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Mediaslap.com is Live
We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest project, Mediaslap—an online resource for buying and selling Photoshop brushes.
We will be expanding the site on the fly including artist submission tools, new brushes and new features that provide value for the contributing artists and designers. If you are interested in submitting your brushes you can find the info here.
Head over to www.mediaslap.com, check it out, download brushes, tell us what you think and enjoy.
Departika Steps into the Ring
Veer recently asked a Departikan to be a contender in their latest Lightboxing bout. Katie, who thinks Veer promotions are the best non-junk-junk mail ever, took on the challenge and was matched up with Tom Huveners of Belgium in the opposing corner. Veer supplied both fighters with the same six design elements in a lightbox and gave them until the clock struck twelve to explore the theme of Midnight.
The rules were simple. Using only the images and type provided in a Veer lightbox, make a design. something great. Crop. Cut. Paste. Fight dirty. Write copy. Make a knockout design. Then the judges and the voting public decide the winner of the bout. To vote you will need to log into your Veer account or create a new one, then you can chime in on your favorite design. Of course we are biased and hope you vote for us, but may the best contender win. Vote here.
Mediaslap
We’ve been working feverishly on our latest Departika project, Mediaslap—A website providing “Photoshop Brushes of the Highest Standard” to designers, scrapbookers, photographers, agencies and do-it-yourselfers. Mediaslap sells Photoshop brushes created by our team and hand-selected artists from around the world. We are launching the first version at the end of June and plan on expanding quickly to include tools that provide value for the contributing artists and community. We plan to listen and learn from the artists and consumers, apply what we learn to the site, and refine it to become the best resource possible for finding and licensing Photoshop brushes.
Please sign up for Mediaslap updates by submitting your email in the form below. We’ll let you know the day it launches. In the meantime, above is a screen from the new site.
Photoshop Brush Tutorial
This tutorial will show how to create a textured Photoshop brush using Photoshop CS3. Texture and grunge brushes are great resources to have if you want to add aging effects to your work. Making your own set guarantees your design will have it’s own unique style.
I will be using and writing this for Photoshop CS3. Although all versions can make brushes, there are rules for sharing them between versions. Unfortunately no brush set is backwards compatible.
New Brush Set of Bangin’ Borders
These Photoshop Border brushes are bangin’! They are perfect for digital scrapbooking or photography, and are compatible with Photoshop CS and above. For those using an earlier version of Photoshop or a different program, we have provided PNG files. Get them here.
Buggers Brush Set 2 is Available
Set 2 of Beautiful Buggers Photoshop Brushes have arrived. Like Beautiful Buggers Set 1, these brushes are a mixture of strange plants and odd bugs. They will be a perfect compliment to all of your Spring and Summer-themed designs. Get them here.
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