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April 8th, 2009

5 Awesome Rustic and Grunge Free High Resolution Backgrounds

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Some years ago, the cool people at Photomorphix sent me five awesome high resolution rustic backgrounds to offer for free to my visitors. In the last few years, Photoshop Roadmap had an explosive growth and these backgrounds got buried under a lot of new resources.

For more cool royalty free ultra high resolution digital backgrounds, textures and stock photos for the photoshop artist, photographer and graphic designer, just visit Photomorphix web site and I’m sure you will like what you will find there.

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March 30th, 2009

20 Cool Photoshop and Design Twitter Accounts You Should Follow

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You know what I like most about twitter? That it has the power of RSS feeds while keeping the conversational (and fun) aspect that made chat and email so popular.

Twitter has become so widely adopted that as a researcher you can find very useful info in real time. And fortunately, technology and design are two very popular subjects in Twitter. For this article, I selected a group of 20 great Twitter accounts you should follow to be up to date, and in contact, with top quality Photoshop, Photography and Design informational sources.

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November 26th, 2008

Designing and Printing a CD Label With Photoshop and Dymo DiscPainter

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A couple of months ago I wrote an article for my Creative Closeup blog about 20 Irresistible Gadgets You´d Love to Own. One of those gadgets that caught my attention was a cute little CD printer: DYMO DiscPainter. The article was a hit and generated a lot of traffic, specially from Reddit and StumbleUpon.

The nice people at Dymo were so pleased with this mention that they sent me one to try it. I was instantly hooked on it. The ease of setup and use of this printer is amazing. Believe me, the installation was a breeze and within minutes I had my first CD colorful label printed.

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May 20th, 2007

Grunge and Distressed Font Designs Gallery

Some days ago I was browsing MyFonts.com catalog and noticed that there were beautifully designed images associated with each font family.
It is nothing new, it’s been done for a long time, but despite of that, there are not many font galleries around.
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