My Design is Beautifully Ripped Off

I was shocked knowing that one of my Photoshop freebies being hijacked by some other Bloggers for their own benefit. Since this was my first experience, I’m getting intense to find out how to prevent this issue.

You can tell how your work of art becomes popular using site tracker tool. As I’ve been checking my stat regularly, I found that, one of my Photoshop freebies gets good attention from some reader segment. I used “Round Corner Photoshop Brushes” as anchor text for every link related and image alt. I didn’t mean to search down for hijacking items on my design. I went to Google to find out how my blog post rank result in “Round Corner Photoshop Brushes” keywords. Sadly but true, I found 5 sites doing copyright violation on my design. They simply erased my watermark tagline on the preview image, and replaced it with their own logo, as if they have created it by themselves. No link back or attribution definitely, and they provide re-self-hosted link to download the file.

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Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs by Smashing Magazine

I agree when someone said that a design be always subjective for the viewers..none are bad..and to be inspiring, a design doesn't have to be complicated in visual look..since simple design can be inspiring as well when it is fitted gud with the viewers need.. :p don't you think??

Smashing Magazine is a well known site that provides you Design Showcase List for you. Their posts are awesome. Recently lots of visitor critizes & commented on the site new post which title Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs.

I think we all can become a good designer if we understand the esential rule of design critisism.

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Valey and 3D Digital Art Work as His Journey

Curently has a very good career as a 3D Computer Graphic Illustrator in Bali,
The company where he works now, deals primarily with interior designing. This is a very challenging job to Valey, since his company's clients came from different country abroad. So he must find a creative ideas as good as he could, to implement his art work to meet with the client's initial design. It's not that hard for Valey to finish his job, because somehow I found out later that his father is actually a painting artist. The sense of art, runs in his blood. His talent is surely no doubt at all.
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