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 Texture Pack contains 15 unique lens flare textures.

Bored of the usual Lens Flare plug-in that’s built within Photoshop? You may also mix and match the textures as show on the example below. Simply place a lens flare texture over a sky texture and change its Blending Mode to Screen.

These textures are of high-resolution so they are perfect not only for your web projects but for your print projects as well. They are also free for your personal and commercial projects but may not be sold or redistributed in any way. Comments and link backs are not required but are very much ppreciated.

Download these textures packs now! More high-quality sky texture packs are also available from Sky-Textures.com if you purchase their DVD.

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… (drumroll please) :)

Thomas Moffett (Ben) – @ThomasMoffett

A big congratulations to our winner! To all those who participated, thank you and don’t get disappointed! Like I said, we will surely have more contests in the future so keep your eyes peeled!

Update: Contest has ended. Winners will be announced soon.

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:
With $100 USD worth of free credits from StickerMule, you can get custom printed iPhone, iPad or laptop stickers or skins. And if you’re uploading a low quality artwork, that certainly isn’t a problem. These guys will make them look better for you free of charge!

How to join:
1. Leave a comment on this post saying why you would want to win
2. Subscribe to our feed to keep you up to date with the winners and future contests

1 Winner will be chosen at random. Contest ends on May 31, 2010 so what are you waiting for? Comment now to get a chance to pimp those gadgets of yours and stand out from the crowd!

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 awesome giveaway with them.

To all those unfamiliar with Retouch Creative, it is a site that provides you with streaming training videos on professional photography retouching in Photoshop. With their videos, you will be able to learn the professional post production techniques that are used by many pros in high-end productions.

In each video, advanced retouching processes are explained in detail while completing the editing on a photograph from start to finish. Their videos will give you the creative edge to stay ahead of your competition and to further your artistic visions.

Now without further ado, here are the lucky winners:

Luu Xuan Hao
Adone
Rod Rodriguez
Vidit Kothari
Will

Congratulations guys! Check your emails to obtain the promo code and instructions on how to get your videos.

I hope you enjoyed the contest guys! Stayed tuned for more great contests, tuts and freebies from Dawghouse Design Studio soon!

Update: Contest has ended. Winners will be announced soon

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 provides you with streaming training videos on professional photography retouching in Photoshop. With their videos, you will be able to learn the professional post production techniques that are used by many pros in high-end productions.

In each video, advanced retouching processes are explained in detail while completing the editing on a photograph from start to finish. Our videos will give you the creative edge to stay ahead of your competition and to further your artistic visions.

Here’s a glimpse of what you will be getting from the video tutorials:

Today we have teamed up with the guys at RetouchCreative and are giving away two (2) training videos of your choice to five (5) lucky winners! This would be a great prize especially for those who have beginner skills in Photoshop.

Here’s how to join:
1. Leave a comment on this post saying what you would want to win. Make sure you leave your name and a valid Email Address.
2. Subscribe to our RSS feed to keep you up to date with the winners and future contests.

Winners will be chosen at random. Contest ends on March 10, 2010.

Good luck everyone!

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.

The Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack is free to use for both your personal and commercial projects. Link backs are very much appreciated!

Let us now head over to DesignBump to download the Worn-Out Soda Can Social Media Icon Pack.

Our cissp training can make you peract in your cwna learning so you will pass crm certification on first try.

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.

If you guys are looking high-quality icon sets just like these, check out IconShock!

Now what you waiting for? Download this awesome icon set now and know how we guys truly love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!

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!

Let us now head over to Tutorial9 to download the Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack.

If you want to pass ccda exam and complete your ccde certification, then you should make use of ase practice test by actualtests for guaranteed success.

This icon pack is free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be sold or redistributed in any way.

Let us now head over to Tutorial9 to download this awesome icon pack!

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!

But before we announce the winners, Dawghouse Design Studio would first like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all who participated in the contest and to UPrinting for making this possible!

And the winner is… (drumroll please) :)

Laura – @BigeyesWorld

You will contacted by UPrinting shortly.

I hope you enjoyed the contest guys! Stayed tuned for more great contests, tuts and freebies from Dawghouse Design Studio soon!