Harvest Moon's "Compass Roses" Copyright Tracey Shirkey aka Harvest Moon June 2010 Tracey Shirkey Compass roses or wind roses were used by ancient mapmakers to mark cardinal and wind directions on early maps and charts. Still in use today, they are found on GPS units, nautical charts and by meteorologists. Ancient Romans used a twelve point star, while during the Middle Ages a 16 point star was used by european sailors. Early compasses were very ornate and often used a fleur de lies to indicate north leading to the name compass rose or wind rose. Compass roses have become popular in everything from quilts, floor inlays, fountains, literature and even a major league baseball team. These 12 compass roses range from simple to complex designs in a large range of materials to fill in any decorative need. At 300 dpi on a transparent background with no drop shadows, these large high resolution images are perfect for both print and web applications. Please see readme file for exact sizes. The background in the promotional images is not included. This product may be used for commercial projects. Photoshop or any graphics program that can open psd file formats. All of the content in this package was created by Tracey Shirkey aka Harvest Moon, and may include derivatives of the following Vendor/Merchant resources: "Metal, Leather, Iridescent & Glass Styles" Dream Warrior Renderosity "Stoned" Jaguar Woman Renderosity "Funky Metals" -dp- Renderosity "Jeweled Styles" Antje Renderosity "World Matters, Marbles Vol. 2" Renderosity "24 Gothic Display Fonts" Dover Publishing "5DS Royalty 2 - Indulgence" Renderosity "OVAL FRAMES & BORDERS" DAN SOLO Dover Publishing "1100 DEC FRENCH IRONWORK DESIGNS" DENONVILLIERS CO. Dover Publishing "162 TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY DESIGH FOR STAINED GLASS" J WALLACH Dover Publishing "TREASURY OF DESIGN FOR ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN" GREGORY MIROW Dover Publishing "1500 DECORATIVE ORNAMENTS" Dover Publishing "BIG BOOK OF GRAPHIC DESIGNS AND DEVICES" Dover Publishing "PUGINS GOTHIC ORNAMENT" AC PUGIN Dover Publishing "WIZARDS AND DRAGONS TATTOO FLASH" ALAN WELLER Dover Publishing "HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT" FRANZ MEYER Dover Publishing No third party files are need for the product to function. Use an unzipping program to open files and place them in a folder of your choice. Files included: HMCompassRoses1.zip HMCompassRosesreadme.txt license.txt HMCompassRoses-1.psd (1462x1440 pixels) HMCompassRoses-2.psd (1070x1637 pixels) HMCompassRoses-3.psd (931x1268 pixels) HMCompassRoses-4.psd (1285x1483 pixels) HMCompassRoses-5.psd (1429x1440 pixels) HMCompassRoses-6.psd (1500x1500 pixels) HMCompassRoses2.zip HMCompassRosesreadme.txt license.txt HMCompassRoses-7.psd (1071x1228 pixels) HMCompassRoses-8.psd (1446x1425 pixels) HMCompassRoses-9.psd (1383x1432 pixels) HMCompassRoses-10.psd (1150x1500 pixels) HMCompassRoses-11.psd (1102x1691 pixels) HMCompassRoses-12.psd (1425x1390 pixels)