Free Photoshop Doodle Brushes

Here's another nice catch from the digital scrapbook designer's world, completely free commercial use doodled leaves, vines, and flower brushes for Photoshop.

You won't need a graphics tablet, and you won't need to be Van Gogh to get a trendy, hand-drawn look to your next church project. Add them to your Photoshop arsenal before they expire.

Leave "Twin Mom Scraps" some props for her freebie - and let her know what you'll be using it for, most designers of all types aren't even aware that there's an entire niche of media people who must have graphics ready every Sunday (and other days, too!) for public meetings.

5 Free Resources This Week for Your Media Library

These free relevant media resources are going to expire this week. Nab for your church's library before the price tags go back on them.

1. Revostock's video of the week is a power plant, steam (smoke?) and all, in HD. With very little work, I think it could be made to loop if you needed more than 4 seconds.

2. iStockPhoto's free video of the month is a deep blue loop of liquid arcs and spheres. It will be a useful lyric backdrop for many medium and up-tempo songs.

3. Don't miss Floodgate's looping grunge texture for your fast songs - I'm expecting this to stop being free by the month's end, too.

4. Over at Shutterstock, there's a very cool image that's free this week of a heart; it's a contemporary looking image that's actually a small publication folded over into the shape - but you have to look twice at it to figure that part out.

5. Free vector landscape that you can use for almost anything, it's that versatile. It's what I used for the thumbnail in this posting.

Beautiful Photoshop Brushes

BrushPortfolio.com is an amazing web site full of stunning Photoshop Brushes by Susan Libertiny. And she's giving them away for you to use on your next project.

You'll find great doodles, amazing textures, swirly 'thingies' and her most recent set of brushes, tropical plants from Hawaii.

Stay tuned for her newest updates via Twitter: @BrushPortfolio

FREE Plastic Photoshop Action

This week only, the free Photoshop Action for Edged Plastic is yours for the download at Atomic Cupcake.

There's a version for Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS(whatever), make sure you grab the correct one. All of Atomic Cupcake actions come with a commercial use license, so you don't have to worry about what you're using them for or write for permission.

Quick designer edges on type are one of my favorite ways to make a title POP on a short deadline. Plastic can be SO versatile, too. Actions can give you some of that 'realistic' imperfection that a style generally just can't do.

Atomic Cupcake's free actions generally last only a week - so you've now got 6 days to grab it. Go make some plastic!

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Today ONLY Igniter Media

Wow, another HALF off Sale for those killer Igniter Media videos at Worship House Media - today only. I went shopping there for the church today, too!

What did I pick up for Pastor? The controversial Cruise Ship vs. Battle Ship video and the contemporary March of the Unqualified, with it's ever timeless message.

There's a bunch more to pick from, including some of our favorites: Me Church, Are You Amazed, That's My King, Never Been Unloved, Together|Team Hoyt, 99 Balloons, and so many others!

That's two of my favorite video houses with terrific one day sales. TODAY ONLY! Go have a frank talk with what's left of your media budget, and do some quick planning with your Pastor(s).

I'll be sure to let everyone know how these videos went over when we use them.

Monster Sale Today - Videos

Floodgate Productions has put all their videos on sale today (only) for HALF PRICE. What am I picking up for the church? Elevate, Shoes, Spirit, It, and Isaiah 40.
Tell me what you snagged!

Even the brand new video titles are included, as well as their entire collection of Mini-movies (illustration videos) and all the Worship Drops (we have a few of these already, love them)! Pastor told me last week to buy Shoes - and I hadn't got around to it. It's AWESOME if you haven't seen it.

We rotate Gift of Worship, Welcome to Our Church, It Continues to Grow, and a couple others just before the band starts the morning worship. I'm jazzed to be adding a few of these new ones to that precious Worship Intro slot as we begin Sundays.

Thank you Floodgate, for this amazing MONSTER SALE this week!

Last Day Announcement Stills Sale

There's a great introductory sale for a set of terrific announcement slides that ends at midnight on July 22nd from Midnight Oil Productions. Announce It Volume 2 has 50 images by graphic designers that are projector ready. You just add text in your presentation program and it's done.

You'll have the perfect image for a wide variety of announcements at your fingertips. Whether you've got a graphics designer on staff or not, most of us know that sometimes there just isn't enough time to do a quality job on an announcement that someone needs.

Keep Announce It handy for those times! After Midnight on July 22nd, the price goes up. Get it now for introductory pricing.

Another awesome church resource from the talents of the guys at Midnight Oil Productions!

Monster Sale at Floodgate This Week

Stills, Motion loops, and Countdowns are on sale today, Tuesday, for the first day of Floodgate Productions' crazy week-long sale. You do not need a special code, a coupon, or anything else. Just show up on the correct day to buy some of your favorite downloadable media files for these crazy prices.

Take advantage of these deep discounts at Floodgate Productions this week - but remember they are only on sale this one day. If you arrive tomorrow, countdowns won't be on sale, but something else will be!

FREE Photoshop Action - Crayon Drawing

This week (only), Atomic Cupcake has a crayon drawing Photoshop action for their free download. the examples look great! This will be especially handy if you don't have a graphics tablet yet, but even if you do, it's still a great time-saver for this graphic effect.

Add it to your Photoshop arsenal while it's free.

FREE Sticks and Stones Video

The SermonSpice.com incredible free video this month is from Proverbs 12:18. It's a 63 second video illustration about the words we use, called The Power of the Tongue.

Utilizing stick figure animation, the video was produced by Storytelling Pictures LLC and nothing gets between the message and the viewer in this brief example of reckless words vs. healing words from a wise tongue.

You could show this to kids in elementary school, and they'd get it. Use it at your youth groups, and they will think it is a cool video made just for their age group. Use it for adults of all ages, and they will not feel like you're showing them a kiddie clip.

You've got until July 31st, if SermonSpice.com does this freebie like their usual ones.

Go watch it, grab it for free - this is one powerful message that everyone will profit from. Then use it. There are some timeless messages we just can't hear enough; and I think this is one of them.

Or maybe the video convicted me on this tongue thing all over again...

New Floodgate Video Riding the News

Everyone's talking, but Floodgate made a new video about the rash of recent celebrity deaths. It's got a limited life span, and I think Floodgate made a bold move to get this video done and out for churches to use as a starting point for a timely conversation.

They called it Death and Life and I think what I'm reading at their web site says it's only going to be available for the next two weeks. They've reduced the price to only $10, too.

HATS OFF Floodgate, this was a brilliant addition for churches and small groups who want to relate to what's happening in society right now.

Free Paper-Textured Overlay

I just ran across a digital scrapbooking blog which has a great FREE paper-textured overlay for the next week or so. Look for it at the bottom of this posting from LBCreations. Since it is a large and square graphic resource, you can resize it and crop at various sides of the overlay to make just the right effect for your church screen.

Tip: remember that when you're working with an original that is print-sized, it'll look best if you scale it down for on-screen viewing by 33% at least.

Leave her some love in a comment, I didn't see anything in her terms of use license file which would prevent me from using the overlay as part of an image at church.

Expires: 7 July 2009