Blogs With Wings Visual Design

Glossy tutorials are always popular and I'm sure you'll enjoy this one that shows you how to create a glossy glass heart image with a frame and personalized message. Here's how the completed image looks:

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I recently decided that I wanted to try my hand at creating my own twitter buttons and badges, but I was having trouble getting the twitter text just so. After much fussing I got the basic text just the way I wanted it, but then I realized that I was going to want to use the text more than once... what to do? A brush, of course, I could make the twitter text logo into a Gimp brush. So that's what I did. I also created a twitter text PNG for those of you who use other image editing and graphics programs.

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You can never have too many Gimp tutorials and you can never have too many Gimp brushes. So here is an easy gimp tutorial to help you create your own Gimp bubble brushes. Bubble brushes can help you create some great graphics, like this:

So lets get this tutorial bubbling.

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Sometimes it's very difficult to find inspiration for your web or blog designs. You toy with an idea or two, but you just can't get started. How will you ever finish that blog site design? Your web graphics are doomed to take forever and you just can't find the perfect layout. One thing that you can do is look at what others are doing with their web designs, ferret out the latest trends and see what works, what's most popular. Most importantly you need to find web design examples that get your creative juices flowing. But how do you do that? Easy, just check out these resources and find your design muse:

Ray Cheung over at Web Appers has put together a great list of the 25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development. Ray's list includes many of the sites that I personally visit on a regular basis, sites that help me stay up-to-date with what's going on in the web design community.

Here are some other sites that you might find helpful in your search:

• Web Creme - gallery of inspirational sites
• webdesign-inspiration site - offers a gallery of more great sites for inspiration
• A Huge Collection of Inspirational sites, showcased on flickr from Patrick Haney
• Inspiration King's gallery of web sites examples

You never know when the look and feel of someone's graphic design, web layout or color palette will spark your imagination and give you a great idea. So look around and get inspired. Design better blog templates or web sites with a little help from your friends in the web design community.

One Fallen Angel Regains Her Wings!

The sample image above was created using a new set of wings brushes I created for gimp as well as stock images from serp-stock on deviantART and stock.xchange. This new collection has 21 more Gimp wings brushes for you to download!

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Time flies when you're having fun or you have some nice wings to put on your clock! I've noticed from the stats for the site that a great many people are getting here by doing searches for "wings" and "angel wings", even "wings tutorials". Since my nickname is Blog Angel and the site is Blogs With Wings, its only fair that you should be able to get some wings and things for stopping by! So I spent some time making a small set of gimp wing brushes that you can download and use with Gimp.

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The most important things to consider in any web or blog design decision are the purpose of the site and who your viewers are likely to be. Knowing what you want to achieve with the site and whom you wish to reach are the two most important considerations when choosing the color palette for your design. Colors that appeal to your audience are key to the design, but you can't know your audience if you don't know the purpose for the web site or blog you are designing for.

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