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Free Photoshop Brushes: Floral, Insects And Leaves 2008-02-05 12:37:00 I've done these Photoshop brushes. They are flowers, insects and leaves, with different effects and sizes. And I want to share them with you.Download them for free, but before please read and understand the terms of use.Terms of useThese brushes are free to use in commercial and non-commercial designs, as long as you follow these conditions:- The brushes can't be sold. You can sell the designs you make with the brushes, but not the brushes themselves.- They must be downloaded clicking the links from this article in www.emmaalvarez.com. If you like the brushes and want your visitors to download them, place a link to this post, so they come and download them from here. Don't directly link them. - You can't redistribute the brushes without my explicit consent. If you want to pack them in a clipart library, cd or dvd, or anything else, ask me first.- If you modify the brushes, or create some others starting from these, that are radically different from their original shape, you can red ...

Interesting Links 02/04/08 2008-02-04 12:27:00 Resources3D total.com makes a great compilation of Photoshop tutorials for digital art. There are 100 tutorials, the best of the best.100 Photoshop tutorials for creating beautiful art VideoAn inspirational video of fantasy, full of magic and art.A Knock at the doorPhotographyThe portfolios of William Corey. Awesome photos of nature. Watching his photos you can feel a fresh breeze.William Corey GalleryArtBrian Despain's art. He shows his work: an art full of imagination, very original, and with essence of tales, very stunning.Brian Despain GalleryHumorousVery funny pics of cats, and there are also some dogs. These pets are very crazy.More Pictures from the Land of Awwws!BizarreHave you sometimes painted a face or something in your hands? Well, this people went beyond what you can imagine.Hand PaintingMusicAre you a big fan of classic Jazz? Even if you don't, make yourself a favor and have a look. This can surprise you.Jazz Videos ...

Layla (Eric Clapton) 2008-02-04 11:19:00 "What'll you do when you get lonelyAnd nobody's waiting by your side?You've been running and hiding much too long.You know it's just your foolish pride.Layla, you've got me on my knees.Layla, I'm begging, darling please.Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.I tried to give you consolationWhen your old man had let you down.Like a fool, I fell in love with you,Turned my whole world upside down.Layla, you've got me on my knees.Layla, I'm begging, darling please.Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.Let's make the best of the situationBefore I finally go insane.Please don't say we'll never find a wayAnd tell me all my love's in vain.Layla, you've got me on my knees.Layla, I'm begging, darling please.Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.Layla, you've got me on my knees.Layla, I'm begging, darling please.Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind. "-lyrics of the original song-This song belongs to the album "Layla and other assorted love songs" ...

Greendoor Publishing 2008-02-03 10:36:00 Fraser Mackay is principal editor at Greendoor Publishing, a new and original service for writers. He is a writer with more than 30 years of experience, and Greendoor is his online service for online editing.In his website, he tries to inspire new writers to help them develop a creative and innovative style of writing.The service is specially aimed to new writers, to whom it offers the experienced advice of Mackay and his team. There is a growing section of links for writers and a directory of authors.As it provides a service of poetry, fiction publishing, each writer has a profile page with photo, contact email, some samples of published works, a short biography of them, and links to his/her website or blog. Not only new writers, but also experienced ones are welcome to join this free services. Consider this as a free directory for writers, that will benefit them as it grows. There is also a service of ghost writing. If you have wondered how is possible that some people like celebriti ...

Frederik Magle, The Brilliant Danish Compositor 2008-01-31 11:47:00 Frederik Magle (born in 1977) is a Danish compositor. He started to compose when he was only 5 years old, and his first public performance was at the age of 8.Frederik Magle, in addition of being a brilliant compositor, is also a soloist on piano and pipe organ. His music is classical contemporary, but he also mixes it with other genres, like jazz, rock, ethnic and electronica.As a soloist, he has played in Saint Peter's Basilica of Rome, in the Windsor Castle... and in 1999 in the baptism of Prince Nikolai, and after that he was invited to perform an organ concert for the Danish Royal Family at Fredensborg Castle. He has an endless list of remarkable performances.His music has been performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and many more important orchestras all over the world.He has received many prizes and awards, recognizing the greatness of his work. Between them, there are the Grants of Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark and H.R.H. Prin ...

