Archive for the 'Patterns' Category

Photoshop Pattern Sets: A Huge Collection of Fresh Patterns

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Other than Photoshop brushes, the other type of Photoshop resource that are readily available online and can be use for free are the Photoshop patterns. By using these freebies, Photoshop users can save themselves a  great deal of their precious time while at the same time able to come up with better results. There are also great number of websites that offer free Photoshop patterns, making it difficult for designers to track them down. Read Best Design News

300+ Background Patterns from Behance

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Background patterns are very useful in web design. You can instantly improve a rather boring appearance of a website and make it more lively, for example, by just changing the background using patterns. You might also try changing the background of your twitter account to make it stand out from other twitter accounts. Read Best Design News

20 Color Palettes Plus 40 Background Patterns for Spring

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Spring is here so let me share with you my favorite spring-inspired color palettes from Colourlovers. If you happen to like one or more of these palettes and would like to use it in Photoshop, I have provided below the link to the ACO (short for Adobe COlor) file. To use these .ACO files in Photoshop, just go to the preset manager (File->Edit->Preset Manager), or open up the “Color Window”, by pressing F6, and select the “Swatches” tab. Read Best Design News

50 Background Patterns I love at Colourlovers

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One of the great sources for seamless background patterns is colorlouvers.com. (Of course, aside from being a great resource for color palettes!) You can browse through thousands of background pattern designs from ornaments to retro to abstract design patterns, among many others. You may also join the community if you want and share the background patterns that you designed over the years as well as those that you are planning to make. Read Best Design News

1000+ Background Patterns You can Use for Free

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Seamless patterns are very useful as design elements, especially as background for websites. Adding a bright and interesting seamless pattern as background is a great way to lift the look of a website without much effort.

Here are more than 1000 seamless or  background patterns that you can use for your web projects or even as background for making scrapbooks, invitation cards, etc. Read Best Design News

10 Background Patterns in Illustrator Format: Plaid, Swirls, Retro

Using patterns and swatches in your Adobe Illustrator projects lets you save time but still presents you with an opportunity to create beautiful designs. I have always been fascinated with plaid and swirl patterns, so in this roundup, I’m going to list some of the free vector plaid, swirl, retro and other types of patterns that I found online. You may use these resources for not only graphic or web design but also for fashion design, textiles and package design. Read Best Design News