Photo-Ready Photoshop Christmas Cards

PS Hero has released 13, count them 13, complete PSD files of beautiful Christmas cards, complete with editable type layers. They're beautiful!

Leave him some love for these gorgeous gifts in the spirit of the Season! They're classy, professional looking greeting card templates.

Free Photoshop Course

The very talented guys over at CreativeTechs started a 6 month Photoshop course. Free. I sat in on their Illustrator class a few months ago and it was terrific! It's a video conference, so you hear the instructor giving instructions at the same time you see the program's screen. In the class I took, there was an hour of instruction followed by an hour of Question and Answer.

The Photoshop course started last Thursday, and meets once a week. They make an archive of the videos available for a modest fee if you can't make the class.

If you been wishing you had better Photoshopping skills, here's your chance! I highly recommend this set of classes to anyone who wants to learn to use Photoshop.

Class Information link

I did mention it was FREE, right?

Do You Hear Voices?

Floodgate has done it again! This is an AWESOME short video for a service starter that is at 30% off only until midnight CST on Monday, August 31.

Frankly, even without 30% off, it's an incredible video. I love that it's only 2 minutes long.

I think I might love it more if they had used voice-overs, because I don't know how many people miss the message of videos when required to sit and read them. It's just a gut-level feeling after watching people in our congregation and how they respond to various videos, though. Someone should do a scientific study about that.

Go watch it - sale or no sale; voice or no voice. See how it can serve the vision of your church.

Major props to Floodgate for this short!

10 Free Video Bumpers @IgniterMedia

Wow, the end of summer sale at IgniterMedia just keeps on heating up. Tuesday and Wednesday this week, they're giving away Volume three video bumper downloads. Yes, for free!

You'll find a checklist, a whiteboard, several very trendy modern looks, a short order ticket, some VIEW MASTERs, and more! Don't ignore your email tickler for this, go grab the goods, just add some text, and make some great little videos work in your next church service!

There are 10 bumpers in the set. You'll love them!

250 Free Business Cards PLUS

VistaPrint.com is having a special promotion right now for free business cards. It doesn't stop there, though. Basic designs of a rubber stamp, banner, return address labels, postcards, and more are all on this special offer.

We had my husband's business cards printed there last year, and they turned out gorgeous. I did the design for the company, uploaded the cards for each of them, and they turned out great. Everyone was happy with them.

Here's the web page with the free offers and info:

http://www.vistaprint.com/freesavings

I just ordered business cards. Since I uploaded my own design, they charged me $3.74 extra for that, and I went with the slow boat to Fresno shipping rate, which was $5.67. For under $10, I'll have 250 full color business cards with my own design on them. They will be here in less than 3 weeks (see "slow boat to Fresno shipping" above). If I wanted a glossy finish, heavier paper, or a printed back side, there's a small charge for those options. No, thank you, I just wanted a basic card.

I'm jazzed! Go see what is on the list that might be useful to you or to your team!

Free HD Video Loops

Footage Firm is giving away *free* HD video loops. You pay only a shipping & handling charge. You can choose between 11 DVDs, sorted by title; pick up 1 or all 11. There's a demo reel for each volume so that you can see what is on each DVD, click on the volume name to see the details.

I've picked up stock footage from them before for our church media library; there's no gimmick, unless you call getting your name out there by offering this kind of special a gimmick. :)

It looks like this might be near the end of this offer, so I suggest you pick up the volumes you want as soon as possible. These are looping backgrounds. If you sign up for their mailing list, they offer free footage sample DVDs several times a year. These offers always come through their email newsletters.

9 Free Fonts for Design

This is certainly an awesome resource, even if they are not new! There's 9 free fonts left in this original list of 10 Free Fonts for Icon Design post at iconspedia.com. They're all high quality, high character, and high drama potential candidates that can help you design logos, titles, and anything that calls for killer typeface.

Oh yeah, and remember, I said they were FREE, too!

10 er, 9, Free Fonts for Logo Design

Go score them before another one becomes ... not free, and don't forget to give them some props so that these font designers will continue to make commercial quality typefaces available for free.