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Avatar creation with Photoshop, the SOSFactory way

9 October 2009

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Avatar creation with Photoshop, the SOSFactory way

Hello buddies, here you have a new video of myself at work, this avatar was created by order from SOSFactory for Hiyo, a free application for your MSN and Yahoo! messenger, courtesy of Incredimail. Photoshop avatar by the face I asked permission to Incredimail to offer one avatart for free and for personal use, my [...]

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SuperIcon V3: Thumbnails for Photoshop and Illustrator files

25 April 2008

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SuperIcon V3: Thumbnails for Photoshop and Illustrator files

Click the image to download this Super Icon V3. It is well known, that with Windows Xp it is not possible to preview the files PSD. This is bothering because the icon does not allow you to distinguish between one file and the others. Long [...]

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The free mascot design post

10 March 2008

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The free mascot design post

Searching in my old CDs and Hard Drives, i found some mascot designs. I made this ones to practice when i started designing; i never sold them… so here they are in case anyone wants to use them . I will add more designs time to time, whenever a order from SOSFactory fails, I will [...]

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Thumbnails for Illustrator files in Windows

10 November 2007

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Thumbnails for Illustrator files in Windows

Everybody know that Windows use a default icon for AI files (Illustrator file format), it is really disturbing when you have a lot of Illustrator files because you cant choice the one you like just looking at the thumbnails. With this small file you will have customized thumbnail views of your Illustrator files. Remenber I [...]

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Thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows

27 October 2007

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Thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows

Everybody know that Windows use a default icon for PSD files, it is really disturbing when you have a lot of Photoshop files because you cant choice the one you like just looking at the thumbnails. With this small file you will have customized thumbnail views of your Photoshop files. Instrucctions to install : Download Psicon [...]

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Vectorize your lineart with Silhouette

1 October 2007

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Vectorize your lineart with Silhouette

Well, here i bring you another of my essentials, Silhouette is an Illustrator plugin to vectorize bitmaps. It’s free (you only have to wait a countdown of 5 seconds) Quick to download and install It supports several languages It has Manuals It works with almost any Illustrator version It works for PC and MAC AND IT’S VERY EASY [...]

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Freebies: vectors, icons, fonts, logos, flags of the world…

24 September 2007

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Freebies: vectors, icons, fonts, logos, flags of the world…

Here is a bunch of resources, free stuff to add that Wow effect to your designs. Vecteezy: website full of vectors, please see the license type of every file before using then, some of them are free even for commercial use. Brusheezy: similar to the previous but Photoshop brushes and paterns. Logos for [...]

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Which font is that?

1 September 2007

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Which font is that?

Do you remember the last time a client asked you to vectorize a logo, you went crazy asking which was the font you used in that logo?. Well, it wont happen again with My favorite utility to identify fonts 1. Get a high quality image. If you don’t know a font you just need [...]

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Contracts for freelance designers

12 June 2007

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Contracts for freelance designers

Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright. You can use them as templates; you can always add or take the clauses you need [...]

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Free stock images

24 May 2007

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Free stock images

Every designer needs to use great photographs to emphasize its design, if you are a begginer photographer and you are interested in making some extra money this can help, here you have a couple of photo banks, normally all of them have a free material section, for others you have to pay a very affordable [...]

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