Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Latest pictures from my LG Renoir

Things I've snapped in the last week or so on my LG Renoir KC910



Snow in York
York Snow 12th Feb
York Snow 12th Feb
Cold Car

Van Dog, Woof
Van Dog



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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Grass is always greener


Grass is always greener
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, guess these goats agree.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I love tanks

Maybe it is the big kid in me, maybe its all the cheesy war films I've watch but I love tanks and other military hardware.

Russian T34 tank tracks

Russian T34 Tank

gundetail

aag

T34 Tank Panel 2

T34 Tank Detail

Red Star

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Monday, February 09, 2009

Pictures from the weekend

Here are some pictures I took over the weekend.

Wilson the dog keeping warm
Wilson Keeping Warm

Snowy Hell's Wath in Ripon
Snowy Hells Wath Ripon
Snowy Hells Wath Ripon 2

Snow covered fallen tree in Ripon
Snow covered tree

Pirates of the 2CV?
Pirates of the 2CV
Pirates of the 2CV 2

All pictures taken on my LG Renoir KC910

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Last.FM Wallpaper

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I created this from the album art from my Last.FM account using the generator over at http://lastfm.alekc.org/. I then edited it a bit in Photoshop.


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50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

via hongkiat.com by Kay on 05/02/09

free photoshop brushes

If you've got an idea (or concept) but find it hard to present on your artwork because the drawings just don't add up, try Photoshop Brushes. Brushes are designers best friend, particularly web designers who don't illustrate graphics much.

Adobe Photoshop does comes with a basic package of brushes but it has not been updated by folks at Adobe for quite some time. Thanks to the great community of designers out there who constantly distributing and sharing their brushes, you can almost find brushes of any patterns these days. Whether you are working on a nature-related artwork looking for floral and wood graphics, or merely adding some torn, burned and cracked effects to your artwork - there's a free brush pack out there and all you need to do is Google.

In today's post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Here's our hand-picked of 50 Free and High Quality Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark. Full list after jump.

Some useful Photoshop related entries we've previously written:

  1. Metal Brushes

    9 metal texture brush set.

    metal_brushes

  2. 2Bit-Twilight Brushes

    A set of 12 abstract pixel brushes for Photoshop. Compatible with Photoshop 8+ / Photoshop Elements 3+.

    2Bit-twilight

  3. 8 fantasy butterfly brushes

    8 really beautiful and fantasy butterfly brushes to spice up your painting.

    butterfly_brushes

  4. A3D Pieces of Tape Brushes

    Thirty-seven brushes from various torn, wrinkled, pieces of tape brushes made in Photoshop 7.0

    3d_pieces

  5. Abstract Brushset XIII

    13 awesome abstract brushes.

    abstract brushes

  6. Astral Flora

    Pack contains 8 brushes, including 2 different sized leaves, 1 astral rose, 1 astral flowerbud, 1 astral butterfly, an assortment of whispy, starspangled curves.

  7. Barbed wire brush

    Two barbed wire brushes.

    barbed_wire

  8. Brush Stroke Brushes

    Made with thick black poster colours. Just great for those pieces needing brush strokes with hard bristles.

    brush_stroke_brushes

  9. Butterflies with Flowers

    butterflies_with_flowers

  10. Zelink's Cataclysm Brushset

    Can be used for grunge, stars abstract and smoke/forg effects. This set was based upon the stars of the heavens. This set, cataclysm, was designed to bring violent destruction upon the use of other sets. It has many uses and works very well for sigs.

    Cataclysm

  11. Cracks and cuts brushes

    This pack includes around 80 brushes, all cracks, chips and cuts.

    cracks_and_cuts

  12. Demolished.Cracks

    Demolished.Cracks pack contains 12 brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!

    demolished

  13. Fractal Brushes

    There are ten of fractal brushes in total.

    lightseer_fractals

  14. CS4 Brushes

    New style of CS4 brushes.

    cs4_brushes

  15. Glow Part I

    There are 11 big brushes made with Photoshop 7.0

    glow_brushes

  16. Floral Frame Brushes

    Now with these wonderful brushes all you need is Photoshop and the brush tool selected, you'll create floral frame brushes so awesome that you will love.

    flora_frame_brushes

  17. Drop Brushes

    A set of brushes for photoshop (created in CS3) with sizes range from about 700px to 1600px.

    drop_brushes

  18. 5 Checkered PS Brushes

    checkered

  19. Label Brushes

    The pack contains the the letters of the alphabet, numbers and some extras. Theres a piece of tape and some marks which could be used in white and added to the labels once they're done to make them look authentic and cool.

    label_brushes

  20. TI Graphic Pack 152 Ps Brushes

    152 Photoshop brushes made on Ps CS4.

    t1_graphic_pack

  21. Metal Mesh Brush

    Metal Mesh Brush by =SocioBunneh.

    metal_mesh_brush

  22. Hyper Brushes - PS7

    hyper_brushes

  23. 10 Very Big Brushes No.30

    10_big_brushes

  24. MOON BRUSHES for PS7 v.2

    45 moon brushes for ps7, ps8, ps9, ps10.

    moon_brushes

  25. 25 Tiny Text Brushes 02

    It includes 25 tiny text brushes for icons. The .zip contains an .abr file compatible with Photoshop 7.0 and up.

    tiny_text_brushes

  26. 20 high-res-stamp brushes

    20 high-resolution stamp brushes.

    stamp_brushes

  27. 122 Brushes

    122_brushes

  28. Camera-Stuff

    8 brushes for lens, film and camera.

    camera_brushes

  29. Architectual ornaments

    architectural_elements

  30. Crack Brushes I

    crack_brushes

  31. Echolalie-stock 32

    The package contains 15 different brushes made of different wall pictures. You will find cracks, scratches and dirty brushes.

    echolalie

  32. Floral brushes

    8 large floral brushes, for use on headers and wallpapers.
    7 100×100 floral brushes, for use on icons.

    floral_brushes

  33. Holes, Holes, Holes

    These hole brushes are higher res so would be good for higher res projects as well.

    holes

  34. Girl Brushes

    girl_brushes

  35. Andantonius' Pencil Brush

    With this pencil brush and sketch paper action, you can quickly and easily create natural-looking pencil sketches, without the pencil! The brush takes advantage of both pen pressure and tilt to create a very natural feel and look.

    pencil_brushes

  36. Old brushes 8

    Oldies set (8 brushes) for photoshop cs-cs2

    old_brushes

  37. Barcodes

    barcode

  38. Line Brushes

    A pack of solid and dotted lines.

    line_brushes

  39. My Sweet Diary Brushes

    The pack contains 70 cute brushes for lines, random scribbles and drawings, animals and a lot of hearts!

    my_sweet_diary

  40. Photography Brushes for PSP

    A set of high quality (200dpi scans) 42 photoshop brushes about photography. They are more like illustrations and blueprints of various cameras and photography related processes.

    photography_brushes

  41. Rainy

    rain_brushes

  42. Scribbles 4: Musical Notes

    20 handdrawn musical note scribble brushes.

    scribbles_brush

  43. Rock Star Brushes

    rock_star_brushes

  44. Smoke Brushes Vol II

    There are just 3 smokes per vol. All of them are more than 1300 px.

    smoke_brushes

  45. The Krako "Tags brushes"

    tags_brushes

  46. Smudge Brushes

    smudge_brushes

  47. Syringe

    Several different variations and sizes of syringes.

    Syringe_brushes

  48. Ischarm Pen Brushes

    A set of 7 pen brushes.

    pen_brushes

  49. Spider Webs

  50. Industrial Brushes

    industry_brushes