Wallet CD Mockup (Free PSD)

Wallet CD Mockup (Free PSD)

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30 Realistic Pencil Drawings

It’s hard to believe that all of these beautiful pictures are pencil drawings and not digital. Pencil, paper, creativity and a heck of a lot skill are the only attributes of these masterpieces. Check them out:

Gurn Drawing

Christopher Reeve

FuFu

What a Lovely Picture

Karlstadt Watermill

Snow White

Broken Heart

Yendos Nature

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How To Change Object Colours In A photo In Photoshop

How To Change Object Colours In A photo In Photoshop

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Wallpaper of the Week 201 by Alecio Calixto

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alecio Calixto and it’s called The Crow. Alecio is an art director and digital designer from Brazil. The image was a suggestion from Alecio himself to us via email. You can also suggest us wallpapers. Just email them to abduzeedo@abduzeedo.com… read more

Vectorized iMac

Vectorized iMac

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Best of the Week #220

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds

40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds

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Quickly Select Skin Tones in Photoshop CS6

Skin Aware technology is a relatively obscure feature in Photoshop CS6 that will allow you to quickly select skin tones in a photo. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will show you how this new feature works. Let’s take a look!

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Prepo: Take the Drudgery Out of Screen Resolution Optimization

If you create apps in addition to using them, then you know that it can be a real pain to optimize your artwork for various devices. Prepo is a free application that aims to make the task of converting retina display artwork to ‘normal’ app artwork less tedious.

Does it… read more

Free Business Card PSD Template

Free Business Card PSD Template

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Daily Inspiration #1120

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Free PSD Angry Birds Android Icons

Free PSD Angry Birds Android Icons

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500+ Photoshop Layer Styles for your design – Free Download

500+ Photoshop Layer Styles for your design – Free Download

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Google Drive is Finally Here!

It has been a long time rumor that Google was going to release some kind of cloud stoage product akin to the likes of Dropbox or iCloud. It does make sense, after all; Google was the company that changed email by offering an unprecidented 1GB of storage for email all… read more

80+ Logo PSD Template Files For Free Download

80+ Logo PSD Template Files For Free Download

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Zoom It – Take a Really Close Look!

We all love Macs. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing here and you wouldn’t be reading. I especially love my 27″ iMac with its shiny and huge display, which even lets me display all my Photoshop work including an insane number of palettes. It’s awesome, but there’s one drawback: sometimes, I… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Steel Text Effect in Photoshop

In this quick tip tutorial we will explain how to create a steel text effect using layer styles in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. FREE TEXTURE METAL 1010 Metal Texture Cafe Nero M54 – Free font Step 1… read more

Efficient Communication in a Freelance Design Team

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Working as a digital professional in any field is tough. You have to constantly push towards gratifying clients and rushing through deadlines. Managing tasks in a team allows you to divide up the work much more evenly. However this also means it can be difficult getting… read more

Free download: SC iPhone UI Kit (PSD)

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Yellow Facebook Timeline Template (PSD)

Yellow Facebook Timeline Template (PSD)

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Daily Inspiration #1119

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Sell Anything You Can Share Online With Gumroad

One of the things I’m glad to see the web has made easier over time is eCommerce for independent creatives like artisans, artists, designers, photographers, bands, writers et al. Innovations like Paypal, Square, and Kickstarter have paved the way for people to make money or raise funds for projects online… read more

12 Mysterious Google Maps Sightings

1. The Badlands Guardian

This natural formation in Alberta, Canada is known as the Badlands Guardian and looks strikingly… read more

50 Remarkable Examples Of Inspiring Typography

Knowing how much of a hot commodity typography is for the designers and the design community; we decided to showcase a huge collection of innovative and creative typography examples for our readers. Today, typography is not only the art of rearranging the typefaces rather it has become a broad medium… read more

If You Use Lightroom, Do You Need Photoshop CS6?

I’m in sunny (sorry, cloudy and maybe rainy) LA today teaching my Lightroom seminar, but I wanted to do a quick post about some questions I got the other day in my Minneapolis seminar. I had a few people ask me what was new for Photographers in Photoshop CS6 and… read more

Hysterical Minds Presents “Twisted Essence”

Hysterical Minds is an international art collective composed of Spanish speaking artists from around the world. In its almost three years of existence, they have released nine online exhibitions focused mainly on digital media, but also photography, traditional painting, and music. Recently, the collective announced their ninth exhibition based on… read more

13 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

A common query among the internet users is that they need to know how can they enhance the speed of WordPress apps and optimize the plugins. Frankly speaking, this is never a cumbersome process as there are certain skilled tips that work towards speeding up WordPress experience. But, in this… read more

