We all love designing, but lets face it- sometimes we just don’t have those creative juices flowing and we end up with an uninspiring and uncharacteristic design. On some occasions we just don’t have the time and we’re asked to produce a masterpiece in fifteen minutes. To aid you in your graphical struggles keepdesigning.com is giving away this ready made grunge design, that’s right, for the low low price of free this ready made grunge design template can be yours. It’s simple, just download the zip file containing the photoshop document, install the fonts, edit the text and photo layers, ding! your design is ready. Read the rest of this entry »

I just discovered a resource for excellent quality free wood textures for 2D or 3D use. The resolution of the scans are very high - all around 2100×3300 pixels. They range from subtle, light colored grains to some dark knotty woods. It helps to speak german if you’re looking for a specific type of wood. Below are just 3 samples of the 90 currently available files that you can find here at defcon-x.de.

Attention students- take your seats, just in time for Lent, we have these Ten Tantalizingly Terrific Textures Totally Free, whew… Tongue Twister. Check out these ten jpeg images (2200 x 1700 pixels) of random textures great for use as Photoshop layers to add some life to those dull designs, or use them for whatever your little artistic heart desires, enjoy- and remember to Keep Designing!

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This Photoshop tutorial combines two different vacation photos. Using a free Photoshop brush, a few layer effects and a little masking, we end up with a layered file (dowloadable) that demonstrates how to use adjustable effects to turn up the drama and maintain complete control of the amount - either crank it up or pull it back. If you find the file useful (or not), please leave a comment.

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The name of this album is “View from Hear”, there’s a play on words so I tried to do the same visually- the client and I went through various drafts before deciding on this design. The genre of music is Christian Rock, the goal was to not hit people over the head with Christian symbolism so I approached it with a neutral design first and then sprinkled subtle spirituality through out- Vuala. Read the rest of this entry »