24 Stylish and Natural Photoshop Brush Collections Photoshop enables endless options for image creation, an invaluable tool for designers and digital artists. A great way to create a stylish natural look in website and print design, and in digital painting, is to use natural brushes. There are loads of natural brushes available from fellow designers on Deviant Art and across the Internet; many are free to download and use as long as the designer is credited and linked to. This post brings together 24 of the best natural brushes divided thematically, perfect resources for introducing the flourish of natural elements to your digital design work. 1. Mexican artist and designer Javierzhx offers a set of crisply realistic cloud formations in this set of brushes. 2. Another set of cloud brushes, this time a heavyweight high resolution set from designer Leboef. 3. Mila Vasileva designs and shares this set of high-resolution clouds. 4. Coby17’s cloud brushes were designed in Photoshop CS3 and offer 24 options in various resolutions. 5. 6. 7. 8.
40 Witty Campaign Posters for a Cause Non-profit organizations use posters to deliver a particular message. These help inform people about current issues, problems and even the possible consequences of their actions. With a sentence that contains strong words or images, these posters give more impact than common commercial posters. To give you an idea, here are 20 sample campaign posters to provoke your imagination. Enjoy! Wildlife is becoming harder to find in Vietnam. Winter. Who are the real monsters? When they speak, we listen. Shit is not a cool band. Say no to child labor. Can you treat yourself better than your doctor? Nothing we do will ever bring them back. Please don’t dive with white sharks. All under 25 who are sexually active should test for Chlamydia every year and avery time they change partner. For some people, life is that expensive. Preparing today reduces the consequences of disaster tomorrow. Two thirds of college students in Mississippi don’t smoke. Please clean up after your dog. One mistake is all it takes.
60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds FlyPaper Textures is the home of the finest and most exquisite artistic textures collections available. Their extensive library of textures, frames and overlays are ideal to create different textures and atmospheres for your artistic work. This set you are going to download now, is a sample of 8 high resolution images from their beautiful painterly and classic grunge paper backgrounds. You can use these free textures in both personal and commercial projects. But before doing so, please read FlyPaper Textures License here… Visit FlyPaper Textures and grab some wonderful artistic textures while you are there… 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box Advertisement Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from everyday life, such as hand-drawn elements, script fonts, pins, paper clips, organic textures and scrapbooks. That’s not a big surprise as they serve the function that faceless, shiny, glassy 3D-buttons completely fail to deliver: individuality and personality. “Personal” designs appear more familiar and more friendly. Used properly, such elements can give a human touch to design and communicate the content in a truly distinctive manner. However, apart from visual design elements, one can also get creative with the layout of the site – its structure and the way the information is presented and communicated. In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts that break the boring 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts. 20 × Getting Creative With CSS Pavel BubenPavel Buben uses a magazine cover-style layout for his one-page-site. It's done.
30 Free Seamless Background Textures I get a lot of requests to release more seamless textures here on L&T, so this set is for you guys. It includes a giant selection of thirty repeatable textures ranging from paper to fabric to subtle grunge and noise. Each one of them is fully tile-able and will work perfect for website background or pattern overlays in photoshop. The zip file includes each texture in both 1200px and 500px sizes as well as a Photoshop .PAT file for easy integration.