Daily Inspiration #1118

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

10 Unmissable Apps for Ipad and Iphone Photographers

When Apple launched the iPhone, most people realized there was about to be a revolution in mobile telecommunications, what perhaps, was not recognized was the quiet revolution in photography. Since the launch and the emergence of the iPad and Android devices, a huge number of photographic apps have become available,… read more

Bitchin’ Kitchen: How a Web Chef Cooked Up a Hit TV Show

Name a chef who wears green eyeshadow, sequined purple sweaters and leather pants with a zip-out crotch. Chances are, you’re still searching. That is, unless you’ve tuned in with millions of other viewers to watch Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, where celebrity chef Nadia G totters around on heels higher than… read more

Free Psd: Notification Balloons

Free Psd: Notification Balloons

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Learn How to Create A Night Effect in Photoshop

Learn How to Create A Night Effect in Photoshop

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How To Convert Text Into Clouds

How To Convert Text Into Clouds

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Quickly Change the Appearance of Photoshop CS6

One of the first things you might notice about Photoshop CS6 is the darker color of the interface. If you prefer the lighter color of the old interface, you can quickly change it back in just a few clicks. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we… read more

Daily Inspiration #1117

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

What You Need to Know About Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the Creative Cloud

This week, Adobe made a big announcement; Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the new Adobe Creative Cloud will be released within 30 days. This is fantastic news for anyone who is looking to upgrade their current installation but a lot of people have questions about what this means for them…. read more

Making an Impact with Clever Marketing Materials

I’m a believer that marketing materials will never go out of style. There’s something to be said when you have something really cool to give to someone else that characterizes you and your business.

I’m not talking about one of those squishy, stress reliever balls or a pen with your… read more

Last Minute Illustrations by Ricardo Gimenes

I love the internet and what the way it allows everyone to follow their passions and make a living of them. Not that it wasn’t possible in the past but truth to be told, it’s much easier today. Take for example our friend and super talented illustrator Ricardo Ginemes. He… read more

Community Project: Vectortuts+ Creative T-shirt Project, Round 1

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 1 of the Vectortuts+ Creative T-shirt Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Create Your Own T-shirt Design, Round… read more

Create a 3D Micro Robotic Insect Using ZBrush Renders

Creating a realistic 3D render often involves the use of both 3D applications and Photoshop. In this tutorial we will explain how to add texture and lighting to a render that we originally created during a tutorial on Cgtuts. If you would like to start this tutorial from the beginning… read more

Tutorial: How to design a chatroom iPhone UI

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Gigzilla: An Interview with JP Cuison on the Art of the Gig Poster

You can tell by the number of music-related articles on our blog that it’s one of our favorite topics. It’s not unusual for graphic designers to have a few gig posters included in their portfolios. We scoured the internet for designers with awesome work, and found one whose posters we… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.129)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

How to Create a UI Sliders Set in Photoshop [Tutorial]

How to Create a UI Sliders Set in Photoshop [Tutorial]

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Join Me for a Free Photoshop CS6 for Photographers Webcast Today

First off, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to my Lightroom 4 Live seminar in Minneapolis yesterday. There were almost 350 photographers there. We had a great crowd, lots of laughs and everyone I spoke to seemed to learn a lot throughout the day (in spite… read more

25 Photoshop 3D Effects Tutorials

25 Photoshop 3D Effects Tutorials

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Daily Inspiration #1116

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

CS6 and the new Creative Cloud

After making us go through a maze of previews and sneak peeks, Adobe has finally detailed its pricing plans regarding the Creative Suite 6.

CS consists of multiple applications, including the likes of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and several others.

The CS6 Standard package will cost $1299 whereas the Master Collection… read more

11 Free Seamless Pixel Patterns for Photoshop

11 Free Seamless Pixel Patterns for Photoshop

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Adobe Launches $50-a-Month ‘Creative Cloud’ With CS 6

Adobe has announced a significant switch to a cloud-based version of Creative Suite alongside the launch of the latest version of its popular line of design software.

Unveiled at an event in San Francisco on Monday, Creative Cloud represents a shift for Adobe after years of simply selling packaged software…. read more

How to Create a Loading Bar UI in Photoshop

How to Create a Loading Bar UI in Photoshop

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Be a Seamless Designer Using Photoshop Tutorials

Be a Seamless Designer Using Photoshop Tutorials

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Giveaway: Win 70.000 graphic Items with Grafpedia

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

We… read more

That’s a Photoshop!

A Post by George Maciver from the Highlands of Scotland Photography

‘That’s a Photoshop!’ she cried, and left the group.

