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| GRAPHIC IDENTITY is a blog about Adobe Photoshop and Ilustrator tutorials, design showcase, graphic design, free photoshop brushes download, and typography |
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| The First PSDTUTS Contest! |
| 2008-05-07 19:36:12 |
Are you ready with another graphic design contest? PSDTUTS has started a contest that is so easy to join. The theme of this first month is Learning and Applying Your Knowledge. They will be looking at how you take techniques learned from any tutorial on PSDTUTS and apply it in your own work.After you create an entry, be a member of PSDTUTS Flickr group and upload your submission to your Flickr account and place it in the PSDTUTS pool. There is no limit on the number of entries you can submit.Th...
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| Blogger Blogspot Hacks Must Know |
| 2008-05-04 05:01:43 |
Some say that Blogspot Blogs are suck…well…they can say whatever they want :DI would say that Blogspot is the most user friendly platform blog for a newbie to a blogger master. Even if you are good enough in PHP programming or Wordpress, hacking the Blogspot is still quite challenging! and for me, that is the art of blogging process to grow. It is always our authority to choose and to use whatever platform we think the best. But please bear in mind, every blog platform has its own advantages...
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| Biweekly Blogroll Links - May 3rd 2008 |
| 2008-05-02 19:05:21 |
I've been caught up in a very busy weeks. Could hardly manage my time to update Graphic Identity blog. I feel so sorry guys that looks like the Blogroll Links post must have new scheduled picks, because from now on, Graphic Identity will publish the Blogroll Links in biweekly scheduled post only.Cheers and have a nice links pick! ;)TYPOGRAPHYBrainPicks No.1 - Watch some Type by ShareBrainOn Choosing Type - First Principles by johno (iLT)WEB DESIGN and BLOGGING30 Must See Comment Designs for Web ...
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| Estetica Graphic Design Group Interviews Round Up |
| 2008-04-25 08:04:33 |
Should this be a new way to get along with other bloggers across the globe...Here are the Estetica Graphic Design Group Interviews round up. Enjoy :)My Estetica Blog Interview by Jacob CassInterview with GraphicIdentity by Caroline MurphyFeatured Designer #6 - Lauren Marie / Creative Curio by AlexDesigner Interview: Ian M by Lauren MarieInterviewing Jacob Cass! by Graphic IdentityInterview With Crazleaf Design Blog by ToonEstetica Designer Bloggers Interviews by ianm An interview with Caroline...
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| Weekly Blogroll Links - April 23rd 2008 |
| 2008-04-22 19:20:48 |
WEB DESIGNFree Wordpress themes pack #1 - April 08 by AlexGRAPHIC DESIGNMariedesbons Illustrations by ToonPROs And CONs Of Going Solo by VivienThe Best Graphic Design Articles from 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves by Jacob CassFree Twitter Graphics by Randa Clay10 Tips for Writing Graphic Design Briefs by David AireyPHOTOSHOP RESOURCESBeginner Photoshop Tutorial by D-sine50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials by Vandelay Website DesignOutlined Swirls Photoshop Brushes. Look...
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| How to Create a Ribbon Using Blend Effect in Illustrator |
| 2008-04-22 18:52:25 |
About two weeks ago, I’ve made a set of floral Photoshop brushes that has some kind of bend or twirl ribbon effect in it. I got respons on flickr asking me of how I made the effect. Somehow it is so easy and quick to produce. Lets get start now :DStep 1 – Draw a curve with arc toolFind the arc tool in the tool box, and start to draw a curve on a new canvas like this: And draw another curve next to the first curve that you made. Connect each edge point so it becomes a closed curves paths like...
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| Design Style Tutorial: SIMPLICITY IN WEB 2.0 (Part 2) |
| 2008-04-19 10:20:50 |
Today’s tutorial is a follow up of the previous post: Design Style Tutorial: SIMPLICITY IN WEB 2.0 (Part 1). Mastering CSS may need sometimes and hard work. I’m still learning to improve what I know about it. I began to learn CSS since 4 years back. My favorite designer who has implemented such excellent integration between CSS and her blog is Veerle’s Blog. It was her old short post about CSS vs tables that started me to understand the neat order of CSS. CSS make the designing process ea...
