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Earlier this year, it seemed that the combined pressures of politics and the prospect of huge federal budget deficits into the new century would produce congressional approval of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
Even some of those who have doubted the wisdom of such an amendment agreed at least with the judgment that it was "a bad idea whose time has come." The House will vote on the amendment next week but the Senate's failure last week to cast the two-thirds vote needed to approve a constitutional amendment means that their judgment at best was only half right; the amendment won't get another Senate vote until next year.In this year's debate, the idea of such an amendment again was labeled a ''gimmick," a doubtful substitute for the hard votes so badly needed to reduce the deficit but so seldom cast. I'd like to make some points about gimmicks.
To begin with, a gimmick isn't necessarily a bad thing. One dictionary says a gimmick is a "crafty or fraudulent device" or "a trick or stratagem" or ''an ingenious expedient or new contrivance." That suggests gimmicks may be good or bad, depending on your point of view.
It also seems clear that whether a balanced budget amendment is a good or bad gimmick, it is in keeping with our rich tradition of budgetary gimmickry. Unfortunately, that tradition has been costly as well as rich. Past gimmicks - "expedients," if you prefer - have left us with a $4.5 trillion national debt and hundreds of billions in interest payments to service it each year.
And no long-term relief is in sight. While the deficit is expected to decline over the next few years under the Clinton budget plan narrowly approved by Congress last year, it still is projected to begin moving up sharply again before the end of the century.
Good gimmick or bad gimmick, the balanced budget ironically went down on a 63-37 vote, four votes short of the two-thirds needed, in part by the use of a parliamentary gimmick or "trick." That was a much less restrictive alternative that lost by a 22-78 margin. While the alternative had no chance of approval, among those voting for it were seven Democratic senators who later voted against the main amendment. Their votes were critical to defeating the main amendment but they are free to go back home and proclaim their support for a balanced budget.
The debate on the amendment also led to other charges of gimmickry. It was noted, for example, that a proposal to cut $94 billion in real federal spending over the next five years drew only 31 Senate votes, or less than half the number who voted for the balanced budget amendment. People, it seems, may like an idea but not its practical application.
There were warnings, too, that a balanced budget amendment would lead to a proliferation of other congressional gimmicks or "devices" to get out from under its burden when it would take effect by 2001. Congress might move major programs off the budget, shift the cost burden of other programs by mandates on the states or employers, or even set up separate budgets for long-term capital investments and current operating expenses.
I would find it hard to believe that a Congress would stoop to such ''contrivances" except for the fact that it already has used some.
And I like the idea of separate capital and operating budgets with a requirement that the operating ledger be balanced. Households and businesses, the old argument goes, balance their budgets, why can't the federal government? The fact, of course, is that households consider their books balanced even though they have long-term indebtedness for investments involving long-term benefits - such as mortgages and student loans.
Businesses do much the same for long-term investments and such separate ledgers underpin the balanced budgets of most states. Why can't the federal government use a similar "device" in treating infrastructure and education programs with long-term payoffs?
The gimmickry surrounding the balanced budget amendment did not end with the Senate debate. The amount of the House support for the amendment next week may be a little contrived: The Senate defeat permits House members to vote for it in the knowledge that even the seven years allowed for it to take effect can't begin before a Senate vote next year.
I'd like to join in the fun and offer an idea, partly my own, on how to cut the budget deficit.
I mean a simple, immediately enactable, statute, requiring the president to include in each budget his choice of additional spending cuts and/or tax increases to cut the deficit by more than he is proposing.
How much more? How about by an amount that would prevent the deficit from rising in years when the president is proposing a higher deficit than the year before, or that would permit, say, a 10 percent to 20 percent larger cut in years when he is recommending essentially the same or a lower deficit?
The House and Senate, in turn, would be required to vote annually on the president's additional deficit reduction package or on one of equal size of their own.
Wars and recessions aside - and they would require exceptions - adherence to such a budget rule would mean that the deficit could decrease but not increase. It would also permit those who favor a balanced budget a clear opportunity to cast real votes toward that goal.
Just another gimmick, you say? Hell, no, it's a "stratagem."


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From the producer of The Fast and the Furious and I Know What You Did Last Summer comes this scare-a-minute psychological chiller starring Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut, Never Been Kissed), Diane Lane (The Perfect Storm), Stellan Skarsgîrd (Good Will Hunting) and Trevor Morgan (Jurassic Park III,The Patriot). When Ruby (Sobieski) and Rhett's (Morgan) parents are killed in a car accident, theircarefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them. But Ruby soon stumbles upon information that leads her to suspect that her new legal guardians might somehow be responsible for her parents' deaths. Now she finds herself all alone in a duel of wits with the ruthlessand terrifying couple, and she's the only thing standing between them and her $4 million inheritance. Prepare yourself for a wild and intense thrill ride in this mesmerizing chiller!
Orphaned when their parents are killed in an automobile accident, Ruby (16) and Rhett (11) are placed under the guardianship of longtime friends named Gary & Erin Glass. The successful and childless couple at first welcome and console the kids but their attitudes change with the passing of time. The rebellious Ruby begins to suspect that Erin is a junkie and Gary is a drug dealer in hock to the...
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Orphaned when their parents are killed in an automobile accident, Ruby and Rhett are placed under the guardianship of longtime friends named Gary & Erin Glass. The rebellious Ruby begins to suspect that Erin and Gary are not what they seem.
