It is a weird day today. Especially the sunset I’m watching right now.
It rains, clouds are low, but still, far away, from the west, sun shines through, making drops of water sparkle on the trees in yellow, red and orange colors. Of course, the rainbow appeared too. On the east side where all is gray. All is weird this afternoon. Summer is coming to it’s end … obviously.
But, let’s not be sad about it! We are now looking forward to September, aren’t we! If you are into photography, you will love September, because the colors of September are always so beautiful. One of the best months for Photo lovers!
And, of course, this month as always, I prepared a desktop wallpaper calendar for you guys. The photo below was taken in September on a sailing trip and, as you can see, it was pretty dramatic :)
This wallpaper Calendar comes in 8 different dimensions.
Some of you asked for some additional desktop wallpaper dimensions last month, so this time I wanted to make sure that 99% screen resolutions are covered.
Just click on the link to download the September 2010 Calendar.
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1024×768
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1280×800
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1280×960
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1280×1024
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1440×900
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1600×1200
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1680×1050
September Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 1920×1200
To decorate the calender I used Swirled Squares design elements (Photoshop brushes). These decorations are made exclusively for GBG Platinum Members who also get a whole bunch of other stuff including 24 PREMIUM products from GBG Shop.
Ok. That’s all folks!
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Not all people enjoy Summer at crowded beaches, some people enjoy spending Summer in mountains.
Irska is one of them. (Don’t know Irska? Get to know her -> :) I just got this great quick scrapbook page from her. And I had to share it with you. Really, Irska, you’re getting better and better all the time!
Now, look at this photo too – seems like a perfect day!
As in the Lou Reed song:
“Oh it’s such a perfect day,
I’m glad I spent it with you…”
I can see you’ve been in a good company. And what else can one wish for. A perfect day in a good company.
Mojca, as always, thank you for sharing your work with us! Keep them coming and be careful over there in the mountains :)
xoxoxo
Silvia
Mini set:
Happy Circled Word-Art Photoshop brushes (7+7 – two sizes) + 7 transparent PNG files
This MINI set is FREE for GBG Gold and Platinum Members!
But if you are not a member you can still get it at a ridiculous price of only $3.50 if you click right here -> :)
P.S.
To get loads of Hiqh Quality brushes for your commercial projects, click here to visit my little gallery/shop ->
And now, ladies and gentleman, I could not resist, please, let me present you
Lou Reed, Bono Vox, David Bowie, Elton John and many others in
A perfect day
Lay back, close you eyes, relax and just enjoy this beautiful piece of art (ignore first 10 seconds though :):
So, gang I hope you liked it too. In case you were wondering, in this Quick Scrapbook Page Irska did a great job with Happy Circled Wordart brushes and Happy Doodles Photoshop brushes!
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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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The T-Shirt that I designed with a little help of my Flying (Scribbler) Hearts Photoshop brushes on Zazzle just arrived!!!
And wow, it looks good :)
I washed it yesterday, and took the iPhone Hipstamatic photo :) But, it looks better than on this photo and better than the image in my Zazzle shop!
This T-Shirt was created with a little help of my Free Photoshop brushes (Digital Stamps): Scribbler Hearts, available for download on Digital Scrapbooking Source ->
Hanging hearts are also my brushes, but these are not available for download, yet. I still keep them for myself ;)
However, there are loads of high quality Photoshop brushes (w/commercial license) available in my little Shop of Wonders :) so feel free to visit ->
The quotation on the T-Shirt is by Frida Kahlo and it says: Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
“Flying hearts” T-shirt is available in my Zazzle Shop, and I’m gonna wear it at tonight’s party!
Enjoy your day and have fun creating,
Silvia
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Few weeks ago I attended our cousin’s wedding. It was really nice white wedding, bride was in white, just like everything else: curtains at the restaurant, table cloths, carpets, plates, napkins, candles… everything!
The reception started at night, so all-white idea was really impressive. I have to admit: I liked it.
But that was not all, I left that wedding with an idea planted in my head. It inspired me for one new creation. And not just any creation. I had this vision of unique wedding album.
Anyways, I just had to get it out of my head, so I sat the other morning, worked through the day and the night to create a wedding album template. I named it: “Sweet Memories”.
BUY NOW: Wedding Photo album: Sweet Memories
Inside the pack:
20 photo album pages in PSD (compatible with all Photoshop versions) and 20 pages in PNG
1 front cover page in PSD and PNG
1 back cover page in PSD and PNG
Size with bleed: 13×13 inches @300dpi
Size without bleed: 12×12 inches @300dpi
If needed, all pages can be easily re sized to to 10×10 inches.
Click on images for larger preview
(Photos used for previews are from free stock photography site: stock.xchng)
Front and back cover pages:
If you are photographer, use this template to create wedding photo albums for your clients.
