Abduzeedo - Flying Girl Photoshop Tutorial
PSDTUTS - Stylish Retro Text Effect
VECTUTS - 60 Free Vector Graphics for Digital Art Pros
NETTUTS - Web Design in Two Minutes (Video)
CSS-Tricks - Color Fading Menu with jQuery
Photoshop Lady - Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design
Go Media - Vector Pack 13 and Fingerpaint Texture Freebies
The crew from Go Media are at it again as they just released their 13th collection of “stock” vector artwork. I use the word “stock” lightly, because their work is anything but! This latest release is chock full of great stuff and includes a total of 137 high quality, detailed vector pieces in seven individual themes. As always you can purchase the entire collection for set 13 or choose to purchase them in their individual packs, but you’ll pay almost $34 more if you were to purchase all seven packs separately. This set includes some very interesting stuff; I’m very interested to see the “Flow” pack in action as it’s got some really cool geometric shapes in flowing patterns…very cool stuff.
I’m not 100% sold on the 3D Skull collection, but I’m guessing with some tweaking and some experimentation they could be used very cleverly to create some cool artwork. The entire set has some really cool stuff in it which includes:
PSDTUTS - Create & Shatter a Grid, While Making a Typographic Poster
VECTORTUTS - Create a Sweet Pair of Glossy Vector Lips
CSS-Tricks - Create a 404 Page on a Static Site
Photoshop Lady - Create a Retro Grunge Poster
Spoon Graphics - 30 Stylish Examples of Doodles in Web Design
Smashing Magazine - Celebration of High-Speed Photography
Cuzoogle - Who Does Gregg Popovich Look Like?
Go Media - Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
VECTUTS - Inking and Coloring the Comic Strip “The Brads”
CSS-Tricks - What Do You Think is the Best Online WYSIWYG Editor
Smashing Magazine - 50 Beautiful Movie Posters
Spoon Graphics - Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop
Photoshop Lady - Amazing Colorful Swirl
Cuzoogle - 25 Reasons Why Cuzoogle is Thankful
With the holiday weekend and all of the festivities that come along with it GrandmasterB didn’t get as much posting done as he’d like. However, the two articles posted over the week generated a ton of buzz and a good deal of traffic along with them. After the long weekend of no posting and little activity on the site I was beginning to think everyone shutdown their computers and went on vacation, but that wasn’t the case. On Memorial Day after posting my first ever tutorial the site stats lit up like the Fourth of July and GrandmasterB.com destroyed another milestone.
If you recall my last Week in Review post I had finally reached the 300 visitor mark (Analytics) and set 500 as the next mark. GrandmasterB.com not only reached 500 visits on Memorial Day, it shot right by and didn’t look back until tallying up 641 visits! My tutorial was a success and I had the numbers to prove it. The Illustrator tutorial shot past the previously most viewed post in a single day and is still climbing the charts. The only thing left to do now is raise the bar once again, and since I’m so close already 750 visits isn’t enough of a challenge…I want 1000 visits in a day! Do you think GrandmasterB can do it? Better yet when do you think I’ll reach my goal? I’ve charted out my previously reached goals to give you a little detail into the RISE OF GRANDMASTERB!
What do you think? With the numbers in front of you how long until GrandmasterB reaches 1000? Only time will tell…now onto the review.
May 21: Do You Want to Join The StumbleUpon Crusade? - What at first sounded like it could be an interesting way to assist other bloggers in getting their site noticed; has turned into something we would rather not do so publicly. Our intentions were good, but it appeared that after reading some things about SUs rules against promoting stumbles we have decided it’s best not to go with this approach.
May 26: Create a Logo for Your Featured Posts - The tutorial mentioned earlier that took off and never looked back. This Illustrator tutorial (for beginnger/intermediate levels) shows how to take text and using another logo make something unique for your blog. Check it out…it’s very cool and easy to do.
Well, folks it’s about time to me to head to the office for the day. I’ll be posting some stuff later on this evening after the work day.
~ GrandmasterB
