As a big “thank you” to all of you loyal Obsidian Dawn resources users out there, we’re offering 3 FREE Premium Plus Subscription to BannerSnack. And it’s easy. Read on!

As an aside, I haven’t forgotten about those of you that entered Obsidian Dawn’s first contest – those winners will be released soon!

So, what IS BannerSnack, you might ask?

BannerSnack is an online tool that allows you to create watermark-free flash banners – without needing to know or understand Flash programming! Here’s some of BannerSnack’s features:

1. It contains tens of transitions, effects and filters that will enable you to easily create text and image animations.
2. It has editable banner templates.
3. It works like a presentation software.
4. No flash programming is required.
5. It works 100% online.

If any of you out there still have links to me under my old URL (www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com), I’d really appreciate it if you could change them to the base domain (www.obsidiandawn.com). Thanks so much!

This set of various photos of grass as transparent PNGs can be used in any program that will support *.PNG files. Photoshop, GIMP, PSP, and many more. These images average about 2500 pixels (square-ish) in size @ 300 dpi.

Included are various clumpings of grass, as well as a few blades of grass on their own. They all have a transparent background, and can be very easily copy/pasted into your own work. There is also a large grouping of the grass that I’ve already put together in various layers for you, for use as a foreground. You can use them on their own, layer them to give them a bit more depth, etc. etc.

Here’s a set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various grungy shapes intermingling with some pretty swirls. You’ll find shapes like a skull, butterfly, several “strips” of grunge, some circles, rectangles, corners, as well as some top and bottom frames or borders. They are all extremely high resolution, with an average size of about 2300 pixels.

Some of these are vectors, while others have some softer, grungy edges. This is a fairly large download. Enjoy!

Just a quick post to let you all know that I’ve done a review for Photoshop Support on Wacom’s newest tablet, the Intuos4.

Any of you that use tablets out there should really check out my review – and then go buy yourself an Intuos4! It’s well worth the upgrade, moreso than any other time in Intuos history, I’d say.

You can check out my Intuos4 review for Photoshop Support here!

I probably should have chosen some different brushes for my very first contest. Something with glitter or swirls, perhaps, rather than the Tech & Gears brushes. As such, I’ve not gotten nearly as many entries as I would have liked. I’ll fix that for the next contest. But, in the meantime, here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll keep the contest open for one more week, and also let you all use the Gears Transparent PNGs, as well. You can enter as many times as you like. I’ll keep the entries up through next weekend, so you must submit it by Sunday, April 12th at midnight. Read more about the Obsidian Dawn’s Tech & Gears contest here!

A set of Photoshop & GIMP patterns composed of various stonework textures. The reference photos were taken from walls, but would certainly work equally well for stonework floors. These are all entirely seamless and extremely high resolution, with most of the images averaging around 3000 pixels in width.

These are mostly made up of the tan toned stones. If you’re looking for more tones, of the more gray variety, check out our Stonework PS Patterns. (There is no image pack available for this set yet, but it will be available under the images section soon!)