Skulls vector pack 19

Skulls vector pack 20

Skulls vector pack 21

Floral vector pack 66

Floral vector pack 67

Floral vector pack 68

Floral vector pack 69

Floral vector pack 70

Some of our new t-shirt designs:

T-shirt design 238

T-shirt design 243

Plus t-shirt designs

T-shirt design plus 51

T-shirt design plus 55

Calligraphic ornaments

Eco t-shirt designs collection

New vector skulls

Vintage t-shirt designs

We will release these beauties next week so stay tuned.

To download go to the vector freebie page on Designious.com.

Download now the floral photoshop brushes from Designious.com.

The new vector packs are:

Crests vector pack

Floral vector pack 65

Wings vector pack 14

Wings vector pack 15

The t-shirt designs are:

T-shirt design 227

T-shirt design 228

T-shirt design 229

T-shirt design 230

T-shirt design 231

T-shirt design 232

We also have some Plus t-shirt designs available.

Plus t-shirt design 36

Plus t-shirt design 37

A very cool thing about what I’m about to share with you are some special pavement drawings called anamorphic illusions: distorted 2D artwork  to give the illusion of a 3D one, but only from a certain angle.

The artist that does this kind of stuff is Julian Beever. Enough said, let’s dig in and have a look.

And here is how the drawings look from the wrong view.

For more awesome drawings, please visit Julian Reever’s website.

Well, just for this matter, the online free photo editor websites come to our help! Quick and easy to use, they have some basic tools and presets. You can re-size, crop, rotate, adjust noise, luminosity, correct red-eye effect, distorts, different filters, frames, doodles, text and many more great stuff.

Thus said, let’s dig in!

One of my favorite sites of this kind is Picnik. And I’m going to tell you why. First of all, it has a very appealing, fresh design and very user-friendly. Simple and attractive.

In the “Library” section, you can upload practically from  anywhere, whether is from your computer or on the web. The “Edit” section contains quick manipulation tools like exposure, sharpening, colors and red-eye effect. And for the users unfamiliar yet with photo editing, in each tab there’s a auto-fix button.

In the “Create” tab you’ll find frames, quick photo effects that usually would take a while to do manually: frames, masks, slide shows,  focus changes and more. The “Advanced” tab contains Levels, Curves, Dodge and Burn, similar to the ones in Photoshop.

Here is are some portraits edited with the quick autofixes.

The original image.

Autocolors preset. It takes the dominant color and turns it into a filter.

Autofix preset.

8% Sharpen.

I’ve played around with more photos, with a larger variety of colors and I still get pretty good results.Also, the advanced tools similar to the Photoshop ones are satisfying; they are a bit more simple, but they get the job done.

It’s a very enjoyable site, practical, useful and fun to play with.

Another cool photo editing site is Fotoflexer. It’s similar to Picnik, but with a different user interface. It provides similar sets of filters, but in a more compact way.

The best section of the site is in the “Geek” tab, where the goodies are: smart resizing, curves, levels, morphing and smart cutouts.

I edited the same image and i got the same results as in Picnik, so I wont post them. I can’t wait till they finalize the Curves tool (it’s in Beta at the moment), I want to see how it works. I mean, a replica of Curves from Photoshop free and online? Count me in!

A third site that does online photo editing is Lunapic. It has a large gallery of effects in very compact lists. This site is not useful for your casual user or site visitors, for it does not provide interactive previews of what you are about to do. In return, advanced users of photo editing software would find this a meadow of heaven: lots of details and parameters in which an average user would drown. Visit this site if you like to play around with numbers.

A great tool for advanced users only!

Pixlr is your basic Photoshop in a web page. And a very cool thing about it is not only the familiar UI from Photoshop, but it also provides the menus in 13 different languages! It’s a very useful tool if you  want to do a quick photo editing when you’re not in front of a computer that has Photoshop installed or just want to play around with effects.

A great website! Awesome looks, user friendly, easy to use!

Phixr is another site where you can edit photos quickly. It’s effective if you want to do a very quick and simple operation, such as resizing, cropping, adding fun stuff or adding other photos in it. A simple site for simple editing. It has a UI similar to MSPaint, but each button will expand to a whole new menu. What I like about it is the compression of all photo adjustment tools into a single menu. It has Temperature, Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue in a single tab, which makes it very useful when you need a quick adjustment.

Freeonlinephotoeditor works as well for a quick editing. The site has a simple, yet cool look and user-friendly. It has the basic photo manipulation tools and some presets of special effects, but only a few are adjustable. The simple menu lets you learn its structure very quick and finish your job fast and easy. A site made for its practicability and not for eye-candy, just the way a visitor likes.

These are all great tools when it comes to quick effects and adjustments, feel free to use the one that suits you most.

The only disadvantage of all these sites is that they allow limited dimensions of a picture (about 1600×1600 px).

I found about it about a year ago and got absorbed by what I was calling “a new current”; so I started looking for more info about it. I found some really cool concepts and ideas, which I’m about to share with you.

One of the websites that turn Steampunk literally into a way of life is www.steampunklab.com with their motto “Inventions of a curious sort”. They actually turn modern technology into old-style, bronze-plated pieces of art! Here are some of their products:

A laptop turned into a type-writer looking gadget. I sure want one of these!

A very cool night-lamp. Wouldn’t be great to have these lighting your evening lecture?

A brass clockwork spider. I bet you’d want to see it crawl, eh?

A sample of Steampunk clothing: lady’s artisan apron.

Steampunk isn’t all work and no play. Here is some nice artwork. The heart has functional mechanics!

Creative jewelry: a Steampunk pipe ring.

An old watch! Imagine going places with one of these on your hand!

Here are some more sites where you can find equally exceptional goodies.

www.steampunkworkshop.com

www.steampunkmagazine.com, a dedicated magazine, currently at issue #6. I’m not going to throw in spoilers about the content, check it out yourself. I can tell you this much: it’s a pretty good lecture. You can download it for free in .pdf format from the website.

http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com/

I also looked into digital art and found some really cool concepts. Here is some stuff I stumbled upon.

A Steampunk gunman, found here. “The name’s Punk… Steampunk.”

A mechanical woman concept, found here.

Alice in Wonderland Steampunk digital painting concept I found here. Great work!

A Steampunk dragon I found here.

More Steampunk awesomeness from here. A 3D work.

Brain Tower, found here. Also a 3D work.

Automation, found here. 3D work. Again.

Pixel art, found here.

Another pixel art, from here.

A Steampunk Gothic cuff watch found here. It’s a real thing and can be purchased from here.

The really disappointing thing about it is that it’s not yet known to the masses. I asked lots of people, drawing teachers and even designers about it and all I got was: “Steampunk? What’s that?”, “Never heard of it. What is it about?”. Very few knew about it, but they only checked it out just for pure knowledge.

I wish I’d see more of this, for it has much resources and inspiration to offer. Wouldn’t you?

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Well, Vectorious.net comes to you armed to the teeth with tons of awesome vector artwork just for that matter: an arsenal of 10587 vector images(at the moment). Whether it’s about business, vintage, music, buildings, abstract, backgrounds, people, seasonal, they have it!

A unique feature that can put them on the top of a designer’s favorite vector sources is the extra paid attention to the line art, a small detail that apparently can make a huge difference between an average and an excellent vector.

Download some of the free samples and take a closer look. The level of detail even at high zoom-in is simply stunning! The line art is basically close to perfection!

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