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Beautiful Urban Decay Photography By cmdrcord

GrungyBit — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:14:09 +0000

Recently I came across many wonderful Urban decay photographs. It is amazing that many buildings are being left for years, neglected. Aging with time, they develop character and charm. There are several dedicated photographers exploring deserted destinations. Their photography work just stands out.

First photographer to be displayed here is Michael – CmdrCord From Bremen Germany. Here is just a taste of photographs from his adventures, be sure to check out more on his Flickr gallery.

More to come.

Grunge & Vintage Style Resource Collections

GrungyBit — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:33:06 +0000

You can never have enough of good Grunge style or Vintage style resources.
Here are links to some good resource collections posts. You will find there tones of Grunge Fonts, Grunge Textures, Vintage textures, Halftone brushes and Grunge brush sets.

		Youthedesigner: A Compilation of Various Grunge Texture Sets
		visionwidget: 35 Free Grunge Fonts for Abstract Designs
		blueblots: 200+ Extremely Free Halftone Adobe Photoshop Brushes
		1stwebdesigner: 400+ of Outstanding Textures For Vintage Style Designs
		1stwebdesigner: 40+ Awesome Grunge Style Photoshop Brush Packs
		superblogposts: 20 Free Photoshop Patterns for Grunge Lovers

Tones of Grunge Style Resources

Artist Display: Stunning WaterColor Paintings By Veronique Piaser Moyen

GrungyBit — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:49:43 +0000

There is something magical about watercolor paintings. Veronique Piaser Moyen paintings are a good example. She really knows how to make those color pigments work in a vibrant abstract way. I like the splatters, they make a nice addition to the colorful watercolor paintings.

Check out her personal web site and filckr portfolio and enjoy many more watercolor paintings.

Awesome Keywording Tool For MicroStock Contributors

GrungyBit — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:59:20 +0000

Yuri Arcurs, the famous Microstock photographer, has developed a useful tool to help find the right keywords for stock images. The Photo Keywording Tool is available for a long while, but only recently I found the tool and started to use it.
The tool is simple to use and effective.It makes tagging / keywording – one of the necessary (but less fun) steps in Microstock photography less painful.

In a nut shell, this is how it works:

Type several keywords.
List of relevant images from Shutterstock (or Crestock) will appear.
Choose images similar to yours.
List of keywords from the chosen images will be created.
You can add / remove keywords from the list and use it.

Inspiring Showcase of Typographic Posters

GrungyBit — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:55:30 +0000

Typographicposters directory can be an excellent source for design inspiration. The site showcases interesting graphic and typographic posters designed by different talented artists, using variety of styles.

This is just a small taste of what is waiting on the site:

Huge Retro-Space Collection

GrungyBit — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:47:26 +0000

Browse the huge Retro-Space collection and take a travel back in time.
You can find there so many Retro goodies, just name it: Fashion, Lifestyle, Girls, Electronics, Advertisement, Books, Magazines, Movies and much more.

Also check out the Retro-Space blog for more Retro stuff.

Here is just a small taste of what you will see:

Picsviewr – Interesting Flickr browsing options

GrungyBit — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:26:16 +0000

Picsviewr enhances Flickr gallery browsing into visually interesting experience. There are more than 10 interesting templates available to choose from.
You can make a Slidshow or Presentation of from any Flickr gallery and share with friends. Examples below displaying the inspiring work of Mark Weaver.

True Authentic Grunge Style Portraits

GrungyBit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:20:06 +0000

With Grunge design style so popular, many images get painted with extra dirt, scratches and splashes – just to make them look grungy. This trend also applies to photographs. The challenge is to make it look as real as possible. Well, the Old Picture site has the real thing! Old photographs decorated with scratches and defects created as time passed by.

The site is featuring an extensive collection of historical photographs. ‘Old-Picture‘ collection includes images from the years 1850 to 1940. If you like vintage style, surly you will enjoy a visit to the site and if you like grunge style you will especially enjoy at the portraits section. Those grungy portraits are authentic as it can get.

Awesome Retro Typography And Logos Collection

GrungyBit — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:16:06 +0000

Once in a while surfing the web, you can find resources that will make you feel WOW – and that how it felt seeing pages from ‘World of Logotypes’ book for the first time. If you like typography and retro style, surely you will appreciate the scans from the book on Eric Carl flickr stream. The scans are from a mid-70′s edition of the book ‘World of Logotypes’, which is out of print.

PS Actions Time: Postcards From Jerusalem

GrungyBit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:11:35 +0000

Few weeks ago Jacob Gube posted in Smashing Magazine a wonderful post: The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions. With Photoshop actions you can easily do amazing things, but finding the good actions is the trick and thanks to Jacob we have plenty of interesting actions to test, experiment and learn from.

With the help of some of those actions you can create interesting Retro and Vintage effects. Here are some nice postcards from a recent trip to Jerusalem, created with the actions set Vintage Photo action: