http://www.orkron.com Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:51:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have put together 20 beautiful, unique iPhone wallpapers for you to download for free. These were created using resources and tutorials from MediaMilitia.com - They have amazing Freebies and great tutorials you just HAVE to check out. These wallpapers all measure 320px wide by 480px tall [download id="21"] (1 MB Zip) http://www.orkron.com/2010/02/17/20-free-iphone-ipod-touch-wallpapers/ You won't want to miss out on Media Militia's "Getting Started With Generative Art" http://www.orkron.com/2009/12/09/generative-art-explained-by-mediamilitia/ I've been playing around, taking pictures of objects and I like the look of this Logitech Wireless mouse. I decided to give away the full-resolution image as a Stock Photo for you to use. The photo is 2329 x 1814 at 180 dpi (roughly 13 in wide x 10 in tall) Download: [download ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/12/02/stock-photo-freebie-logitech-mouse/ http://www.orkron.com/2009/10/10/happy-halloween-folks/ I was surprised recently when I couldn't find any hi-res leather textures for a project that I was working on. As a result, I got my hands on some actual leather hides and started photographing them. I wanted to share these with others who may also need leather textures for ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/09/17/12-free-high-res-leather-textures/ Here are 2 simple ways you can dramatically reduce filesize of your Illustrator production files: Step one: Before exporting your Illustrator file to another more universal format (such as EPS), or even if you are sharing the .ai file you can remove unused swatches, brushes etc from your document; these unused components ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/09/16/2-simple-ways-to-reduce-filesize-in-your-illustrator-art/ I wanted to write out a quick tutorial on how to create dynamic pattern text using Illustrator CS3. This will really just cover how to add a pattern to the text, without much fuss or sweat; I did notice that the pattern I chose turned out to not work great in ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/09/14/create-pattern-text-in-illustrator-cs3/ Media Militia (www.mediamilitia.com) is a great place for tutorials and freebies; and they have really outdone themselves this time with a 75-pack of free smoke textures! Simply amazing is how I describe it! Check it out here: http://mediamilitia.com/smoke-pack-75-free-images/ http://www.orkron.com/2009/09/07/found-freebie-75-amazing-smoke-textures/ I have a set of 8 free rock textures for you to download and use. These were a lot of fun to shoot; they are all shot by Canon Digital Rebel in Manual with Camera RAW output. The final images have been output to high quality JPG files compressed for ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/09/01/freebie-rock-texture-set-8-total/ It was a gorgeous morning near the base of Mt. Pisgah in Oregon (near where I live), and I just had to photograph it! Something about this image just makes me want to lean my back against one of those trees and take a nice warm afternoon nap! Anyways, I wanted ... http://www.orkron.com/2009/08/24/beautiful-country-road/