Posted in free brushes, give stuff away on November 14, 2009
For your open source graphic design delight, I give you 21 high-res Chinese calligraphy GIMP brushes. This set includes 20 Mandarin (modern Chinese) character brushes and one extra-large scroll brush that can be used as a background. Each brush file is named with an English translation of the symbol’s meaning.
If you’re going for authenticity, these can’t really double as Japanese brushes, as they use the modern post-Mao character set, but if you’re audience is English-speaking and can’t tell the difference, they’re close enough.
Includes one of each: love, peace, longevity, prosperity, father, mother, house, friendship, earth, wind, fire, water, Buddhism, deity, dream, courage, dragon, tiger, patience and trust.
These brushes were created in GIMP 2.6.7. To use them, go to your GIMP directory, and find the Share > gimp > 2.0 > Brushes file, then paste all of the .gbr files included in my brush set into that directory. Then either re-start GIMP, or refresh the GIMP brushes palette to see and begin using the brushes.
Posted in harp on technology on November 10, 2009
The first time I installed Linux was about 9 years ago. CD burners not being nearly as easy to come by as they are these days, I spent two weeks’ allowance on a copy of Red Hat and set about figuring out what the hell a swap partition was. 14 hours later, I got a welcome screen, did the Hokey Pokey FTW … and then switched back to Windows and forgot all about it.
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With this set, you get 20 256×256 .png format Chinese character icons. Each symbol is set on a hanging scroll background.
I’ve also included the EPS vector file, so you can easily re-size or re-color icons as desired.
Each png icon is named according to the English translation of the Chinese word, and the EPS file includes word labels set on a separate layer, which can easily be hidden.
Words included are: love, peace, longevity, prosperity, father, mother, family, friendship, earth, air, fire, water, Buddhism, deity, dream, courage, dragon, tiger, patience and trust.
Posted in free brushes, give stuff away on November 7, 2009
This is a very simple photoshop brush pack with 20 high-res checkmark designs. Brush sizes range from around 800px – 1100px. Most are solid black (opaque), a couple of the textured brushes are mildly transparent.
As usual, these are free to use for commercial or personal projects, but please don’t re-package these for re-sale.
Created with Photoshop CS3.
Posted in sell my work on November 5, 2009
Help your products catch eyes with this great e-store button and icon set. This pack comes complete with:
1) EPS vector file containing 19 re-sizable graphics
2) 19 individual .png files for easy use
Complete button list: Four sale tags, two text-populated and two blank; five text buttons; and eight commerce icons, including shopping bag, gift, wish list, check list, shopping cart, safe, gift card and dollar sign; two page or product navigation arrows.
If you’d like to create your own or add text, the font used was Eras Demi ITC.
