Shadowhouse Creations " Birds Brush Set 3 "

Here's a free set of Bird Brushes, 23 in all and made using Photoshop 7, so they'll be

compatible with versions 7 and up, also PS Elements 3 and newer.

Birds Brush Set 3 ~ Download

2 Photoshop Tips

Photoshop Tip 1: How to Draw a Perfect Circle/Square

Here's a quick but basic Photoshop tip for beginners.Let's take a look at the toolbox and find the set of drawing tools as shown below. (To expand, left click on the rectangular tool and hold)

You can use these tools to draw rectangular or oval shapes, as shown below.

Now here's the trick, if you would like to draw a 'PERFECT" circle or a square, you must hold down the shift key while dragging your mouse.

That's it.

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Photoshop Tip 2: Unlocking The Background Layer

Trust me, there will come a time that you will want to
unlock the background layer, for whatever purpose.
To do so, simply "double click" the background layer on
the layer palette, as shown below.

You will then be prompted with a new window, simply click OK.

And you will now see the lock on the background layer is gone,
that means the background layer is now unlocked.

You can now drag the background layer up and down,just like all
other unlocked layers.

That's it.

Texture of the Day "Damaged Goods"

Damaged Goods ~ Download

Example using the "Damaged Goods" texture above.

2 Grunge Overlays

Grunge Overlay 11 example.
To apply the overlay, just open an image, then open this overlay and make sure this is the top layer, then set your layer mode to "Overlay" or you may select another mode.

Grunge Overlay 11 ~ Download 

 Grunge Overlay 4 ~ example.

Grunge Overlay 4 ~ Download

Grunge Overlay 3 ~ 2400 X 1800 pixels

Example of Grunge Overlay 3 which can be seen below.
To apply the overlay, just open an image, then open this overlay and make sure this is the top layer, then set your layer mode to "Overlay" or you may select another mode.

Grunge Overlay 3 ~ Download

Texture of the Day " Green Cosmos"

Green Cosmos ~ Download

Blogger Tip: Mouseover

Run your mouse over the image. I've had a few people ask about how to do the mouseover, so I thought I would show you how to achieve it. 1. It's not necessary to back up your template as you aren't going to touch any part of the template HTML. 2. You need to find two images you want to use and they MUST be the same size in measurements. You also want to keep the kilobytes as low as possible so it doesn't slow down when loading. 3. You need to upload them somewhere for storage, I uploaded mine to Picasa. You will need the location of the images, meaning the URL information of both images, so you need to make note of them and save. 4. Open a NEW post. You will not be publishing this one, and will eventually delete it after first saving it as a draft.  It is only to help you upload your images and get the code that is returned. 5. All that remains to do is add the javascript to"envelope" the two images, or add the pictures URLs to the Javascript, depends on how you see it. Here's the script.  .......................................................... <table align="center"><tr><td align="center"> <img onmouseover="Javascript: this.firstsrc= this.getAttribute('src'); this.secondsrc= 'http://bp0.blogger.com/_fV9I2C_dAUY/R2Wrh1GGLRI/   AAAAAAAAASM/pn8sq1dh8vc/s400/tulip_pink_round_blu. gif'; this.setAttribute('src',this. secondsrc);" onmouseout="Javascript: this.setAttribute ('src',this.firstsrc);" alt="" src='http://bp2.blogger .com/_fV9I2C_dAUY/R2WrhVGGLQI/AAAAAAAAASE/     gPIt_Eq88zw/s400/tulip_purple_round_blu.gif' />    </td></tr></table> ........................................................... (Post 2nd image URL first) ( Post 1st image URL second) 6. You can copy and paste the code into the post. * The SECOND (rollover, mouseover, whatever) picture link is the first one to appear in the script; the FIRST (static) picture link is included as the second link reference - (hey, it's not me being difficult - it's the way the script works!). *You must (duhhh, obviously!) change the pic URL links in the script to the ones returned by Blogger when you upload your own pics. * It is IMPORTANT that you make sure that the quotation marks that surround the URL links are single ( ' ) and not double quotes ( " ), as this has a relevance on how the script is executed. NOTE: Do not copy and paste/edit in Microsoft "WORD" for it will add extra code. I did mine in NOTEPAD. I can honestly say, putting this one together was a chore and sucked all life out of me. I will rest now!