If you can believe the fact that almost a month ago WDB server hard drives crashed and everything was lost… now not only WDB is back online and restoring everything with your help , WDB has a new skin, face, theme or whatever you like to call it. I was thinking for very long in switching to a new theme, considering that I have been using the old theme for over 3 years. Let’s hope this one raises to your expectations
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WDB New Skin
We understand that as print designers, stock images are used to create backgrounds, textures, showcase products, etc. We want to make sure that the designers that use us to print all of their created material have the best resources available to them. We recently came across another stock image repository
Microsoft have made some good moves with WP7 – a standardised feature set, a fairly intuitive and finger friendly GUI and some obvious, but to date ignored, innovation, such as the ability to play the same game across devices and continue where left off. IE, be playing on an XBOX 360 at home and then continue on the bus with your phone. Why didn’t anyone else do that already?
Learn how to put together a sweet candy inspired design in Illustrator by cutting, splitting and joining vector paths to produce an intricate weave of shapes. We’ll then add some finishing touches with subtle shading and a cool striped overlay to add depth to the design.
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Create a Candy Inspired Vector Snowboard Design
Spring is a great time for businesses to utilize fun and effective slogans: “Beauty on a Budget”, “Stock up for Summer”, “Spring has Sprung”, or the “New Beginning Sale”! What are you doing this spring to boost sales and retain customer? Promotional Products Everyone knows that promotional products drive trade show booth traffic, but what most don’t realize is that promotional products also build customer loyalty
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Spring Forward
There’s nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. Let’s use the good old doodle to represent our design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. We’ll be drawing our doodles directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up our business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document.
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Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design
Today is the day 10 of you lucky readers get to become a premium member and get access to complete direct downloads and many more. I’ve used random.org to select the winners and here they are: (…) Read the rest of 10 Premium Membership Accounts Giveaway Winners ( you won’t regret it 
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10 Premium Membership Accounts Giveaway Winners
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a unique Illustrator tutorial covering the creation of watercolor effects; a CSS tutorial on the popular sprites technique; a fantastic introduction and overview of CSS attribute selectors; another brilliant Illustrator tutorial, this time creating a bright and crisp illustration; and a well presented bunch of typography tips. Design Instruct This unique tutorial from the freshly launched Design Instruct covers some great tips on how to recreate a great looking watercolour and hand-drawn marker effect from a base photo. Definitely worth checking out!
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This Week’s Favourites – March 5th 2010
If you’re looking to develop your Illustrator skills, here’s a tutorial for you! Follow this walkthrough to see the how adding layer after layer of vector shapes, along with a range of gradients and a spot of texture can quickly create a great looking icon-style clock graphic. The main ingredient we’ll be adding to this design, other than a bunch of circles to build up the overall shape, is a range of gradient fills.
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How To Build a Vector Clock Graphic in Illustrator
Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some of the general rules of logo design, see what guidelines we should stick to in order to build high quality logos, and see how they can all be put into practice to create a logo design that works in the real world.
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A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs
Vector graphics are one of the most interested and useful thing for the Web Designers and Graphics Designers . Good vector images are very expensive and it is not affordable for a part time designers
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Vector Graphics Resources Websites Roundup – Free Vector Graphics
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a great tutorial covering the process of creating an abstract poster design; a rare tutorial topic showing you how to block a printed poster; some super useful hints and tips for Photoshop; an excellent icon design tutorial; and a roundup of cool curvy brush script fonts for reference. Tutorial9 This great tutorial from Tutorial9 takes you through the process of building an awesome abstract poster design that boasts that retro-futuristic style. View the article CreativeOverflow Most design tutorials on the web are digital based, so it’s great to see a rare topic such as this from Creative Overflow cropping up every now and again
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This Week’s Favourites – February 19th 2010
Last year I was invited to participate as an author in the development of The Smashing Book, the long awaited publication from the giant that is Smashing Magazine. Vitaly, Sven and team have kindly sent over a stack of copies to give away exclusively to Blog.SpoonGraphics members. The book contains ..
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10 Copies of The Smashing Book Available to Members
If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various Wordpress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog.
By default your Mac captures the screenshot as a PNG file. If you would like to change the PNG to a JPG format follow the simple steps bellow: Open Terminal Write: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg Write: killall SystemUIServer (for the changes to take effect) Done! Your Mac now captures the screen in jpg format. PS: you can use a different format instead of “jpg”.
