Graphic design made simple
WELL!
My own t-shirt shop is finally online!
After almost 4 years of work and money saving, I am presently printing my own designs on American Apparel clothing!
You can find and buy these unique designs at my new website thirtsuniques.com
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We sometimes need a specific image, but don’t have the ability to draw it ourselves or can’t find a free clipart that fits what we need… WELL! Here are a few free Photoshop objects that should help some of your projects…
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Basic shapesNice full images that fit anywhere and can be easily modified for your own design. Always usefull. |
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ArrowsArrows from the same website. Again, these are always usefull to have around. |
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Decorative shapesWhen you need to decorate a page fast! Basic but still stylish… |
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SnowflakesFor your holiday and winter pages! |
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Holiday stars |
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Modern mixGreat mix of modern objects, to decorate your web page or printed design! |
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Vector circles… for a retro look |
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Foliage shapes 2WOW! What a set! If your a fan of foliage, curves and florish, you’ll download these objects very fast! Also: Foliage shapes 1 |
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Here are a few websites I found to get some tips and tutorials on making web layouts.
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Good TutorialsA lot of tutorials of different graphic styles |
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Talk-maniaTheme-based layouts. |
27 Best Photoshop Web layoutsA compilation of good tutorials. |
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Nature inspired web backgroundThe design is beautiful, but I’m not quite sure of the practicality of the method… The tutorial could be used for any other printed document or just a desktop background! |
This week I decided I would share some great fabric I scanned from a former client of mine: Eloise Ouellette, a great costume designer and creator.
She made this texture herself during her fashion design courses.
Some others will be coming, hope you enjoy!
This tip is for Illustrator CS2 and less, which don’t have the stroke outside option…
To avoid type that chokes between its stroke lines, try adding a stroke that is double the size you actually need.
If you want a 2-point stroke, change the stroke to 4 points.
Then, make a copy of your text and choose EDIT – PASTE IN FRONT.
Make sure that the stroke is NONE, and you’ll see a much more presentable outlined type.
Before, with a 6pts stroke
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After, with a 12 pts stroke and a no-stroke black text on top
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Here are some paper textures, often usefull to create volume or…. texture (!) to a business design.
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Paper texture kit |
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Paper texturesby Bittbox High res files |
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Paper vectorsby Bittbox Note pad paper made from scratch by bittbox… |
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Brown paper setby … Bittbox ! … the king of textures! |
While searching for a specific type of skull, I found all of these… I obviously didn’t try all of them, so I’d appreciate constructive comments! ;o)
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10 skull brushesby Q brushes Pirate-style vintage detailed skulls! |
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Round-up of 10 free skull brush setsI always like to find a lot of choices in one place! |
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Death brushesby BTP4U Seems to be a good quality! I Like the pirate/vintage feel of it. |
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Vector skull brushesby free-brushes.com Hi res stuff ! |
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Damaged death skull brusheson Brusheezy by KeepWaiting A LOT of brushes in this set! Don’t know about the quality though… |
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Vector skullsby Ben blogged This is NOT A BRUSH ! But I found them very nice and thought I should share… |
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Vector skulls packby mulpo.com Again, NOT BRUSHES, but you can use this vector file to scale it as you wish ! |
I got some great articles from Anidan Design. Hope you learn something from them! 
I’ll try to get some more, so we can all get better at what we do!
Some good tips from Design Reviver : The 15 Best Articles for designers
This link is in fact titled Design a grungy floating island, but by following the tips and instructions, you can easily create a lot of stuff from scratch, without brushes!! Totally unique!
Have fun!
I gathered a bunch of FREE icons that can be used for your website templates, for printed documents as cliparts… or even as icons ! 
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128 function icon setThey follow the trend with the glossy look… |
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Sketchy web iconsby Dawghouse Design Studio Nice original hand-drawn set of images. |
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Grunge peeling stickers by Dawghouse Designs Again, a big trend this year: peeling stickers! with a retro/grunge feeling on top of it! |
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Shopping bagsby i0D on Deviant Art Love these! So fashion, but still very usefull! |
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Audio, video and othersby jixi2000 on Deviant Art Nice BIG set ! |
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Practika setby Dry Icons on Smashing magazine |
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