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40+ Various High Quality Free Paper Patterns and Textures

ronald — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:58 +0000

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!

Crumpled Paper Texture for Layers

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Dark Crumpled Paper Texture

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Schamka

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Old Paper Texture

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Paper II

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Brown Paper 10

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Old paper 27 stock

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Untitled Texture CXXXXXXXXXVII

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Wheatfields

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Rainbow Paper Texture

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Squared Graph Paper

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Paper Texture 12

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Brown Paper 04

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Wrinkled Paper Texture 06

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Cleanzor Texture 122

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Floral Inclusion Mulberry Paper

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Free Parchment Texture

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Wrinkled Paper Texture 19

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Yummy Cotton Paper

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Free Texture #146

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Paper Texture

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White Crumbled Paper Texture

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Grungy Paper Texture V.11

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Free High Res Texture 394

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Old Paper Texture

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Parchment Paper Texture

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Texture: Notebook Paper 3

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Crumpled White Paper Texture

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Lines Paper

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Dirty Paper Texture

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Paper Texture-Crumpled 5

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Wrinkled Paper Texture 21

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Paper Texture-Crumpled 2

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Paper Texture-Crumpled 4

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Paper Texture-Crumpled 8

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Old Paper 33 Stock

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Old Paper Texture Huge 01

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Old Paper 41 Stock

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Handmade Mulberry Paper

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cleanzor Texture 183

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Watercolor Paper-Texture

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Warm Desire #1

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Yellow Notebook Paper

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A Compilation of Various Grunge Texture Sets

ronald — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:06:12 +0000

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!

Grunge Nebulae Textures

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Free Texture Tuesday: Grunge Mats

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20 Free Hi-Res Yellow Grunge Concrete Textures

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20 Simple & Subtle Grunge Textures

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20 Free Original Hi-Res Grunge Stained Paper Textures

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Grunge Bricks

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Grunge Paper Textures

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20 Grungy, Dirty Wood Textures

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11 Old and Grungy Film Textures

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White and Black Grunge

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Whitewashed Grunge Textures

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25 Subtle and Light Grunge Textures

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Colored Dark Grunge

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vintage grunge textures

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7 Blue Grungy Paper Textures

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Grunge Textures, Set 2

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11 Beautiful and Colorful Grunge Textures

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Grunge Background Textures

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5 Delicate Grunge Textures

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Grunge Cracks

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05 Large Paper Grunge Textures

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Seven Striking Orange Grunge Textures

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Natural Grunge Textures

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Grungy Textures

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Simple Grunge

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color grunge textures

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Scraped Grunge

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5 Light and Grungy Paper Textures

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7 XL grunge textures

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5 Large Grunge Textures

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Subtle Grunge

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Grunge II Texture Pack

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Grunge Frames

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Black and White Grunge

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Love grunge? You the Designer does too. Also check out our previous grunge-themed roundups of brushes, vector packs, fonts and desktop wallpaper, as well as a grunge type Photoshop tutorial written by Adam Woodhouse.

33 Fresh and Cool Fonts for Designers

ronald — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:55:01 +0000

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!

Nobile Font

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Arcus Font

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Fracmetrica Font

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Free Font Two One

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Qub Font

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Age Free Font

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Megapolis Font

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Section Font

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Modo Font

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Musa Ornata

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Piron Free Ront

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Code Free Ront

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Acid Type Font

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Sansation Font

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Zero One Base Font

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Chunk Five Font

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Val Stencil Font

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Amperisk Font

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Code Font

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Q Section Font

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Sumkin Typeface Font

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Popu Font

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Laconic Font

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Merge Font

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Oblik Serif Font

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Dekar Free Font

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Lobster Font

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Bebas Font

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Patagonia Font

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Saf Free Font

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Q H Font

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Tertre Font

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Glide Font

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A Round-Up of Free Dirty Grunge Wallpapers for Your Desktop

ronald — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:24:19 +0000

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!

re-GRUNGE

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Skull wallpaper

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Glowing Grunge

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BFT Grunge

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Grunge

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Grungy Deadmau5 Wallpaper

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Abstract Grunge

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Underground grunge

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CMYK

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Steampunk Wallpaper

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Grunge

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I want to believe

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My Time Of Death Wallpaper

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i regret nothing.

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There will be grunge

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Background – Grunge

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Bushido

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grunge_garden

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Blue Grunge

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Grunge Balls wallpaper

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Crow Wallpaper

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Feudal

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Grunge Wallpaper I

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DOUBLETWO STUDIOS

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Firebird

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Grunge Brushes Wallpaper

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HD Grunge Skull Wallpaper v.2

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Retro Grunge

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Accidentally In Grunge

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grunge speaker

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White Grunge Star Background

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Grunge

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Grunge Stripes

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30 Sets of Free Tech Interface Brushes for Photoshop

ronald — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:20:03 +0000

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!

