Hi, this is not Silvia speaking.
I’m Meoki.
Black&White, up-side-down cat holding “Special Offers” board, look here, a little bit up on the right side ->
Silvia decided that she needs some rest (and believe me – she does) and asked me if I could do the post and introduce brand new Photoshop brushes she created for her GBG Platinum Members.
“Sure“, I said. As if I had anything else to do except holding that “Special Offers” board all day long (I go away at night but sssshhh! Don’t tel her.)
“Why did you put me up-side-down, by the way?” I asked her. “It’s a good thing that I am just a cartoon, otherwise all my blood would end up in my head. Not good …“
“Because” she said, “I red somewhere, that people will notice you more easily that way.“
“Peeh!”
Anyways, she be gone (sends “hugs and kisses everyone”), I’m here, so bear with me (you could beer with me as well. If you click on the “Special Offers” board and get yourself some nice discounted brushes, vectors, etc … :))
Anyways, it’s Tuesday, and Silvia wanted to dedicate every Tuesday to her GBG Platinum members, by giving them a little …. well … gift! So, this Tuesday, she prepared
Swirled Squares Design Elements (Photoshop brushes, or Digital stamps as some call it)
Swirled Squares consists of 12 brushes in two sizes (as usual to prevent overstretching and keep the quality top-notch) and two design styles: clean and grungy.
| Preview Swirled Squares Photoshop brushes set |
These brushes are available only to GBG Platinum Members (free download).
More info about GBG subscription packages –>>
OK. That was easy. If you want you can become GBG Platinum member. It is a pretty good deal. GBG Platinum members get
24 PREMIUM Photoshop brushes sets ($9.99 each, $239,76 value)
+
all Silver GBG Members downloads
+
all Gold GBG Members downloads
+
1 year subscription to all new GBG Members downloads (like this one)
+ Loads of other stuff, don’t know them all by heart but you can find out more about GBG Membreships here ->
OK.
Thank you for your attention. Meoki over and out!
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Gang! Finally! The finals of the Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 Competition!
Participants were kindly asked to do a graphic at whatever theme they prefer. The only condition was to use some of the Graphics-Illustrations.Com Photoshop brushes.
We’ve got some really GREAT entries! And I want to thank you all!
All entries can be seen our Graphics-Illustrations.Com Facebook Page ->
Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 Competition
As always, it’s been tough picking the winners, but it was a decision we had to make.
So, ladies and gentleman, let me proudly present you
Winners of the Graphics-Illustrations Summer 2010 Competition
3rd Place Winner: Carolyn
Carolyn won: Silver GBG Membership
CONGRATULATIONS CAROLYN!
3rd Place Winner - Carolyn
2nd Place Winner: Lisa Gupton
Lisa won: Gold GBG Membership
CONGRATULATIONS LISA !
2ND Place Winner: Lisa
and finally …
1st Place winner
S A M A T A Q I
Sama Won: Platinum GBG Membership
Sama, what can I say!?
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
1st Place winner SAMA TAQI - submission one
1st Place winner SAMA TAQI - submission two
1st Place winner SAMA TAQI - submission three
These are all beautiful works, showing how creativity knows no limits and I am so happy that so many of you submitted your works to this competition.
Guys! You’ve been great! I love you so much!
You will receive the log in credentials to collect your prizes to your email addresses.
Honorable mention goes to
Cindi Nester!
Celebrate Life - by Cindy Nester
Keep it up, Cindy! Our hearts are with you!
So, that was it for the Summer of 2010 Competition. I hope you had fun creating and I sure hope to see you guys on our next competition.
Now, August is coming to it’s end and you still did not receive your monthly GBG eZine? I know. I just finished working on it last night and will start dispatching it later today. So, you should have it, together with some more free downloads, in your mailboxes by the end of the week.
OK. Thank you once again. Thank you all who participated. Your works were great! All of them!
Love,
Silvia
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I got “The Pig of Happiness” mug by Edward Monkton from my sister some time ago. She brought it from her trip to London and … it instantly became my favorite mug (who doesn’t have one). It says: “May his JOYFUL SMILE remind us how much there is to be HAPPY about”
So, inspired by this totally cool “making me smile” mug, I made my own version of Happy Pigs. I gave them wings and made them fly, so now they’re called
The Flying Pigs of Happiness
and I turned them into
Photoshop brushes
And I dedicated that brush to all my loving GBG members which will get it for free in our GBG eZine July 2010 edition (you too can joing GBG here ->)!
These 8 flying piggies will be available as .abr and .png files and I hope you will have fun using them as a decoration for your designs! I know I had fun creating them!
So, here they are 8 flying piggies, I hope they will put a smile on your face :
Colored version
Flying piggies – monochrome version
:D
| Preview The Flying Pigs of Happiness, Photoshop Brushes |
So, you will get it in our next GBG eZine which should come out soon.
In the mean time, don’t forget to check out on our Summer 2010 Competition Page and take part in it!
Enjoy the day, love you all.
