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Free Fresh Bokeh Texture Pack

david — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:48:35 +0000

Here you have a bokeh effect texture pack that you can use for free for your personal or commercial projects. You can use these textures for your website backgrounds, twitter backgrounds, wallpapers and so on. You may not however resell or redistribute the contents of this download in part or whole, without my permission. The zip file contains 15 textures sized at 2000×1300 px, and you can see below previews to each texture included. These textures are made from scratch in Photoshop and I also plan to publish a tutorial to show you how I made them. Interested? :)

Prewiew:

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15 Free Pro Accounts to Try Photo Effects @ Rollip.com

david — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:40:36 +0000

Rollip.com has developed a new site that gives any digital photo a new look and feel by offering 40 filters ranging from 70’s vintage to more modern ones. Extra effort has been put into giving users a selection of high-quality filters and while Rollip is free for smaller images, they do offer additional high-quality processing. Rollip features a clean light interface where you can choose your effect and apply it to your image for free. You don’t need any software for this and you can change your image look and feel in seconds.

Below you can see some of the effects that you can find at Rollip.com:

and this is what I did with Rollip:

Rollip offered to 15 of our readers Pro accounts with 30 credits each (worth $5.98 per account).

How can you get your Free Pro Rollip account?

Follow me on twitter and fan me on facebook (optional)
Go to this page, sign up with your email and get your Free Pro Rollip Account.

The free Pro accounts are distributed on a first-come first-served basis so hurry up and grab yours.

Wallpaper: Retrospektrum

david — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:55:54 +0000

I am amazed by James White’s art and I created a wallpaper inspired by his works. You can see a preview below, and HERE you can download a zip archive that includes various resolutions . Sharing and retweets are much appreciated. The following resolutions are included:

1920×1200
1680×1050
1600×1200
1440×1900
320×480 (iPhone)

Hope you’ll enjoy it! :)

click for larger preview:

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35 Best T-Shirt Designs You’ve Ever Seen (+resources)

Posted by david in Featured Articles, Inspiration on 09 21st, 2009 | Comments

I want to showcase below the best T-Shirt designs i’ve seen on various tee design sites. Not all of the tees below are available for sale, some of them are just submissions to contests over various T-Shirt printing sites and some of them are out of stock. Check them out and tell us which ones are your favourites by leaving a comment. You will also find at the end of this post some links to T-shirt design resources. Enjoy!

I. Splatter, watercolor & vector tee design.

1. colorblind

2. Tawdry Hepburn

3. Booyah!

4. Tears Fall Upon

5. Bold is Beautiful

6. Agent Skully

7. Iron Fist – Life at Sea

8. Quicksilver

9. Music in my Head

10. When Panda’s Attack

11. My City Song

12. Gather Ye Rosebuds

13. Mountain Attack

14. Beauty Before Death

15. Coexistence

16. Long journey

17. Kill Monotony

18. The Dark Side of the Mystery

19. SOS strawberry flavour

20. .:FIERCE IDEOLOGY:.

21. Ekadanta

22. Goddess of Abduction

23. unity through art

24. Know Looking Back

25. The not so Saintly Sebastian

…and two of my t-shirt designs (not printed) submitted to designbyhumans. Maybe they don’t match with the blog post title but i’m gonna show them to you anyway :)

26. Mutatio Mentis

27. Seagull

II. Type Tee Design

28. Keep Reading

29. . . .and then I woke up.

30. 26 + 74 = One Hundred

31. lowercase

32. Math problem

33. Sans Serif (Black)

34. Ampersand Pattern

35. Huge Type Looks Sweet (White)

III. T-Shirt design resources & articles:

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Exclusive Freebie: 25 HQ Texture Pack

david — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:17:57 +0000

Me and L. played a little bit with the camera last couple of days and we shot various textures, so i decided to release a texture pack. You’ll find here 25 HQ various textures: walls, wood, fiber, metal, rust. You can see below a preview with some of the textures included. Enjoy & share the link! You can never have too many textures right?

