Posts made in February, 2009

• Dingbats Anyone?

  Typography

  Do you like dingbats? I do love dingbats. Most of the time I rip them off and use them as vector graphics. All you have to do is type the dingbats in Adobe Illustrator, select the text then go to Type > Create Outlines, instant vector clipart. Dingbats are not so popular and most people [...]

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• GDFR Nominated Best Wordpress Themes and How to Pick the Right Theme For Your Blog

  Web

  Searching for the right Wordpress theme in the Internet could take you forever. There are tons of free and premium (which means you have to pay for them) Wordpress themes out there. Top Wordpress Themes, Best of the Best, 100 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes, The Most Beautiful Wordpress Themes. They had already thrown all sorts [...]

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• How to Use Indesign Separations Preview

  Templates

  You spent days or even weeks doing your layout. You thought everything’s ok and you sent all files to your printer only to hear them say, “There’s a problem with your file?”
  One of the best tools in InDesign to help you avoid a lot of unexpected surprises is InDesign’s Separations Preview, you can avoid unexpected [...]

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• Free 3D models: Trees and Plants

  3D Models

  Time to share once more some 3d freebies. Set 1 includes 8 different kinds 3d trees and plants, with various polygonal counts, from low to high.
  Add richness & detail to your architectural and landscape rendering projects. You can add textures if necessary or simply drop them into your scene and start rendering.

  Compatible with:
  3ds max, [...]

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• Frog on a Glass Window – Using Photoshop

  Photoshop Tutorials

  I was trying to arrange my archive when I bumped into this very interesting Photoshop tutorial. The original tutorial was a frog on a leaf. I re-created it with Photoshop CS4 and made a variation, thus now it’s frog on a glass window.
  I found this nice wet glass window shot somewhere. You can also other [...]

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• Customize Your Twitter With These Cool Powerpoint Backgrounds

  Twitter Backgrounds

  I’m relatively new in Twitter and just this morning I bumped into someone else’s Twitter profile and saw a nice customized background. I never thought that you can customize your Twitter besides those pre-design templates. I search google for Twitter backgrounds and found only a few tutorials and some backgrounds that you can customize but [...]

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• Free Grunge Fonts – Part 1

  Typography

  It’s been a while since I posted the first font freebie here at GFDR. Here’s some more, some of the best Free Grunge Fonts around. There are tons of free grunge fonts on the web but I would like to save you some time in choosing the best. This is just part 1, so expect [...]

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• 2008 Desktopography Surreal Nature Wallpapers

  Wallpapers

  At their best, desktop wallpapers bring animation to often lifeless computer screens, reflecting the personality of the user and acting as a calling card for creative talent. The desktopography project arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature / topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers. Designers spend about 90% of their waking [...]

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• Free Vector Clips: Businessmen

  Free Vectors

  Feel like throwing some more free vector clips for everyone. Here are different types of businessmen in silhouttes that you can use in whatever design you will need them. EPS illustrator file format (CS and above).
  FREEBIE time! Enjoy.

  Download the file here:
  GFDR Businessmen Vector Clips

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• Some Amazing Works of Creative Typography

  Typography

  One fundamental principle of typography is where type is regarded as an image that serves a variety of communicative purposes. While typography is a highly focused branch of communication design, this creative expression using typography on artworks and illustrations serves to open a path for graphic designers to go beyond the usual graphical shapes and [...]

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