Silvia
P.S.
Do you have your favorite mug? Where (and who) did you get if from? What does it look like? Leave a comment, it would be great to hear from you.
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Gang!
A month later than the last year, but still on time, ladies and gentleman, after last years success when we received 116 graphics (proudly displayed on our Facebook page), we proudly announce
Graphics-Illustrations
Summer 2010 Competition
Yes, the competition is back. So, of you remotely like graphics or visual arts, you are invited to participate!
So, what’s the competition all about?
The competition is all about creating graphics with a little help of certain Photoshop brushes (no need to use Photoshop though, you can convert brushes to png with abr viewer and make your graphic in any application).
The idea is to express yourself, your thoughts, emotions or you can just make a banner for your site or business. You can make a graphics for mug, or t-shirt or apparel. Sticker for your car, or your motorcycle and bicycle helmet. Whatever you find interesting, possibilities are unlimited. Whatever it is – we want to see it :)
Technicalities
When it comes to technical side of the competition there are few rules you should follow:
1. Dimensions
Please make sure that images are 800px wide (max)
2. Resolution
Images should be 72dpi
3. Format
Images should be in JPG, PNG or GIF format
4. Size
Images should not be bigger than 5Mb
5. Graphic elements
Submissions should include at least one of the following Graphics-Illustrations Photoshop brushes (as we said before, you can convert Photoshop brushes to png and make your graphic in any other application.)
- Swirls 2 [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Floral Ornaments [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Floral Shapes [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Hawaiian Flowers [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Swirls Outlined [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Paisley Designs [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
- Swirled Trees [ PREVIEW ] – [ DOWNLOAD ]
Number of submissions
Well, I don’t know … let’s stick to, say, maximum of three images?
How to submit an image?
Just send your submission(s) to my mailbox at silvia at graphics-illustrations.com. I will then put them our Facebook page where our fans (3900+ of them) will vote.
Deadline
Please send your works by August 20th 2010
Who can apply?
All people of good will and that means you too :)
Awards
I hear you ask:
“Apart from having fun and getting worldwide fame exposing my images to such a wide audience (2500+ daily visitors on Graphics-Illustrations.Com and 3900+ Fans on Facebook), what else do I get for submitting my work to the competition?”
Well, for this year we prepared three awards.
- 1st Place
Platinum GBG Membership - 2nd Place
Gold GBG Membership - 3rd Place
Silver GBG Membership
OK. I think I covered just about any question you might have, but if I missed something, please let me know by leaving a comment or sending me an email (silvia at graphics-illustrations.com).
I hope you will enjoy the competition. I will make sure to put all works (that comply with the rules) on Graphics-Illustrations.Com Facebook page and to the Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 Competition Facebook Photo album.
Also, best works will be featured on Graphics-Illustrations.Com web site.
I am looking forward to your submission!
Have fun creating!
Silvia
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Coming Soon
Photoshop Text Effects Pack
I know, you must be wondering why on the world did I decide to use the Winter theme in the middle of the Summer? And you surely must be wondering why do I want to promote winter text effect, again, in the middle of the Summer?!
Beats me. I guess I just had a day like this. Not a good marketer. I know.
Anyhow, hereby I want to announce a new product. This time it is a pure PSD files with several layers. But, this one will enable you to get these text effects quickly and with no effort whatsoever.
I hope you will like it.
Of course, you will be able to lettering and the font as per you preferences.
Anyways, here is another sample on this new Text Effects Pack – Rain, not that much of a Winter theme any more, innit?:
So, Text Effect Pack will consist of 6 different text effect for Photoshop! Every text effect will be presented on 12×12 inches background suitable for the effect.
Some text effect will be linked to the background (like this one above) but you can change the background with another one from your photo-album (for example: if you took the picture of water drops that fall from the window you can use it in this psd file)
OK, that’s it. You just saw half of this new pack :) Next three text effects will be presented when completed :)
And the tutorial on how to use them is on it’s way too.
Have a great Sunday,
Silvia
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Gang!
I have an announcement to make! I just created a brand new web site, and the name of that site is:
Scrapbook Gift Card
So, the idea was to make a site that will offer and present, well, scrapbook gift card templates, downloads and resources for all occasions.
Anyways, without further ado, I added quite a few cards over there already, so please check it out and let me know what you think.
xoxoxo,
Silvia
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Hi Gang,
GBG eZine May 2010 edition is gone, thank you all for liking it and a special THANK YOU goes to those of you who became Silver, Gold or Premium GBG members. I hope you will enjoy your special treatment here at GBG.
So, as I was sitting and contemplating on all this, I don’t know how, but it happened that started to draw crabs. And not just, like, any crabs, I started to draw happy crabs!
You already guessed, new Photoshop brushes set (digital stamps set) is on it’s way – Happy Crabs! The set is not yet finished, but I also made s small video so you can see how I make them.
I think I will dedicate this next Photoshop brushes set to GBG Gold members. Yes, that’s what I’ll do.
