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In Photography, Graphic Design, by dawg house, July 15, 2010
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Now that it is the summer season, it is the perfect time to get out there and enjoy the sun. I also thought it would be of perfect timing to be giving away a nice set of Sky and Lens Flare Textures for you to utilize in your future projects. For our loyal readers, Dawghouse Design Studio has teamed up with Sky-Textures.com and we’ve put together some awesome Sky and Lens Flare Textures exclusively for you guys! The Sky Texture Pack contains 10 high-quality sky textures. The Lens Flare Te...

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For another contribution on Design Instruct, I wrote for them a Photoshop tutorial on "How to Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout". In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create a beautiful web page design that is dark-themed and perfect for a web portfolio that is centered around photographs. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that aims to illustrate some great techniques to adapt into your current web design workflow. Let log on to Design Instruct to check out the tutorial!

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In Graphic Design, by dawg house, June 17, 2010
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I had the opportunity to be asked to write a tutorial for a book called "Savoir Tout Faire Avec Photoshop: Effects de Texte" a popular French book containing various Photoshop tutorials and distributed under Advanced Creation. Two days ago, I’m so happy to have received my own copy and would like to share it with you guys! The tutorial I wrote was "Create A Vintage Automobile Poster Ad in Photoshop" The book was published in France but is also available internationally through Amazon F...

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In Global, by dawg house, June 11, 2010
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Last May 19th, we held an awesome custom stickers giveaway. After two weeks, this contest has ended and today, it is now time to announce who our lucky winner is! But before that, I would like to say a big thank you StickerMule for making this contest possible and also to all those who participated. Don’t forget to subscribe to our feed as we are constantly looking for quality giveaways to offer to our loyal readers! Now our lucky winner of free credits worth $100 USD at Stickermule is&he...

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In Global, by dawg house, June 6, 2010
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Several months ago, Dawghouse Design Studio held a custom-designed business card giveaway to its readers. Our lucky winner was Greg Pettit of Monkey House, his personal blog about parenthood and family. In this post, I will be giving you a walkthrough on the entire business card design process that I did for them. Monkey House needed something to brand themselves. Of course, when I thought of initial concepts, I could only think of a monkey illustration. Greg provided me with a couple of monk...

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In Global, by dawg house, May 19, 2010
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Looking for a way to spruce up the look of your iPhones, iPads, laptops and adding a more personal feel to them? Dawghouse Design Studio has teamed up with the cool folks from StickerMule have come up with this awesome giveaway that’s up for grabs! Stickermule is a online printing company that specializes in printing custom stickers for iPhones, iPads and laptops. Their stickers are made from a special material which peels off any surface safely and easily. What the winner will get: Wit...

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In Photography, by dawg house, March 17, 2010
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A few weeks ago, we held a contest here at Dawghouse Design Studio, giving away two (2) Professional Photography Retouching training videos to five (5) of our lucky readers who will be chosen at random. It is finally time to announced the winners! Now I know all you folks have been eagerly waiting for this so I would really like to apologize for the slight delay. Before we announced the winners, let us not forget to once again thank the guys at Retouch Creative for allowing us to hold this ...

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In Photography, by dawg house, February 23, 2010
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Aside from designing graphics, one of the many uses of Photoshop is for photo retouching. You can take a poorly taken photo, enhance it in Photoshop and make it look a hundred folds better. A great way to learn how to retouch photos is through online tutorials. If you are a beginner, step-by-step walkthrough tutorials are great, but sometimes, it’s also easier to follow a good screencast. A great site that provides photo retouching tutorial screencasts is RetouchCreative. Retouch Creative...

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