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Uprinting giveaway winners

Alex — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:25:53 +0000

The winners for the Uprinting business cards giveaway are:

1. Brian Pate

2. Michael

3. Meredith

4. Kristin

Each one of them will receive 250 business cards of their choice from Uprinting.

Thank you everyone for participating.

Lostandtaken.com Political Design Poster Contest $$$

Alex — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:43:56 +0000

Caleb from Lostandtaken hosts a Political Poster Design Contest and we are one of the sponsors, have a look over there, over $1,000 in prizes, read more on his website.

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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:56:34 +0000

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Halloween and Lips vector packs released

Alex — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:40:04 +0000

Holidays is a new category on designious.com and the first pack in this category is the Halloween vector pack, you can see the preview of the pack bellow. In this new vector pack you will find pumpkins, witches and bats for those who want to create illustrations for this Holiday.

The second pack released is the Lips pack, this packs speaks for itself if I may say so. It contains a set of 11 suggestive, glossy, sexy looking woman lips.

All the design elements in this two new packs were drawn by hand, contain no gradients and have a small number of colors.

What do you think about this new packs we designed ?

1000 Business cards giveaway

Alex — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:23:06 +0000

THE GIVEAWAY

1000 Business cards giveaway from UPrinting, 4 random readers will be the lucky winners of 250 business cards each. You can choose any of their stocks, including the eco-friendly cover stock (13 pt. Cover Uncoated - Recycled) or the the 14 pt. family in Matte, AQ, or UV at any custom size they offer such as square cards or odd sizes like 3×3 or 2×2. Business cards are a great way to promote your design, coding or web services.

Uprinting does business card printing and other types of printing for over 25 years now and has been been a trusted leader in online printing.

HOW DO YOU WIN?

Very simple, you just need to comment what would you do with the business cards if you win.

The winners will be randomly chosen, please provide a valid email address so we can discuss where do we send you the prize. Good luck to everybody.

Vintage Mega Pack 4 vector samples

Alex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:23:19 +0000

New freebie from Designious.com, this file contains sample from our new Mega Vector Pack 4. The Vintage Mega Pack 4 free sample contains one skull, one angel, two floral frames and one retro girl.

To download this free vector pack please visit the free vector sample page.

Vintage Mega Vector Pack 4 released

Alex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:01:36 +0000

We are pleased to let you know that we just released Vintage Mega Pack 4 which contains some new amazing vector packs.

The new vector packs are:

Retro girls 1 and 2

8 New floral packs from 22 to 29

Skulls vector pack 6

Angels

Armory

So 13 new packs and a new Mega Vector Pack.

If you want something else you can add a comment in our suggest a vector pack post.

What do you think about our new packs?

A simple way to wrap an object in Illustrator

Laurentiu — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:15:26 +0000

This tutorial will show you how to wrap an object around another object using Adobe Illustrator(I’m using AI CS3 on a PC). It is very simple and it looks really cool. This technique I used can be seen in the image bellow:

What I did is I wrapped a scroll between the vines of the floral frame. In this illustration I used a scroll from on of our scrolls packs and a floral frame from one of the upcoming packs which we will release in the next couple of days. You can see them separately bellow:

Now that we’ve seen what we are using lets start.

STEP 1

We position the frame where we want to wrap it around the frame.

STEP 2

We send the frame to the back with CTRL - SHIFT - [

STEP 3

We copy another scroll on top of the other using CTRL- C and then CTRL- F, then we bring the copied scroll to front with CTRL - SHIFT- ].

STEP 4

We now erase the portions of the scroll on top where do we want it to wrap around the frame.

That’s it, with this simple technique we obtain very easy the same effect as we were to use the divide function which would be a lot more complicated.

Last but not least if you want to use gradient on the object you want to wrap around you need to do that before you copy it and erase parts of it because the gradient direction for the object on top it will look different from the one bellow.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it will be helpful to you.

Suggest a vector pack

Alex — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:10:05 +0000

We want to offer you vector packs that you need but you don’t find or you are not satisfied. Please tell us what you wish to find on our website and you can’f find somewhere else. We will listen to you and try to satisfy as many as we can. So what kind of vectors do you need?

We have been published in the Advanced Photoshop Magazine

Alex — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:02:14 +0000

We’ve just received the magazine and has lots of useful stuff in it. Thank you guys for publishing our work and for appreciating it. You can find us both in the printed magazine and on the CD (they misspelled our name on the CD, but it is OK). There are 9 of our illustrations published on the CD so that the readers of Advanced Photoshop Magazine can use them both for personal and commercial work.

This started when the chief editor from France, Stephanie Guillaume, contact us one month and a half ago and asked us if we want to offer for free some of our illustrations for their readers and we said why not. The magazine is sold in France, Switzerland and Belgium. The readers are professionals and enthusiasts Photoshop users.

This is the first time we are published in a print magazine. If you are in one of the countries mentioned above you can order the magazine from their website http://advancedphotoshop.fr.