Winter Wonders Freebie Party

It's party time again! ReadingDragon & Friends' blog proudly presents Winter Wonders 2009. Some very nice items will be coming along, so don't miss a minute. Invite a friend or two if you know anyone that enjoys freebies. There will be a mix of 2D and 3D items again. :)

Vendors, please clean up after yourselves!

Wow... I'm usually pretty good about installing Poser products after purchasing (it's usually getting around to using them in a scene that takes me forever). Lately, I've been in a mood and they sort of stacked up on me. I've been working on installing stuff the last few evenings. I really have to say, after sitting here spending so long checking and installing purchases... I'm annoyed at some of my favorite vendors. Not because of anything wrong with the products, because I haven't tested them yet... But because of how some of them are packaged. There were a lot of those Thumb.db files in the installers and a few Paint Shop Pro Browser files. Now having to clean up after people when downloading quality freebies is one thing. Hey, they're free, so if I have to delete a few trash files, I'm not going to bitch too much... However, having to delete other peoples' garbage out of installers that I've paid for... that's another thing entirely. I shouldn't have to pay to delete other peoples' junk files. Basically, I ain't your mama and I don't want to chase after you with a virtual broom, especially if I've paid good money to use your product(s). Period. In my opinion, the Poser store fronts should make vendors delete these--and other--junk files out of final their product installers. The customer should never have to clean up after a merchant or a store front. In fact, it's very easy to disable the creation of these particular files all together if said vendors and marketplaces don't want to take the responsibility to delete files from individual product packages.

Disable and Prevent Thumbnail Caching (Thumb.db)

Disable Paint Shop Pro Browser Files

Clean installers would make me a happier customer and I'd be more likely to be a repeat customer. Being a happier customer means I might actually get around to using those shiny, newly-installed products (i.e.to show them off) sooner too. :)

Itsy Bitsy Witch Freebie

I was going through some files the other day and found some pretty cute Halloween .pngs. These were rendered way, way back in September 2007. Although I'm not sure how useful they'll be to anyone since they're so old, I thought I'd upload and offer them here.


There are twelve images in the zip, not just the three you see in the official promo. For a peek at everything included in the zip file, click here. To download the zip file, click here. The images in this pack may be used for commercial projects, please just follow the terms in the enclosed readme file.

Special thanks to ReadingDragon for the big preview containing all images.

Isn't it cool...? Part 2...

ReadingDragon did it again. She made me another great tag. This time, she used one of my vampy Gumdrop images, Luna's bat brushes, and Papermoon's warped text idea.


She's really making some neat tags using our Halloween party goodies! I love this tag.

Isn't it cool...?

...when you share goodies and see them being enjoyed? I contributed some freebies to my friends' Halloween party, the Countdown to October. ReadingDragon recently had some time to play and she made a couple of tags for me! :) Check 'em out; she does great work!

I absolutely love the attitude on the latter one. Kit surely believes she's too cute to be tricked. LOL

Have *you* joined the party yet?

It's beginning to look a bit spooky at ReadingDragon & Friends' Blog. So far, we've had quite a selection of stuff for you: backgrounds, brushes, gradients, png and psd images, Poser-related goodies, and more. So whether you're a Paint Shop Pro user, a Photoshop user, or a Poser user, there's something for you. We've been having an early Halloween freebie party since the 17th. We're on day 10. There's still time to join us in our Countdown to October!

Countdown to October

My friends and I are having a public pre-Halloween Bash. There's lots of freebies for everyone, whether your interests are 2D or 3D. The pary is being hosted at ReadingDragon's Lair.

Click here to go to the party.

ReadingDragon's site also has a small, quiet message board if you're looking for a nice place to discuss PSP, Poser, and hang out.

I'm bored, so how about a freebie?

I'm trying to go through files and sort them out, burn the keepers to backup... Doesn't sound too bad, right? Well... Considering I've been trying to get this done for months, it's pretty bad. Seriously! Every time I get really going on getting the job done, something comes up: family emergencies, I get sick, cd burner starts acting up... If I'm entirely honest, yes, some days I just feel lazy and don't want to think about it. LOL

I was going through a folder and found a few .png renders of one of my favorite figures, Rosy Cheeks Lina. I thought I'd offer them as a freebie here. Commercial use is fine, just be sure read to the enclosed "readme" text file. Click the image to see the full preview.


Download "Leisure Lina" freebie here.

Going to give this blogging thing a try

For better or worse, I'm going to give this blogging thing a try. I have no idea what I'll write about yet... But maybe the journey will be fun. I never thought I'd be a graphics-aholic (Paint Shop Pro and Poser), either... In fact, when we got our first computer, I was pretty computer illiterate, but I've come a long way since then. So who knows where this blog thing will lead... Maybe it'll be just a way to decompress and unwind and no one will read it. Maybe I'll make a few new friends and have a lot of fun too. Only time will tell.