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How to change the default screenshot format on Mac OSX
Lost your chance last time you had the opportunity to win a Premium Membership at WDB? No worries, here we go again ! Until 2009 is over I’m going to give away 1 Premium Membership account to everyone who writes a guest article about http://Garcya.us/blog ! So all you have to do is either point 1 or 2 Write a blog post (anywhere you can) and write anything you want about WDB but make sure to include a link back to http://garcya.us/blog/free-vector-graphics/ with the anchor text Free Vector Graphics
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As requested by a fan of WDB on facebook here’s some awesome free vector borders in super high quality, the only quality you’ll find on #WDB ! Remember to follow @Garcya on twitter and send out your requests by @Garcya and I’ll try to make them live here on WDB. (…) Read the rest of 15 Super High Quality Vector Borders – FREE ( you won’t regret it ) © Garcya for Web Design Blog , 2009. | Permalink | One comment Post tags: free borders , FREE VECTORS
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15 Super High Quality Vector Borders – FREE
Hey All, This is a post that keeps growing day by day so I need to update its postion to be at the top of my blog as the content grows. So, here it is again by popular demand: How to make an Out of the Browser SL4 Web Browser Applicaiton: http://tw0.us/5jy Use the new Silverlight 4 Webcam API to create a cool webcam app that even let’s you save images to your hard drive: http://tw0.us/5RD Use the new Silverlight 4 COM API to make an Out of the Browser application that is able to open a MS Word document: http://tw0.us/5NN How to make a Timer by using the DispatcherTimer class: http://tw0.us/4my Create a Functioning Login UserControl: http://tw0.us/4o3 Use the FarseerPhysics Library to create a Ragdoll with simulated Physics: http://tw0.us/4pA Create a Sortable ObservableCollection: http://tw0.us/5G0 Create a Silverlight Ragdoll with Simulated Physics: http://tw0.us/4pA How to create a functioning Silverlight Login UserControl: http://tw0.us/4o3 How to create a Silverlight Timer using the DispatcherTimer class: http://tw0.us/4my How to create custom RoutedEvents in Silverlight using Andrew Whiddett’s (IdentityMine) Eventing assembly reference: http://tw0.us/4cU Use the Silverlight Toolkit’s WrapPanel to create a ListBox that displays three rows of Data: http://tw0.us/4aV Create a Silverlight custom Silder: http://tw0.us/4LZ How to create a Visual Tree Helper to locate FrameworkElements in the Visual Tree: http://tw0.us/46C Using DataBinding to control the Visibility of any Silverlight Object using Blend and Visual Studio: http://is.gd/4jUYJ How to create a complete Sketchflow Prototype in Silverlight: http://is.gd/41pjN Creating a Custom Silverlight Button Just for Designers (using linear and radial gradients, the gradient tool and opacity masks): http://is.gd/3XAcr Creating a Custom Silverlight Button: http://is.gd/3X1eZ Creating a Storyboard Helper Class: http://is.gd/3mjXW Importing Photoshop PSD files into Expression Blend 3: http://is.gd/3f53d Creating Morphing Vector Path Storyboards in Blend http://tw0.us/4oI Re-Creating a Metallic Logo in Vector using Blend 3 http://tw0.us/4oL Creating Timed Storyboard Animations http://tw0.us/4oK Using TemplateBinding to Replace a ContentPresenter in a Silverlight Button http://tw0.us/4oJ Working with Data in BLend 3 http://tw0.us/4oN Silverlight 3 Behavior Tutorial Video http://is.gd/3ajTP This Tutorial will teach you how to create a Card Flipping Animation! http://is.gd/3ajpa Observable Collection Tutorial http://is.gd/3ajLK Silverlight Extended Drag and Drop Behavior: http://victorgaudioso.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/extended-drag-and-drop-behavior/q Enjoy! Victor
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All of My Video Tutorials in One Place (revisited)
