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For designers interested in expanding their design resources library, the Mega Bundle 2 giveaway announced a week ago was an exciting opportunity.

Today, the winners are selected and announced below. Also, this is the last day for getting the bundle for the discounted price of $29.

The bundle is provided by the creative team of VectorPack.net and includes:

• 319 vector elements
• 278 PS brushes
• 66 abstract backgrounds
• 58 seamless patterns
• 30 textures
• 1 WordPress theme

a total of 650+ design elements.

The winners

• @soshableweb
• Waqas (comment  #407202)
• Nik (comment #407275)
• Ali Dhibi (comment #407287)
• @ProImageMedia

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.

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Having useful design resources under our hands always ease the process of creating beautiful websites, banners, posters, etc.

Mega Bundle 2, which is a big collection of design goodies offered for a very good price ($29 rather than $545), is providing WRD readers a chance to grow their design libraries by giving away 5 licenses (please check the details on joining it below).

Who created this bundle?

VectorPack.net  is a design studio creating professional vector art and design elements including stock vector art, Photoshop brushes, backgrounds, textures, fonts, seamless patterns and WordPress themes. Simply, every design element that we are in need of.

What included with it?

The Mega Bundle 2  is a set of 650+ design elements that VectorPack.net is offering for a price of $29 instead of $545.

It is available until the 13th of October (8 days from now on). This great Mega Bundle 2 contains the following items:

• 319 vector elements
• 278 PS brushes
• 66 abstract backgrounds
• 58 seamless patterns
• 30 textures
• 1 WordPress theme

Considering VectorPack.net presents such useful Mega Bundles at a discounted price regularly, subscribing to their newsletters would make sure you know about them in advance.

How to join the giveaway?

You can choose one of the methods below to join the giveaway:

• comment to this post
• or retweet this post (click here for an easy re-tweet)
• that's all

Winners will be selected randomly on 12 October 2011 (1 week later) and good luck!

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The giveaway of 3D Covers Pro -fastest way for creating 3D eCovers- which was announced last week has ended today. The winners are selected and announced below.

Here is a short reminder on "what 3D Covers Pro is" in case you missed:

It is an advanced yet easy-to-use set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs quickly.

They are Win + Mac OS X compatible and support creating the following items with each having more than one designs:

• binders (3 designs)
• magazines (10 designs)
• DVDs (7 designs)
• brochures (3 designs)
• books (13 designs)
• spirals (6 designs)
• boxes (15 designs)
• CDs (11 designs)
• business cards (4 designs)

The winners

• k19s (comment #392870)
• Michael Kaiser (comment #392452)
• Niju mohan (comment #393242)

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Whether it is web or print, 3D eCovers are popular design objects for illustrating products with boxes, books/magazines, cds, brochures, etc.

3D Covers Pro is a professional set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs in no time.

And, they are giving away 3 licenses ($37/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers (details can be found below).

The bundle includes Photoshop action scripts (PS CS2+) and smart templates (PS CS4+) that are Win and Mac OS X compatible.

Using them is pretty easy and straightforward. Whether you use the smart templates or the action scripts, just placing our designs and waiting for them to get a nice 3D look is almost enough.

3D Covers Pro works for creating the following items with each having several different designs:

• binders (3 designs)
• magazines (10 designs)
• DVDs (7 designs)
• brochures (3 designs)
• books (13 designs)
• spirals (6 designs)
• boxes (15 designs)
• CDs (11 designs)
• business cards (4 designs)

How to join the giveaway?

Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected with the query below on 14 September 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2451 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all!

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The set is in the format of Photoshop custom shapes (.csh) so it can be resized perfectly.

Icons include most of the popular items and they are completely free to use.

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Just take any normal sized banner, define few options like the name, background color or "numbering to be printed over them" and your storyboard is ready. Afterward, they can be exported into various files types including PDF

Simply, it helps a lot in accomplishing one of the most monotonous tasks in art direction.

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So I packed everything for holiday and thought, nah I wont bother with the laptop, I just want to enjoy myself and off we went.

A week or so past and I would login to my webmail to check how things were at home and emails were coming through regarding design issues, unfortunately for me the PC I had access to had no design software, let alone photoshop.

Long story short and after much frustration I found a fantastic online programme named SplashUP although not perfect, I was and still am amazed at the online functionality this programme offers such as; Layers, multiple image editing and pixel level control. The interface will be familier to anyone that uses Photoshop and pretty straight forward to pickup.

I needed this as an online alternative to Photoshop for image creation and editing, but you can also use it to touch up photos and share dirctly with the likes of Flickr, Picasa and Facebook.

The only downside is that you can not save the files as PSD, only jpg or FXO which is specific to this programme.