10 excellent & promising WordPress Plugins, some brand new

A little while back, we posted a list of 8 and a half excellent WordPress Plugins you probably didn’t know about. It was a reaction to our community voting for more Wordpress related stuff, such as themes and plugins and tutorials and goodies. Well, the post was very popular and ever since, we have been collecting even more interesting and, above all, new and rather unknown WordPress plugins for your blog.

So here comes a list of 10 excellent and promising plugins for the popular blogging platform WordPress. Some you will not know yet, because they are brand new. They all run on WordPress 2.5 and above and are updated frequently by their authors.

Because they are so new, some still have a few minor bugs that are currently still being fixed, but they do work nicely and you can be sure that the plugin authors are working hard on improving their work. So right here, we’d like to thank all of you who are doing such a great job at this. These are all free plugins, and with this post, we also want to show you that there are some great talents out there. If you download and use the plugins they give us for free, then please give some love back by commenting on their sites, donating to those who accept donations, or leaving a comment on this post saying a quick thank you.

So here goes: 10 excellent & promising WordPress Plugins for you! There’s a link to the author/plugin page as well as a link to the download page for each free plugin. We didn’t include direct download links because this way, you can always get the newest version of the plugin from the source. So let’s get started. Continue reading 10 excellent & promising WordPress Plugins, some brand new

Posted on July 28th, 2008 in Plugins | 11 Comments »

Free Vector Art: Embroidery Badges

Here’s a great free vector art pack by our friends the Vibr8 Bros. These vectors come as a genuine Illustrator .AI file for unlimited scalability, and do take a look: these very realistic embroidery badges are full, 100% vector graphics – there are no pixel/raster patterns involved!

The vector pack contains eight embroidery badges, all in different colors. What you get is vectors in green, red, brown, blue, and white, with various pre-made text graphics inside of them. And as if that wasn’t enought already, the Vibr8 Bros. also included four blank vector graphics with no text – for you to write your own blurb inside of it. How’s that?

Take a look at what is included in this download. Continue reading Free Vector Art: Embroidery Badges

Posted on July 21st, 2008 in Vectors | 4 Comments »

30 Free Vector Packs: The Ultimate Collection of Vector Girls

Hi folks, today we have a very nice and sexy goodie for you: the Ultimate Collection of Free Vector Girls to download directly to your desktop! The following vector art graphics are for free download – all of them, we made sure of that.

If you ever wanted to design a flyer, a poster or a website using a sexy girl or a female silhouette in your artwork, then you know that it can be tough finding someting good, useable and free on the internet. Now we’re not talking photography, but vector art – that means that the designer either traced the girl from an existing image, or that he created her from scratch.

Now you could always trace a photograph on your own. We covered a technique to do that in this post, How to Trace a Photo in Illustrator. If you don’t want to do that by yourself, this post is for you. Take a look at what we’ve got for you.
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 in Vectors | 68 Comments »

Illustrator Tutorial: How to Design sexy Lips

Here’s a nice and easy Illustrator tutorial on designing those sexy, glossy lips in your favorite vector design software – from scratch. This tutorial doesn’t use photo tracing techniques, but shows you how to create this vector illustration starting with a white page. Illustrator is perfect for that.

In the tutorial, you start off by creating two simple oval shapes. As you go on, you’ll learn how to use Adobe Illustrator’s Pathfinder Tool, how to work with Path Anchor, and how to use the Gradient Mesh Tool to come to the above result. Take a look at a few of the steps in this free vector tutorial: Continue reading Illustrator Tutorial: How to Design sexy Lips

Posted on April 21st, 2008 in Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint a photorealistic Image from Scratch

We have an amazing Photoshop tutorial for you today. Take a look at this picture: You think it’s a photograph, right? Well, it’s not!

The above artwork has been created from scratch, using Adobe Photoshop only. The designer and author of this great tutorial, Daniel “Wade” Hammonds, started with a white canvas and describes every step in the process of creating this beautiful piece of design. Continue reading Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint a photorealistic Image from Scratch

Posted on April 8th, 2008 in Tutorials | 1 Comment »