Archive for the ‘Freebies’ Category
Paper will never leave our lives, no matter how digitized we get. Its potential for beauty is celebrated in many designs today, whether in textures, layers, or other additional effects.
These following paper textures and patterns range from the simple to the exquisite, from the crumpled and colored to the wrinkled, faded and nostalgic. Download as many of them as you wish, and we hope you are able to use them in some beautiful paper-inspired designs!
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Add the right kind of distressed, worn-out feel you need for your designs with these free grunge texture sets. Some of these textures are available under Creative Commons licenses, so please read the information about the sets before downloading. Let us know your favorites out of these resources in the comments!
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Finding the appropriate font for your design purpose is important. Simple designs can become extraordinary with the correct font choice. Though a wide variety of fonts are available to download online, there is always a demand for fresh varieties to express text or copy in a brand new way.
With today’s post of 33 Fresh and Cool Fonts for Designers, we bring you a collection of fresh and trendy fonts you can download for free. Breathe life into your design’s copy with these unique font faces. Enjoy!
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Great grunge designs create beauty out of the seemingly ugly. Scratches, rust, dust and trash become part of cool, trendy, and high-impact designs. Being designers, our ability to make something remarkable out of elements like these can inspire us to push our limits further, since we know that we can transform objects so radically through our art and skill.
Celebrate great grunge design and your art by using these dirty, grungy wallpapers as the source of your daily inspiration!
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Tech interface brushes can save you a lot of time from creating every single futuristic-looking detail on your own. Whether you’re making the blueprint of a hi-tech alien citadel or simply want to add a cool, techy feel to your design, these tech brushes often have the basics of what you need, from various machine-like shapes and lines to piles of Matrix-inspired code.
If you manage to create your own techie design out of these brushes, we’d love for you to share them with us in the comments!
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Your Twitter account may be a powerful medium to interact with your audience, but you’re missing out if your site visitors keep ignoring your Twitter icon! Make sure you’re getting all the followers you should by getting a Twitter icon that’s creative, original, and delightful. You’re spoiled for choice in this Huge Collection of Free Twitter Icons, so get your favorite and win new followers through the impact of your new icon’s design!
(There’s also a custom Tweetdeck icon set in here, for days when you need motivation to tweet yourself.)
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Paint has been one of the most used mediums for creating artwork since the humble beginnings of human creativity. Now that we use computers to create designs, we have more control over the look of each painted stroke on the canvas than ever.
With an eclectic variety of splatters, strokes, swipes, and colors, this next post brings you 31 Sets of Free Photoshop Paint Brushes that can be downloaded completely free of charge. Get a bunch of them right away, and let them help you start working on your next paint-inspired design!
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Rust often signifies age and dirt that others may not want to have in their work. With designers, however, rust is viewed in a different aspect. Most especially if the rustiness can be used or applied as material for design projects, depending on its style and the projects’ goals.
A Collection of Rusted Textures is compiled in this next post as a cool resource for designers of all ages. Feel free to download the texture of your choice and create amazing designs with these resources. Some of these images are under Creative Commons Licenses so make sure to check the original sources about the agreements. Have fun!
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Textures are one of the most used resources in making great designs. They can accentuate your images to better portray the feel of the design you’re aiming for. Vintage textures, for instance, can add a classic or nostalgic touch to your work.
Here at You the Designer, you need not blast to the past to get this brilliant effect. This Compilation of Vintage Textures for Designers features resources you can download for free. Make sure you read and follow the terms set by their owners, and enjoy this latest set of freebies with your other designer friends!
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Photoshop Actions let you apply multiple automated processes on as many images you need, all in one go. This makes them godsends for batch processing, as you can save a lot of time and effort by using them instead of editing each image manually.
Since we’re always out to give helpful tips and techniques to all designers, we’ve come up with 40 Real Time Save Photoshop Actions that you can download for free. I hope you find these actions extremely useful the next time you work in Photoshop, and help you create new cool effects without breaking a sweat!
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