Today, we have a special treat for our readers: you can stream the new You Me At Six album, Hold Me Down, for free, right here. Yes, you heard correctly: it’s free. So click the little mp3-player there and start jamming. And then buy Hold Me Down so you can hear it the way it’s supposed to sound.

Assault's SS Amnesia put on one of these mockups

While browsing through Emptees a few days ago I came across a talk post about some new mockups. To my surprise, they were quite good–and free!

They were done with American Apparel shirts, in size XS by Tom Neal of Ctrl Alt Defeat Clothing. They’re a great set of mock ups and come with prepared backgrounds. If you need some mock ups to make your store look a bit more professional, these are the ones you want.

Download Tom Neal’s T-Shirt Mock Up Kit V2

Our newest set of brushes is here! I created a handful of various high resolution brushes of fire and flames that I didn’t end up using on a project, and thought it’d make for a great brush set. As always, it’s a free download. Unzip, and double click on the .abr file to install to Photoshop.

Download the Fire & Flame Assault Photoshop Brushes

I don’t ask anything in return except that you link back to my site, or you can support Assault BLOG by buying one of our exclusive designer graphic t-shirts in our online store.

Also don’t forget about our first photoshop grunge brush set which is still available for download. If you’d like to know how to make your own Photoshop brushes, I’ve written several tutorials including, “How to make your own photoshop brushes,” and “Adobe Photoshop brush dynamics“. Check em out, they’re in depth with screen captures of just about everything you need to get started making your own brushes in Photoshop.

MySpace Background Template

One of the items I struggled to get right with my brand more than the blog, more than the shirt designs, more than the online store, more than the SEO and link exchanging was the god damn Myspace. I don’t know why, but for some reason a staple of your brand besides a decent Twitter and blog presence is to have a Myspace page. Add us as a friend on Myspace, or at the very least checkout what your Myspace will look like if you start using this theme.

In all my years of web design and development I’ve never had anything be quite as big of a pain in the ass as a Myspace layout and getting it to look the way I wanted. After three different Myspace “resets” I think I’ve finally found one that helps get you back to a mildly respectable looking page.

Download Assault’s Myspace Reset

A few things you should note when editing this file for your Myspace:

• Colors need to be changed in several places
• No # signs are used in the color hex codes
• No Javascript allowed
• No CSS shorthand, you have to type it all out

Before Copying/Pasting the Myspace Reset CSS into your profile about me area, make sure to copy the URLs to your Add to Friends, Send Message, and any of the other links contained within your Contact box because it will be hidden by the CSS. I suggest making an image and using some sort of online image map tool, to apply your add to friends and contact links as appropriate as I have done.

Elements we will be hiding

1. Contact Information
2. MySpace URL
3. Blog Listing
4. Extended Network Box

Change Images

You can download the image I have used here for my layout to get an idea of where to position your background image. You will also need to upload your background to some remote third party website such as your own web host or your Flickr account. Make sure to change the background-image: url() to the url of your background image or else it will show my background and I’m sure you don’t want that. The first code block in the reset CSS contains the background-image URL you see below:

   body {
  font-size: 1px; line-height: 1px; font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', sans-serif;
  background-color:000000;
   background-image:url(http://www.assaultshirts.com/images/myspace_bg.jpg);
  background-attachment: none;
  background-position:center center;
  background-repeat:no-repeat;     }

Change Colors

I recommend going through and changing the colors in one batch find/replace because the colors show up in several places and it can be hard to keep track of the sheer number of CSS colors because of the strange organisation of the Myspace Layout.

About this theme

That’s it! Change the images, colors, add your own background, and contact information image map and you’re good to go! Best part about this freebie I’m giving away is that it still abides by the Myspace terms of use and shows the advertisements, and it doesn’t have any of the stupid  spam links you find on most themes. (Though it would be nice for you to at least add us as a friend)

Assault Photoshop Brush Set 1 (2mb .abr file)

From time to time I like to export my brushes to upload onto our webserver for backup. (We currently have several thousand custom Photoshop brushes in our library now) We’ve decided to release a few of these brushes at a time to the readers of the site for free!

To install the brush set simply double click on 08312008_assault_set1.abr file after it’s been downloaded and it will launch Photoshop and install the brushes to your brush palette. (To view the brushes hit the “b” key and right click anywhere on your canvas and scroll down the window. You should see the new brushes there)

Have your own brush sets? Know of another link I haven’t included? Post it in the comments!

Photoshop Brush Resources

• Deviant Art
• Brusheezy
• Photoshop Brush Dynamics Tutorial
• How to create your own Photoshop brushes

Want to design this t-shirt on your own? Download all the custom Photoshop shapes that I used to make this design. Double click on the .csh file and they’ll install themselves to your Photoshop custom shapes tool. (You can access this tool by right click on your canvas when using your custom shapes tool.)

All we ask is that you don’t design the exact same shirt and then try to sell them. if you do this Mr. 51% will have to hunt you down and do scary things to you.

To download the high resolution image of this shirt click here, or click here on my t-shirt SEO optimized link here which we will call the t-shirt design download green grunge free. (or you can click the image to the left.