I love stories about how Photoshop models how we see the world. When Photoshop crosses paths with a rumored new Apple product the influence and fun reaches a fever pitch just like it has with today’s new Apple tablet launch. The video below sums up the craziness in less than two minutes. The most interesting part to me is how close these Apple fan creation come to the real thing.

Iron Grunge has launched! Iron Grunge is actually two new products from PhotoshopIsland.com: Iron Grunge Font Family and the Iron Grunge 40 Photoshop Brushes. These products were created from the same grunge source and are designed to work together!

Iron Grunge Font Family Details: This font family is firmly based in the past with a modern sensibility. Iron Grunge is a bold, powerful, slab, serif font. If your design calls for grunge fonts but you want to avoid the problem where repeated letters have the exact same grunge application, then Iron Grunge is for you. What makes Iron Grunge special is styles ONE & TWO. You can easily mix these two fonts in your design for varied grunge look. This font family also includes a smooth version for those times when you want no grunge or want to apply your own grunge.

Iron Grunge 40 Photoshop Brushes Details: Grunge textures work perfect, bringing a strong rouged aged look to your designs. It can be used to accent your design or use in a subtle way to create interesting textures. Brushes compatible with Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, Photoshop Elements 2 and newer, GIMP 2.2.6+.

There are four new tutorial now available in support of our new Iron Grunge Font Family and Iron 40 Photoshop Brushes products to be released Tuesday January 26, 2010. The videos are produced in HD 720P so that you can see lots of detail if you want. The videos can be view right here at PhotoshopIsland.com, blip.tv and YouTube.com/PhotoshopIsland.

These tutorials work as a great way to learn about the products capabilities before you buy and help in getting the most from them once you do.

Iron Grunge will be available Tuesday January 26, 2010 for a special limited time discount. The discount is available to PhotoshopIsland.com members. Membership is FREE! Make sure you sign up today so that you'll receive the special discount. You can signup here!

I've been very busy putting  together samples of our new Iron Grunge Font & Brushes in use. This is one of my favorite parts of making a new product. I wanted to share my favorite sample so far. How about a cold bottle of Zombie Stout? And check out that logo created with Iron Grunge One & Two.

Coming soon to a desktop near you, Iron Grunge! We’re just wrapping up a few details before the release of our newest products: the Iron Grunge Font Family and the Iron Grunge 40 Photoshop Brushes. These new product have been a real labor of love in the works since before the launch of PhotoshopIsland.com. Now we are only a few days away. You can preview the new products by checking out the product galleries below (try the full screen view to see all the grungy details).

When we launch Iron Grunge there will be a very special limited time discount only provided to PhotoshopIsland.com members. If you are not a member make sure you sign up today so that you will receive the offer details. You can signup here!

Below is a cool video of John Knoll talking about the early development of Photoshop. It’s fun to her the story of the creation of Photoshop from one of it's creators. I still remember when I first heard of Photoshop. I saw the box for version 1.0 on the shelf of a company that did high-end image and design color correction as well as image manipulation. I was like "Hey what’s that?" Not long after that I got my hands on my own copy when it came bundled with a gray scale Apple scanner that my employer at the time had purchased. I was addicted from hello.

You may have not noticed the Product Catalog available for preview before you buy our newer products. You can preview these catalogues easily right in your web browser thanks to a great online service called Issuu. Each product has a link to the catalog preview or you can see our bookshelf below with links to out catalogues.

I just received my copy of Scott Kelby's new book "Photo Recipes Live - Behind the Scenes". This is not a true book review as I have not had a chance to get very far into the book and videos but I did want to comment on what I have found so far:

• First this book/dvd seems to be more for the beginner/intermediate DSLR user. I think most experienced pros will know most of this stuff.
• Second the book is thin but when complimented with the video tutorial there's a nice amount of info.
• Third, the included DVD is not for play on your TV, it's for use on a computer. The upside is if you have an ipod you can download the videos and watch them on the go. Or how about having them as handy reference while you are actually shooting. Now that’s a cool idea.

I'll comment again once I've had a chance to try out some of the behind the scenes lessons.

Wondering what PhotoshopIsland has to do with this book? I like to use actual images when I create brushes or other Photoshop design elements so getting a good image matters.

This is a very cool list from the Outlaw Design Blog. I found it while doing research on my very soon to be released grunge font. I was not researching styles, as that was determined several months. I was researching names for my new creation. I’ve settled on a name but I’ll save that for a future blog post. Make sure you sign up as aPhotoshopIsland.com member so that you will be notified when this new creation is available. And when you sign up you’ll get access to the members free stuff right away plus a 10% off discount code for any PhotoshopIsland.com purchases!

For now enjoy all these great fonts!

A new grunge font will be available soon! I created this font as a compliment to our 72 Distressed Paper Photoshop Brushes Volume 1 product. With countless hours invested over the holidays we're making nice progress. This will actually be a set of 3 fonts designed to work together to help create unique grunge designs. Check out the sample below. This will be available for commercial use at a price that's less expensive than similar fonts or font packages. Send any comments or thoughts you have. Check out our other Photoshop products too!

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