written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: MyInkTrail  /  06.29.08

I can’t believe I’m in my second month already. So far, so good. I’m stoked about the response and the climb in readership. It’s awesome to receive some of the emails and comments I’m getting. I should say a quick thanks to Chris Spooner from blog.spoongraphics for putting a link up to my site [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Reviews  /  06.27.08

If you’ve ever needed a simple content management system for one of your web clients, then you should definitely check out CushyCMS. It takes seconds to sign up for and within a couple minutes you can make portions of your site fully editable.
The process is real straight forward. You sign up, give your ftp info, [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Compilations  /  06.26.08

The more I design, the more I love finding awesome new fonts. It’s like finding a valuable baseball card in a shoe box full of common cards. I keep collecting them in order to fill my designer’s toolbox with a tool for every job. My collection has become quite large; fortunately there are some good [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Tutorials  /  06.23.08

I love anything graphic design that has that vintage grunge kind of look. This tutorial will show you how to create a stunning vintage polaroid effect. It’s fairly simple to make and can be used in many different types of projects.
What you’ll need
This tutorial will be completed using mostly filters and fills, but we [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Articles  /  06.21.08

Let me begin by suggesting that if you haven’t already, you should download or upgrade to Firefox 3 which is now out of beta mode. Firefox had over 15 million downloads in a day while trying to set the Guinness record for downloads in a 24 hour period. They are still crunching numbers to [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Site News  /  06.21.08

I am thrilled to announce markup4U as my first sponsor for myinkblog. You can see their ad on the sidebar of the page.
markup4U is a top notch PSD to HTML service provider. They charge only $175 for the first page and just $85 on each page after that. They can slice and [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Site News  /  06.18.08

I’m really stoked to have my grass texture tutorial featured on the Photoshop Lady website. This site is an awesome source for some of the best Photoshop tutorials on the web. The Photoshop Lady is still a relatively new site, but it is gaining momentum everyday, I highly recommend adding it to your [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Tutorials  /  06.18.08

A couple days ago I looked all over the internet for a good tutorial on how to create a glass window texture with a realistic reflection in Photoshop, but came up empty handed. I did see a couple of things on making glass, but not for the look I was after. This tutorial will [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Tutorials  /  06.16.08

After I wrote my four part series on textures, I received a few questions of how to tile them. This tutorial will walk you through how I would go about it. This is a very common task and is extremely useful if you have a texture or pattern that you need to repeat across an [...]

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written by: Andrew Houle  /  stashed in: Tutorials  /  06.13.08

I just recently finished off my favicon and added it to the site. You can see the bigger version to the left. I should have done this earlier, but it’s just one of those things you tend to overlook. It is, however a very important part of branding and identity for your site. Plus, [...]

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