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| Interviewing Jacob Cass! |
| 2008-04-14 07:27:54 |
Meet Jacob Cass, a very talented graphic designer from Australia, and a great blogger as well. He is curently taking part in a cross interviewing events of Estetica Graphic Design Group Interviews and this is the interview result that we did previously:Q: JustCreativeDesign.com is your new blog which I think is quite a success. How can you manage your time as a student and as a graphic designer and a blogger at the same time?JC: It comes quite naturally as I am very good at multi tasking. You wi...
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| Weekly Blogroll Links - April 14th 2008 |
| 2008-04-14 06:39:55 |
WEB DESIGNChange Your WordPress Admin Password! by Dale170 Full Flash Website Templates / Part 1 by Bilge Ilios BerberogluGRAPHIC DESIGNSigma Chi has 'Identity Crisis!' by Jeff FisherUsing Photomerge for Stunning Panoramic Photos (and some tips for shooting panoramics) by Chad Neuman Imallfake by DesignDiary.orgART and DESIGNDeKast by DotDotDesign.orgTECHNOLOGY52LG50 Hot LCD Flat Panel TV Brings It In Clear by Robert Di-SalvoPHOTOGRAPHYWide-Angle Lens by Stephen BrunoTyler Gray Photography by ...
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| Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes - Part 4 |
| 2008-04-09 21:43:55 |
I've been busy with some blogging activity events, now I'm coming back again with another vector Photoshop brush set to download for free. I have added the 4th Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brush set series until now. There are 3 variations for you to choose and I was experimenting with multiple layered curves lines.I'm not sure of how to distinguish the type of these photoshop floral brush style... I guess you are free to comment on this post to figure out what it is.I made these PS brush set simpl...
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| Estetica Graphic Design Group Interviews |
| 2008-04-09 19:02:19 |
Graphic Identity has been invited for a cross interviewing event between Design Bloggers held by Estetica Graphic Design Forum.Toon, the admin of Estetica Design Forum, has a such brilliant idea to sort this unique interview event. There are 8 designers participating and Graphic Identity Blog has been choosen randomly to interview Jacob Cass from Just Creative Designand at the same Graphic Identity Blog will also be interviewed by Caroline Murphy of Caroline Murphy's Designs.The 8 Design Blogs T...
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| Weekly Blogroll Links - April 5th 2008 |
| 2008-04-05 02:21:24 |
Since blogging brings a huge phenomenon to the internet world and for our inspirational thoughts, starting by this weekend and ahead, Graphic Identity will publish Weekly Blogroll Links that are consist of great article links on various topics. You can subscribe Graphic Identity by email or RSS feed if you like to follow the next week Blogroll Links update :D The featured blog post listed below are coming from my friend's blogs and from other blog articles or resources I've followed. They are mo...
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| Cultural Touch Inside the Graffiti Walls |
| 2008-04-04 04:19:32 |
More than a week ago, I wrote a guest blog post at InspirationBit.com. That was my very first guest blog post, and I was so happy that Vivien (the author of Inspiration Bit) gave me such a wonderful opportunity to contribute something on her blog.I've included some photos of Graffiti Walls at my neighborhood, and I think it was a fun small research that I'd like to share with you since generally I believe there are some connections between those graffiti art and the local social culture.Have a c...
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| Design Style Tutorial: SIMPLICITY IN WEB 2.0 (Part 1) |
| 2008-04-01 20:17:31 |
I think it is about time to include CSS as one of the design element in the tutorials. The chances to get your blog or website stunning would depend so much on the process of integrating elements of visual design to your blog by CSS. As Web 2.0 begin to emerge in the beginning of 2006, many websites and blogs articles have been giving us clarity of how to visualize better Web 2.0 style. You will need to take a look of some Web 2.0 design resources before we get in to our today’s tutorial. When...
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| DESIGNATHLON - Logo Design vs Blog Design |
| 2008-03-29 14:50:57 |
Time to get your self warm up now! New events are likely get you to exercise into rounds of enthusiastic battle of DESIGNATHLON competitions. :D Don't get confuse to what I'm trying to say. DESIGNATHLON is just a dummy term to describe what's going on here. There are two design competition events that I've been following recently. Held on Logo Design Love and Vandelay Website Design, I think if you could watch these competition it would be as fun as watching a game competition. You don't have t...
