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Free Hi-Res Old Grunge Paper Textures | fudgegraphics | for love. It’s time for another high resolution texture set. This time it’s all about grunge paper textures taken from old books. As a bonus there’s even a nice book cover texture for you to download. Due to the enormous size (about 7MB each) of the textures I will not offer a single zip file containing all the images. Instead you have to individually download each texture by clicking on the preview. I hope you don’t mind. The files are perfect for both web and print jobs to your designs a more organic or vintage feel. Download Old Grunge Paper Textures: Color Scheme Designer 3. Time-Savers: 400+ Stock Images, Retro Vectors. Stock images can save you many hours of work on illustration and allow you to focus your attention on the important task of designing.

Finding the right vector for you, however, is a completely different matter, and can sometimes take just as long as creating a vector image yourself! That's why in this post we have rounded up a total of over 400 retro-themed vector images which you can use in your own projects. When creating larger vector illustrations such as t-shirt designs or large poster advertisements, it is sometimes beneficial to use stock images for part of the design, rather than creating something entirely from scratch. It can save many hours, giving you much more time to focus on more important aspects of the composition. A selection of free retro vector image packs, ranging from vintage boomboxes, floral background patterns and disco balls.

Boomboxes (21 Vectors) Floral Pattern (1 Vector) Retro Polka Dots (1 Vector) Pattern Set 1 (26 Vectors) Pattern Set 2 (20 Vectors) Photoshop Shortcuts – The Fun Way. In this post I’m going to focus on several Photoshop shortcuts that I tend to use more often than others. Sure I could sit here and spell out every single shortcut available, but why reinvent the wheel?

Here is a list of 10 of my favorite and most used Photoshop shortcuts delivered to you via Mr. Stickman. Zoom with scroll Sure you can use the zoom tool straight off of the tool bar, but there is a much easier way. Individual font scaling If you’re looking to change the individual font size for a particular word or word-phrase within the text of your Photoshop document, simply highlight the text and hold Ctrl + Shift while using the > or < key to change the size of the font in 2px increments. 100% zoom Often times when I’m working on a project, I’ll zoom in particularly close to handle detail-oriented aspects of the design.

Brush size I’m a fan of the brush tool, as most people are. Layer opacity The amount of transparency that a particular layer displays is know as it’s opacity. Super nudge. 18 Awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials | Design Shard.