Creating Seamless Textures In Illustrator I think you’ll all agree that Illustrator is just plain awesome, and with the continual improvements we see with each new version, it keeps getting better and better. Previously, I created seamless textures for typography and seamless backgrounds for my web and illustration projects with Photoshop. But we’ve seen large improvements with the Appearance panel in more recent versions of Illustrator, so now I create these textures and backgrounds solely in Illustrator–it’s actually super easy! So in today’s tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps on how to create a variety of seamless textures and backgrounds all in Adobe Illustrator. Tutorial Details: Seamless Textures and Seamless Backgrounds Program : Adobe Illustrator CC (You should be able to create this tutorial in CS4+ but some of the tutorial images might look different.)Difficulty: Beginner/IntermediateTopics Covered: Appearance Panel, Effects, Pattern Fills, Graphic StylesEstimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes each Raster Effects
51 High Quality Free Texture Packs To Download Resources June 23, 2011 Use of texture in web design is extremely common. So every designer is loking for textures but they do not get all at one place so in this collection we have collected different types of textures like grunge, rust, watercolor, bokeh, leather, fabric, metal, natural, paper, graffiti and more. In this round-up we’ve collected 51 awesome free texture packs to freshen up your designs. Enjoy! Apple iOS Linen Texture Download Source 18 essential grunge textures Download Source 6 high quality seamless paper textures Download Source 10 High Resolution Cloud Textures Download Source 12 psychedelic stained paper textures Download Source Nine vignetted vintage paper textures Download Source 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures Download Source Colorful grunge textures vol-2 Download Source 10 free high res watercolor textures Download Source 10 High Resolution Grungy Surface Textures Download Source 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures Download Source Wallpaper Textures – 27 Free Images
Reclaimed wood headboard - Queen The free content provicded by this website is made possible by the following current sponsors. Thank you! 30 Free and Useful Scratch Textures For Designers If you are a web designer or a graphic designer textures are one the most important element for you.Textures are very useful and time saving design elements for designers.You can easily change the overall look of your designs using high quality textures. As usual we are again happy to share free texture collection with you.This time we bring together free scratch textures.If you want to add a grunge effect or even an old retro style effect to your designs then the below textures deserve to be in your texture library. You may also take a look at our past free texture collections; Sandstone Scratch Texture Source Scratched Copper 4 Texture Source Metal Scratch Texture Source Texture Texture Source Scratched Metal Texture Source Scratchy Metal Texture Source Red Bin Scratch Texture Source Scratched Metal 3 Texture Source Scratches Texture Source Green Boat Scratch Texture Source Rusty Scratches Texture Texture Source Scratch Texture Texture Source Scratch Paper Textures Pack Texture Source Slide Scratch Texture Age
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Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs Feb 25 2011 Every day we try our best to present to you some useful tips, dear reader, to inspire you with fresh ideas and to try out new things. Today, we’ve prepared a nice collection of free texture packs that you just may have been looking for to freshen up your designs you’re working on. Enjoy! High Resolution Texture Pack 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures 9 High Resolution Metal Surface Textures Starry Textures 4 Free High Resolution Grunge Textures 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures 10 High Resolution Grungy Surface Textures 46 High-Quality Graffiti Textures High Resolution Fabric Texture Pack 6 High Resolution Sand and Seashell Textures 27 High Resolution Watercolor Textures 12 Free Grungy Bokeh Textures 27 High-Res Playdough Textures 8 High Resolution Screen Print Ready Textures 30 High-Res Foam Dot Textures 14 High Resolution Paper & Canvas Textures 12 High Resolution Denim Textures 11 Free High Resolution Fabric Textures 10 Free High Resolution Wood Textures Wood Textures (ik)
External Tip - 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials You Should See In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here I collected 10 great Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills. Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop Create Quick Particle Effect on Photo via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop Business Man – Awesome Black & White Tutorial Create A Human/Robot Hybrid In Photoshop Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster Design a Awesome Supernatural Dark Scene with Fiery Effect in Photoshop How to Create Cityscape Concept Art Create a Water Girl Photo Manipulation Mixing with Splatter Brushes in Photoshop Create a Nebula Cosmolady in Photoshop – Tutorial
New Free Textures for your Delight Having good resources is important to every single designer, and that is why we like to keep our readers filled with options when it comes to fonts, patterns and textures. Today we gather new free textures to back you up and keep your library fresh. From wood to paper, paint and much more, these textures will definitely be a good add to your resources. About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 296 shares Spring Up your Designs with Some Free Flower Textures Textures are a good way to add personality, depth and interest to a design. Read More 406 shares 25 Free Textures for your Delight Since here at WDL we believe it is our duty to keep our readers up to date with freebies and useful resources, we decided to gather a new round of free textures to spice up your library and give your designs a whole new look.