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Alright guys, I know that you would love to see another tutorial, and believe me we have plenty for you, but I wanted to take some time out to discuss something very important in the design industry that seems to be lacking lately. I know that part of this is our fault as we have not released a tutorial to date stressing the importance of not using too many effects.
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Today we usher in a new year, the start of 2012! This year is filled with superstitions of world ending tragedies and new beginnings. For us, at least, we are focusing on the new beginnings portion of this year. This year we have so many plans for you guys and have a new tutorial set up, a new shop, a new design, and plenty more to come this year.
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I am proud to bring you a little more information on yet another Web Designer in our community. This man has brought freebies to the design community every day since the inception of his website, and continues to amaze us with his free work. Along with sharing his amazing talents with the rest of the design community he also has released a few Premium WordPress Themes (which can be found below) and they have been a great success.
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I recently started using Adobe Illustrator in addition to my main program Adobe Photoshop. This has gotten me thinking of an age old debate, Photoshop or Illustrator? Now, you can never do all the things in illustrator that you can in Photoshop and likewise in Illustrator, but what about for the every day things that you work on like icons or characters?
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This isn’t going to be your typical tutorial in the sense that it’s not so much about technology as it is about design itself. It really doesn’t matter if you know how to use Photoshop or Illustrator if you are doing the wrong things with them. Tools are just tools, and they only ever obey their master’s bidding.
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Today I am proud to introduce another full time member of the HV-Team, Justin Lowery, who will be writing photoshop and illustrator tutorials for us. Justin has a new tutorial for us coming this next week but I wanted to start off letting our readers get to know him a little bit with this interview. Read on, ask questions, and enjoy!
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Hey guys, we are finally back up and running. After almost a month of being down and having issues with our database/plugins we are finally back and ready to start running full speed again! I had this puppy ready for Friday Freebies (which was also down) but decided that I was going to release this as our back online surprise to celebrate coming back.
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When I started up Friday Freebies as part of the HV-Network I was worried that there are too many freebie areas out there and that we would just be jumping on the bandwagon. After two months and eight freebies (Nine today!) I figured out that though we have jumped on the bandwagon you guys are still supporting us and downloading our freebies. That’s why, as a thank you, we decided to release our first three packaged freebie sets on FF absolutely free.
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Alright guys, we have been thinking about things a lot lately and what direction we want to take the site. Thanks to you guys for helping us get to a point where we can take the time out to make these decisions. As we started talking about different things that we want to do with the site we got on the topic of the HV-Shop and what we want to do with it. The shop is doing great, but we were thinking of giving our users something a little bit better.
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Today we are pleased to introduce a new site to our network started up by our General Editor. The new site will consist of free Photoshop files released each week on Friday, if you couldn’t have guessed that. It has been going strong for two weeks now and is out of final testing phase, so there are already two awesome PSD’s up there for you to get your hands on.
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Today we are proud to be a sponsor of the Designer on Duty Bundle. The DoD Bundle was put together to help out a designer that is undergoing a serious, and unexpected, eye surgery. The bundle includes over 15 resources, updated every day, for only $3. That makes the resources around .18 cents per resource and getting lower every day. Check it out and get yourself some awesome resources for a great price.
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Today we are starting a new series where we will detail the Item of the Week from the HV-Shop. This weeks Item is our WordPress Layout #6. This design features character illustration and very rarely seen widgets on the right hand side. The widgets include Flickr and Advertising. You will love everything about this layout, especially the price.
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