Gang,
You know how I’m all about individual approach when it comes to my blog and the Photoshop brushes (and other stuff) that I create, give away or sell. I like to talk to you and I’m always happy to assist you when you send me emails.
I can also see that you appreciate that as well. I guess we all kinda miss that small local stores where customer has a name and a good relationship with people who work there.
I always wanted my blog to be a place like this. And I made many friends here WHICH IS GREAT!
And there was always this thing I wanted to ask my buyers: How did you find me?
This is very valuable information for me and in return I will, of course, say Thank you with something valuable as well. Additional FREE Photoshop brushes set: Antique Frames!
So, if you already bought or plan to buy anything from my little Shop of wonders :)), please let me know how you found me (just send me an email) and as a sign of appreciation I will send you this set.
Love ya all guys!
Silvia
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Welcome to my first Texture Thursday (Let’s call it – TT)!
At first, I thought about Texture Tuesday, but then I decided to go for Thursday. Why? It’s a long story. I will tell you if you really insist. But not before that. :)
So, today is Thursday and here is the texture!
For today’s TT-Day (yeah, let’s call it TT Day!) I prepared
“Cracked Walls”
This is a pack of five HighRes textures in JPG, 3504×2336 pixels at 300 dpi! And I can assure you: these textures are just as good as any other texture at any microstock agency!
I know because I sell (some other stuff) there. And best of all: they are FREE for you to download and use it. (In 5 days it will become a part of GBG members exclusive archive, so if you don’t get it now, you will still be able to get it as a GBG member.)
Click on the images (one by one) to download the zipped JPGs, or you can DOWNLOAD the whole package HERE (60MB). Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!So here we go:
Of course, I prepared a Cracked Walls LITE Photoshop Brushes Set for you too!!! Set contains 10 Photoshop Brushes: 5 at maximum size (2500 pixels) and 5 small (up to 700 pixels – derived from the JPGs). You can DOWNLOAD FREE Cracked Walls LITE Photoshop Brushes Set HERE (open .abr file; 22MB) or DOWNLOAD FREE Cracked Walls LITE Photoshop Brushes Set HERE (zip file; 19,6MB) Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
Cracked Walls LITE Photoshop Brushes Set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Happy TT!
Silvia
P.S.
If you like my stuff and want to support what I am doing and get your self the Ultimate tool for your designs and scrapbooking endeavours just check 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET ->
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Scrapbookers, photographers, graphic and web designers!
Graphic Professionals and visual artists of all kinds!
Spring time is coming, birds are singing, today is a beautiful day and today I proudly present you, brand new, totally fresh, just out from my little factory of fine Photoshop brushes, a complete work of art at your service!
Ladies and gentleman, let me present you
Bsilvia BIRDS (& trees and fields of grass) Photoshop brushes!
New PRO package of professional Photoshop brushes in highest resolution!
I just know you’re gonna love these just as much as I do.
Of course, as usual, here is a little something for free (6 brushes), so you can:
[ PREVIEW Birds Photoshop Brushes set - Lite Edition ] or
[ DOWNLOAD Birds Photoshop Brushes set - Lite Edition ] Sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
And, something really really awesome - Bsilvia, brids, trees and fields of grass Photoshop brushes in PREMIUM EDITION:
- 45+45 Hi Res PRO brushes (each brush comes in 2500px and 800px version)
- commercial license, as always – included
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Use them in your scrapbooks, photo books, graphic and web designs, mugs and t-shirts, etc etc… Use them in all kinds of commercial or non-commercial projects! Don’t forget, these come with Commercial license!
So, PREVIEW Birds Photoshop Brushes set Premium Edition here ->
And GET Birds Photoshop Brushes set $9.99 Premium Edition here ->
Love you all and viva la spring!
Silvia
P.S.
You know what? It just occurred to me. You can get the whole package FOR FREE if you buy my flagship product 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET by 3rd of March 2009! Use this opportunity and buy MEGA SET NOW -> try not to miss this offer because such discounts come on the very very rare occasions.
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Gang, February issue of the Green Bulb Gang eZine is out!
And this time it’s green :D
Here is what we prepared in this issue:
- FREE Photoshop Brushes set – St. Patrick’s (6+6)
- FREE vector set – St. Patrick’s Tags (6)
- FREE St. Patrick’s Journal cards (3)
Of course, as usual, here is the Special GBG OFFER:
* St. Patrick’s Photoshop Brushes set (35) Special Discount for GBG members only!
Discounted to $5.99 ($9.99)
We also prepared one Photoshop tutorial: “How to Create High Key Photo using Photoshop”
So, we hope you’ll find some of these stuff interesting and if you are still not a member you can join here and get free downloads!