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(born c. 675, Germanicia, Commagene, Syriadied June 18, 742, Constantinople) Byzantine emperor (717–41), founder of the Isaurian dynasty. A high-ranking military commander, he seized the throne with the help of Arab armies who hoped to subjugate the Byzantine Empire. He then successfully defended Constantinople against the Arabs (717–718). Having crowned his son Constantine V coemperor (720), Leo used his son's marriage to cement an alliance with the Khazars. Victory over the Arabs at Akroïnos (740) was crucial in preventing their conquest of Asia Minor. Leo issued an important legal code, the Ecloga (726). His policy of iconoclasm (730), which banned the use of sacred images in churches, engendered a century of conflict within the empire and further strained relations with the pope in Rome.
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98 Handsketched Ribbons
Introducing what may be our best Vector Set to date, a set of 98 Beautifully Handsketched Vector Ribbons. These are perfect for ornate decoration and artwork, fully scaleable and editable in illustrator, you will receive the following:
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16 Handsketched Vector Laurels
This is a lovely set of handsketched vector laurels that come in .eps and .ai formats. In this juicy pack you will receive:
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Set of 72 vintage patterns
Beautiful set of 8 hand drawn flourish vintage patterns. Floral elements in damask style will make your design projects beautiful and elegant! You can use it for web, prints, package, scrapbook, wrapping, fabric and many more! Just choose your favorite color and style or use your own colors.
● This set contains:
– 8 different design patterns in 9 different colors each (72 patterns)
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– Well organized and grouped layers
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Curly patterns set
Set of 40 colorful curly waves patterns. Smooth lines, hidden flowers, strange cells and other geometry will make your design projects beautiful, elegant and really fashionable! You can use it for web, prints, package, scrapbook, wrapping, fabric and many more! Just choose your favorite color and style or use your own colors.
● What you get:
– Well organized and grouped layers
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– PNG 300dpi of each pattern in each color
Set of waves seamless patterns
Set of 24 colorful waves patterns. Bright lines, waves, cells, "lava" flow and other geometry will make your design projects beautiful, elegant and really fashionable! You can use it for web, prints, package, scrapbook, wrapping, fabric and many more! Just choose your favorite color and style or use your own colors.
– Well organized and grouped layers
– Shape layers (vectors): you can change the size of the object without losing quality!
– Easily change colors and more!
This pack include:
– Full editable layered EPS10 vector file
– Full editable layered AI10 vector file
– JPEG files 300×300px for web
16 floral patterns
Beautiful set of 16 colorful summer patterns. Bright flowers will make your design projects beautiful and elegant! You can use it for web, prints, package, scrapbook, wrapping, fabric and many more! Just choose your favorite color and style or use your own colors.
– Well organized and grouped layers
– Shape layers (vectors): you can change the size of the object without losing quality!
– Easily change colors and more!
This pack include:
– Full editable layered EPS10 vector file
– JPEG files 300×300px for web
Set of ribbons banners
Set of 50 ribbon banners. Hand drawn unique ribbons will make your postcard, invitation, greetings, message and many more beautiful and elegant! You can use it for web, prints, package, scrapbook, wrapping and other!
● This set contains:
– 25 lineart ribbons with shadows
– 25 simple silhouette ribbons
– Small set of icons
● What you get:
– Well organized and grouped layers
– Shape layers (vectors): you can change the size of the object without losing quality!
– Easily change colors and more!
● This pack include:
– Full editable layered EPS10 vector file
– Full editable layered AI10 vector file
Ghostly Pixels
Spyrograph Illustration Set
I say it's time to bring the spyrograph illustrations back. This set was hand-spyro'd, boys and girls. The originals were scanned at 2,400 pixels per inch which results in 20 megapixel size scans before converting the masters to vector EPS format. This means the same authentic detail and imperfections you'll recall from your childhood spirographic days has been retained.
What's included in this 15-pack:
– 15 individual spyrograph illustrations, offered in both EPS and PNG file formats.
– Both file formats feature the isolated illustration in dark gray, with a completely transparent background.
– The PNG dimensions range from 2,600 to 4,600 pixels wide (based on original illustration size).
6 Mountain Ranges – By Hand
Who doesn't love a good mountain rage? Here's a hand-illustrated collection for your next design project. Each illustration was originally sketched free-hand-style with a pencil and paper. The sketches were then inked and scanned at high-resolution. Voila.
What's included in this hand illustrated mountain range set:
– 6 individual hand illustrated mountain ranges, with 3 style variations of each illustration (18 total)
– Illustrations are colored in dark gray, and are fully isolated/have a completely transparent background
– All illustrations are offered in both Vector EPS and PNG file formats (36 files total).
– Both file formats feature the isolated illustration in dark gray, with a completely transparent background.
– The PNG files sizes vary based on illustration. The smallest is sized to 4,100 x 2,700 pixels.
Badge Shapes – By Hand
Boom, Here's a collection of 18 hand illustrated badge illustrations. These nifty shapes are offered in two illustration styles, outlined, and solid. The hand-illustrated process of these deliver an imperfect, vintage feel for your next badge, logo, or T-shirt project.
What's included in this hand illustrated mountain range set:
– 18 individual hand illustrated mountain ranges, with 2 style variations of each illustration (36 total)
– Illustrations are colored in dark gray, and are fully isolated/have a completely transparent background
– All illustrations are offered in both Vector EPS and PNG file formats (72 files total).
– Both file formats feature the isolated illustration in dark gray, with a completely transparent background.