Interesting Links 01/31/08 2008-01-31 10:45:00 ResourcesSmashing Magazine makes a great list with the best tutorials of Photoshop. The last is one of my articles :) (Top Best 55 Photoshop Tutorials For Profesional Photographers) . I'm proud to be there. The list is for hats off, excellent work.Best Of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials.VideoSteph Waller has posted an amazing video in her blog, medieval music with animation. Something really good. Resonant ChamberPhotographyGallery of Joseph Holmes. Awesome landscape photos. I reached the 72, but there's many more.Gallery of Joseph HolmesArtIncredible artworks of the German artist Xen Xenusion.GalleryHumorousGuide for parents without common sense :)InstructionsBizarreDo you want to give your pet a medieval stile?Armors for animalsMusicTwo incredible guitars, but they play with a single guitar... and really funny.Guitar duet ...

Rasputin, The Sorcerer Of The Romanovs 2008-01-29 16:07:00 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in Pokrovskoye (Russia). Many kings, tsars and emperors have had the advice of a wise man, or a wizard, but it could be said that Rasputin is the last known sorcerer that a tsar had.Rasputin grew up in the beautiful fields of Siberia without any kind of studies or education, and survived stealing cattle. He had two brothers that died drowned. He named his children with the same names as his brothers. When he was eighteen, he was punished and sent to Verkhoturye Monastery.After three months in this monastery, he had a vision of the Virgin Mary, and this started his life as a mystic.Short time after this, he joined a sect called the Khlysts, that used to make many parties and orgies. Rasputin had to abandon this sect for being a conspirator.He met a holy man called Makariy, that influenced him very much. Some time after this, Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina, and had three children with her.As he was a very promiscuous man, it ...

Rugs, A Tradition Of Centuries 2008-01-27 08:32:00 Rugs are present in many cultures and they are always an excellent decorative item. They also condense the most powerful symbols of those cultures.A good rug can change completely the style of a place, and also enhance or improve it. Their colors and textures can change the perception of everything around it.There are some on-line stores that sell area rugs. Among the bests of them is www.superiorrugs.com.In Superior Rugs there are traditional hand made rugs (of wool, silk and other fibers) as well as machine made rugs (of natural and synthetic fibers).They have rugs of many styles: Oriental, Persian, Berber, Native American, contemporary... And also using different manufacturing techniques, like woven, tufted, bordered, textured, and more.A rug can be a very important element of a room. You can play with the colors: warm colors make a warmer ambient, and light colors make a room much more bright. You can also choose your rug depending in the curtains, fabrics and woods of your furnitu ...

Top Best 50 Blogger & Wordpress Customizations Tips ( Hacks ) 2008-01-22 12:29:00 Sometimes we like a template, but we would like to change some things. Or to add some things that are not present.This changes are called "hacks", and they make that our blog fulfills all our needs, and that it becomes unique.You don't need to be an expert to do this, just copy and paste code where they tell you.Applying hacks like those in this list, you can have all those visual effects and features that almost everybody wants in his/her blog: rotating images in header, random quotes, social bookmarking buttons, background musics, smilies, 3 columns templates... to name a few.25 Blogger HacksRandom background Image, This article gives you the possibility of having a background image for your blog selected randomly between a set on each page reload.Random Header Banner, This easy but very valuable hack changes the image banner of your header randomly between the ones that you specify, so every time you refresh it, a new image is shown.Random Quotes In Subheader, You can see this hack ... Amp

Unicorns, Symbols Of Purity 2008-01-21 14:25:00 In its origins, the Unicorn was a creature depicted as a white horse, with antelope hooves, billy-goat beard, and a horn in its forehead.But with the pass of time, fantasy artists have depicted the Unicorn as a horse with a horn in its forehead and lacking of the other elements. Some also depict the Unicorn winged.There are ancient Greek, Roman, and Macedonian stories that tell about a creature with a single horn.Some say that the origin of those stories may lay in the travels that they did into the India, and they are describing the Indian rhinoceros.Other origins of the Unicorn can be found in the viking mythology and tell about a sea creature that has a horn in its forehead and probably it's actually a cetacean called narval.But both the narval and the rhinoceros are very different from a horse with a horn in its forehead.One of the first versions about the Unicorn is the one that the Greek physician Ctesias did in 400 B.C., in one of the expeditions to India. He talks about a whit ...

