Back to zero.

Posted: November 14, 2011 by Thia in News, Ramblings
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Oh my, if you’ve been following my FB page or Twitter then you’d know that my HD just crashed last week. I lost everything, including my most recent photography and illustration work that I had been working on for the past few weeks. Some clients work as well is gone!! I’m so sorry! This happened to me so often in the past two years, it’s what slowed me down by a lot. It’s so hard to restart again. Trying to remember what I’ve done – what I had.. Now my system is all brand new again, empty and has nothing. I’ve just installed Photoshop again, but hey… no sweet brushes that I made not long ago.. those awesome brushes and textures that I was going to share with my HGX members. The long hours I’ve spent illustrating some high quality prints that I also was planning to share on HGX. I literally cried when I lost them all.

How am I supposed to redo them? I don’t even remember exactly how they looked. So so frustrating.

I’m sorry for another slow down on the site, everyone. {Please know that I’m still here and trying my hardest to restart again.. I don’t want to stop and then disappear again like last time. I’m here to stay for good… so please don’t give up on me. I will bring this site back up with some new amazing stuff… I promise!

For now, thank you so much for supporting HG, my work and especially, me – you have no idea how much I appreciate you guys being around! I get so depressed when I don’t have much to update. Life is kicking me in the butt and it’s always hectic. But I really hope to have more energy this week to be creative and productive! December is coming, it means crazy time!! I so don’t look forward to it. It’s going to be good and yet stressful at the same time since I won’t have much time to work on the computer at all. :(

I love you guys!! I’ll be back with new stuff as soon as I can, k? Thank you for understanding!!

 

xoxoxo

~Thia

Free Patterns 2011-02

Posted: October 18, 2011 by Thia in Freebies, Patterns
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Hi all, another set of patterns, there are 37 patterns in the set. I hope you’ll like them! :)

Please click the image to download the set. (jpg formats are included)
If you download and use them, please link back to hybrid-genesis.com – it’s much appreciated!!! Thank you!

Free Patterns by Hybrid Genesis

Photoshop Patterns – 2011 (01)

Posted: October 13, 2011 by Thia in Freebies, Patterns
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Hi all!! Today I’m going to share a new set of Photoshop patterns. There are 11 patterns in the set, they were created in Photoshop CS3. I also included the individual .jpg image of the patterns in the set for those of you who don’t use CS3. I do have more than these 11 patterns, but for today, I’m sharing these first.. just because I’m so so tired. My eyes are closing as I’m typing this. -.- I haven’t been sleeping much in the past week due to some horrible stomach bugs that infected the whole family.. Kids have been sick and I’ve been staying up at nights cleaning the mess! Absolutely. Tired.

THANK YOU so much to those of you who commented on my last post! I really appreciated your suggestions and thoughts, Sere, Miz, Choua, icekraem, Tiffany, Coolceruleanblue, Chris and Lynn! *HUGS*

I hope you’ll like the new patterns. They are 500×500 pixels in dimensions, therefore they’re suitable for background prints.. I think!? I haven’t actually tested them yet, but just from looking at the previews if I set them up on an A4 paper in my Photoshop, they look good/large enough for you to print them for scrap-booking, maybe? ;)

Photoshop Patterns by Hybrid Genesis
Please click the image preview to download.
All I ask is, please link back to Hybrid Genesis if you use my work. I would so REALLY appreciate it!  *loves*

Another thing I’d like to ask…. Do you want to affiliate with HG? A link exchange, maybe? :) If you do, please drop me a line and we shall get linked! :P

Okay, I’m about to pass out now. I better sleep. Don’t forget to tweet my posts if you can, so others who didn’t know that I’m back would find me again. *aww shucks* Thank you for visiting and for using my work. If not for you, I would have given up on this site… Please know I appreciate each one of you for still visiting me!

Lots of love,

~Thia

Just another site rambling

Posted: October 6, 2011 by Thia in Ramblings
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Hey guys.. This is just a random post from me. I’ve been feeling ‘unsettled’ about how my site’s doing, now. I enjoy having this WP as the main CMS for the platform. But at the same time I’m feeling kind of restricted, somehow. I know for a fact that I won’t have time to design and code my own WP theme anytime soon. But outsourcing for free themes makes me feel ‘lost’ for some reason. It’s weird, because it’s not my own design, I feel like I’m not at home, you know?!

So there are a few things that I’d like to have your inputs for.. I do hope that you’ll help me by telling me what you honestly think is best for this site.

  • Do you like the current setup of this site? I mean, do you find using WordPress, HG is a much better site?
  • Do you prefer HG to have the old traditional setup, by putting everything on a different section consisting pages of goodies and I only update on the main page with whatever new I upload?
  • Should I just say screw site design and just keep up with the sharing of my resources??

If you do like HG to be in WP format, then I would keep it the way it is and will just have to look for a better theme as a layout. I am absolutely new to wordpress and I’m still experimenting with the different features that WP can have. I know that I won’t be designing my own theme anytime soon, though. I’ve tried doing it for the whole year, last year and I managed to make about 3 different themes and coded from scratch and I always ended up with feeling .. ‘omg I can’t be bothered with this‘ along the way.

If you have suggestions that would help me with this site, I would really appreciate it.

Lots of love from me, the lost designer for now…:P

~Thia

Photoshop Watercolor Brushes

Posted: October 4, 2011 by Thia in Freebies, Regular Brushes
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Hi everyone! Today I have 2 new sets of high quality Photoshop watercolor brushes for you to download and use. Just to let you know that I’m making all of my resources in large sizes from now on, so they’re suitable not only for web graphics but it’s also suitable for any other offline publications, therefore please be aware that the sizes are larger than my old resources… …. ….

Free Photoshop Watercolor Brushes

Free Photoshop Brushes by Hybrid Genesis

One more set under the cut.. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Posted: September 30, 2011 by Thia in Freebies, Regular Brushes
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Free Photoshop grunge brushes. There are 6 brushes in this set, all of them are larger than 2000px (a big file). They are suitable for web as well as print work. I created them in Photoshop CS3 and I also included the stamps (.jpg images) of the brushes in the zip file for anyone who doesn’t use Photoshop or using the earlier versions. If you have any feedback, I’d love to hear it!

I still have many more brushes to share, but it takes me ages to set them up since I’m trying to organize everything better this time around. It doesn’t help, though, that I keep creating and experimenting more with the brushes that I already have. Just this week alone my brushes palette reached hundreds of MB in size just because I keep making new ones. O.O I know, right?!  Call me obsessed! Anyways, here it is, click the image to download it – it’s huge, so please make sure you have good connection. LOL.

Free Photoshop Grunge Brushes by Hybrid Genesis

Hybrid Genesis Photoshop Brushes

Thanks so much, everyone. I will be back with more soon!!

 

xoxoxo
~Thia

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