– The PNG files sizes vary based on illustration. Average size is around 4,500 x 4,500 pixels.
Vintage Line Textures
How about a solid batch of old school diagonal line textures? I created these bad boys from high-res images so the result is some highly-detailed 27 megapixel textures for your texture needs. Groovy.
What's included:
– 10 Individual texture files in both vector EPS and PNG format. Both formats have transparent backgrounds with the isolated texture itself colored dark gray.
– A PDF texture guide to provide a handy overview of the textures.
– Each vector EPS and PNG are full-page size. PNG files are sized to 27 megapixels, (6,000 X 4,500 px).
– Textures do NOT tile or repeat.
3 Wood Line Patterns – By hand
This set of 3 wood patterns was illustrated by hand.
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– 3 individual hand-illustrated textures
– Each illustration is offered as a vector EPS, and also 8000×6200 px (48 megapixels) transparent PNGs
– Both file formats feature the isolated illustration in dark gray, with a completely transparent background.
NOTE: These are NOT tiling, seamless, or repeating patterns.
Badge Shapes – Circular Saw Blades
You've been anxiously waiting for a set of 10 hand-penned circular saw blades for your next T-shirt or vintage badge project. Well, the wait is over. This set of 10 unique blades harkens back to a time when hand crafted was the norm. No perfectly computer rendered shapes here, just good old fashioned hand illustrating. Awaken the mountain man or woman inside of you, and get your hands on this fine set of sawmill blades.
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10 individual blade illustrations, with two variations of each blade (standard, and solid). Each file is offered in both vector EPS, and PNG format. The PNG images are (4000 X 4000 pixels). Both formats feature the illustration in dark gray, with a transparent background.
Party Vectors
Party Vectors includes:
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– 1 Eps file with 40 vector figures and 6 seamless patterns full editable.
Perfect for decorate text or phrases, animations, prints, infographics, blogs, invitations, banners, cards, recipes and more!
Vector Birds
Vector Birds includes:
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Perfect for blogs, web design, decorate text or phrases, animations, infographics and more!
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Loving vectors includes:
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– 1 Eps file with vectors figures full editable.
Perfect for decorate text or phrases, animations, infographics, blogs, invitations, banners, cards and more!
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Vector elements full editable in shape and color
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Cute color palette for a clean blog or website.
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· social media icons
· 3 vector patters
· decorative elements
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Vector elements full editable in shape and color
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Sweet and creamy color palette for a clean blog or website.
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Elena Pimonova
Hand Drawn Vector Mega Pack
This vast vector collection includes 92 beautifully hand-drawn vector designs, across an array of subjects. There's sure to be something to suit your current creative project!
Each pack contains editable EPS 10 vector files, transparent PNG files and high resolution JPEG images.
Kelly Jane Creative
Hand Drawn Flowers & Foliage B&W
Hand drawn flowers and foliage black and white outlines for creating invitations, wall art, decorating your website or blog… or anything else you can come up with! This set includes 16 Black and 16 White PNG files with transparent backgrounds, and 2 EPS files, one black and one white.
Hand Drawn Vintage Frames
Hand drawn vintage frames that would make the perfect fairy tale wedding invitation. Includes 12 different frames in 3 versions as shown in the 4th image. Also includes 12 EPS files.
Petal Boutique Bouquets Vol. 2
Petal Boutique Bouquets Vol. 2 – includes 9 bright floral bouquets for creating stationery, invitations, or web designs.
9 PNG Files with Transparent Backgrounds
9 EPS Files
Petal Boutique Flowers Vol. 2
Petal Boutique Flowers Vol. 2 – includes 41 bright blooms and lush foliage for creating stationery, invitations, or web designs.
42 PNG Files with Transparent Backgrounds
43 EPS Files – Includes individual EPS files, an EPS of the floral wreath, and an EPS of the entire set spaced out so you can get to each element easily.
Hand Drawn Flowers & Leaves Elements
Hand drawn flowers, leaves, laurels and wreaths in black and in white. Includes a total of 68 PNG files and 2 EPS files of all the images shown in the 5th image. Click it to see the entire set! Perfect for creating wedding invitations, web graphics, blog templates, or wall art.
Ember Studio
Sketched arrows
Set of hand-drawn sketched vector arrows and shapes. Includes file formats AICS4, EPS8, and JPG.
Grunge banners & boxes
Set of grunge banners and boxes with various textures. All hand-made from paint, ink, and other traditional materials. Includes file formats AICS4 and EPS10.
Make Media Co
Hand Drawn Curls & Banners MEGAPACK
Can't decide which Curls, Swirls & Banners pack you want? Why not get 'em all?! I've bundled all 4 packs into one, affordable MEGAPACK with over 600 individual elements.
Each pack can be opened with Adobe Illustrator CS or newer. These files can also be edited in Photoshop. You'll just have to use your lasso tool to select the ones you want, then just cut and paste into your new project.
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY: We want to be totally open that approx 1/4 of this megapack has been run within our previous Ultimate Vintage and Retro Design Bundle. The other 3/4 have never been featured in a deal though, and this product costs more than this deal price alone. It's a HUGE pack, and whether you own 1/4 of it already or not, it's packed full of value and lovely hand-drawn designs.
Full Deal Terms & Licensing:
This deal includes extended licensing. This means that as well as using these vectors within personal and commercial projects, you can also use them in designs/products that you resell. This could be anything from a poster print to a web banner.
The only restriction is that you can't resell these vectors directly, or within files where they can be extracted in their original form, but of course, you already knew that!
