Round emblem styled logo’s seem to be cropping up all over the place at the moment, blogs, magazines, design communities such as Forrst, just to name a few. The reason why? Stating the obvious you might say but they look feakin’ sweet!
So, I thought to myself, why not create my own little emblem logo with my own style in there and share it with you guys here at HV-Designs. Here’s a look at the finished article that we will have achieved by the end of this tutorial.
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Today we have the pleasure of presenting our readers a freebie from the very talented Hillary Hopper, exclusive to HV-Designs. This log in form is a fully layered PSD with easily customizable options. Today’s freebie is free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. So, what are you waiting for download the freebie already!
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Today we are going to be using basic layer styling and some basic tools in Photoshop to create the open version of our Nintendo DS. In this tutorial you will learn to create the open view of a DS from scratch, using nothing but basic tools and filters. Now, let’s get started. As always this is what we will be creating:
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With our last two giveaways being about business cards I figured it was time to give you guys a tutorial for designing a business card. Today we are proud to bring you an awesome business card design tutorial that, when you are finished, will be 100% print ready. The techniques and styles displayed in this tutorial can be adjusted to fit different colors and textures with little effort. Well, I think it’s about time to let Eric walk you through how to create these amazing business cards.
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We have partnered with our friends over at Got Print to bring our readers yet another giveaway! The awesome folks over at Got Print wanted to give you guys something extra special so instead of our standard 500 Business Card Giveaway they wanted to bring in 1,000 business cards for you to have, with no restraints. How can you win?
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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 proud to announce the winner of the Printing Center USA 500 Business Card Giveaway. We would like to really thank all of you that entered the contest and keep a look out next week for another giveaway! Now, its time to really give you what you are looking for and announce the one person, out of many, that won the contest after the week.
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Today we are going to be using basic layer styling and some basic tools in Photoshop to create a gorgeous Nintendo DS Pt. 1. In this tutorial you will learn to create the top view of a DS from scratch, using nothing but basic tools and filters. Be sure to follow this tutorial and save your document as Pt II will walk you through the process of creating the opened DS style. Now, let’s get started.
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This is a follow up tutorial to the Forrst User API Tutorial – Pt. 1 and will teach you how to grab the posts for a forrst user.
As of April 2011 this still works, but may change as their API is still being developed and in this case we are scraping the user’s profile page to generate some useful arrays that we then place into a custom template.
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We’ve teamed up with our friends at Printing Center USA, an awesome group of people working hard to bring you the best printing jobs at the best prices, to hook up 1 lucky reader with 500 Business Cards, absolutely free (A $46.00+ value). Continue reading to learn how you could win this giveaway.
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We’ve teamed up with our friends at Themes Kingdom, an awesome group of people working hard to bring you amazing WordPress Themes, to hook up 5 lucky readers with lifetime memberships (worth $29 a year). We received a great response from our giveaway and are proud to announce the three winners of the blog contest!
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