It will not be available for sale, these crabs will be given to GBG Gold members for free.
Apart from that, I managed to find the coolest digital scrapbooking frames on net. You can see them on http://digitalscrapbookingsource.com.
Of course, you can make unique, great and super cool frames by yourself with a little help from my Photoshop brushes.
So, I hope you will enjoy the video, if you are a Gold GBG member or if you become one, you will find them in GBG Members downloads area in a day or two. This is the special repository where Silver, Golden and Platinum members get their additional free bonuses and downloads (apart from free products from our GBG Shop).
OK. That’s all for now.
Have fun creating!
Silvia
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OK. Now that I said that, I can give you a short update on what’s going on so you won’t think I’m just sitting here doing nothing all day ;)
Actually, I am working hard, preparing a two new Photoshop brushes sets.
One will be called Swirled Trees. And the other one – Fantasy Birds.
There will be a LITE version of Swirled Trees (just a few brushes to get a taste of what’s in the PREMIUM package), which will be free and you will get it in our next issue of GBG eZine.
And since, I too have to pay the bills, there will also be the PREMIUM version which will include 20 of those beautiful brushes in HiRes with Commercial License, which will, well, not be free. But, for Silver or Gold Members of our Green Bulb Gang, they will get the PREMIUM version on discount!
Also SILVER and GOLD GBG Members will get Fantasy birds Photoshop brushes – for FREE!
As some of you, Facebook friends, have already noticed, I’m kinda addicted to my new Hipstamatic iPhone photo application, so I use it wherever it fits and I also use it in the situations where I probably should not be using it, like in this post.
I made these beautiful Swirled Trees and I wanted to share with you the working version from my screen (which, apart from my iPhone is still the only Apple piece of equipment I’ve got …).
So, of course, in this post I just had to use Hipstamatic again and get that “lomo” look … Here is the working version of the new Photoshop brushes – Swirled Trees which will come out in the next (May) issue of GBG eZine:
And here is the working preview of Fantasy birds Photoshop brushes, also coming out in May issue of GBG eZine:
And, of course, Mr. Alphons (a.k.a. Peackoh) and Poofah are always here, watching from above :))
Oh, and if you are into lomo photography, stop by myHipstamatic.blogspot.com for more :)
So, as you can see, I’m working hard, thinking of you and, while waiting for the next issue of GBG eZine, stop by my shop for some really cool, HiQuality, beautiful Photoshop brushes with commercial license included ->
Love ya all!
Silvia
P.S.
Did you notice how Graphics-Illustrations.Com has now Google Page Rank of 4 (four)? Well, I did! Had to do bear dance on that one ;)
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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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Guys,
I received an email the other day. It came from Germany and it was from a young woman who’s dream is to be a fashion designer. She wanted to buy my 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET because the brushes there were just what she needed for her first fashion line but she wanted to make sure it is in line with my ToU before she makes a purchase.
Of course it was in line with my ToU! Actually, I was so happy that my brushes will be used that way that I decided to give her some of these brushes in as vector graphics as well!
When I was younger I dreamt the same dream. Wanted to be a fashion designer, making my own fashion lines… but life went into a different direction and now I’m graphic designer.
Anyways, what I wanted to say, it always amazes me to I see how many different and creative ways you find in using Photoshop brushes.
I mean, we did the boots design with Photoshop brushes, we made T-Shirts and socks, rubber stamps, packaging paper design, software application interfaces, that was fun, and I’d really really love to see C. making a success as a fashion designer.
Guys, I just needed to share with you, once again, how fascinated I am with the world of options we are surrounded with. Every day. If we just open our eyes.
Create, invent, discover!
Love,
Silvia
PS:
So, you thought I have forgotten about you, haven’t you? But I haven’t. If you liked the graphics from the header of this post you can have it as your wallpaper. To create it I used Photoshop brushes from my little Shop. These are available at The Ultimate Photoshop Brushes CD too :)
Here are the free wallpaper downloads:
1280×960 Desktop Wallpaper – The World is Full of Opportunities
1680×1050 Desktop Wallpaper - The World is Full of Opportunities
1920×1200 Desktop Wallpaper - The World is Full of Opportunities
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What can I say? I was so happy when I realized that Google raised the ranking of this site to PR3! Happy, the least to say.
What does it mean – Page Ranking PR3?
Simply put, it means that Google trusts this site, it means that Google appreciates the fact that I am making original content, unique posts and that I publish my own brushes here. Google realized that I’m not just aggregating other people’s work here.
Also, it means that advertisers will want to, well, advertise more on this site because links from PR3 sites are quite valuable :).
But, above all, this confirms that I am on the right track being persistent, for a third year now, creating new and original content, Photoshop brushes, vector illustrations, backgrounds, tutorials and other useful stuff.
So, thank you Google, thank you visitors and I hope to see PR4 really soon :))
In the meantime, enjoy this site, join Green Bulb Gang and free downloads that we offer.
Love you all,
Silvia
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