Free Vector Holiday Illustrations http://graphicriver.net/free-illustrations Best Holiday Email Templates http://themeforest.net/collections/359589-best-holiday-email-templates $7,000 Mac.AppStorm Christmas Giveaway http://mac.appstorm.net/general/appstorm-news/the-7000-appstorm-christmas-giveaway/ Sell WordPress Themes http://themeforest.net/winter-wordpress Free Vector Christmas Labels & Tags http://www.designfreebies.org/free-vectors/free-vectors-christmas-holiday-sale-tags-and-labels/ Affordable Greeting Cards – we print, sign, seal, address & deliver for unbelievably low prices http://www.mpressiongraphics.com/SeasonGreetingCards.html
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Prisma Graphic has the following services and capabilities. Equipment List Electronic Prepress (1) Magnus 800 Platesetter with 5 Autoloader/Cassettes (1) Creo Trendsetter Spectrum Platesetter (9) Mac Work Stations (9) PC Work Stations (6) PREPS Imposition Stations (2) Prinergy JVX 10.4 Ripping & Trapping Systems Prinergy Stochastic Screener Prinergy – PDF Workflow Kodak – FM Staccato Screening Canon Color ImpoProofer Automated 2-sided proofer with Color Management Canon ImagePrograf Contract Color Proofer with Kodak Color Management Epson Inkjet Color 9900 Proofer 44” (2) Sherpa 2-Sided Proofers HP DesignJet 5500 Proofer Pictoral Proofer (11” x 17” max) Multiple CD/DVD Burners Rimage Premium CD/DVD PlexWriter (6 Unit) High-Speed Eversmart Pro2 Flatbed Scanner (11.5” x 17” original input) X RITE PlateScope (Plate Quality/Process Control) X RITE Spectrodensitometer (Proofing, Plating, Press Profiling Process Control) Eye One Color Calibration System Profile Maker Pro (Color Profiling system) Complete Up to date Software and Font Library All files archived on DAT and DVD Mirrored 3T Raid Dell Servers & Gigabit Speed Network E. Quix & High Speed Network Server FTP Server (2) CIP3 Servers Kodak ColorTune Proofing Server Prinergy 1.6 Remote Proofing Server Kodak InSite – Customer Job Interface Bindery (2) Heidelberg Cylinder Press ; Sheet Size: 22 x 30” Brausse – 22 1/2 x 29” Die Cut, Emboss and Foil Stamp Kluge EHD – 14 x 20” Die Cut, Emboss and Foil Stamp Baum Lawson MPU, 47” Paper Cutter (Micro-cut) Polar 52” EMC Paper Cutter (Micro-cut) (2) Saber ® 54” Cutter w/ Baumann Jogger Mueller Martini Saddle Stitcher 10 Stations w/ Cover Feeder & 3-Knife Trimmer (2) Mueller Martini Saddle Stitcher 6 Stations /Cover Feeder w/ 3-Knife Trimmer Perfect Binder 18” Rollem TR, 35” Perforating & Scoring Rollem TR, 40” Perforating & Scoring MBO B26S Perfection Folder 26 x 40”; 32-Page MBO B23 Folder 20 x 26”; 8-Page MBO B32 S Perfection Folder 32 x 40”; 8-Page Stahl Folder 30 x 40” 16-Page Folder Kluge Pocket Folder Gluer w/Final Fold Ability Challenge Paper Drill , 5-Hole (1) Auto Shrink Wrap Packager (3) Semi-Auto Shrink Wrap Packager Presses (Web, Sheetfed & Digital) M-130 Heidelberg 38 inch, 5 Color Heatset Web with Color Control System CCS Loop Combo Folder – Sheeter – Pattern Perforator Maximum Sheet: 22.75 x 38 inches, Maximum Image Area: 22.5 x 37.5 inches Color King 36 inch, 2 Color Web Press / Combo Folder Maximum Sheet: 22.75 x 36 inches, Maximum Image Area: 22.5 x 35.5 inches Akiyama 40 inch, 5 Color Perfector with Color Control System CCS Loop Maximum Sheet: 28 x 40 inches, Maximum Image Area: 27.5 x 39.5 inches (2) Akiyama 40 inch, 6 Color w/ Aqueous Coater, Maximum Sheet: 28 x 40 inches, Maximum Image Area: 27.5. X 39.5 inches Mitsubishi 28 inch, 6 Color w/ Aqueous Coater, Maximum Sheet: 20 x 28 inches, Maximum Image Area: 19.5 x 27.5 inches Ryobi True 2 Color (Best for Registration and Solids), Maximum Sheet: 12 x 18 inches, Maximum Image Area: 11.5 x 17.5 inches (2) AB Dick 2 Color Replicator, Maximum Sheet: 12 x 18 inches, Maximum Image Area: 11.5 x 17.5 inches Halm Jet 2C Color Perfector Envelope Press, Maximum Sheet: 13 x 18 inches, Maximum Image Area: 11 x 17 inches HP Indigo 5000 4 Color Press Maximum Sheet: 12 x 18 inches, Maximum Image Area: 11.6 x 17.2 inches C6500 Digital 4 Color Copier/Press, Maximum Sheet: 12 x 18 inches, Maximum Image Area: 11.6 x 17.2 inches Fulfillment Pick and Pack Package and Distribution On-line Customized Inventory Management Cycle Count Mailing Services Our Mailing Department offers a fully integrated service, which is completely in-house, and configured to suit any requirements.
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Prisma Graphic Services and Capabilities