Are you a photoshop user? Do you love making graphics? You may or may not know about Brush Art.
Basically you can search to your hearts content and find amazing brush art graphics all over the web.

Check out the  tutorial below to see how you can create graphics with brush art

In this demo we will be using brushes from brusheezy.com

Step 1: The first step is to search on your favorite engine to find some brush art that you would like to use. I searched brush eezy- as this is where I get most of my brushes from 

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Step 2: You will be taken to a site where they have a catalogue of brushes. Browse through to find some brushes that you like.

Step 3: Click on one of the brush design images 

Step 4: You will be taken to the download page for that brush (design seen on right) In this case the brushes are birds.

Step 5: Click on the download file and save it somewhere on your computer where you can find it

Step 6 : Open up a new file in photoshop and click on the brush icon tool located in the toolbar

Step 7: Click on the brush icon located at the upper left of the screen

Step 8: Click on the small arrow to bring down the list of actions 

Step 9: Scroll down until you see Load Brushes

Step 10: Click on load brushes and find the file that you downloaded

Step 11: Once you have done this the new brush patterns will appear in your brush library

Step 12: There you go! You have just downloaded and loaded up your new brush for you to play with!

Advice: Be creative download a whole bunch of brushes and play around. Don’t forget you can apply filters such as neon glow ! Also don’t forget to save your brushes so you don’t have to load them again! This action can be found where you load your brushes.

Constant Contact is an amazing online tool that allows users to send out mass emails or surveys to double opt- in lists.  A double opt-in email list is like any email based newsletter where users can sign-up through a webpage or by sending an email to mailing list management software. What makes an email list “double opt-in” is that any person who subscribes must confirm their request twice. This is a very important term to understand when one gets into email marketing. 

Constant Contact allows mailing list owners to send out mass emails to their list with almost a 100% inbox guarantee! This is a great tool to get information to your customers or subscribers! For those who know about spamming and email marketing, achieving a 100% inbox rate is quite exciting. This software is not for spammers and the owner of the mailing list must guarantee that they are not spamming. 

I use Constant Contact for PeopleVancouver.com and it has become on of the most important communication tools to the members of this online community. With almost 1000 members, emailing them all without being blocked by hotmail, google or any host is hard. These host think you are a spamming because you are sending out mass emails. This is where Constant Contact comes in a wipes all those problems away. You also able to creat branded and fun looking emails to send to your users. 

Here are some of their fancy templates:

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I find this a great way to reach your users in a professional way. Not only that you can track everything. You can see what user has opened the email and how many times through Email Tracking and Reporting.

Learn more about your contacts with eye-opening reports

Real-time email tracking and reporting lets you know how many emails were delivered, which addresses bounced, and why—within minutes of sending your email campaign. You also get reports on who opened your email, which links generated the most interest, and who clicked on each one. This valuable information will help you to determine your contacts’ interests, the best day and time to send your email campaigns and much more!

See who opened your email campaigns, and what they clicked on

• How many contacts opted in or opted out and Unsubscribe Comment Box lets you collect comments on why people are opting out
• What percentage of your contacts opened

See how your email list is growing and who is opting out

• How many contacts opted in or opted out
• How many contacts forwarded emails to a friend

Did you know that the Wii controler has an infrared camera in it?
You can do some pretty cool things with it!

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