Feb 24

Giveaway: Win Training Videos in Professional Photography Retouching

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Contests, Freebies

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.

Feb 23

Free Icons: Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

I’ve been a happy user of DesignBump, a site where you can share, save, vote on, and discover the best design related links from around the web. So when they launched their very own design blog, I decided to contribute for them. For my very first contribution, I’ve created for them the Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack. The icon pack once again features icons of our favorite social media sites in 200×200, transparent PNG formats.

Feb 10

Free Icons: Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

Valentine’s Day is once again here! To celebrate the season of hearts, Dawghouse Design Studio has teamed up with the very talented guys over at IconShock and came up with the Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set, a set of icons that you will surely enjoy! These icons are available in sizes 256 x 256 and 512 x 512. The icons are available in transparent PNG formats and are free to use for your personal and commercial projects but may not be sold or redistributed.

Feb 03

Free Icons: Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

As you all would have probably noticed by now, two of my favorite design styles are grunge and vintage. Making use of these design styles, I’ve contributed another awesome icon set to Tutorial9 – the Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack. The set comes with 23 icons of your favorite social media sites, all in 200 x 200px and in transparent PNG formats. These icons would surely be a perfect fit for your vintage or grunge themed web designs!

Jan 28

Free Icons: 27 Wooden Badges Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

Here’s another contribution I have made for Tutorial9: 27 Free Wooden Badges Icon Pack. The icon pack contains web and social media icons such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter and several others!

Jan 23

Win 250 Business Cards from UPrinting: Winner Announced!

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Contests, Freebies, News

As you all know, last January 08, Dawghouse Design Studio along with the very cool guys at UPrinting, held a contest of 250 Business Cards for Giveaway. Now, it is about time we are announcing who this very lucky winner is!

Jan 21

Free Icons: 108 Go Green! Web Icon Set

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

We have another great icon set to give away! But this time, we are steering away from our usual grunge or worn-out icon styles. Today, we’ve teamed up with Speckyboy Design Magazine and we are giving away a simple or minimalist style icon set we are calling the Go Green! Web Icon Set. In this set, you will find 108 different icons you can use for your websites, blogs or applications.