The Fedex man dropped off a package today and to my delight it was from Google. It is this year Christmas gift from Google which is a 2 GB Credit Card sized USB storage in its own little google wallet and a card to donate supplies to the school of your choice. To me not as impressive as last year digital picture frame, but it is cool they are encouraging the people the work with to also share the cheer by giving back to a school of your choice.
Pictures of the Google Christmas Gift 2008 - 2 GB USB Credit Card Sized
Thanks GOOGLE!
100 vector drawings of girls, beach & sports very useful in Illustrator saved in Ai format
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Free Vector Files For your graphic design about 200 .Eps & .Ai files
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New Christmas vector illustration in ai, eps fomat u can always use it to create nice looking greetings cards download it here for free
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Christmas Greeting cards Desing in Ai - EPS Vector Illustration 2 - free download
Wallpaper Wednesday is a favourite of mine, since it gives me the chance to surf good design sites and share with you the best images on the web. This weeks photo is a vector image from DeviantART. I’m gonna have ago myself tomorrow with a similar style wallpaper. Click the image to make it full size.
Quite cool don’t you think.
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Illustrator is a great program. It offers so much versatility in creating vector images. Hence why it is the top vector program out there. As a beginner to this program I want to share with you a tutorial that is simple to follow that you can use to draw Homer Simpson of The Simpsons. It is really easy to do but it does take a long while if you want to get it correct and good looking. What we would hopefully be working towards is something shown on the right. That image is lifted directly out of I had made. All the included colours will be given although you can download the swatches from the source file if you want to load them directly. If you want to see any of the image screen shots full size please click on them.
Step 1 is simple create for canvas and suitably name it. A size under 800 x 600 is perfect because the source file we will be working on isn’t the best of quality. Remember to save the file once as you click OK. You don’t want to lose all of your work because you didn’t save your file.
You next need to create a layer for the background image that we are going to trace. Rename the existing layer (If you need your layer palette up go Window > Layers) and naming it something useful (and spelled correctly (D’Oh)). The next step is to lock the layer by checking the tick box. Locking the layer prevents you from moving it are changing any of the attributes when working.
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Photoshop is a great program but it may have a competitor in the cheaper market. This new cool looking program is called Pixelmator and is availble for $59 and it could compete with the big daddy that is Photoshop.
Why is it so cool. It just seems for graphically oriented. For example it uses the GPU instead of the CPU to do the graphics rendering. This has its push and negative points but generally runs well on my Mac Book Pro, and is very is responsive.
If you case above it uses black a lot. Thats the drag and drop installation of the program. I fyou look below you get the welcome screen. It is normally a lot darker, but taking the image seems to have changed what the image looks like.
Generally it looks good and is fun to use. You can see the darkness of all the palettes that the program has to offer. It is quick and simple to use but like any new programs it is new so there are some bugs.
The above image didn’t take me long to do. Although it is a bit rubbish it is fun to work with so I might give it a try. You can find it here on Pixelmators website.
Hey there,
Since I haven’t been posting much on this blog lately since my life has been so busy with work I thought I would give you 2 wallpapers to use this week. These are really cool and I love them both.
The first one is a 70’s style alien vector image thing. I don’t really no what to call it but it does look cool. You can find the original here. You can click the image for the full version.
This second image is of a completely different take. I have not found many good 3d images to use as wallpapers but this is so funny. The original is found here. I just love this image so much. Click for full version.
Till next time good bye.
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Although Vista isn’t the best operating system in the world, it does have some good visual elements. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create your very own Vista style button. It doesn’t take long and can be applied to anything. You will need a copy of Photoshop and about 10 - 15 minutes of free time.
The first step is to create your canvas. It can be any size you want you button to be. I’ve picked 200pixels by 100 pixels. Mine, of course, will be rectangular.
In hindsight it would be better to fill the entire canvas with your gradient we are about to create. I don’t no why but I decided to create a rectangle in the middle of my work piece. I would suggest you skip this step.
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