Or you can use it to make a wedding album for yourself, your sister, brother, family, friends … you name it.
And it comes with Bonuses too!!!
Here is what you get for free if you buy this package:
Wedding Thank You card
Size with bleed: 4,5×3,5 inches @300dpi
Size without bleed: 3,5×2,5 inches @300dpi
Wedding Invitation
Size with bleed: 8×6 inches
Size without bleed: 7×5 inches
So, what’s in the pack again?
- 20 pages in pack+back and front cover page! – total of 22 pages in 13×13 inches size @300dpi with bleed (12×12 without bleed)
- All pages are available in layered PSD AND transparent PNG files!
- Wedding Thank You card and Wedding Invitation are also available in layered PSD and in PNG files
- Compatible with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint.NET, PaintShop Pro… and all applications that supports PSD (layered Photoshop file) or PNG files!
Yes, all of this is included in my latest: Wedding Photo album: Sweet Memories!
And now – Free Download!
Wedding RSVP card (RSVP wedding template: PSD and PNG file available in one ZIP file!)
Size with bleed: 4,5×6 inches @300dpi
Size without bleed: 3,5×5 inches @300dpi
Click here to download free RSVP card
Cheers,
Silvia
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It’s Summer time and I know how hard it can be to sit in front of the screen when there’s such a beautiful weather outside.
:)
I know! So, I extended the competition deadline till 20th of August!
However, many of you are having fun with Photoshop brushes, making great graphics! And when you submit these graphics to our competition – things get even better!
So, here are the latest four competition submissions:
Sweet floral frame from Mojca using Floral Shapes Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes) and Hawaiian Flowers Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes)
Cute graphic from Carolyn (she says “I’m not a pro”, but this looks great) using Swirled Trees Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes) and Birds Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes)
Another adorable graphic from Carolyn (she is a pro) using Paisley Designs Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes) and Floral Shapes Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes)
Fourth newest submission is great graphic from Christina created using Swirled Trees Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes) and Paisley Designs Digital Stamps (Photoshop brushes)
Thank you girls, all submissions are really great and unique! You are welcome to leave your web links too :)
If you didn’t hear about the Summer 2010. Competition – there is still time, info is available at: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 Competition
Deadline is on August 20th 2010. :)
For this year we prepared three awards:
- 1st Place Platinum GBG Membership
- 2nd Place Gold GBG Membership
- 3rd Place Silver GBG Membership
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For those of you who are impatient and want to skip to 5 free Photoshop brushes sets for immediate download they’re on the bottom of this post. Just scroll over there.
Now, for the rest of you who want to find out a little bit more on what’s going on, read on.
Remeber Linda? 5 days ago I showed you her contribution to our Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 competition.
I know, how could you forget such a beautiful Christmas Tree made of Photoshop brushes!?
And guess what??? This is not all. Linda made a whole package design with a little help of Photoshop brushes
Now, let me tell you something … This looks AWESOME!
I will not say a word … see for yourself:
Linda, what can I say?! You are a genius! This looks beatiful!
And now, in a Christmas spirit, here are some free Photoshop brushes available for immediate download. It is Christmas in July after all! (learn about on Wikipedia about Christmas in July ) :)
Click on the brush name to download it and click on PREVIEW to see what it looks like before download.
I made them with love, had lot of fun doing it it and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do. Feel free to use them in your Commercial projects.
- Grunge Stars Photoshop brushes | PREVIEW |
- Christmas Trees (grungy) Photoshop brushes | PREVIEW |
- Christmas photo masks Photoshop brushes | PREVIEW |
- Grunge Snowflakes Photoshop brushes | PREVIEW |
- Christmas LITE set Photoshop brushes | PREVIEW |
PREMIUM Christmas Photoshop brushes set is also available in my flagship product 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA set!
Love ya’ all, take care!
xoxoxo
Silvia
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In my last post I showed you how Mojca (or should I say – Irska) used Photoshop brushes in her latest Scrapbook projects.
Now is the time to talk about vectors. Actually, I owe a huge apology to vectors. They have been sooo neglected on my blog that I just can’t believe that I did that! That was wrong, wrong – WRONG!
Why?
Because, vectors are extremely useful in so many different ways. Let’s just mention some of them:
1. You can stretch them, skew them, enlarge or scale them down as much as you want and you will never, NEVER lose any quality.
2. And if you are in hurry or inspiration just won’t land on your shoulder, a pre-made vector is the best place to start. Load them into your favorite vector software, adjust them to fit your needs and – voila! You get what you needed in no time!
Nikki is one of many graphic designers who knows all about advantages that vectors offer. And, I was so happy, the other day, when I got her email. She wanted to show me how she used 30 Floral Shapes vector set to create car decal.
Now, here is what she said:
I found a couple of pieces (graphic design elements) and mixed them together, gave them a bend here and there to fit the contours of the car and came up with a new design for her.