Tech B1

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Technical Brushset 1

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AuroraBrush Tech Set 01

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BB 200 Tech Brushes Vol 2

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Leiyla Tech Brushes Pack 7

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Tecko

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Tech Brushes

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High Tech Brushes

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Blue Print Brushes

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Iron Designs Tech1

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Tech Brushes for You

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Tech Brushes

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Z Design Tech Brushes Set V2

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Brushset Advanced Tech

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Tech Brushes

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Tech Brush

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Cyber brushes

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Big Brushes 200 Tech Brushes

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Cryingsouls Tech 3

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Ultratech Brushes

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245 2Bit Twilight

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Tech Brush Set V2

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Midnight City Vector Brushes

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Z Design Tech Brushes Set v5

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Tech 01

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Tech Brush Pack

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Basic Tech Brushes

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Tech Karma

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Corrupt Tech Pack 2

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Tech Brushes V

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A Huge Collection of Free Twitter Icons

ronald — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:17:47 +0000

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.)

Free Icons 6 Adorable Twitter Icon Pack

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Twitter Vector Icons Massive Icon Set

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Free PSDS Give Away High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

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Freebie Twitter Icons Illustration

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Twitter Bird Vector Icon Set

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Tweeties a Free Twitter Icon Set

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Twitter Icons Download

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22 Cute Twitter Birds Set

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Twitter Icon Pack

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Free Twitter Icons for All

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Super Twitter

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Free Twitter Graphics

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Twitter Icons Tweet

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Sports Twitter Icons 1

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Twitter Square Icons Free Icon Set

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6 Coole Twitter Icons Zum Downloaden

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Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

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Tweeta a Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

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Download your Free Twitter Bird

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Twitter Duck

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Friday Freebies Flavours Icon Set and Cute Tweeters Icon Det

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Freebie Exclusive Twitter Birds Set

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Tweetle

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Colorful Twitter Icons

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40 Free Twitter Badges

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Tweet Deck Replacement Icons

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Diumy Twitter

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50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

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Twitter Dock Icons

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Twitter Icon Pack 2

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8 Free Cute and Simple Twitter Bird Vector Graphics

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Free Twitter Icons

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24 Sets of Pixel Twitter Icons

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Free Twitter Icon

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Free Twitter Icon Set

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Twitter Block Icons

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Tweet Birds

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Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog

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Twitter Icons

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Lovely Twitter Icons

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Four Hand Drawn Twitter Icons

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31 Sets of Free Photoshop Paint Brushes

ronald — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:46:47 +0000

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!

Finger Paints Brush set

Splatter Paint Brush

Oil Paint II

Paint Stroke Brushes 2

Brush Strokes 2 PS

Abstract Paint

Paint 03

Paint 05

14 Paint Brushes

WG Dry Paint Strokes

Abstract Paint 2

Fractal Paint Brushes

Paint Splat Brushes

Paint Borders

Paint Brush Strokes for PS

Paint Stroke Brushes

Free Hi Resolution Paint Stroke Photoshop Brushes

19 paint brushes

Paint Stroke Brushes

Paint Splatter

12 Paint Brushes

Midnight Paint

Poster Paint

Paint Stroke Brushes Det

18 Paint Splash Brushes

Paint Swipes Brush Set

Paint II

Paint Splatter Brushes

Painted Strokes Brushes CS3

Angry Painter Brushes

Free Downloads: A Collection of Rusted Textures

ronald — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:00:46 +0000

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!

Metal Rust Texture 22

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Nether Flesh

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Wall Texture

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Merlin

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Metal Rust Texture 05

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Textureville

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Rusty – texture

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Rust texture pack

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Fired wall

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Rust Texture Pack 01

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Rust textures

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Coloured Rust VI

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Rust texture 6

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6 Rusted Stone Textures

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Metal Rust Texture 20

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Rust

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Rust

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Monster Monster

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Rust Row

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Rusty metal gate

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Cracked House Wall – I

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burned

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Metal Rust Texture 21

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Background

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Fireball

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RS10

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Rusted Metal Texture Pack

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Skip 2

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Junk Truck Rust Texture

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Painted Rust Pack

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Golden cracks texture

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Stock – Rust Textures

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Rusted Wall

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Rustytastic

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Green and Rust 2

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A Compilation of Vintage Textures for Designers

ronald — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:00:24 +0000

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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40 Real Time Saver Photoshop Actions

ronald — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:44 +0000

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!