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A few months ago, I was playing around with various background extraction techniques in Photoshop. I gathered some stock photos of clouds, and attempted to separate them from other elements in the composition (particularly the sky). This wallpaper was the result of those trials. So far, I have been using it as my custom Twitter [...]

If I told you that selling things to the poor could relieve their poverty, what would you think? It seems counter-intuitive at first glance, but there is wisdom behind the idea. This past week, my friends and I have been reading Paul Polak’s book, “Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail”, and Polak [...]

I have a new tutorial up on PSDTUTS. It’s titled “Create the Classic Look of an Engraving in Photoshop”. It shows the absolute best and only way to automate the distinctive texture of engraving in Photoshop (I’m open to challenges!)
This tutorial could be used to make some really awesome fake money, or any number of [...]

On October 15th, Micronicon will be participating in Blog Action Day, a day when websites around the globe will be discussing a topic of importance. In 2007, that topic was “The Environment”, and this year the topic will be “Poverty”.
What is the Goal of Blog Action Day?
By focussing on important global issues such as poverty, [...]

I’ve received some requests for shadowless versions of the Social Charms pack. That was easy enough to accommodate, so now you will find that the download contains both shadowed and shadowless versions. Bon appetite!

Greetings and welcome to everyone visiting Micronicon through rocketdock.com! It’s a pleasure to have you here, especially since many of you collect or design your own dock icons. I’ve seen some inspiring designs released through rocketdock.com, so I hope that you will share your artistic skills with the newly-forming community here at Micronicon!
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The Social Charms, Icon Pack 1 is now available for download in the Icons Section.

Plaster a frame from the comic, “Next-Gen Pikmin” onto yer desktop. It’s all vectorized n’ pretty, with a region-specific buttocks vector in just the right region… I can tell you like it.

I am currently working diligently on a set of social site icons. They will be the first icons to be officially released on Micronicon. Hooray! The design has yet to be finalized, but as you can see from the preview image, I do have some sort of direction.