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| Redditers – What They Tend to Do? |
| 2008-03-29 14:46:23 |
Reddit’s environment is not so much different with another social media website which gives you way to click for a vote. This kind of environment is absolutely perfect for a blog article which has interesting headline. Another thing is Redditers can actually spice up the article’s headline submitted to draw more attention. Regardless to all the pros and cons, Reddit encourage the Redditers simply to vote the article submitted and hardly can find a way to visit or even to revisit if you get l...
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| ICON GALORE - Professional Quality at Highly Affordable Rates |
| 2008-03-27 06:17:33 |
Icons could be one of graphic design element that every professional software developer or a website developer needs to accomplish their work into an excellent quality level. Websites that offering icons (free and commercial) emerge almost every day, but not all of them provide both quality and quantity; in fact, usually, quality is far more important for presentation. Supposed that Icon Galore fairly new for you, today I want to introduce this website and their most striking features of their ...
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| The Advantages of Using Free Photo Hosting Service |
| 2008-03-27 05:33:24 |
Do you know that Graphic Identity blog is actually using free Photobucket service to host all images and photos??? Today, I'm going to show you why I choose to use Photobucket instead of Blogger's default image hosting. What do you get and what you can do after you upload your image and photo to a Free Photo Hosting Service.1. Hosting Your Favicon for FreeWhat is Favicon? Favicon is Favorite Icon displayed on your browser tabs and at the left hand corner of the URL address bar. In my previous ...
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| Things to Consider Before You Join a Flickr Pool |
| 2008-03-20 11:14:39 |
Photographers and Designers need a social media website that would help their artwork visually targeted. Flickr has the powerful tool to bring a visual masterpiece uncovered to the millions of viewers. If you’re a photographer or a designer who blog, why not starting out a Flickr pool? It would be wonderful to include a bit of interactivity with your readers. Besides promoting goal, A Flickr pool is an excellent media, where you can discuss and learn from others.I’ve already joined some of ...
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| Blog Catalog Graphic Design Group Widget |
| 2008-03-17 12:59:13 |
I'm always be the proud member of Blog Catalog.com and when they first launch the Group feature, I did my best to create the first “Graphic Design” group in Blog Catalog. I personally send a grateful thanks and salutation to the Blog Catalog admins who has done such a brilliant job to bring this community stands out!!! At the footer section of my blog, you can find Blog Catalog Graphic Design Group widget installed and it was founded in October 2007, now we have 145 members and growing. Thi...
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| Blogspot Design Showcase Blogs |
| 2008-03-15 23:18:39 |
When it comes to do the illustration or design search for your inspiration, sometimes search engines just provides you enormous list. But I wonder if any of you know that some of Blogspot Bloggers are actually dedicated their time to build interesting design showcase for your eyes! Such of hidden treasures I found for this lovely weekend.These blogs are pretty new, some of them even started on November, and here comes the parade:Photoshop HeavenPoerty is the author, and used to write his blog "P...
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| Fire Fusion Vectors - Part 1 |
| 2008-03-15 22:35:54 |
First vectors I published to Graphic Identity Blog. You know I have no time to create better image preview, so I believe you will find out more after you finish the download ;)The vectors are free to download for commercial or private use, but keep in mind that the vectors pack is officially can only be downloaded from GRAPHIC IDENTITY blog. Please read Graphic Identity Legal Usage before you download it.Please give your comment (feedback) for whatever it is, or share the permalink with feed fla...
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| FeedBurner Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge |
| 2008-03-15 22:34:23 |
In the beginning of 2008, I want to celebrate this New Happy Year with a challenge for my blog. I wrote tutorials most of the time, but there is nothing wrong to invite you all to join this challenge together to build a small community of blog readers. All right, you've heard links exchange too often, but I call this exchange: "FeedBurner Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge" This exchange challenge is open to any kind of blog niches or different topics than mine or everyone who will decide ...
