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This is a collection of baroque style (ornamental) design, this style originates from baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the word baroque can also simply mean that something is elaborate with many details.

Floral and ornamental type dates back to medieval times when scribes were writing manuscripts, they would use the large ornamental lettering as initials and smaller plainer fonts for the body text. Take a look at these great examples of style.

They are relativly high resolution 1600 x 1135 px so they should be a good size to play with and add to your designs, some of them may need colour adjusments and cleaning up but im sure you know what youll do with them.

The random number generator has spoken, and we have our 3 winners for the competion kindly sponsored by U-Printing print company. Congrats to the winners and hopefully youll beable to make good use of your prize.

Yes this is the first showcase from the design shard flickr group and hopefully not the last in a long line to come.

David gives you a quick lesson on how to create a hand drawn website design using the don't lift the pencil technique.

Now we've got the Photoshop basics which enable us to use any type of tutorials in the most friendly manner. It's time to pull out the creativity and realize our own creations.

U-printing is a trusted online printing service for products such as postcards, canvas prints, business cards and many more product ranges. They also have a great give away for the readers of design shard too.

While designing We Are not Freelancers we had one goal in mind. Our goal was to get featured on as many web galleries as possible. We knew that by putting as much effort as we could into our design, the benefits of increased traffic would be awesome.

This tutorial will show you how to use batch processing with Photoshop actions and more specifically how to create an action to crop and resize images using batch processing in Photoshop.

Whether you are a freelancer or you work for a design agency, getting your name spread in the design community should be a top priority. A lot of doors can be opened with a just a little networking when using the right strategy to contact the top design bloggers.

This video tutorial will show you how to create photoshop actions and more specifically how to create an action to create a folder structure for your web design layouts

A mixed collection of illustration artists some using 3D programs, oil paints, Illustrator and Photoshop to produce there creations, I have place a piece of text about each illustrator where possible as well as slightly explaining what they incorporate in to there work.

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