Besides colors or objects, using animals in design to express an emotion is a very common method. Just like the lion in MGM which shows the power or Twitter’s bird spreading cuteness.
Although there are lots of animal themed design resources, it is almost impossible to find an organized one. So, here is a collection of 35+ free Photoshop animal brushes, vectors & icons to use or to get inspired.
Photoshop Animal Brushes
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For any designer with significant amount of Photoshop brushes installed, it is always a pain to navigate through the brushes & find the one you need.
ABRView is a free software that makes this process much easier. It allows you to define the folder(s) where brushes are installed & preview them.
Also, once you download a brush, although you have an opinion on how it looks, you can not be sure until installing it, running Photoshop & checking the look from the brush palette. As ABRView can display brushes from any folder, you simply save time on seeing how they look.
It has an .exe version for Windows & .jar version for Mac & Linux.
Compatibility: Windows, Mac & Linux
Christmas (& New Year) is getting closer & many websites will be creating themes for their designs/logos, designing special newsletters, banners & also, lots of materials will be printed.
So, designers are possibly in need of quality Christmas themed design objects.
This is a giant design pack which includes:
- Photoshop Christmas brushes
- Free Christmas vectors
- Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials
Here they are:
Christmas Vector Images
Gift Packs (EPS)
Vector Santa Claus, Christmas Tree & More
Christmas Frames (EPS & PDF)
Free Cards For Christmas (AI & EPS)
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Halloween is very close and many designers / website owners are probably in need of quality & free Halloween themed brush sets & vector images.
Here is a collection of very nice free design resources which includes pumpkins, witches, creepy trees, bats, skulls & more. To summarize, a complete design set for a Halloween-related event or a web content.
Vectors
Halloween Pumpkins
Halloween Pumpkin (Tutorial With Illustrator - Source Files Included)
Zombie Images
Vector Scary Faces
Halloween Vector Icon Set (added 10.28.2008)
Vector Pumpkin & Witch Hat
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BlendFu is a website featuring free Photoshop & GIMP brushes in a well-tagged presentation.
Users can upload their brush sets & even the designs they created using those sets.
Currently there are 900+ brush sets featured.
Brush sets have 3 different download package options:
- PS Creative Suite
- Photoshop 7.0
- GIMP
And, a great thing about BlendFu is, when you click on a brush set, you can view every single brush in the set in detail.
Circles, curves, stars, old cars, music cassettes, boomboxes & more. Retro design is always one of the popular trends.
This is a collection of beautiful retro Photoshop brushes & vector images to help you design faster & inspire.
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Important: Some resources are not free for commercial use. Make sure you check the licensing before using them.
Retro Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop Retro Shapes Brushes
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It is possible to find design resources in many themes. But, when it comes to oriental design resources, they are hard to find out as there are few free ones.
This is a collection of oriental Photoshop brushes & vector images for more mysterious designs : ).
The collection includes Chinese dragons, Japanese, Chinese & Arabic texts, people, houses, mosques & various figures.
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Important: Some resources are not free for commercial use. Make sure you check the licensing before using them.
Oriental Photoshop Brushes
Dragons & Animals
Here is a GIMP version of the Chinese Dragon brushes below.
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Using silhouettes & people illustrations in websites & print is what designers need in many situations.
This is a giant design pack of human-related brush sets & vector images like faces, full illustrations, fingerprints, hairs, beards, skulls & more.
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Important: Most of the images are free to use in commercial projects but some are not. So, be sure to check the licensing info before using them.
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Here they are:
Human Brushes
People Brushes
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We all use nature images like trees, clouds, flowers, sun & many other objects in our designs.
Doesn’t matter if it is a blog or a corporate site, nature images fit and needed everywhere.
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Important: Licenses of every image varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.
This is a resource pack of beautiful & free nature brushes & vector images. Here they are:
Nature Brushes
Cloud Brushes
Sun Brushes
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Web 2.0 styles, if you like the gradients and shiny looks, simply boost the design process.
Similar to the DezinerFolio Web 2.0 Photoshop gradients, 2EXPERTSDESIGN created a set of Fireworks Web 2.0 Styles which Fireworks users will find handy.