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| Graphic Design Group Writing Project Articles |
| 2008-03-12 16:55:56 |
“Graphic Design” is not that hard to imagine. When you start typing words using your keyboards, graphic design could give you tremendous outlines to your imagination and actually you are unconsciously experiencing it in every single day of your life. You see it, you touch it, you need it, and you feel it!The first Group Writing Project that I have entered came up with wonderful selected articles. Jacob Cass was organizing this cool group writing contest nicely.If you’re one of the Graphic ...
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| Blogspot Design Showcase – Part 3 |
| 2008-03-06 20:19:44 |
Been very busy with things to do on February :D, so this post kind of hold up a bit. These Blogspot blogs just grabbed my attention for the first time I saw them. You know I love to catch a glimpse on paintings and artistic illustrations and sense the story behind them. So today, the reviews will include 4 Blogspot blogs which has crazily updates their post with breath taking arts and illustration. Buckle up guys!Dot Dot Design Guga is the the author for Dot Dot Design blog. He is enjoying life ...
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| Feed Flare Grand Opening Contest! |
| 2008-03-05 11:27:15 |
FeedFlare.ca has been launch just over a month. Collin, the owner of this fantastic Feed Flare community site has starting out a grand opening contest with total prize packages are worth just over $5200.00 (cash value) plus the 25,000 Entrecard credits. THE LONG LIST OF PRIZES I have informed you in my previous post that Graphic Identity blog has been taking part to sponsoring Feed Flare first contest. One of these prizes might be yours if you become one of the lucky winners of this amazing cont...
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| The Design Forums and Design Niche Social Media Sites you always wanted for |
| 2008-02-29 21:25:44 |
As a designer, you surely need to find something fresh to enrich your creativity or simply get interact with other designer in a solid community. If you're an author of design blog niche and having your online portfolio inside it, promoting it is a must do. For those reason, Design Forums and Design Niche Social Media Sites are a great solution. Today, I will share short overview of several new design forums and design niche socio bookmarking sites, well not all of them are new, but they are jus...
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| Finally, a Social Networking Moment with Graphic Identity |
| 2008-02-24 18:59:16 |
In the last week of February, I won’t publish any post about tutorial or creating another photoshop goodies to download. I think it is about time for Graphic Identity Blog to step outside, to see what’s going on in the internet world. Yes, nothing would be so much pleasurable, when you meet new people, sharing inspirational thoughts, and learning to reduce your own mistakes from other bloggers. For that reason, I took chances to spend a moment to build a strong social networking with great ...
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| Connect to JustCreativeDesign.com Group Writing Project & Win $5000 PRIZE GIVEAWAY |
| 2008-02-24 18:54:10 |
This month, I’ve committed my self to enhance my network by sponsoring several blog contests and a Group Writing Project held by JustCreativeDesign.com.  Jacob Cass is the man behind this wonderful project. He is exclusively running the contest to bring all the design freaks, graphic design blogs and people who subscribe to them a bit closer together with $5000+ worth of prizes to give away.I must say that winning the contest could be sounds so much fun, but then again what I love the most ab...
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| What is Graphic Design Poster Competition on Veerle's Blog |
| 2008-02-24 18:13:28 |
I could have posted this design competition announcement earlier, too bad I found about it late after digging links to some design forums when the submission deadline was only two days left to go. Veerle never provides email subscription to her blog, I got a little upset to my self, why I didn't subscribe to any feed reader before. The basic concept of this contest is to come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design?'. Veerle is the only judge and ...
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| EzMoneyOn.Net First Contest |
| 2008-02-17 05:35:00 |
Diana and Simonne collaborate to start a blog about how to make money online called EzMoneyOn.Net. This blog present you great writing articles about tips and tricks to make living from internet. There are a lot of make money online blogs, we know that. Some of them are quite successful in making money, many of them have some articles and that's it. But on how many "make money online" blogs do you really learn how you can make money online? I still find on many forums bloggers who ask that. Th...
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| Design Style Tutorial: GRUNGE URBAN ART |
| 2008-02-16 23:16:14 |
Being around with several simple tutorials about typography and general design using Photoshop, we will now move to specific design styles in a series that will continue for some time now, to start with Grunge Urban Art Style.Before we step further, you will need sorts of design elements to create such design style. You don't have to worry, because all those design elements are actually available for free on the internet. I have great listings of Grunge Urban Art design resources just to help yo...