Here's a quick overview of all the vectors included in this bundle:
Includes a Handy Pdf Browsing Guide
After many community requests, we're including a useful .pdf browsing guide. This allows you to easily see which vectors are included in each folder, without having to refer back to this deal page. (This is included with your deal download).
How to Design an Impactful Propaganda Style Poster
Hello all! Simon here for today's tutorial. The gigantic vector element bundle is a super exciting bundle for me, and it's all because of Shepard Fairey. I promise this statement will make sense in a few seconds.
After going through the bundle's content, I decided to create a propaganda style poster. Elena Pimonova's various iconic elements are perfect as a source of simple, high impact iconography, and the various patterns by Dreaming Lucy are a superb nod to the OBEY aesthetic.
The idea was born when toying with the patterns. I remembered this awesome tutorial from the GoMediaZine that Jeff Finley wrote a long while back.
From there, I looked up a bit of inspiration:
The best piece though was this old booklet by ConEd about atomic energy. It's so good I've used it as a my color palette source.
Our work will take place in Illustrator. I wanted to see if I could find ways to replicate some of my texturing processes and effects in there rather than Photoshop. We'll make a heavy use of opacity masks, and to a lesser extent of clipping masks. Opacity masks work the same way than layer masks do in Photoshop: black is transparent, white is opaque, and the grays in between provide various degrees of transparency. I'd like to suggest a bit of quick reading before you jump into the tutorial with me:
- Opacity Mask Basics: Illustrator (via Bittbox)
- Use opacity masks to create transparency (via Adobe)
- Opacity Masks (via Shutterstock)
Also, I've primarily used the freebie area's High Resolution Dirty Textures for most of my worn effects. You should have these close-by, they'll highly helpful. Note that you could use any grunge texture pack of your choosing. You just won't have the same effects I do.
All set and done? Let's get to it!
No mysteries here. We're working in an 18″x24″ canvas. Since we're working in vectors, PPI/DPI don't matter too much, although I'd stay at 300 dpi if I were you. Also, CMYK colors will make your pre-press people and printer happy.
Let's add some guides to help us place all the elements later in the design process. Vertically, I have guides at 1″, 2″, 9″, 16″, and 17″. Horizontally, I have guides at 1″, 2″, 12″, 22″, and 23″.
Before we actually start designing, we need to focus on color first. Remember the ConEd booklet cover spread?
I'm going with the same color palette than the front cover: dark blue, yellow, and faded orange. The paper will provide us with a fourth, off-white, color. I'm also going to follow the dark background/light and/or contrasting design elements scheme.
My colors are as follows:
- Dark blue: #272C39
- Yellow: #F0C237
- Pale orange: #CD7B55
- Off-white: #EBE1BD
Create a dedicated layer for the color palette (and the cover image if you'd like). I'll also use that layer to store the pattern tile and the other building blocks for the poster as I progress. Leave it locked, unless you need to select, copy, and paste elements from it.
Color sandwich
The background's rough edge effect is obtained through a clipping mask. Start by creating a rectangle (covering the full canvas) for the off-white part (#EBE1BD) of the background.
Don't forget the dedicated layer group, and the proper layer naming practices and etiquette.
Next, add another 18″x24″ rectangle on top of it, dark blue this time (#272C39).
Next, we need to create the rough edge around the blue rectangle, so the off-white one shows through. We'll be using one of Ember Studio's Grunge banners & boxes to accomplish it.
First, navigate to ember-studio\grunge-banners-and-boxesgrunge-boxes.ai. You can see that the boxes are made of shapes, overlayed with splatters and other grunge elements.
I've highlighted the shape we'll be using below.
Start by duplicating the element (CTRL/CMD+C, then CTRL/CMD+F to paste it in place), and drag it aside for a bit of tweaking. I'll be doing these tweaks straight into Ember Studio's document, but feel free to bring the shape back into the Resources layer group of your main canvas instead (unlock it first!).
The shape doesn't have the proper aspect ratio for our canvas, features a dark gray grunge pattern of sort, and features some distracting ink splatters at the top that we'll remove.
Start by ungrouping the interlocking pieces (Right click menu > Ungroup or SHIFT+CTRL/CMD+G).
Delete the dark gray pattern.
With your direct selection tool (A), delete the little splatters that are a bit far from the general shape.
Once the shape is cleaned to your taste, rotate it clockwise 90°.
This is where the magic happens: we're going to size it so it'll be an appropriate layer mask for our final piece. Start by assigning it a size of 17″x23″. Make sure the little chain link between the dimension box is inactive, in order to be able to give the shape a new aspect ratio.
From there, copy and paste the transformed shape into your main document. It should be above your blue rectangle, and centered within the canvas.
If you pay close attention, the shape is slightly off-centered, due to the ink drops at its top right.
I fixed this by turning the guides back on, and manually adjusting the shape's main outline on the guides closest to the canvas border. This gave me a final size for the shape of around 17″x22.15″. Tweak this to your liking.
Once the shape is size and placed to taste, it's time to actually create the clipping mask with it. Select both the black shape and the blue rectangle.
Proceed to Right click > Make clipping mask.
Ignore the potential warning.
And we have ourselves a rough-edged background.
After a little bit of cleanup and renaming, my layer palette looks like this:
Patterning it up
It's finally time to add one of Dreaming Lucy's pattern. Grab your favorite from her collection. I'm using the following tile from dreaming-lucy\72_vintage_seamless_patterns\Vector\Vintage_seamless_patterns.ai. The color you grab it in doesn't matter, as we're going to change it anyways.
