http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com Visual playground and testing ground of Jan Cavan showcasing her work and design tutorials Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:24:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [smartads] 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 ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/giveaway-win-training-videos-photo-retouching-photoshop/ [smartads] 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 ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/free-icons-worn-out-soda-cans-social-media-icon-pack/ [smartads] 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 ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/free-icons-valentines-day-icon-set/ [smartads] 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 ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/free-icons-vintage-postage-stamps-social-media-icon-pack/ [smartads] For my very first contribution to Design Instruct, I've written for them this tutorial on How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop. We’ll use some beginner to intermediate ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/how-to-make-a-worn-vintage-beach-ad-in-photoshop/ [smartads] 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! This icon pack is free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be sold or ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/free-icons-27-free-wooden-badges-icon-pack/ [smartads] Since I really enjoy the grunge style, I will be sharing to you another awesome tutorial using my favorite style! In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon from scratch. We will learn some basic to intermediate techniques in Photoshop such as ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/create-an-old-and-stained-newspaper-icon-in-photoshop/ [smartads] One of the many resources that designers need are photos. Photos play an important role in contributing to the entire aesthetics of a design. They help convey a message without the need for words. Say, in a website or in a magazine, if an article is accompanied by a photo ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/meet-our-sponsor-photovaco-free-high-quality-stock-photos/ 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 ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/win-250-business-cards-from-uprinting-winner-announced/ [smartads] 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! ... http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2010/free-icons-108-go-green-web-icon-set/