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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this tutorial you will learn how to draw semi-realistic bamboo in Adobe Photoshop&#8212;perfect for textures and backgrounds.

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Step 1: Creating a New Document
Create a new document with 800 on 600 pixels, resolution 300 dpi and a transparent background.


Step 2:  Making the Texture

 For texture, we do a selection with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeans Social Media Icon Set</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/jeans-social-media-icon-set/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.
Jeans Icon Set is a package of 17 Social media icons which is specially designed in Jeans style. The set of icon is suitable to be used in Design projects, Blogs, Websites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Caching: What’s the best Caching Plugin?</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/wordpress-caching-what%e2%80%99s-the-best-caching-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Your Wordpress blog getting sluggish? Caching is a great technique for speeding up your blog and the Wordpress community has a lot of caching plugins to choose from. Lets review each one and find out which caching solution will work best for your Wordpress blog.

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What Is Caching?
Benchmarking?
WordPress Caching Plugins Compared
Do It Yourself Caching
What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/retro-3d-arcade-text-effect-in-illustrator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this tutorial we&#8217;ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities,  gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect.

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The final image
This is what we will be creating:

Step 1
 There  are actually two ways to begin this illustration. You may draw all the blocky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vibrant Stickers Web Icon Pack</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/vibrant-stickers-web-icon-pack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.
This icon pack contains 15 colorful .png icons, each 256&#215;256px. The icons were designed by Aaron Ovadia of Photoshop Candy exclusively for Tutorial9.
 
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		<title>Creative Bookmarks: Best of March 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/creative-bookmarks-best-of-march-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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March was another month full of amazing tutorials, showcases and articles. Here&#8217;s Creative Bookmarks March!

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Photoshop Tutorials


Create a Dark and Surreal Poster Using Your Own Portrait
This tutorial was inspired by the work of digital artist Rob Shields titled “Keep Me in the Dark”. This tutorial requires the use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/custom-wordpress-homepage-with-customizable-widgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Tutorial, you&#8217;ll learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

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Making a Template File
Featured Content Slider
JavaScript
Custom Widget Areas in WordPress Templates


Materials Needed:

Wordpress
Text Editor
Note: any text editor will work.

A lot of people I have seen asking about how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Vector Inspiration #66</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/weekly-vector-inspiration-66/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.

Magic soup&#8230; by Adam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Grimy Text Treatment with a Pen Tablet</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/create-a-grimy-text-treatment-with-a-pen-tablet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/create-a-grimy-text-treatment-with-a-pen-tablet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a grimy text treatment utilizing Illustrator&#8217;s Blog brush, Live Paint, and a pen tablet. You can easily apply these techniques to other illustrates, type treatments and logos.

Final Image
Below is the final type treatment we be working towards.

Tutorial Details

Program : Adobe Illustrator CS4 (This tutorial uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrator CS5 New Features</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/illustrator-cs5-new-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Illustrator CS5 is here! The Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Global Online Launch Event will happen at 8am PDT/11amEDT/ 5pm CEST April 12, 2010 on Adobe TV, but you can already check out some of the new features in Illustrator.


Illustrator CS5 New Features
Perspective Drawing
Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Vector Inspiration #65</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/weekly-vector-inspiration-65/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.

Surveillor 3000 by Loguy

Vector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Simple Storefront Icon</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/create-a-simple-storefront-icon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple storefront icon using some rectangles, Illustrator Effects, and gradients. This icon is great for use in e-commerce sites and the techniques in this tutorial can easily be applied to other icons, illustrations, and logos.

Final Image
Below is the final icon we will be working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Vector Inspiration #64</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/weekly-vector-inspiration-64/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.

Akutou

Fresh &#38; Easy Kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vectips Monthly Roundup: March 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/vectips-monthly-roundup-march-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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There are a number of great tutorials, freebies, and articles related to vectors coming out on the web daily. Each month, I roundup some of the best posts I have found useful. I can’t include everything I’ve seen throughout the month, but you can follow my Twitter feed to get all the daily links. Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Smart Guides</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/the-power-of-smart-guides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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When ever I would install a new version of Illustrator, I would quickly turn off the Smart Guides. They always seemed confusing to me, but after working with Illustrator for a while, I have become reliant on Illustrator&#8217;s Smart Guides. If you don&#8217;t use Smart Guides, you should! It will help you create cleaner files, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Vector Inspiration #63</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/weekly-vector-inspiration-63/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.

Mr. Kone

jergot+gotroch by 178 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Minute Redesign: Week 7 Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/30-minute-redesign-week-7-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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30 Minute Redesigns
I hope many of you saw last week&#8217;s 30 minute redesign. If you missed it then please check out the redesign I did of Flag Company
30 Minute Redesign: Flag Company
The idea is that I redesign a website in just 30 minutes, trying to improve upon it&#8217;s design aspects. I then publish a case-study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texture Thursday: Cork</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/texture-thursday-cork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Cork Textures
You can view the textures below, and can download the full sized textures at the bottom of this page.




Download Them Free
You can download the full-sized textures totally free using the link below:
Download Textures Free
License: Creative Commons Attribution


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		<title>30 Beautiful Digital Watercolor Works</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/30-beautiful-digital-watercolor-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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30 Beautiful Digital Watercolor Works
I&#8217;ve always liked watercolor as a medium for art, and with advancements in digital technology more and more artists area able to capture the medium on their computer.
Combining digital and watercolor techniques, or even creating a watercolor effect from scratch using digital means can provide a fantastic amalgamation of techniques and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Fresh Illustrated Website Designs</title>
		<link>http://www.colorrage.com/blog/2010/04/30-fresh-illustrated-website-designs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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30 Fresh Illustrated Website Designs
Illustration in web design has been around for years now, and can really add an extra &#8216;wow factor&#8217; to a design. Illustrations are typically used to portray fun &#038; creativity. Designers often use illustrations as part of their portfolio&#8217;s design, in order to demonstrate their skill and artistic ability.
Today we&#8217;ve compiled [...]]]></description>
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