Encompass Rose

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Tutorials

Here is a collection of tutorials recommended to me by their author, whom I know as the admin of psp-art-studio.com

They are geared toward beginners and the projects are a lot different from mine, so maybe you'll enjoy the change.

Katiebuglove.com tutorials

Donation Pack 3

I also added this to the original Donation Packs post. If you've donated already, please leave a comment letting me know you'd like the link. If you haven't, please read the info in the original post. Thank you!

Special thank yous to
Alan
Katja
and the person who didn't leave a name.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Donation Gift Pack Post 2.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Donation Gift Packs

Hello everyone. As I mentioned in a recent post I hurt my arm really badly. It's worse than I initially thought. I don't know when I'll be able to go back to work, since my job is to type for my boss. I had a lot of unexpected big expenses in 2012, including emergency medical bills, medical equipment, and doctor visits that I needed to pay for out of pocket. Those bills are taken care of and I have enough to get by on, but things are going to be very tight.

I need a new computer. I'm not sure I can afford that, and I know I can't afford to do that and continue pay for the hosting costs related to this blog. (It's a blogspot page, so yes, it's free, but all of the content is hosted privately--and there is a lot of high res content, so I can't just switch to free plans. Once my paid accounts on PB, Flickr and Mediafire go, so will all the freebies. That includes not only the resources but ALL of the livejournal/dreamwidth icons, all of the free graphics, and anything else that I have posted there over the years.)

I really love doing the blog, and it's important to me to keep as much of my content as possible free for everyone to use.

So, this is what I am going to do. I am looking to raise about $500 toward a new computer and/or $100 toward hosting costs.

In the next few days, I will be adding several more gift packs.

Anybody who donates any amount of money--even a dime--can choose to download ALL the gift packs I offer. Just post a comment or leave your email address in the comment box on paypal and I will send you whatever ones you ask for.

Anybody who donates $5.00 or more can request a custom pack.

If you are on Livejournal or Dreamwidth, you can also request custom icons.
Anyone can request a custom site header or a wallpaper or other large graphic.

You can use the donate button in the sidebar. You do not need a paypal account.

Thank you in advance; I really appreciate any help you can give.

More packs below.

Update: I'd like to thank the folks who've donated or offered to help host some of my content. I'm still in need of donations. I have about $14.50 (minus Paypal fees) and an offer from one of the blog's followers to host the resource zip files. His space is limited, however, and I don't want it to be a problem as the blog grows, so I won't be hosting any of the older content from LJ (resources or graphics) there, and I probably won't put many of the lose resources up at all.

That means I still need to raise the money for Photobucket and/or Flickr. So these offers will remain open until whenever I go back to work.

Old Gradients (Multiformat)

Boy, it's been a long day. I started trying to get this set posted about 12 hours ago and I'm just getting it up now.

This is an older set of gradients that I hadn't posted. I'm not sure if they'll all work in older versions of PSP. I think I made some of them in PSP X5 and then realized I ought to be using an older version and switched to PSP 8.

As such, I also don't know if the corresponding photoshop grd files will work in all versions of photoshop. So, download them, try them, and if they work for you, fantastic. If not, I'm sorry.

There is also a .jpg imagepack at 100x100 px which you can use for LJ icons. I'll do a high res imagepack on request, since I messed up with this set and I want everyone to be able to use it.

Note: A few of these look really similar in the previews, but they're not the same file.

Download

Alternate Download @ my DA gallery.

This set is free, but if you can afford to make a small donation to help keep the site running, I would be grateful. Read this post to find out why.

How to Delete Unwanted Labels in the New Blogger

A little informative link for blogger users. This post on madmadrasi.net will explain how to clean up unwanted labels with the new blogger, since the help files are still showing the method for the "old" blogger.