Copy and paste the tile in your Resources layer group.
Ungroup it (SHIFT+CTRL/CMD+G), and delete its background. Proceed to change the color to our off-white (EBE1BD). Make also sure it's sized at around 2″x2″. The size of the tile will determine the scale of the pattern.
When happy with the size of the tile and its color, simply drag and drop it into your Swatches palette.
Next, create a 22″x28″ rectangle, centered on your canvas. It should be placed above your Blue rectangle clip group. Select the pattern swatch we created just before as its fill, and boom, a pattern-filled rectangle happens. Note: reuse at will on any other shape, with any pattern tile.
You're probably wondering why we created a host rectangle for our pattern that's bigger than our canvas. This question will be answered now: we're going to rotate the pattern to give it a bit of dynamism. I'm using an angle of 6°.
This is shaping up nicely, but I have an issue. The pattern tile is too small compared to my canvas, and is overwhelming.
To fix it, let's double the size of the pattern rectangle. Mine went from a height of around 30″ to 60″, which gives a much nicer result. Feel free to move the rectangle around a bit for any desired alignment effects.
Next, we're going to hide all the excess pattern that overflows the canvas. Above the pattern-filled rectangle, create a canvas fitting rectangle. Its color doesn't matter.
Select both that newly created rectangle and the pattern one, and create a clipping mask.
And here's our result: a neatly patterned background.
After a bit of cleanup in the layers, here's what my palette looks like:
My background looks better: the big tile helps it to breath and not feel too intense. But it's still very present. In order to fix this, we'll use one of the dirty texture from the freebie area. The pack offers 7 textures. I'll be using Dirty4 in this case.
The process is somewhat similar to the one of pasting a texture in a layer mask when using Photoshop. Start by placing the texture above the Pattern clip group (File > Place or SHIFT+CTRL/CMD+P). Size at will. Note that my texture is centered in the canvas, and sized at 18″ wide.
Proceed to select both the texture and the Pattern clip group.
From there, head to the Transparency palette (SHIFT+CTRL/CMD+F10). Hit that Make mask button.
The result is a faded pattern, much like if we had pasted a texture in a layer mask in Photoshop.
Not happy with the placement of the grunge fades? You can move the texture around. Make sure that the textured elements are selected, and head back to the Transparency panel. Select the layer mask, deactivate the chain link, and move the texture around or transform it at will.
Here's my final texture placement.
My wife and I marathon-ed through the Matrix movies recently. One of the taglines for the series was "Free you mind." This taglines is what motivated the use of the lock and key as main iconography for the poster. The type is heavily faded in the background, kind of like a ghost.
Since I wanted my type piece to be very big in the canvas, I chose a condensed industrial sans-serif as my typefaces. After trying a few, I ended up going with League Gothic Condensed. Its letter forms are very elegant, yet posess a bit of that industrial ruggedness.
I wrote my copy on 2 lines: "Free / your mind," all in uppercase. "Free" is sized at 1296 points, and "your mind" at 537 points. Both elements' kerning is set to Optical. Their color is our pale orange (#CD7B55). Finally, the type block is visually centered at the center of the canvas.
In order to fade the type piece in the background of the piece, I've used the Dirty4 texture again, although sized and placed differently.
Place the texture in the file again. Make sure it covers the canvas.
Select the type and texture, and make it a transparency mask. In this specific instance, one of the texture's most interesting characteristics is its heavily scratched zone at the top.
The result is visually striking, but still a bit strong.
Hit the Invert mask check box in the transparency panel. This inverts the content of the mask, and, in our case, makes for a stronger fading effect.
And our type piece is done! Time to switch to iconography.
Which ones are we using?
As stated before, the illustrative elements of our poster are to be found in Elena Pimonova's hand drawn lock and key set. Navigate to elena-pimonova\Keys-And-Locks-Set\Keys & Locks set.eps.
I chose the open lock in reference to the poster's tagline. The key got picked because it was the one looking the simplest, and most fitting for the lock.
We'll have to prepare the lock and the keys a bit before we can use them in the design. Most importantly, we'll need to give them a background color, and an outline. Start by copying the elements to your Resources layer group.
The main piece
We'll start with the lock. Start by creating a pasted in front copy (CTRL/CMD+C – CTRL/CMD+F).
Lock your top copy.
Now, select the bottom copy and change its color to our yellow (#F0C237).
Next, head to Object > Path > Offset path, and apply the following settings:
Select all the yellow lock, and merge its various bits and pieces together with the Pathfinder.
We almost have a complete solid color in the background. Use the pentool or the blob brush to fill the holes.
Once the holes are filled, merge the yellow background together once more.
Once the process is completed, place the lock's background behind our earlier copy. Change the lock's color to our blue. The lock is ready.
The key
The key is next. Actually, we'll have a pair of keys, but that's not a concern right now. Follow a similar process to give the key a background, and the same path offset value. This is important for visual consistency.
Placing the elements in our composition
Propaganda posters are simple and straight to the point. Hence my very simple composition: the lock centered, with a pair of keys underneath.
Start by creating a new layer for our visual elements, and transfer them in there. By the way, have you kept your layers organized so far?
I've resized my lock to be 13″ tall. It's currently centered in the canvas.
Let's create that pair of keys. I almost wanted to do a blue one and a red one, but the limited color palette of the poster didn't work too well for that.
In order to add a little dynamism in the piece, I've given my key a -30° angle.