The photograph in question had been popped, but that was all. Well, I didn’t really know what to say. I mean, every photographer on the planet uses photo editing software, even the… read more

Create a Cute and Dark Fantasy Illustration in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

While thinking up a strong concept is often one of the biggest challenges that a designer will face during the creative process, executing that concept can be equally, if not more challenging. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Liran Szeiman will explain how to create a cute, but dark, fantasy… read more

Adobe officially announces Creative Suite 6

After several sneak previews and a fully-functional beta version, Adobe has today officially announced the latest reincarnation of its popular Creative Suite software package, version 6, which sports among other things a whole wealth of new features, a massive overhaul to the default user interface and integration with Adobe’s new… read more

Does blogging get you anywhere?

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A Collection of Beautiful Joomla Templates

Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has grown into the second most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web behind WordPress. In January 2012 Joomla was upgraded from 1.7 to version 2.5. It brought a lot of great new features such as notifications for easier updates, multi database support… read more

Adobe Launches Creative Suite 6 and the Creative Cloud!

It’s here! It’s here! Tonight Adobe has launched the next versions of their Creative Suite – CS6. On top of this, Adobe has made an _awesome_ addition to this by augmenting their Creative Cloud offering. In short, for a monthy price, you can get *ALL* of the Adobe Apps, installed… read more

Hipster Text Effect in Pixelmator

Every time I checked Dribbble I see a bunch of posts with this sort of vintage typography style. It’s a very interesting look and very trendy nowadays. With that in mind I decided to improve my skills by trying to replicate this look and feel using Pixelmator. I will also… read more

Jelly-Like Advertising Text Effect using Photoshop

Jelly-Like Advertising Text Effect using Photoshop

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How to Create a Color-Inspired iOS Icon for Retina Displays

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Creating an icon for iOS presents a variety of challenges to designers — challenges such as the size constraint. The purpose of this tutorial is help you create an icon for iOS that not only looks good, but also gives you a feel for what actually goes… read more

PSD to Joomla Conversion: A necessity for perfect CMS Web Design

PSD to Joomla Conversion: A necessity for perfect CMS Web Design

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Daily Inspiration #1115

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Points to consider before placing PSD to Drupal Conversion Order

Points to consider before placing PSD to Drupal Conversion Order

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Create Gothic Bloody Text in Photoshop

Create Gothic Bloody Text in Photoshop

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Quick Tip: Use the New Timeline in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Animated GIF from a Video

The new timeline feature in Photoshop CS6 will allow you to open, edit, and export videos without ever having to leave the application. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use this new feature to create an animated GIF from a video; a feature that could be used for… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 16 – Apr 22, 2012

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Wallpaper of the Week 200 by Saad Moosajee

The wallpaper of this week is an image from Saad Moosajee and it is an illustration that is a part of his new series, nature in technicolor. We also are offering wallpapers for the new iPad with Retina Display.

For more information visit http://saadart.com/

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iPad Version

iPhone Version

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1920x1200px
1680x1050px
1440x900px
1280x1024px
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1024x768px
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WDL Premium: 20 Ultimate Button Styles

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For our WDL Premium members, here’s a set of 20 button styles from WeGraphics. The set includes Photoshop PSD and ASL styles for laying out design comps.They also have included coded HTML and CSS for each button. Check it out!

Be sure to check out WeGraphics for… read more

Best of the Week #219

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

The Typographic Illustrations of Marcelo Schultz

Marcelo Schultz is a Brazilian designer and art director with a talent for producing fantastic typographic illustrations. His work typically has a 3D look and feel but is done entirely without the use of 3D tools or applications. In fact, Schultz’s weapon of choice is Photoshop. In this article we… read more

You! Be Informed! #0001

With so many of our posts being about visual inspiration, you’d think that that’s all we get inspired from. Not so! And now we want to remedy that.
 
Every day there are so many design-related articles, news, developments and innovations bursting out of our RSS feeds, email inboxes and… read more

20 Resources to Download Free PSD Files

20 Resources to Download Free PSD Files

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15 Free High Quality ToolTip PSD’s

A tooltip or infotip can be defined as a graphical hint that is incorporated with the website design element usually with the cursor or a pointer and provides some information when a website user hovers the pointer over that particular item without even clicking it. Or in simple words, it… read more

24 Free Mini Icon Sets To Download

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In this roundup we have collected some mini icon sets to download. Enjoy!! If you like these icons you might want to check out our previous posts below.