XOXO,
S
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And it was about time. Despite of the removal, despite of not having a decent Internet connection in my new apartment, despite the fact that we waited for a fridge for 3 days and the washing machine for 2 days, against all odds – in between of removal boxes, I managed to make them.
Ladies and gentleman (OK, I know, ladies mostly)
I am proud to present you, brand new
VALENTINES PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES 21+21 !!!
As usual, there is a little something for FREE so you get a taste of what is offered in the Premium Edition.
As usual, they are all HiRes, smooth edges, huge sizes all round purpose design helpers with commercial license, so you can use them in your commercial projects!
Of course, don’t forget create a little something for your beloved ones and remember, staff that you create will always have that special value.
OK. Enough talking :)
1. FREE Lite edition consists of 3 brushes (at 1000px)
[ Click here for preview free Lite edition ]
[ Click here to download free Lite edition ] sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
2. Premium edition of this set consists of 21 brush at 2000px AND 21 brush at 1000px
[ Click here for preview Premium edition ]
[ Click here to buy Premium edition ]
I don’t know, I figured I should probably enumerate some of the practical use examples, but then, there are like, zillions of possible applications for these brushes and this post would real be too long, it would bore you with the stuff you already know.
So, I opted to skip that part. Instead, I will send the following message: Love each other! Hug each other! Kiss each other! Make great stuff with these brushes and see how other people appreciate it.
P.S.
This Photoshop brushes set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4.
P.P.S.
As always, a little reminder, this FULL PRO set can be obtained for $4.99 if you get the big, huge, one and the only MEGA 800+ PS BRUSHES SET, click here for details ->
P.P.P.S.
You are welcome to visit my new photo-blog: Photo A Day! I publish my photography there (one each day) and I hope you’ll enjoy it!
P.P.P.P.S.
Look, I really don’t know why I put “The Moment of Truth” in the subject of the post. I guess I just like to dramatize … I’m like that. I dramatize. It makes life even more fun when you dramatize. Try it :)
P.P.P.P.P.S.
:-D
Check out Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32) too :).
No more P.S.
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Gang, January issue of the Green Bulb Gang eZine is out!
Yes, you guessed well, more free stuff is underway … :)
Here is what we came up with in this issue. It’s all FREE, of course!
- Valentine’s Frames (3) Photoshop Brushes set [ Preview ]
- Floral (complex, 2) Photoshop Brushes set [ Preview ]
- Valentine’s background 12×12 inches (3600×3600 pixels, 300 dpi) [ Preview ]
- Valentine’s Word Art (1500 pixels wide, 5 PNG files) [ Preview ]
Of course, as usual, here is the Special GBG OFFER:
* Valentine’s Hearts Vector Pack (35) Discounted $14.99 ($19.99) with a special GIFT for GBG members only!
We also prepared one Photoshop tutorial: “Removing unwanted brushes from the set”
So, we hope you’ll find some of these stuff interesting and if you are still not a member you can join here and get free downloads!
Special notice for those of you who use Safari on Mac Systems: Downloading ABR files in Safari; Click here for instructions ->
Love,
Silvia
PS: Attention to all MEGA Set 800+ PS brushes owners! You can use your special coupon code when buying latest Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop brushes set (120). This coupon code will save you 50%!
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I know. It sounds a bit like bragging but, believe me, once you see them, you’ll most probably think the same. And here is why.
These are the brushes I announced week ago. It took almost a month to complete them! And here is a short description of the work involved to get them done:
- These were first drawn by hand on Wacom tablet.
- These images were then manually traced and re-drawn in in Adobe Illustrator (there is no such tracing software that can replace good old manual work)
- Then were they converted to HiRes (2400px) Photoshop brushes
- To be presented to you :)
I receive many emails where you praise the quality of my brushes. Thank you. This quality, becomes especially obvious when you zoom in and check the shape edges. They’re fine, smooth edges. Thank you for your emails, these come as a reassurance that I am on the right course even if it takes so much time to produce them. And the procedure above explains how much work is involved. Especially all of you who use vector programs like Adobe Illustrator, you can understand how much work and effort does it take to make such a complex shape, not to mention 16 of them. But still, converting them to vectors and then exporting them is the only way to get real high quality brushes.
And why is this high resolution so important? It is too important when you need to use them on large images, on images that will be printed, or even on small images with a big brush shape or images that will contain just a part of the brush shape. Generally, it is too important when you want your work to look decent.
OK. I guess, by now, it’s quite clear that I am proud of this new set. I am proud and I am happy that I finally finished them. So, here they are. Full shapes (16) and elements (104) that you can use to create your own shapes.