Place the key under the lock. Their proportions don't match very well.
Now's the perfect time to adjust that. My key is now close to 5″ wide.
It's time to create the key's mirrored twin. Simply select both the key and its background, and head to Right click > Transform > Reflect.
Don't forget to hit the Copy button instead of OK to get Illustrator to automatically duplicate the key in the new orientation.
Visually space the keys to form a centered, supporting banner-like element for the lock. The space left between the two keys could be the same than the one left between the side curves of the lock and the top of the keys.
Once you're satisfied with your alignments, simply center the whole block of visual elements within the canvas.
Finishing touched
As for the type, we're going to fade our lock and keys a bit with our set of dirty textures. The goal is to be a bit more subtle with our effect though, as we don't want the main pieces of the poster to be obliterated to oblivion.
First, the lock. We'll be using the less grunge, more noisy area of Dirty3.
Start by placing it in the canvas.
Here's a view of it in place. I've rotated it 90° clockwise. I've also lowered its opacity so you can better understand its placement compared to the lock.
Once the placement suits you, proceed as we did earlier to fade the lock a bit.
Finally, the keys are the last piece of the puzzle left. We're going to use the big noisy part of Dirty1 to wash them out a bit.
And we're done! Have a look:
Well, this is the end of another tutorial. I hope it helped you guys learn a few new techniques to play with textures in Illustrator, as well as get a taste of OBEY-style propaganda art.
I hope you had as much going through the tutorial as I had writing it. Don't hesitate to share your outcomes on the Design Cuts Facebook page. Was there anything unclear? Ask questions in the comment section, or ping me on twitter: @simonhartmann.
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Create a Summery Garden Party Invite Using Fresh, Floral Vectors
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Jo here. In today's tutorial we're going to be creating a summery garden party invite using a variety of resources from the current vector deal. You'll also get to sample a couple of items from the bundle as part of a special freebie pack.
We'll be looking at how to build depth by subtly layering different vectors, textures and blending modes to create a warm, hazy design that'll hopefully make you want to sit outside and smell the roses! We'll also look at how to finish off an image with a soft, simple vignette.
Quick note: In this tutorial, the term "clipping" or "clipped layer" is used a few times. This means that the layer is only visible/applies to the layer directly below it. You can very quickly do this by holding 'Alt' down on your keyboard and clicking between the two layers. Here's a quick demonstration.
Ok, let's get started!
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Today's freebie pack includes a wonderful spirograph vector from Ghostly Pixels, as well as a seamless vector pattern from Dreaming Lucy. Both of these resources are hand-crafted and really versatile.
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Step 1:
Open up a new (A5) 2480px height x 1748px width document in Photoshop.
We'll be working with a couple of extra resources for this tutorial, so let's download these first:
2 Lil Owls Free Textures + Extras (you will need to enter your email here to access the freebies)
Paste the floral background on to your canvas, scaling to fit and aligning the right side of the image to the right edge of the canvas. Having the space on the right hand side between the tip of the petal and the edge of the canvas gives the image a bit of room to 'breathe' from a composition perspective.
Now we have this beautiful image to work from, let's apply some rustic textures to give it an outdoorsy feel. To do this, go to the 2-lil-owls-textures-free folder you downloaded and paste 2LO Burnished 20 on to your canvas, scaling to fit:
Change the blend mode to Soft Light for some simple, but effective texture application!
Step 2:
We've got the main base of the background set up, but we're going to add a little more texture and some selective colour depth.
To do this, select 2LO Burnished 3 and paste to fit your canvas:
Set the blend mode to Multiply and drop the Opacity to 40%:
Create a layer mask and using the Gradient tool, create a Radial Gradient so that the centre of the mask is black. You can access the Mask layer directly by holding 'Alt' on your keyboard and selecting it in the layers panel.
Now our background layers are ready, let's keep things organised and put these together in a group called 'Background'.
Step 3:
This bundle includes some great seamless pattern resources, so we're going to use one now to create a Pattern Fill.
From the main gigantic-vector-elements-bundle navigate to: dreaming-lucy >72_vintage_seamless_patterns > PNG_300Dpi > Beige>Vintage_seamless_patterns-06.png and open in a new Photoshop window:
We need to save this as a pattern to use on our main image. To do this, we'll first need to reduce the image size to 300px square:
Then from the main menu bar, go to Edit > Define Pattern. You should get a pop up box similar to the image below. Keep the name as it is unless you particularly want to change it, and click 'OK':
Going back to our main working canvas, from the main menu bar select Layer > New Fill Layer > Pattern and you should see a pop up box similar to below:
You can leave all the settings as default, then click 'OK'.
You should then see the pattern appear, as the most recently saved pattern should show up as the default. If not, you can click the small triangle to the right of the pattern to see your pattern library, which is where it might be hiding Again, you can leave the settings as default.
To complete the subtler effect we're after, change the blend mode to Soft Light and reduce the Opacity to 85%:
Step 4:
To balance out some of the 'flowery-ness' we'll include a rougher, but still natural-themed vector from Ember Studio.
From the main bundle pack, go to ember-studio > grunge-banners-and-boxes > wood-scratch.ai and select the highlighted design:
Copy and paste this on to your Photoshop canvas, rotating and scaling to fit as below:
Once you're happy with the position, change the blend mode to Color Burn and reduce the Opacity to 35%. This keeps the image nicely balanced in colour and highlights the center of our canvas where the key information will be placed later in the design.