35 Free Icon Sets

43 Free Social Media Icon Sets

25 of the Best Blogging and Social Media Icon Sets

Micro Icon… read more

Totally Rad! RadLab

Simplifying Photo Effects

RadLab is a Photoshop action set. With its own palette, you can start RadLab and decide whether you want it to work with your image on the same or a new layer, or as a smart object.

RadLab’s interface overtakes the Photoshop interface: On the left is the… read more

Introduction to Optimizing Your Photoshop Installation

Photoshop has a variety of tools to edit your images, and almost as many settings that you can adjust to get optimum performance from the software. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the options available in the Preferences dialogue box. Let’s get started!

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Free download: 200 icons from Inventicons

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30 Days to Learn Adobe Illustrator

New to Vectortuts+, or still learning the ropes with Illustrator? If you’ve always wanted to learn but never had the time or the resources, check out the new course from Tuts+ Premium: 30 Days to Learn Adobe Illustrator. Over the course of one month you’ll go from complete beginner to… read more

Fabulous and Free Social Icons

Fabulous and Free Social Icons

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Waste a Few Hours With This Huge Collection of Photography Links

Another incredible week rolls by and we find the Toad busy hopping all over the internet searching for tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This week’s list presents a serious compilation of the best links he could find from some really incredibly talented photographers and artists. … read more

15 Killer Startup Web Designs

15 Killer Startup Web Designs

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Create A Retro Effect In Photoshop

Create A Retro Effect In Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop Graphics Designed for the Web

Adobe Photoshop Graphics Designed for the Web

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Viral Video: ‘We’re Not Young’ Parody Teases Getting Older

Sometimes, growing up sucks. “We’re Not Young” — a depressing but funny viral video that turns indie pop band Fun’s “We Are Young” smash hit on its head — captures the conflicts people encounter in their 30s.

Part of Yahoo’s Sketchy comedy series, the parody lampoons 30-year-olds’ drinking problems, married friends,… read more

RIP Picnik: 7 Free Alternatives for Quick Photo Edits

1. PicMonkey

This site was created by two former Picnik engineers, Justin Huff and Brian Terry, so you can… read more

Why I Think Siri Is the Future of the Mac

For decades now, voice control over any type of hardware has been the epitome of immersive user interface. From Star Trek to Iron Man, you have seen the benefits of vocal commands used over and over in many forms of science fiction. To date, technology still tries to mimic the… read more

Jack Designs – A Free Corporate Identity Package

We have another amazing freebie for you today. Exclusively designed for us by Robby from RobbyDesigns.com, it is a corporate identity package called ‘Jack Designs’ that includes PSD templates for business cards, CD covers (front & back), envelopes, letterheads, door-handles and even a design for a mousepad!.

The… read more

30 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials That You Can’t Missed

30 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials That You Can’t Missed

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Photo Manipulate a Surreal Coffee Machine Contraption

Photo Manipulate a Surreal Coffee Machine Contraption

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Depthcore Veterans Develop Artwork for 54th Grammy Awards

In the lead up to the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12, you may have seen some stunning artwork promoting the event displayed in your area. What you may not know however is that this artwork was created by a handful of Depthcore artists and past Psdtuts authors including Justin… read more

Convert your text to light particles using Adobe Photoshop

Convert your text to light particles using Adobe Photoshop

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50 Awesome Examples of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

I read in a religious book, which was claimed to be written by a prophet of God, that God has hidden minor samples of heaven in this world itself. Well, I have not seen heaven but I feel if it exists, it won’t be too different from some of the… read more

New Liquify Performance and Usability Enhancements in Photoshop CS6

Liquify is an essential tool for manipulating and retouching photos. In Photoshop CS6, it has received some significant performance and usability enhancements. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will show you what you can expect from these new enhancements. Let’s take a look!

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15+ high quality, free pattern sets

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Design on the Go: Designer Apps for Android

As smartphones have advanced, and the display and photo capture technologies have improved, many have desired the ability to design and to edit images on their mobile phones. In fact, today hundreds of design applications exist on Google Play (previously known as Android Market). So in order to help you… read more

Creative Fuel #4: Free Icon Sets, Sass Refactoring, Type Pairing & the WordPress Economy

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Design Freebies: 365psd Icon Sets

365psd has published a whole lot of great free PSDs since… read more

Creattica Redesign: Spectacular Photoshop Magic and Freebies

It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50 different categories. On top of that, Creattica now has better navigation, a new UI Elements section… read more

15 Free Abstract Smoke Brushes

In this collection, we are showcasing some high quality Photoshop Abstract smoke brushes that you can add in your collection of Photoshop brushes. With these Abstract smoke brushes, you can create smoky effects. Smoke is a cloud of fine particles that are created from partial combustion of burning materials. In… read more