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40+ Awesome Textured Icons

Gopal Raju — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:43:37 +0000

Once again, we’re back with a clean simple textured icon set, which could be very useful for any website or web application. This time we’re releasing it via InstantShift.

The set contains 40+ icons which includes 10 social network icons. Each icon comes in 32×32 size in PNG format. The vector PSD version has also been included in the zip file, which means you can scale up the icons to any size!

The set is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (Free for personal and commercial use)

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20 Semi-transparent Icons & 48 derivatives

Gopal Raju — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:08:06 +0000

This is the second version of our semi-transparent icon set released via the famous SixRevisions.

This icon set has 20 high quality semi-transparent glossy icons and 48 derivative icons. These icons can be even used as graphical elements on websites since the 512×512 version is included. Perfect for web designers and graphic designers.

Each icon comes in 6 different sizes (32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512) in PNG format and the pack is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License which means they are free for personal and commercial use.

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20 Semi-transparent Glossy Icons

Gopal Raju — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:40:04 +0000

Today, ProductiveDreams is back with a unique, high quality icon set. The icons are semi-transparent, glossy and can also be used as web graphics. Yes! a 512×512 version has been included in the package

Available Sizes: 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512.

And here goes a preview of all the icons.

This icon set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

And btw, version 2 is on the way…

UPDATE: Grab the second version of this icon set here.

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Welcome 2010 – A Free Wallpaper For Your Desktop & Iphone

Gopal Raju — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:27:20 +0000

I know its late for a New Year gift, but better late than never. This wallpaper is for all my readers who have always been supporting, motivating and encouraging me throughout the years.

This was created digitally using Fireworks and Photoshop and is something along the lines of the design of IndoFolio. I hope it will enrich your desktop. Its available for 1024×768 (standard) and 1280×800 (wide) resolutions. An Iphone version has been included as well.

The wallpaper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License and mainly should not be used for print.

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Wishing you all a prosperous and productive year ahead!

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Announcing the launch of IndoFolio

Gopal Raju — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:33:47 +0000

Good News! I’ve quit my day job to get to do the things I enjoy doing very much on the internet! Yes, that means I’ll be spending more time on ProductiveDreams and taking up freelance projects at the same time. As a first step, I am launching my portfolio – Indofolio.com

In this post I would like to give you a brief overview on IndoFolio and its design.

Why IndoFolio?

I wanted to use a domain name that makes it clear that I am from India and Indo is the most popular prefix used to indicate India. My second requirement was to include “folio” which makes it obvious that this is my portfolio.

Concept behind the design

My name “Gopal” is another manifestation of Krishna who was one of the incarnations/avatars of Lord Vishnu according to Hindu mythology. This inspired me to include other avatars of Lord Vishnu as well. Nothing religious! This was just an attempt to come up with a unique design concept.

Just to let you know, I am a great fan of Russian Art! and was very concerned about achieving an Indo-Russian effect. Though it took me some time playing with Fireworks and Photoshop, I’m happy with the final output.

Softwares Used

The initial draft of IndoFolio was created using Fireworks and was purely vector. Then I took it to photoshop, to burn and dodge a few areas which helped me achieve the “painting” effect. I believe Photoshop gives more control when it comes to burning and dodging.

In the following images, you can compare the Fireworks and Photoshop version of the avatars. I’ve given a one line description about each avatar, for those who are curious

Matsya – The Fish Incarnation is the first one among all.

Kurma- Lord Vishu assumed the form of a tortoise for this avatar.

Krishna (aka Gopal) is considered to be the 8th avatar.

Varaha- The Boar, is one of the interesting incarnations which appeared in order to defeat a demon.

and finallyVamana, the dwarf brahmin.

These are just 5 of the 10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu.

Image Optimization

Optimizing the images was a challenge as I had to maintain the image quality. Transparency being a major thing to consider, I had to convert most of the images to 24bit PNGs. I used some online image optimizers like PNGCrush to reduce the file size.

HTML/CSS Development

This was really challenging as my goal was to create a single page website using these avatars. I planned to use JQuery to make the site more lively, different and user friendly. Using JQuery intensely for a single page website is no sin

After doing some research, I decided go ahead with horizontal parallax. For more details about Parallax check out my previous blog post (I created this post while working on IndoFolio).

So that’s it! I would be glad to hear your comments (good or bad) on IndoFolio.

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Free Hand-Drawn Illustrations!

Gopal Raju — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:32:13 +0000

Here goes something different for my dear readers A free hand drawn illustration set. Yes, my fourth contribution to SmashingMagazine. This set contains 18 hand drawn illustrations which could be useful especially for designers who follow the hand-drawing trend.

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Hand Drawn Illustrations by Gopal Raju – ProductiveDreams

Where should I use these illustrations?

I have listed down a few websites that follow this trend.

1. Achstudio

2. Chirag J Solanki

3. Deborah Cavenaugh

4. Hugs for Monsters

5. Miki Mottes

The illustrations in the set are purely vector, available in fireworks (png) format. The transparent PSD version has been included as well.

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