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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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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Long exposure photography is using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture static objects in an image while blurring its moving elements. Various collections of long exposure photography have been showcased on the web to serve as inspiration to budding photographers.
This compilation of Inspiring Examples of Long Exposure Photos just might inspire you to try out photography! If you do start producing long exposure photographs of your own, you could use them for this upcoming contest:
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Illustrator is a full-featured drawing program that provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Presently, designers are into learning the various techniques and effects that can be generated with the software.
We have collected a Compilation of Fresh Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that you can learn from and read through to enrich your knowledge. Feel free to browse through the collection and gain new techniques of your own. Have fun!
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Numerous brushes are constantly being released online, even as I type. These brushes vary from abstract, to fiery, to smudgy, and to much, much more. Here at You the Designer, we too have showcased several unique and useful brushes for designers of all levels.
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Most, if not all, computer owners out there use wallpaper to infuse life and color into their desktops. With the innumerable themes and styles available online, users are spoiled for choice when it comes to personalizing their computers with wallpaper.
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Still looking for cool resources for your designs? Frustrated because the ones you have don’t fit your theme? Well, here’s a new set of unique resources you wouldn’t want to miss! This new set will be sure to help you make your best creation yet.
40+ Excellent Fabric Textures for Your Next Designs is now here to get you going with your next project. Download your choices and use them in any way you choose. Push the limits and have fun!
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We have successfully posted several cool icons as freebies in the past. As our next offering, we have collected Free RSS Icon Sets to provide more icon stocks to our readers everywhere. The icons, as stated, are themed around one of the widely used resources in the web today.
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Innumerable websites these days have registration and login systems that allow fans and members to further navigate their networks securely. Since designers as well as programmers recognize the critical importance of login forms in web usability and interface design, similarly innumerable innovations have been made to make this crucial web element as prominent, helpful, and aesthetically pleasing as possible.
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