Tattoos, Tatoos, Tattos, Body Art, Super Cool Body Paint For Your Mom, whatever you want to call it. I embarked on a journey last week to create some tattoo inspired brushes. I sat down with some graph paper, a pencil, and some tattoo magazines. Taking cues from some of my favorites I drew several designs, scanned them, traced my sketches in Illustrator, converted my art to vector, and then I brought them into Photoshop and made a nice little set of brushes for you. If you’ve used my brushes before then you know the drill. If you’re a newbie, read on…

These brushes are big, so they are ideal for print work. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800-2400 pixels wide or tall. Here’s a few examples I created to illustrate what you can do with the Tasty Tattoo Set:

Brush Compatibility
This Brush Set Works with CS and above versions of photoshop.

Get The Photoshop Brushes Here ($12)

Try out the Photoshop brush sample first.

Get the Vectors Here ($12)

Download a Free Sample of the Vectors

After several requests for vector versions of my brushes I present the entire Fresh Foliage Part II set in Vector format. All for only $12.99. You must have vector editing software (such as Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia Freehand) to edit this file. Included in this download is an AI, and an EPS file compatible with Adobe Illustrator version 8 and above.

Want it? Purchase the vector file now!

Finally the second set is here! Fresh Foliage Part 2!

These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800+ pixels wide. Here’s a few examples from the Foliage [Part II] Set:

Vector Files Available
The original vector files for this set can be purchased here for 12.99.

Download Instructions For the Photoshop Brush Set
1. Buy and download the brushes here for $12. 21 Brushes!
2. Select the paint brush in the Photoshop tools.
3. From the brushes palette choose “Load brushes”

I decided it was time to create some more brushes. Hopefully these will warm you from the inside during these cold winter months (its cold where I am).

These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800 pixels wide. Here’s a few examples from the Fresh Foliage [Part I] Set:

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Get The Photoshop Brushes Here ($12)

Try out the Photoshop brush sample first.

I noticed I was getting quite a few credit card offers but I didn’t realize how ridiculous it was until I saved them for a while. I didn’t count the whole pile, but I grabbed about one-forth of it and there were about 40 offers. That totals to roughly 160 in 4 months. It’s a bit annoying. However, because of these offers I’ve been able to carry some credit card debt for about 5 years without any finance charges or transfer fees. So thanks for that. It’s very simple, with this many offers, you just wait for the ones that say 0% APR for one year and no balance transfer fees. Then, you just transfer to those cards and cancel your old ones.

My favorite offers are the ones that say 5.7% fixed or something like that. Hello, why would I choose 5.7% fixed if I can get 0% for 12 months and then just transfer to the next 0% that comes along, which I do. So thanks for all the offers credit card companies. As long I as I’m in debt, I welcome them.

Shortly after I posted this, Corey and I got all of his junk mail out and had a gay old time.

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Today I was at the grocery store gathering a few necessities such as trash bags, and milk. I think I speak for most of us when I say the natural desire is to park as close to the door as possible. Yes there is the occasional ass that parks at the back of the lot sprawling diagonally over 2 spaces, but even he probably doesn’t want to park too far away. We do this as an instinct in order to reduce the amount of effort it will take for us to get there. I’ve witnessed drivers that will conveniently stop traffic while waiting for the perfect spot. And we’ve all seen the vultures that circle just to gain a few extra feet toward the glorious door—as they dart for the space that opens up.

There are a few occasions where this is acceptable—rain, too hot, too cold, handicapped, or if acid is falling from the sky. But I’d say most of us are just lazy. More of us should consider parking farther away. We need the exercise, it’s good to be outside, and it’s much more convenient for the rest of the drivers if you will just park in the first space you see.

If you really are concerned about walking have you considered the fact that you have to walk the cart back to the store? If you don’t walk the cart back, you really should take a look in the mirror for a few hours. In many locations, the closest parking space is still pretty far away when you consider returning that cart to the store front. Although I haven’t measured a test group of grocery stores, I firmly believe the best place to park is directly next to the cart return. There is a nominal amount of extra walking if you have a cart because you don’t have to take the cart back to the store, these spaces are usually available, you don’t annoy as many other drivers, and you feel good about making an intelligent decision. So park by the cart return and begin to judge the vultures from your pedestal of intelligence.

I realized today that I’ve been accepting this notion of “Open Recent Files” for quite some time. The idea is simple. In my mind, as an end user, it means that I should be able to open a file I was working on yesterday or perhaps one that I’ve saved and closed in the previous 5-10 minutes, or hours. Whatever the case may be, for as long as I can remember “Open Recent Files” doesn’t actually show a list of the most recent files I’ve worked on. Perhaps on some days it works as desired, but most of the time it shows something I worked on several days ago, or in this case lists the same file “GenericPoster.ai” 5 times. Now I know for a fact that I worked on other things in this particular program after I worked on the Generic Poster. And, I haven’t opened that file in a week. So, this morning, I went to “Open Recent Files” in Illustrator in an effort to open a file I worked on last night, and of course, it’s not listed. I somewhat recall a similar phenomenon when working on Windows XP, however I’m not completely sure.

I’m a believer in creating reasonable expectations in order to avoid the frustration of unkept promises. So maybe it should say something more like “Open Random, Semi Recent Files” to clear up the confusion. Okay, I think “Semi Recent” should have a hyphen, but I don’t want to fix the jpg. That was probably the attitude of the programmer, so I guess I’m not one to judge. Also, is it necessary to repeat the file multiple times? Absolutely not. This software isn’t cheap, and neither is the hardware, or the operating system. Its nearly 2006, we’ve cloned things, and we haven’t worked this one out yet. Interesting.