Having a collection of gradients that you can use anytime you need one in Photoshop is a great time-saver. The gradient tool is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop especially for making backgrounds, icons, buttons for the web, among many other things.Today, we would like to present some fresh Photoshop gradients that you can use for free in your designs, both web and print. Read Best Design News
Last time, we shared with you the best retro web designs from around the web to give you inspiration just in case you are doing similar projects. As a follow through to our previous post, we decided to come up with a list of retro design resources that you can use in designing vintage or retro-themed websites, desktop wallpapers, posters, e-cards, print ads, web banners and many more. This list is divided into three parts. The first part is composed of beautiful retro fonts while the second part is composed of hundreds of high-resolution and quality Photoshop brushes that you can use to create vintage look in your design. The third and the last part are sets of patterns featuring retro or vintage styles. Read Best Design News
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
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
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
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
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
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
