20 Free Glossy Color Vector Stickers and Badges

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These are great! The brand new design blog Vibr8bros.com shows us they are worthy of this title – design blog. They just released a free vector pack full of glossy and shiny, colorful Web 2.0 badges (or stickers). If you use Adobe Illustrator, you should check these out: you get the source AI and EPS files to change, alter and use them with your own text! Continue reading 20 Free Glossy Color Vector Stickers and Badges



How to Destroy an Image like a Professional

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This great tutorial by the photographer Steve Paxton shows you how to destroy, scratch, and distress a photograph in Adobe Photoshop. If you want to create a worn and ‘old’ look to your images, this is a very good way to do it, and you should read on.

Steve Paxton is a professional photographer from Seattle. He focuses mainly on portrait work, landscapes and crime scene photography.

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How NOT to mess with Dynamic Wrap in InDesign

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This simple tutorial for Adobe InDesign is about wrapping text around images – and making it ‘change-safe’. This applies when you place an image in InDesign, wrap text around it, and then modify the image colors. If you use dynamic wrap without paying attention to this useful tip, you may find that InDesign created a new dynamic wrap around your image, using the new image settings. This can turn your layout into a total disaster. Continue reading How NOT to mess with Dynamic Wrap in InDesign



Web-based Rasterized Image Generator

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This free online generator is a great, easy tool for rasterizing images quickly – without using Photoshop or Illustrator. Adobe Photoshop has a similar effect, and more options for sure (not to speak of plugins for rasterizing images), but this cool website does it all in a few easy steps and generates a PDF for you to download in less than a minute! Continue reading Web-based Rasterized Image Generator



Advanced Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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This is a good tutorial for Photoshop users who know their way around a bit already. You don’t have to be an expert in Photoshop, but you should know some of the basics before you try this tutorial out. Continue reading Advanced Photo Manipulation in Photoshop