Few weeks ago, we showcased you some free Photoshop brushes we hand-picked. Today we want to bring to your attention some paid Vector sets, something higher quality and definitely useful for your design. And because you are readers of Hongkiat, we are giving to you free, courtesy of Designious.
How To Win
We are giving away 5 Mega packs of Vector sets of your choice. If you think these Vectors will be a great help in your design, leave your comment after this post. We’ll randomly choose 5 winners and send the Mega packs your way. Contest will due on 15th February, Sunday.
Note: Please leave an valid e-mail address, you will be notified via e-mail.
There’re some mistake in the contest content. The giveaways are actually not “brushes” but “Vector packs“. Content has been correct. Apologized for the confusion created.
Update: Contest ended. Winners will be notify via email soon. Stay tuned.
One of the most interesting thing about the design community is, our design are often influenced by the trends and talk-about. The best example is perhaps the Web 2.0 look and feel that stormed the Internet about a year ago.
Over the pass few years, the awareness of global warming and the greenhouse effects have gradually increased. This greatly inspired many designers, and created some of the most beautiful web design based on green by mixing up some nature elements (leaves, soil, trees, sky, etc). Here’s a showcase of 18 Great Web Designs That Emphasize Green.
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If you’ve got an idea (or concept) but find it hard to present on your artwork because the drawings just don’t add up, try Photoshop Brushes. Brushes are designers best friend, particularly web designers who don’t illustrate graphics much.
Adobe Photoshop does comes with a basic package of brushes but it has not been updated by folks at Adobe for quite some time. Thanks to the great community of designers out there who constantly distributing and sharing their brushes, you can almost find brushes of any patterns these days. Whether you are working on a nature-related artwork looking for floral and wood graphics, or merely adding some torn, burned and cracked effects to your artwork – there’s a free brush pack out there and all you need to do is Google.
In today’s post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Here’s our hand-picked of 50 Free and High Quality Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark. Full list after jump.
Some useful Photoshop related entries we’ve previously written:
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TwiBadge is a WordPress plugin, in a widget format that resides on your WordPress blog sidebar. It displays all your Tweets and replies, basically what you see on twitter.com/home. TwiBadge also comes with a follow button that allow any interested visitors to easily add themselves as followers.
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Computer desktop is a very personal thing. Each of us has a personal preference how our desktop should looked like. Modding (customizing) a desktop can be as simple as changing the desktop wallpaper, or messing with the default icons. It can also go as far as tweaking the entire navigation as well as the look and feel.
Here’s a showcase of 40 Remarkable Computer Desktop Mods (modifications) that highly represent each user’s personality together with explanations on the applications, icon sets used. Full list after jump.
Got more? You know some cool desktop mods not listed here? Let us know :-)
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We previously showed how you can display Feedburner feed count in raw text. However, if you’ve recently migrated your feed from Feedburner to Google Feed, you’ll noticed those codes will no longer work. Here’s the workarounds, for those who wanted to display Google Feed subscriber count in text for better styling.
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Imagine an artwork without type – you can only make assumptions what the graphics are trying to deliver. Type enhance and ensure you get whatever message the campaign is delivering. Typography design on the other hand, is what many designers are striving to improve and excel. Getting to the next level in typography design, at most of the time, may be tricky and challenging. Font, colors, style, keywords and placements are all the crucial factors to form a great typography design.
But how do you spot a good typography design? We feel that any artwork that catches your attention and delivers the message across quickly is a good design. Here we present, 70 Wonderful 3D Typography That Truely Inspires.
You might also be interested in these following articles:
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Credit: Image taken from 10steps.sg
A web designer’s bad day scenario: Your clients are bored with the usual work you present them; your boss wants to see more magic in the design; You are finding it harder to impress your associates or stand out from the crowd.
One way or another, you’ve got to find ways to impress them. One good way we thought (if you agree), is to spice up that flat 2-dimensional design. Photoshop might not be the best software to design 3D elements, but most 3D effects you see out there are definitely achievable. In this following article, we attempt to showcase you some of the best 3D design Photoshop tutorials we’ve come across. It’s probably not about memorizing all steps required to produce the output, but rather, to learn and understand the methods involved.
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Whenever you noticed a contact in your Gtalk/Google Talk has not been online for some time, have it ever crossed your mind you’ve been blocked? If you are curious in finding out who actually blocked you in Gtalk, here’s a workaround you can try.
This following method we attempt to show make use of a chat client call Pidgin.
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The most anticipated moment during every festival and event celebration countdown is definitely the second where fireworks are set off at the stroke of midnight. The combination of these beautiful colored flames and twinkling sparks are indescribably stunning. Its captivating movement and pattern transformation is worth every moment of watching, even though most of them don’t last more than 10 minutes.
Thanks to professional photographers all over the world, the most beautiful moment of firework displays are captured and we’re able to see them as if we are witnessing a live extravagant firework display. Here we present 100 Most Breathtaking Fireworks in The World. Full list after jump.
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BannerSnack is an online tool that allow users to create banners (flash banners in particular) easily and export them in .SWF format. Even if you barely know Adobe Flash, you too can have a attractive flash banner. BannerSnack make text effects, transitions and other animations easy. Check out more examples of what you can do with BannerSnack.
And for every good web tool, there’s free tryout and paid version. BannerSnack is no different, but here at Hongkiat, we are giving out 5 BannerSnack Premium Plus memberships (worth $149/year) to readers. You might also want to compare what premium plus can do apart from the rest.
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In another week or two, 1.3 billion from China and 40 million Chinese around the globe will be celebrating Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year), the year of Ox. For designers who are working on designs and promotional campaigns for this festive season, we figured you could use more resources. Here’s 20+ Images, Brushes, Wallpapers and Fonts to Design for Chinese New Year. Full list after jump.
Images and Cliparts
Lunar new year elements. from Veeqi.com
Happy 2009
via ikingyo
3 cute ox icon images available in .PNG format.
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A friend once asked "why do you still surf for web templates when you can create one?". I answered, for fun. But then again I start to ponder and realiazed even if we are capable to create, there are still many great reasons to check out free templates out there.
Thanks to many of the generous souls, most of these web templates found online are no longer the same. A lot of them are high quality, XHTML compliant, cross-browser compatible and comes with Photoshop .PSD files. As a developer cum designer myself, I wouldn’t say you should get a nice free template and implement directly, but rather, check out the structure, design and codes. Labeling, naming, styling and structuring are what interest me more, and I’m pretty sure there’s more if dug deeper.
Without further ado, here’s (another) 38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates, and I’ve previously showcased 60 High Quality Free Web Templates, that makes it close to 100 piece of nice templates in the archive. Full list after jump.
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Following one’s Twitter tweets are as good as subscribing to the RSS feeds. Not only it feeds you the latest updates, it’s also a perfect medium for communication and networking. Realizing how Twitter can potentially help to increase readerships, more and more bloggers/webmasters are massively promoting their Twitter account through blogs and websites.
If you love a particular blog you’ve stumble upon, chances are you will want to follow their Twitter too. But let’s not make this too difficult for users to find where that Twitter link is. Catchy graphics are always better than plain text and they are easier to spot. If you are keen to increase Twitter followers, here’s a compilation of 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons you can apply on your site.
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