Step 5:
To bring more attention to the center of our image, we'll add another great resource from the current bundle. To grab it for your design, navigate to ghostly-pixels > Spyrograph-Illustrations > PNG-Format > Outlined > Spyrographics06-byGhostlyPixels. Scale and paste on to your canvas so it sits centrally and has a roughly 10mm gap at the top and bottom, and reduce the opacity to 85%:
We're going to use another resource from Ghostly Pixels to add a bit of texture to the Spyrograph via a layer mask.
Open the following in a new Photoshop window: ghostly-pixels > Wood-Texture > PNG-Format > WoodTexture-byGhostlyPixels-02.png
Use the Magic Wand tool to select anywhere on the transparent part of the image, then press 'Alt + I' to invert the selection then copy:
Go back to your working window and create a layer mask on the Spyrograph layer. Press 'Alt' on your keyboard and click the Mask in the layers panel to access it directly. Then, paste the selection you just made from the Wood Texture image and position similar to the image below:
Click anywhere on the layers panel to go back to your working image and you should see the mask texture applied:
Finally for this step, create a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer. Select 'Colorize' and bring the Lightness up to +100 to change the image colour to white:
Step 6:
Next up, we're going to start adding some cute vector decorations, since there are plenty to choose from in this bundle
From the main bundle pack, navigate to tomodachi > vector birds and select a bird you'd like to feature on your design. I've gone for the one highlighted in the image below:
Copy and paste on to your Photoshop canvas so that it sits towards the upper right of the Spyrograph design. You may need to transform and rotate it a bit to get it sitting nicely. Once you're happy with the position, change the blend mode to Hard Light:
Step 7:
Again from the tomodachi folder, open up the Loving Vectors document. Select the dotty ribbon to copy and paste on to your Photoshop canvas:
Paste on to your Photoshop canvas, scaling and rotating so that it sits diagonally along the top left corner:
To make it stand out a bit more, we're going to add a drop shadow and change it to a contrasting colour to the background.
For the drop shadow, double click the layer in the layers panel and apply the following settings:
Drop Shadow Settings:
Opacity: 30%
Angle: 150
Distance: 15px
Spread: 0%
Size: 25px
To change the colour, create a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer with the following settings:
Hue/Saturation Settings:
Colourize: On
Hue: 125
Saturation: 50
Lightness: 0
Finally for this step, we'll add a bit of texture to make it more in-keeping with the rest of the design.
Going back to the 2-lil-owls-textures-free folder you downloaded at the start, select 2LO Burnished 14 and position towards the upper left of your canvas so that a lighter area of the texture will cover the ribbon.
Change the blend mode to Multiply and reduce the Opacity to 35%. Then, clip the texture layer to the hue/saturation layer below to see it applied only to the ribbon graphic:
To keep things tidy, you might want to group these layers together and name the folder "Top Left Ribbon".
Step 8:
We're continuing with the decorative vectors, this time using the following (rather appropriate) resource: elena-pimonova > Garden-Set
Copy and paste the wellington boots on to your Photoshop canvas. Reduce the Opacity to 80%, then scale and position so that they sit in the lower right corner similar to the image below:
We'll add a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer to make the boots match the colour of the ribbon in the opposite corner as closely as possible. This creates a nice balance in the image since the boots also have a spotted pattern!
Create the clipped hue/saturation layer with the following settings:
Hue/Saturation Settings:
Colourize: On
Hue: 125
Saturation: 50
Lightness: +75
Step 9:
We're delving further in to this bundle now for some more plant-like decorative elements. For the next set of resources you'll need to navigate to make-media-co > Vector_Megapack > Vector_Curls&Banners2_Master.ai and locate the following element:
Note: Keep this file open, as we'll be using more elements from it later in the tutorial…
Copy and paste this on to your Photoshop canvas, and position similarly to the image below:
Reduce the opacity to 50% and we'll add a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer with the following settings:
Hue/Saturation Settings:
Colourize: On
Hue: 125
Saturation: 50
Lightness: +75
Duplicate the vector image and clipped hue/saturation layer, changing the blend mode of the vector layer to Screen and reducing the Opacity to 45%.
Flip the image horizontally and place towards the bottom left of the image similar to below:
Step 10:
So far, our invite is taking good shape. However, it still feels like it's lacking some, er, "garden-ness". That's where our next set of vectors come to the rescue!
In the layers panel, go back down to your Pattern Fill layer, and create a new group below it called "Flower Vectors". We'll be creating our layers within this group during this step.
To locate the vector elements we'll be using, some of the accompanying Kelly Jane Creative freebies. If you've bought the bundle, you can find the full range by navigating to kelly-jane-creative > Kelly Jane Creative Petal Boutique Flowers 2
From there, you can take your pick from the PNG files to use in your design. If you want to follow along exactly, these are the individual elements used in the tutorial:
Once you're happy with the placement of your floral vectors, we'll finish off this step by adding a wreath in the background for some extra depth. From the same folder, paste Kelly Jane Creative flowers 42.png on to your Photoshop canvas, transforming and positioning similar to below so that the flowers sit outside of the Spyrograph design:
Change the blend mode to Screen and reduce the Opacity to 35%:
We'll add just a bit of extra warmth to this layer using 2LO Burnished 14 which you can duplicate from the "Top Left Ribbon" group and position so that it fills the canvas:
Change the blend mode to Soft Light and clip it to the wreath layer below:
Step 11:
Going back to working at the top of the layers panel, we'll add a bit more texture to our design. Navigate to ghostly-pixels > Line-Textures > PNG-Format > LineTexture01-byGhostlyPixels and paste it on to your Photoshop canvas, scaling to fit:
Change the blend mode to Screen and reduce the Opacity to 70%:
Step 12:
We now need to prepare a few bits before adding text. To help it stand out, let's use a banner for the invite headline.