I have attached a couple of pics of her car and hope to do more using your images.
Thank you so much for all your hard work and the use of your products commercially.. they have helped me in so many ways..
Nikki x
In this photo you can see how Nikki used 30 Floral Shapes vector set to make her client happy. And she made it :)
Thank you for your email Nikki, and all the kind words. I am always happy to see how designers like you benefit from my design elements and emails like yours always make my day.
Keep on doing to good work!
A word or two on
30 Floral Shapes vector set
20 Floral Shapes vector set consists of, well, 30 beautiful Floral Shapes that you can use in your commercial projects, in other words, they are beautiful, easy to use and applicable to, well, just about anything. Up there you saw how they were applicable to a car. No reason why wouldn’t they look good on a byke, or mug, or scrapbook, or a wedding invitation after all.
Advantages of vectors are pretty know to everyone by now, so need to repeat how valuable they really are.
To make things even better, this particular set is on sale!!! So, you get to save $$$ AND make $$$ as these come with Commercial license. So you too, like Nikki, and many other designers, can use them in your commercial projects.
The package contains 30 Floral Shapes in following vector formats:
- .ai (vector format for Adobe Illustrator 8 onwards)
- .ai (of course Adobe Illustrator brush, all CS versions)
- .eps format
- .cdr (Corel 8.0 up to X5)
And a special, bitmap bonus:
- .psd (Photoshop 7.0 up to all CS versions)
- .png (so you can easily use them in any photo editing software)
| Preview Floral Shapes vector set | BUY Floral Shapes vector set ($14.99) |
Ok. That’s all for today. I hope you discovered something new in this post. Maybe got an idea or two and I will be back in a day or two with some new super cool stuff.
Love ya’ all, take care!
xoxoxo
Silvia
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And another great work by my dear friend Mojca.
Now, why did I call this post Irska’s Scrapbook when author’s name is Mojca?
First, you should know that Ireland, in Slovenian language, is Irska.
So, you guessed, Mojca must be … Irish.
Not! :)
Mojca is Slovenian. Now, why did I call her Irska then, I hear you ask?
Because, she likes Ireland so much that Irska became her nickname.
Just today I got her email with her latest scrapbook challenge submission on ScrapbookFlair.Com. Theme was “Your front window.”
And voila! I just had to share it with you!
As a light decoration on the blue background, Irska used one of the Photoshop brushes provided on GBG web site – Fantasy birds (now available as PNGs too for GBG Silver Members)
and created this cool scrapbook challenge submission on ScrapbookFlair.com themed “Your front window” :)
Thank you Mojca for sharing this with us! Great work – as always!
I hope you will take part in our Graphics-Illustrations.Com Summer 2010 Competition.
OK. Gang, gotta run now. I hope you are enjoying our fresh, still hot, GBG newsletter which is out now. If you’re not GBG member (yet), join us!
And share your work with us!
xoxox
Silvia
P.S.
You can get Birds Digital Stamps (Photoshop Brushes) in my little shop for $9.99 or in a big pack called 800+ MEGA Set or even in The Ultimate Photoshop Brushes CD. Whatever you choose you won’t regret it :)
So, for those of you who are still not sure, I fully support all kinds of business ventures anyone comes up with, and I am always delighted to hear success stories, especially when my brushes had a role to play.
If you are considering buying 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET, you can rest assure that you are allowed use them for your business ventures, whatever they are, as long as you don’t just repackage and re-sell them as brushes again.
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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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Buying a present for a friend, when they have a birthday is, of course, nice and appreciated.
But when you take the time, effort and love to create something unique, something that’s made just for them and for them only, now that’s, and I think you will agree – really special!
And that’s exactly what Mojca did for her friend.
I was so glad to see that Mojca used my Photoshop brushes (Summer Vacation Corners)!!
She crated a folded birthday card and I am happy to present it here on my blog:
1. Cover of the card
2. Inside of the card
3. And the back of the card, with Graphics-Illustrations.Com url, yeeepeee!
Mojca also made an envelope:
… great work!
Summer Vacation Corners Photoshop Brushes set is available to GBG Silver, Gold and Platinum Members for Free, so if you are not a member – you can join GreenBulbGang.Com here
| Preview Summer Vacation Corners Photoshop Burshes set |
In addition to the above mentioned Photoshop brushes pack, I also prepared extended .png, .ai and .eps pack (which also includes Photoshop brushes .abr files).
This one is free for – Platinum GBG Members. The name of the pack is Special Mini Pack: Summer Vacation Corners (abr, png, ai, eps).
For the rest of you guys, this Special Mini ummer Vacation Corners Special pack is available in Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop for $6.50.
| Preview Summer Vacation Corners Special Pack (abr, png, ai, eps) |
Stay well, and remember – always have fun creating!
Silvia
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