A long time ago, I was one of the eager souls awaiting the release of the original Pixelmator software. Well, that was, like I said, a long time ago and Pixelmator has made many strides since then. Currently at version 1.5, Pixelmator has too many improvements to list. Among the copious amount of new features is one of my favorites: Save for Web. Being a graphic designer and a blogger, this tool alone is a makes me like Pixelmator even more. I’ve got 3 licenses to give away. Read the rules after the jump, and good luck!

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Today we have a nice set of grunge fire safety mat textures, hopefully you can put them to good use. A big thanks goes out to Callum Chapman from CircleBox Blog for providing them, please make sure you head over there and check out his blog and say thanks! Enjoy!

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Last week I released a new version of Brush Pilot (1.0.4), so I decided to have another giveaway to start of this week. I’ve got another 3 copies of Brush Pilot to give away to 3 lucky commenters. Brush Pilot is a fast, easy to use Photoshop Brush previewer for Mac OS X. Read the rules after the jump and good luck!

Visit BrushPilotApp.com to download a demo and read more details.

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After browsing Flickr for some texture ideas, I ran across a cool “grunge frame” image and thought I would give it a whirl myself. Each of these textures are 4-5 images stacked on top of one another layers with various blending modes. I then just erased the center of certain layers, which gives the frame effect. I hope you find a good use for them, they were a blast to make. Enjoy!

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Have you ever plucked an image from the web and tried to edit it in Photoshop only to find annoying problems? It’s probably a .gif in Indexed color mode. For this quick example I’m using the MediaTemple ad in my sidebar, which happes to be an indexed .gif.

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