From the Vector_Curls&Banners2_Master.ai you have open from earlier, locate the highlighted banner (we'll use the highlighted key and heart shortly):
Paste on to your Photoshop canvas, rotating and scaling so it fits as below:
To make it stand out a little more, we'll add a Drop Shadow with the following settings:
Drop Shadow Settings:
Opacity: 30%
Angle: 150
Distance: 15px
Spread: 0%
Size: 25px
We'll now add a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer so it matches some the turquoise/green shades we already have as accent colours.
Here are the settings you'll need to do this:
Hue/Saturation Settings:
Colourize: On
Hue: 125
Saturation: 50
Lightness: +75
Next up, copy and paste the highlighted heart from the Vector_Curls&Banners2_Master.ai file and paste on to your canvas. Duplicate the layer, flip horizontally then position the two hearts either side of the banner on the first fold, like below:
Once you're happy with the position, merge the two layers and apply a clipped hue/saturation adjustment layer with Colorize on, and the lightness taken up to +100.
Then, duplicate the 2LO Burnished 14 copy layer from the "Vector Flowers" group and clip to the adjustment layer. This takes the edge off the whiteness:
Note: If you're using Photoshop CS6 or above, you can apply clipped layers to groups. In which case, you can group the hearts layers instead of merge them to apply the clipped effects.
Step 13:
We've got a bit of space above the banner which we can fill with an image, rather than text. From the Vector_Curls&Banners2_Master.ai copy and paste the highlighted key images on to your canvas. Transform and rotate so that it's placed horizontally like so:
We'll apply a clipped hue/saturation layer with the following settings to give it a soft, off-white colour similar to the hearts:
Hue/Saturation Settings:
Colourize: On
Hue: 47
Saturation: 75
Lightness: +90
Step 14:
Now the vector decorations are ready, we can add some text.
Select a fun, friendly font to type "You're invited to a Garden Party!" in a size that has it nicely fill the width of the banner, with #ffffff as the colour. I've gone for Ride My Bike Serif Pro Bold in this instance.
We want the text to follow the curve of the banner, which we'll do with the Warp Text tool.
In the pop up box that appears, select 'Arc' as the style and make sure the 'horizontal' option is checked.
Move the Bend percentage up until the curve of the text matches the banner. This may vary depending on the font you use, but it should be around 6% (nothing huge):
Once you're happy with the curve, you might need to nudge the text up or down slightly to get it sitting nice and centrally within the banner:
Step 15:
For the next step we'll add the rest of the text so people know when to turn up and where
Using a combination of the text used in the heading for the date, and a simple sans-serif font for the time and venue, type a date, time and venue:
As it stands, the text is a little hard to read. We'll add a hazy drop shadow to help it 'pop' a bit more:
Drop Shadow Settings:
Colour: #C42B2A
Opacity: 92%
Angle: 150
Distance: 0px
Spread: 5%
Size: 160px
Step 16:
We're entering the finishing touches now, and to give a sunny, slightly vintage look to the invite we'll add a light leak effect from this awesome freebie pack from our buddy Chris Spooner:
Select 2.jpg from the pack, scaling and rotating to fit the canvas as below:
Set the blend mode to Screen and drop the Opacity to 50% to complete the effect:
Step 17:
For the final step, we're going to add a soft vignette to the image so the focus is on the centre of the design.
Group all the layers together and create a duplicate group. Hide the original group and then merge the duplicate to create one flat layer.
Create a duplicate of the flattened layer and add a Layer Mask. Using the Elliptical Marquee tool, draw a large elipses where you'd like the vignette effect to be applied. With the selection still active, go to the main menu and navigate to Select > Modify > Feather so we have a soft, gradual fade. Put a large number like 100px in the pop up box that appears:
Fill the selection with #00000 then change the blend mode to Multiply to see the full effect:
We'll finish off by dropping the opacity for a softer effect:
And we're done!
I really hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial and are left feeling nice and summery as well as inspired to create some of your own awesome designs now you have a taste of what's available in the current deal.
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please, please, please put the offer back up!!!!
ACK! I am with Jacob and Ash… I bookmarked it then came back too late as well.
Is there a way to still get this deal???
Thank you!
Hey, Tina! I too got notice of this one too late. I read a blog called Graphic Design Blender and they must have sent this to me while I was out of town. This is a great great bundle, i'd hate to miss out. Possible to still get? Please let me know! Thanks!
ohhh i was on vacation when i saw it and then i thought, i'll buy it when i get home and it's too late :((
Can you run this deal again. I missed it and very much want to buy it!
I'm not sure when the latest comments were written but is it possible to notify me as well if this deal becomes possible again?
Just found this now, don't know when these comments were written but would love to find out when this is available again as well!
Could you please also send me the links to the free fonts in the Okaski & Creamy blogging packs?
Thank you
Wonderful vector elements with cheap price.


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On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 05:38, Frederic Schutz wrote: > But neither SP nor OpenSP seem to know what -R is and they return an > error. -R is an option in lq-nsgmls, which is available at <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/>. HTH, -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fiReceived on Friday, 11 October 2002 01:10:48 GMT
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