DOWNLOAD [63 MB]

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Free PSD templates #1

david — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:12 +0000

It’s useful to experiment with photoshop and learn new tehniques and it’s always helpful to see how a project it’s done by checking the layers in photoshop and modify them the way you want. For instance if you designed an awesome DVD cover you can take this DVD Plastic Case Free Template, and mockup your design and see how it would look in a real plastic case. There are lots of free useful PSD files, and i’m gonna try now to choose the best stuff and compile a list of awesome FREE PSD templates. You can find here also, lots of stuff for webdesigners: icons, shapes, buttons, menus and other web elements. Click on any of the images below and the download page will open. After you download the file, open it in Photoshop and have fun!

DVD Plastic Case – PSD File

DVD Case + Art

Saturday PSD File

iPhone 3G PSD

Cassette – PSD

PSD Resource Pack One

Sony PSP PSD

RIM Blackberry PSD

Airport Express – PSD included

iPod Classic PSD

Apple Remote PSD

Guitar Les Paul Resource / Slash Signature PSD

Dramatic Room PSD

T-Shirt PSD

Apple PSD

The Farewell Collection PSD

The Farewell Collection 2 PSD

Wednesday PSD file

New Skateboard Template

Peter’s DeivantART ID Ver1.3 Template PSD

Open iPhone PSD

Star Sticker PSD

53 PSD Files

Fear not PSD

Windows Vista Flare orb

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600+ Photoshop Brushes: strokes, stains, splatters, spray, watercolor

david — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:59:58 +0000

Textured graphics are really popular right now and there are a lot of free resources that could help you if you don’t have the time to buy the right materials and create your own traditional-style-painting. below, i tried to compile the best brush strokes, stains, splatters, spray, watercolor brushes i found over there. these brushes can really help you develop your texturing tehnique. I use this style and tehnique really often as you can see in my portfolio. So if you click on any of the images below, the download page will open. After you download the .abr files, place them into: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop. Have fun designing!

via deviantart.com

via qbrushes.com

via naldzgraphics

via qbrushes.com

via the shoreways

via qbrushes.com

via brusheezy

via deviantart.com

via qbrushes.com

via brusheezy

via bittbox.com

via brusheezy

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27 useful texture packs

david — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:45:35 +0000

Pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, vintage & retro, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds. These are the new trends in graphic/web design and when it comes to those types of design, textures are always useful. Below is a list of found freebies. Sources: bittbox, fudgegraphics, deviantart, gomediazine, spoongraphics & lostandtaken. Enjoy!

Hi Res grungy paper texture

24 Free Hi Res Textures

Old Film textures

Hi res Wood Textures

Watercolor textures

Christy Sobolewski Textures

color grunge textures

vintage grunge textures

hardcore vintage grunge

rust textures

Paper Grunge Textures

Textures Pack 1

Wood textures

Vintage Texture Pack

Vintage II Texture Pack

Grunge II texture pack

Dark Wood Texture Pack

Old Grunge Photo Texture Pack

5 free hi res brown paper textures

High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures

Rough Paper Textures

Natural Paper Texture Pack

12 Textures: anatomy of a dumpster

17 Book Cover textures

15 old book cover textures

20 fabric textures

11 fabric textures

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70 Best Free Grunge Fonts

david — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:04:37 +0000

I compiled below a list with the best grunge fonts, just click on the font and the download page will open. Grunge style is really popular in design so check these dirty, urban and abstract fonts out and choose your favourites. Enjoy!

for more grunge type make sure you check out these websites: Stereo-Type, Misprintedtype [the freeware font section].

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Best Free Vectors #1

david — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:20:44 +0000

Don’t know about you, but when it comes to resources & freebies, i always check various websites and blogs to see the latest stuff. I’m gonna compile below a list with the best FREE vectors over there. Enjoy!

via SmashingMagazine

via qvectors.com

via bittbox.com

via gomediazine.com

via vectorstock.com. the free vectors section from vectorstock, here.

via thepixlpusher.com

More stuff to come!

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