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| NEW BLOG COMMUNITIES to Promote Your Design Blog Topic |
| 2008-02-15 17:59:05 |
There are so many ways to promote your design blog niche. If you're still doing promotion to some specific design forums, there's nothing wrong to try general blog community for more campaign activity to your blog. A general blog community should always include design category or art category inside. Accordingly, there would be easier for the viewers to find your blog inside the community.Here are 8 new blog communities for you to start with:1. Blog CompetitionBlogCompetition is a digg like comp...
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| Free 125x125 Advertising Button in PSD |
| 2008-02-14 00:35:31 |
I designed 6 diferent theme buttons. They are in .PSD format, so it should be easy for you to edit the fonts or the layer elements inside.125x125 advertising buttons could be useful for Entrecard or any other advertisement program that you run to your blogYou can download these pack for free and exploit them as your wish (commercial or personal), UNDER THESE CONDITIONS:1. Comment to this post with your nick name (no annonymous please), and2. Subscribe to Graphic Identity by emailfree 125x125 bu...
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| Graphic Identity Blog Recap |
| 2008-02-06 13:37:03 |
Just want to let you know that Graphic Identity Blog was first published in June 16th 2008 and now we have 65 posts published until the end January 2008. A pretty young blog :) and we convey grateful regards to all of the devoted subscribers for keep visiting Graphic Identity Blog. So, If you are a new visitor to my blog or you just subscribed to our RSS feed recently, you may missed out reading the previous posts. This blog recap is somehow will help you to track back Graphic Identity Blog from...
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| How to Create Water Droplets in Photoshop |
| 2008-02-06 11:36:29 |
It’s been quite a while since my last Photoshop Tutorial guys :), anyway I spent my long holiday to write another tutorial, which is how to create water droplets in Photoshop.I also included the photoshop action to create this water droplets effect, and there are two kinds of action for creating: bigger water droplets and the smaller one.This tutorial is very easy for photoshop beginners, but actually there are also another ways of technique to create water droplets using Photoshop. The proble...
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| Graphic Identity Blog Redesign |
| 2008-01-30 23:05:01 |
I'm curently focused to redesign my blog layout. The previous version didn't look good thou, I found it difficult to maintain the very right sidebar to stay fixed.So, with the help from friends, I decided to create completely new Blogger Classic themes. I didn't develop the template CSS code from the default Blogger Classic template this time. I prefer three columns and minimize the use of image replacement and of course...sorts of tiresome experiments with the CSS codes.I think this would be be...
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| Collin James De Ruyck's Abstract Paintings |
| 2008-01-20 17:36:06 |
I always fascinate to abstract paintings. I found sort of well mixed medium of abstract paintings collection of Collin James De Ruyck , and I'm also amazed how he lined up the geometric shape and colors to create 3D texture effect. I should call it: "Decorative Abstract Paintings"Somehow each of them can be part as an interior decoration. His abstract art works are able to bring a boring plan room to a very exciting room filed with great colors and style.Here a short conversation about his artwo...
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| Blogspot Design Showcase - Part 2 |
| 2008-01-20 17:34:02 |
Are you looking for Blogspot graphic design showcase carnivals? I came up with three blog resources. These blogs are offering different kind of stuff. You're going to love their design freebies and excellent articles.One of them is actually featured by request. If your design blog is in Blogger Blogspot platform, and you want it to be featured as well, you can contact me by email at: graphicidentity.blog@gmail.comChill out :D and let me present you the Blogspot Design Showcase - Part 2box 313C...
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| Graphic-Illustration Design Contest: Win your Entrecard designed for free |
| 2008-01-20 05:19:53 |
For you who still haven’t try the powerful promotion advantage of Entrecard, I think it’s about time for you to get your own card submitted. Don’t loose time to promote your blog with Entrecard, while you can improve traffic and increase your potential readers only by submitting 125×125px size banner card. What if you want to have your card submitted to Entrecard, but you don’t know how to design it, don’t have the skills or time to do it. Or you don’t have money to order it? W...
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