Awesome Freebies: 500+ of The Best Photoshop Patterns Free stuff is always popular, and this time it’s really useful as well. You may be quite familiar with a lot of the great features of Photoshop, but have you truly used the great advantages given by using patterns? These can serve as backgrounds for any design and you wont have to spend a lot of time making them. We’ve put together this huge collection of free patterns for you, and tried to cover all sorts of themes and colors for you to have a complete set for your designers toolbox. Why spend hours to make a carbon-fiber, rock or floral pattern if there’s already a perfect one out there? Enjoy! Natural beige patterns Grungy natural beige Tileable basket weave Vintage pea green Spiderman Grungy vintage dots Grungy teal Textured stripes Stripes by Peter Plastic Stripe patterns 2 Ali 40 Seamless patterns (set 1 ) Dots n circles Vintage textile Flowers patters Midnight blue Retro grunge abstract maze Seamless splatter Basic elements Greyscale natural grunge Tileable whitewashed grunge Grungy abstract squares
85 Free High Quality Silhouette Sets Initially silhouette was applied on portraits or pictorial which were be used for thin black card. But nowadays, we can easily find silhouette images in many media forms like artworks, illustration, photography, movies, graphic design or even fashion and fitness. Modern designers use silhouette to create dramatic effect in many art works because silhouette emphasizes the outline and view of an object. This week, we’ve managed to compiled 85 free high quality silhouette sets to speed up your designing job. People Businessmen Silhouettes Pack 01 (12 shapes) Businessmen Silhouettes Pack 02 (12 shapes) Business People Pack 03 (41 shapes) Business People Pack 04 (40 shapes) His Res Male Silhouettes (22 shapes) Businesswomen Pack 02 (24 shapes) Businesswomen Pack 01 (23 shapes) Sexy Girls (212 shapes) Female Silhouettes (15 shapes) Hi Res Female Silhouettes (24 shapes) Stock Girls (8 shapes) Dancing Girls (40 shapes) Anime Girls (600 shapes) Anime Girls (600++ shapes) Band (Music) (7 shapes) Animal Plants
30 Creative QR code business cards There is a lot of buzz around QR codes at the moment, so we thought we would take a look at some of the most creative and stunning QR code business cards on the web. We love QR codes as they connect offline and online while challenging traditional design at the same time. First of all, in case you have been living under a rock, let’s answer the obvious question. What the hell is a QR code?! A quick response (QR) code is a two dimensional code that can be scanned and read by smartphone cameras to transfer information. The information can then be encoded to text, add a vCard contact, open a URL or much more. So, by placing them on a business card, you can digitally pass on your contact details, direct people to a website, send them to a Flickr photo set or Facebook fan page or offer a special discount etc. Hopefully the examples below will help to inspire you on how QR codes can be incorporated creatively in your designs. Shelby Montross QR Code Letterpress Nightshade Labs Wanda Digital Reblis
800+ Great Tech Brushes for Photoshop Sep 10 2010 Working on a Futuristic Design on a graphics or web design in Photoshop mostly requires more tech feeling. Using circuits,linings,wiring or even blueprints could help achieve a better futuristic results but will take time doing all the details needed. To work more with ease and save time, why not use brushes instead? A set of 23 Brushes.Compatible in Photoshop 7 +, Photoshop Elements 2+, GIMP 2.2.6+. A set 200 tech brushes 100+ brushes for Photoshop 6+ A set of 15 tech brushes. 12 Tech Brushes in a set 8 Tech Brushes in a set 15 brushes in a set 15 cool tech brushes for enjoyment. 25 Tech Brushes in a set 30 tech brushes are included in this set, 5 circle brushes are added along with it. 56 Tech Brushes in a set 26 brushes, made in photoshop 7.0 Almost 20+ Tech Brushes on a set 11 Tech Brush on a set 50 Tech Brushes in various sizes. This is a pack of high resolution brushes, and they are really big, 1500×2500 pixels! 18 brushes compatable with photoshop 7 and up Cool Tech Brushes 11 Brushes
2000 Absolutely Free Textures 17 scratched and scraped textures grab bag 40 random free textures 14 free high res slate textures Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 1 (50) Aqueous Sun Texture Pack Volume 2 (50) Aqueous Sun Presents Rust v.01 (28) Beautiful Textures On Black Backgrounds (22) rust textures (5) victorian dreams texture pack (10) Dreamy Bokeh Textures (4) Glitter Bokeh Texture Pack (33) 20 grungy dirty wood textures tree bark 10 free high res textures 9 colorful rust textures Wood Panels Texture Set (9) turn back time texture pack (5) Vintage II Texture Pack (6) Rust ‘n Such Textures (10) textures (5) Folds: Texture Pack (8) Freebie: Texture Pack 4 – Watercolours (10) Metal Texture Pack – 47 Free Images Brick & Stone: Texture Pack (24) 17 rock and concrete textures 25 subtle and light grunge textures 8 re-stained paper textures 28 High-Res Vintage Postal Textures Old Leather Textures (5) 5 colored grungy bokeh textures 15 High-Res Lens Flare Textures 27 High-Res Fabric Fold Textures out of focus 30 free bokeh textures Bokeh Pack (22)