Catwoman, Batman's Bad Girl 2008-01-21 11:47:00 The Catwoman character started as a thieve and enemy of Batman in DC Comics. Her real name is Selina Kyle, and her first appearance was in Batman nº1 in 1940. Her creators are Bob Kane and Bill Finger.The personality of Catwoman is ambiguous and has her own code of honor. She never takes part in a murder, for example.As time passes, Batman and Catwoman will felt a big attraction for each other. Even more, their alter egos Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne (Batman) also went on a date.In Batman nº62 ("The Secret Life Of Catwoman"), Catwoman suffers a blow in the head while Batman is chasing her, so Batman takes her to the Batcave. There, Selina tells him her origin. She worked as a flight attendant, and one day the plane in which she worked crashed. She survived, but her personality was altered, and she became a thieve.The blow in the head made her recover her memories, and she reformed and opened a pet shop in Gotham, getting away from the crime world.But in Detective Comics 203 (year 195 ...

The 60 Firefox Extensions That Will Make You Forget IE 2008-01-17 13:19:00 Firefox is a concept of browser much superior to Internet Explorer. IE was born just to browse pages, and although it has some extensions, they can't be compared to those that Firefox has.With Firefox extensions, you can communicate with other Internet users that are browsing the same page as you, post to your blog, to know if your favorite page has updated, and have a much more customized way to browse the Internet and work.Without a doubt, the best alternative for browsing.BloggingScribeFire, A powerful extension for bloggers that own several blogs. Allows to post directly to your blogs, saving time.Text Formatting Toolbar, A toolbar with all that you need for forums and even for HTML. For example for using bold or italic fonts, or use background colors or underline something of your messages.Deepest Sender, Write to your blog from this plugin. Nice for people that own multiple blogs.Communication ToolsTwitBin, Embeds twitter in a sidebar.Me.dium, A complete solution for talking to ...

Paulo Coelho, A Free Spirit 2008-01-17 12:04:00 Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in Agust 1947. His family was rather strict y disciplined. And he was quite rebel, so they interned him up to three times in a mental institution before he was 17 for trying to "moderate" his personality.But his free spirit prevented him from following the same path that others had decided for him. He started to study law, but he abandoned in the 60s, influenced by the hippie culture. He went to travel all over the world, through America, Europe, and Africa. He was traveling for two years, and when he returned, he started to write song lyrics.He also worked as journalist, scriptwriter, theater director, executive in the music company Polygram, and directed the Express Underground newspaper.In 1974 he was sent to jail, accused of subversive activities against the Brazilian government.He got married with the painter Christina Oiticica. With her, he traveled to Holland and met a man called Jean that introduced Coelho to the RAM (Regnus Agnus Mundi) ...

Odilon Redon, A Painter Full Of Melancholy 2008-01-14 15:21:00 Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was born in Bordeaux (France). Actually, his name is Bertrand-Jean Redon. Odilon is a nickname derived from the name of his mother who was Odile.His father was an adventurer that had made a fortune. When Odilon was a child, he had many health problems so they send him to live in the house of his uncle, in the country.Redon was always a dreamer and introverted being. Since he was very young, he felt a great interest for art, which allowed him to express his inner life.The dream of his father was that Redon become an architect, but that never happened. Although sculpture was one of his first passions, he felt very early on a closeness to painting. One of the artist that did a greater influence over him was the watercolor painter Stanislas Gorin, that was his master.Redon admired Delacroix, Millet, Corot, and the symbolist Gustave Moreau. They all influenced his art.One of the best friends of Odilon was the biologist Armand Clavaud, who transmitted him the interes ...

Mount Everest And Its First Heroes: Hillary And Norgay 2008-01-14 11:38:00 Mount Everest is located in the Asian Himalaya range. Himalaya means in Sanskrit "abode of the snow".The Himalayas are the highest range in the Earth, being the Everest the highest mountain in the planet. Mount Everest separates Nepal from Tibet, and is also called "the top of the world".Mount Everest is called Sagarmatha in Nepal (which means "Goddess of the sky"), and in China it's known as Chomolungma o Qomolangma Feng ("the mother of Universe").This mountain was called Everest in honor of Sir George Everest (a British surveyor-general of India) in the year 1865. They were the British who sought for the highest mountain in the Earth, and that took them to the Himalayas. When they found that mountain, the Everest, always covered by the clouds because of its altitude, they knew they had found it. They did many measurements, and each time the mountain seemed to be more and more high.The first British expedition to Mount Everest was in 1921 (from June to September). The second one was ...