As usual, there is one lite edition which is freeeee!!! :)
[ PREVIEW Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes Lite Edition (13) ]
[ DOWNLOAD Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes Lite Edition (13) ] sorry, 5 days subscription free download offer expired. Download is now available after joining GBG. Please read about our free download policy and join our GBG for more free downloads. Thanks!
And here is the real deal – PREMIUM Edition, set of 120 Fine Floral Swirls. 16 full floral shapes and 104 shape elements so that you can combine them and make your own floral swirls.
And believe me this set will blow your socks off!!! 120 of highest quality of finest Floral Swirls shapes, for, can you imagine – just $9.99! Of course, commercial license is included so you can use them, hassle free, in your commercial projects!
[ PREVIEW Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes Premium Edition (120) ]
[ GET Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes Premium Edition (120) ]
Have fun creating!
Silvia
P.S.
This Photoshop brushes set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4.
P.P.S.
Want them for 1/2 the price? Check my 800+ PREMIUM Photoshop brushes MEGA Set. This set will also get you special 50% OFF coupon code which is valid for all other brushes including Fine(st) Floral Swirls Photoshop Brushes.
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Hello everyone!
I know, I’ve been away for, probably, too long. This is like, only the second post in 2009. Snow is pretty high here, streets are frozen but your graphics-illustrations.com team is on the heat. And for a reason. We are preparing something AWESOME for you guys! All we need from at this stage is a little patience.
What we are preparing for you guys is probably the most complex brushes set ever published on this blog (and there has been like probably a hundred of them so far). But, those new ones are something special. I mean, if those were simple, straight-forward brushes, they’d be completed and published a long time ago. But not these ones.
So, together with Poofitzah (see below) we are working hard to get you the brand new, Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop brushes set.
We know that will be around 16 brushes in this new set, every brush will be 2400 pixels (almost maximum) and all of them will be more complex than any other brush so far.
In this post I bring you a taste of this new set that will to be published by the end of this month.
[ DOWNLOAD THIS PHOTOSHOP BRUSH - Floral ]
So, this one is free and it comes with a commercial license for all of you who make money creating scrap books, wedding invitations, photo albums and all kind of designs. You will agree that we are talking about real complex brush here. That is why it is taking so long to produce the whole set of 16 + over 100 elements. But, don’t worry, once it’s out (by 26th of January) the price of the full set will be the same as usual: $9.99.
Oh, and one more thing (important!): many of you ask about compatibility with Photoshop CS4! All Photoshop brushes in graphics-illustrations.com shop are compatible with Photoshop 7.0 and upwards: you can use them in CS, CS2, CS3 and of course in new CS4 version. Every new software version supports older version of plug-ins or similar. In Adobe case, every new version of Photoshop supports brushes down to Photosop 7.0. So, no worries for you lucky Photoshop CS4 owners.
Do I need to remind you of my sooper-dooper (I came up with it) deal on the 800+ PS brushes MEGA SET? You can get 24 PREMIUM PRO Photoshop brushes Sets (800+ HiRes PRO brushes with commercial license) for 1/2 the price NOW!!! (see all the brushes here) ->
And to make this offer a REAL GOOD DEAL here is what’s in the package:
- You will get 25th set (40 more brushes): Photo Corners Photoshop Brushes set (20+20) for FREE!
- You will also get an extra promo gift that comes with it: Scrapbook kit Grunge Love!
- And aside from these 800+ brushes … you will get the special 50% discount coupon code that will be valid for ALL OTHER PS Brushes sets that I ever made (Including the FLORAL ones that are in production now). How about that?!?!
- OK. I have some more happy surprises for the buyers of the 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA Set, but if I tell you about it now, then there would be no happy surprise, now, would it :))
Love you all guys, and don’t feel bad about the economy and stuff, use your imagination, many of my buyers started are real good businesses with my brushes (it wouldn’t be fair if I told you about them, but I’m kinda confident about your imagination. Also, please refer to some of my previous posts about business opportunities that open up when you buy HiRes PS brushes with commercial license).
Don’t forget, where there is a will there is a way!
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Guys,
Fist, I want to let you know how much I appreciate the support you’ve given me after someone called “Becky” attacked me heavily, calling me names and using vulgar words just because she had issues navigating through my blog. As she promised (if it is “she” – I can’t really know), she downloaded most of the free files (mostly Photoshop brushes) from my blog and uploaded them on 4shared.com.
Thank you Joanne for letting me know. I already reported that.
So, of course, I felt hurt and pissed after I heard about it. I believe you would feel the same. If someone takes your work and offers it to the world as their own, it would piss anyone, right?
But then I gave it a second thought. I realized that I can not really hate that person. On the contrary, I felt kinda pity for her. She did not really hurt me by doing that.
How come?