950+ Photoshop Tutorials To Keep Your Skillset Updated I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know I love writing them too. Well in this post I have taken my time to roundup some Photoshop Tutorials and some Photoshop Roundups that I think is valid to be featured in this post. I know quite a few people are going to love me for this, but let’s keep it professional. If you think that I was kidding about the title, well then you’re making a mistake, there is really 1000 tutorials in this post. I hope you guys enjoy the post and the resources. Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement Source Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork Source Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect Source Logo Design Tips: Letterspacing & Typefaces Source Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights Source Create a Grunge Snowboard Poster for the Winter Olympics – Photoshop Tutorial Source 60 Tutorials Creating High Quality Design Icons Source 31 Outstanding Logo Tutorials Source 20 Amazing Tutorials to Help you Make Icons Source 20 Tutorials for Creating HDR Images
Free Photoshop Brushes downloads and Photoshop Tutorials .:FreeJPG - Fotografias digitales gratis - Free Digital Photos 50 Fresh Free Fonts of 2010 Though there's a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an' awesome way. Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it's possible to find the appropriate font that's free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free. Today's round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. We've managed to gather a collection of 50 novelty styled free fonts which you can instantly download and use to add a powerful impact for your designs. Geomancy Kilogram Tribbon Quadranta Adec Teardrop St Marie Dekar Code Cube Piron Glide Planer Paranoid Circled St Ryde Danger Pincoyablack New Garden Titillium Text Sylar Scriber Mentone Circula Sansation LT Oksana Font V4.0 Lintel Frgmnt Amsterdam Sol Pro Zag
500+ Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Watercolor effects are very popular in web and graphic design right now. Achieving an impressive look can be much easier if you have the right brushes to create the watercolor effect. In this post we’ll feature the best brush sets of this kind. Watercolor Brushes: Watercolor Brushes (20 brushes) Splatter Watercolor Brushes (32 brushes) High Res Watercolor Brushes (8 brushes) High Res Watercolor Brushes (5 brushes) Soft Watercolor Brushes (8 brushes) High Res Watercolor Brushes (18 brushes) High Res Watercolor Brushes Set II (20 brushes) Grungy Watercolor Brushes (10 brushes) High Res Watercolour Brushes (6 brushes) Watercolour Stroke Brushes (4 brushes) Messy Watercolour Brushes (12 brushes) Watercolor Brushes Set 1 (26 brushes) Watercolor Brushes Set 2 (25 brushes) Watercolour Stroke Brushes (14 brushes) High Res Watercolour Brushes Set 1 (7 brushes) High Res Watercolour Brushes Set 2 (7 brushes) Watercolor Smudge Brushes (14 brushes)
15 Places To Download Free High Quality Stock Photos There are many free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could. I found 15 good, solid resources out there. Royalty Free does not mean the images are free; it means that you don’t need to pay the photographer a royalty each time you use the image. Today I am going to share 15 websites where you can download free stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop or simply an illustration for your blog. Free stock nature photography. This site is a community for travel photographers. This is a huge resource of over3 million photos! This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Stockvault is a very classy, modern site with thousands of images and some Photoshop tutorials. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos. All the photos are free to use. Related Posts:
Typography Deconstructed | A comprehensive guide to the anatomy of type. 200+ Ultimate Collection of Photoshop Plugins Photoshop is a powerful image editing software which is very useful for web designers and photographers to create desired effects in the images. But sometimes it’s difficult to perform certain tasks manually in photoshop. Once there was a belief that only designers who have mastered photoshop can create special effects on photographs or images. Photoshop Plugins are actually add-ons to the main program which helps to attain additional image effects or performing tasks that are impossible or hard to fulfill using Adobe Photoshop alone. In this post , I would like to share more than 200 photoshop plugins which are available for free. Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. Jama 3D is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. Lattice Composer is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. This plugin helps to control the light exposure and lets designers to create stunning effects with their images.