each of them partially filled with Gradient tool and blending set to color. These layers are positioned above the background and the stroke and below the butterflies and text.
And voila! Here it is! Our new creation:
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Hi Gang!
I did it again. Just couldn’t help it, played around with some of my brushes (Swirls and Butterflies) and made this little cutie:
After it was finished I thought I’d call it Fantasy Butterflies! For the curious ones, I will post a short tutorial on how I did it in a short while.
Peace!
Silvia
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Hello Gang!
How many of you downloaded free icons from some web only to find out that they’re in .gif or .ico or some other bitmap format meaning that you just can’t modify them?!
Well, call me crazy, but I’m not that protective over my work. I made some icons and I’m offering them for free and I’m offering them in vector format so that all of you can freely modify it and adapt to your needs.
So, there are: FREE set of icons:
LITE Web 2.0 vector Icons set – green – free download (4 icons in .eps, .ai, .cdr format), – for free, even in commercial projects! Subscribe to my newsletter and Download (without subscription for next 5 days – over)
Have fun creating!
S*
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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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Hello everyone and Happy Easter!
For today I have prepared another tutorial on how to create your own brush.
This time it is about creating fractal Photoshop brushes.
I am sure many of you will like this kind of graphics:
But, if you are a beginner you probably assume that it’s extremely difficult, first, create your own custom brush and then create such graphic with it.
Well, it’s not! And I intend to show you how to do it in this tutorial.
So, for starters, to follow this tutorial you will need to have CorelDRAW! or Adobe Illustrator or some other software that does vector graphics. First, we will create a shape in CorelDRAW!, then export it to .EPS file, import to Photoshop and make a brush out of it. And that’s it!
So, let’s start CorelDRAW! and make a nice curved line using Bezier Tool:
Then, duplicate this line by dragging it and right-clicking the mouse on a new location:
Then select both line and go to Effects->Blend, Apply (you can leave all settings as they are)
Modify and adjust the shape by selecting various curves from top or bottom line and moving it around until you are happy with the shape.
I must say, I was quite happy with this one :)
So, basically, our work here at CorelDRAW! is over. Now, when I think, maybe I should have used Illustrator, but let’s leave it for another occasion.
The last thing that is to be done here in CorelDRAW! is to export that shape in to .eps file. Go to File->Export-> On the pull down menu select “.eps”, give it some name, leave “Selected only” switched on and click Export:
Click ok and save it.
Now, let’s move onto Photoshop. Here I used Photoshop CS3 but you can use any version from Photoshop 7.0 onward.
In Photoshop go to File->New, Give it dimensions 2500px by 2500px (that is the largest brush size you can get) at 300px (it has to be big so that it can be used for large format printing as well, not just web).
Now, go to File -> Place, browse to our .eps file and place it into this new Photoshop file. Make sure to stretch it before hitting enter so that it is stretched from end to end like this:
Fine! We’re getting there, bare with me just a few more minutes :)
As you have probably noticed the .eps we placed onto our new Photoshop file is not really black as it should be. This can cause this brush to appear transparent when used in the future and therefore we need to make sure that our future brush is really black. Therefore, make sure you selected the layer with our shape and go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves and to the following:
Now, our future brush will be black!
So, after this we are ready to finish and create our first, custom made, Photoshop brush. Go to Edit -> Define Brush Preset and give it a name:
It will automatically appear as the last one on your present brushes list.
That’s it! Voila! Congratulations! You just made your own brush! Now, if you want to save it as an independent .abr file you will need to delete all brushes from your brushes list because otherwise your .abr (brush file) will contain all brushes from the list. So, after you deleted all other brushes except for the one you just created
Now, you just go to save brushes, give it a name and save it to:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Brushes
And, now that’s really the end.
Now with a little playing with brush settings and Filter -> Render -> Lens Flare in no time you can create image like the one on the top of this post.
Look, in case you don’t want to go through all this and think that the trouble of creating some 29 fractal brushes is worth $9,99 - I’ll be much obliged if you go and buy the whole 29 Fractal Brushes Set.
Brushes are ready to download in two editions:
Lite edition: Fractals – set of 3 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop CS3 compatible – Subscribe and Download for Free)
Premium edition: Fractals – set of 29 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop CS3 compatible)
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Ehm, I’m not surprised. I need loads of them when doing custom web sites and I especially need loads of them while making designs for applications. And, I decided a while ago, that creating them by my self is just not worth it. The time and effort that is required to make a good icon set, especially at tight deadlines and difficult customers can never be repaid.
So, I decided that the best thing to do is to go out there on the net and find some good design companies that offer icons for sale. And the guys at icongalore.com are just what I needed. First, they offer really high quality icons, second they have really huge selection of them, probably the largest selection of Icons on the Internet from what I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot) and these come in many different sizes which is very important.
Then, in case you don’t really find what you were looking for (which is not likely – but still) they’ll make custom icon design at decent price.
Here is another good reason why I like those guys. Say, I have a “difficult” client. The one I know will insist on various changes before he accepts the final product. In addition, I especially anticipate requests for changes in icon design. So, what do I do? I download free icons from icongalore.com site, incorporate them into my design and show it to them. If they don’t like it, I just swap with another design and, by default they always like second version better. Then I buy the set and deliver the final application or web to client.
Also, if you don’t feel like buying set by set separately, you could make a pretty good deal right now as they offer all of their icons (8 categories, 6 formats, 3 states and 1511640 files included) for $349! I’d say, once you buy those, you won’t be needing any new icons for a long, long time.
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So, from time to time my friends ask me to do some video for them. If I have enough time, I do it, why not. So, last week a friend of mine asked me if I could make a small video invitation for their wedding.
I took my camera (Panasonic NV-GS 180 – 3CCD – 2,3 mega pixel) and we met at the park (2 minutes from my home).
I did the video editing in After Effects CS3and – voila!
The video wedding invitation is done! Let me know what you think.
Photoshop brushes used for this:
- Swirls (floral) Photoshop brushes set (premium edition)
- Photoshop splatter brushes
- Simple custom Photoshop brushes set
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So, you would like to print your own scrapbook that will be cool, unique and… huh, cool?
How would you like to make some cool graphics, merge them with some photos and print out as a scrapbook that will always remind you of some people or events?
Do you just feel you can’t afford to spend too much time working on it?
Well, let me tell you something. It took me one afternoon to do my Rovinj (Rovigno) scrap book. Rovinj is a small fisherman’s town in Croatia, at the coast of the Adriatic Sea. I decided that I want to have scrapbook of it, took one afternoon of and … voila! Here it is. Do I need to mention that I used my own brushes for it? (and of course my photos!)
Here is just a preview of the book and in next post I will briefly describe how it’s done. So, if I did it, I’m sure you can do it too. At home. Just using a printer, canvas paper, some textile, cork board, sea shells and a sponge. Nothing too sophisticated.
Photoshop brushes used for this book:
- Swirls (floral) Photoshop brushes set (premium edition)
- Tatoo designs Photoshop brushes set (premium edition)
- Simple custom Photoshop brushes set
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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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Now how cool is that.
One of the most popular magazines for Photoshop users and professionals decides that my brushes meet their high standards. They dedicated one whole page to my Photoshop brushes and they announce my brushes on the front page. Free versions of my brushes are included in the CD.
I’m just so happy!
I hope that this post doesn’t sound like “showing off”.
I’m very excited about that and I just had to share it with you.
It’s a great resource: Advanced Photoshop Magazine!
Love!
S*
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