Well, for one, I did feel distressed for a while, but I could not withstand negative emotions for too long. They start to hurt the one who retains them. “Becky”, obviously, retained negative emotions for a long time since she took the effort to do all this downloading and then uploading to that 4shared.com site. Her negative emotions made damage to her, not to me. It’s pure physics.
Secondly, people who use stolen intellectual property are people who don’t know how to make nice and beautiful things, it just doesn’t go together. Why? Well, if you steal it means that you have rotten mind, if you have rotten mind you can not create nice and useful things. And that’s it, plain and simple. That’s how things work.
And, in the end, I believe that this whole thing made me a better person. I learned something about myself and I am happy about what I found out. I found out that I can not withhold negative emotions for long. I found out that I can remain positive and not hate even when something is stolen from me.
In addition, through all this support I was receiving since this happened, I learned that there are much much more good people than bad ones. I learned that there are many people who appreciate my work and that is THE BIGGEST REWARD OF THEM ALL! So, all this filled me up with positive emotions, enthusiasm and optimism about the “Life, universe and everything” (You gotta read that book if you haven’t done so already).
I truly hope that “Becky” person will realize that she(or he – again) only hurt herself in the end. Not anyone else. With the feeling of hate and all other negative emotions she’s overwhelmed with, she just did damage to herself.
So, the moral of the story is: When the going gets tough, find the power to remain positive and loving person no matter what. We all knew that from before, but sometimes it’s good to be reminded.
And this is the end of the “Becky story”.
I promise to come up with nicer stories for as we look forward to Christmas and the New Year of 2009.
Love you all,
Silvia
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Dear one who had no courage to leave your real name or email address,
Calling me names only because you couldn’t find FREE downloads, it’s cheap. And even if you could not find it you could have nicely asked me about it. Not to mention that you reported my provider as a spammer. It is such a sad sad waste of a life and time.
Your threats that you will sell my work without following my TOU are silly. You can’t hurt me this way. Just yourself. Why can’t you see that?
Also, dear “Becky”, it’s interesting that you didn’t have the courage to leave your real email address. Because of you, for a moment, I felt like deleting all of my FREE downloads. But I will not do that. Simply because of all the good people who visit my blog. It’s a pity that you did not leave your email address. We have a lot to talk about.
Please leave your email here. Show some courage, stand behind so many vulgar words you wrote to me.
Best,
Silvia
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Of course, gang, not everything needs to be so gloomy and doomy just because the big guys on Wall Street messed it up. They still can’t take our Christmas spirit away, isn’t it?
I certainly will not allow be intimidated with all this and I recommend you do the same. Cheer up! You might even take it easy on spending on Christmas presents but you can still make presents for your beloved ones. And if you make the presents yourself, I promise, they will have a special value and meaning for the one who gets them. Because, in these kind of presents you invested your time. And time is the most precious gift that was given to us on a day when we were born.
So, for all of you creative souls, scrap-bookers, design enthusiasts and professional graphic designers. tonight I prepared something that you will cherish and appreciate this season. Tonight, I bring you:
2009 MEGA Christmas Brushes Set
55 brushes in 2 sizes (110 in total)
[ PREVIEW PREMIUM PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET - Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55) ]
[ GET PREMIUM PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET - Christmas Photoshop brushes set (55+55) ]
And what will this set do to you?
It will help you with:
- Preparing Christmas scrap books,
- Greeting cards
- Gift wrapping paper
- Even decorating your apartment,
- Make a gift like a mug or t-shirt or clothing on Zazzle or Cafepress
- Let your imagination go wild from here
And for professional designers, you already know what I’m talking about. Some of these brushes could be a life saver on a tight deadlines. For everyone who has a site or a blog – decorate your websites with this set.
And you know how all of my brushes come with a commercial license. They are all in High Resolution. They are compatible with all versions of Photoshop from 7.0 up to CS4.
I mean, with this set you can spend less this Christmas and make your present unique and beautiful.
Of course, as usual for those of you who really can’t afford $9.99 for a full package, I prepared a free, lite version of 7 brushes. I am a struggling artist myself and I know how it is not to have money so I always give a piece of my work away for free for those of you who can’t afford.
[ PREVIEW LITE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET - Christmas Photoshop brushes set (7) ]
[ DOWNLOAD LITE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET - Christmas Photoshop brushes set (7) *5 DAYS subscription free!* Free Download now available after joining our Green Bulb Gang ]
At the same time I am very grateful to all of you who buy my brushes, support my work and benefit from it at the same time. That’s why I prepared a little something for all buyers of this set. But, I want this little something to be a little Christmas surprise gift for you! This offer is valid until 1st of January 2009.
And, of course, I must not forget to mention, all of my ex and future buyers of 800+ Photoshop Brushes MEGA Set will get this one for 1/2 the price, i.e. $4.99.
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