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Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of "a pack of 10 BrushLovers brush sets of your choice" to 5 WRD readers.

Today, the winners are selected and announced at the bottom of this post, but, before that:

What is BrushLovers?

BrushLovers is a website with a serious collection of exclusive, paid and free Photoshop brushes.

There are already 100s of well-categorized brushes where new ones are added regularly.

The brushes provided can be used in personal and commercial projects (including the free ones).

Here are the winners:

• Morphonet (comment #268440)
• Ana M. (comment #268922)
• Joost Kiens (comment #269371)
• @BrianWhiting
• Damien (comment #268311)

Congratulations to all winners and thanks very much to everyone for joining it.

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BrushLovers, a website focused on sharing beautiful and exclusive Photoshop brushes, is giving away "a pack of 10 brush sets of your choice" to 5 WRD readers.

Details on "how to joining the giveaway" can be found at the bottom of this post. And, before that:

What is BrushLovers?

BrushLovers is a website which has an exclusive and huge collection of both paid and free Photoshop brushes.

There are 100s of brushes that are well-categorized and here are some examples.

Examples of grunge brushes:

Examples of nature brushes:

The brushes provided can be used in personal and commercial projects (including the free ones).

For the paid ones, they are offered for very good prices and can even be purchased for $1 or less by purchasing "packs" first, which is a good deal.

BrushLovers doesn't require registration, however, you can optionally become a member and add the sets you liked to your "favorites" for downloading later.

How to join the giveaway?

Joining the giveaway is pretty easy and there are 2 ways where you can choose any of them (or both to increase the chances):

• Comment to this article
• Tweet this article wish hashtag #wrdbrushlovers (click to tweet easily)

Winners will be selected randomly on 17 January 2011 (1 week later) and good luck to all.

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Hand-drawn design objects are always a popular choice to reflect a personal touch, warmth & sometimes; childeshness.

Although it is possible to create new designs via scanning drawings or designing with graphic tablets, using ready-to-use ones is always a good & quick choice as well.

In order to add a twist into any design easily, here is a collection of 37 beautiful hand-drawn Photoshop brush sets:

Swirls

Swirl Set

Swirly Scribbles

Twizzles

Whirls

Aesthetique Swirl

Flowers, Plants & Ornaments

Flower Brush Set

Paisleys

Floral Ornaments

Flowers & Vines

Plants

Folk-Art Floral Brush Set

Flower Doodles

Doodled Trees

Hearts

Hearts Set

Beautiful Hearts

Scribbled Hearts

Hearts

Two Tone Hearts

Arrows

Sketchy Arrows

Creative Doodles

Arrow Doodles

Hand Drawn Arrow Brushes

Various Objects

Doodles Set

Stick Men

School Days

Scribbles

Primitive Art

Beach Sketches

Various Doodles

Handmade Doodles

Pencil

Sketchbook Scribbles

20 Stencil Words

Dotted Brushes

Star Doodles

Frames

Hand Drawn Star Brushes

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myPhotoshopBrushes.com is a websites which features free Photoshop custom shapes, brushes and styles/gradients.

The website currently presents 350+ resources which are well-categorized like nature, abstract, symbols, etc.

It is possible to sort them by downloads, rating or added date which makes it easy to find the popular & new items.

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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

Various Animal Brushes (20 in the set)

Ancient-Like Animal Brushes (5 in the set)

Animal Prints (32 brushes)

A-Z Animal Brushes (70 in the set)

Hatchling Brushes

Photoshop Animal Tracks Brushes (32 in the set)

Photoshop Cat Brushes (16 in the set)

Bird Brush Set (17 brushes)

Horse Brushes

Various Animals

Antartica Brush Set (polar bears, deers & penguins)

Cartooned Animal Cubes (11 brushes)

Photoshop Cow Brushes

Animal Stamps (18 Photoshop brushes in the set)

Free Vector Animals

Jimiyo’s FREE Motorcity (Vector birds & more)

Free Vector Insects

Vector Eagles

Bird Silhouettes

Heraldic Symbols

Vector Safari And Zoo Animals

Sharks

Horses

Vector Birds

Octopus

Cheetah Stencil

Free Animal Icons

Cute Critters Icon Pack

Animals Icon Set

Tweeties: Twitter Birds

Underwater Icons

Safari Animal Icons

Animal Pins Icon Set

Zoom-Eyed Animal Icons

Feed Me Animals – RSS Icon Set

Twitter Bird Icons (.PSD & .PNG)

Kung Fu Panda Icon

Twitter Bird

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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.

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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)

Christmas Icons (EPS & PDF)

Christmas XP, Ornaments & More (PNG & ICO)

Vector Christmas Stars

Christmas Tree (AI & PDF)

Christmas Tree From Stars (AI file)

Christmas Tree With Gifts & Stars (AI file)

Vector Christmas Tree (AI & EPS)

Red Gift Bow

Gift Boxes & Ornaments

Ornaments For Christmas

Christmas Card Template (PDF)

Vector Snowman

Christmas Candy (PSD)

Christmas Objects (EPS)

Christmas Photoshop Brushes

Christmas trees, snowflakes & stars

Star Ornament Brushes

Paint Shop Pro Christmas Brushes (4 brushes)

Christmas Brushes With Text (21 brushes)

Ribbons To Beautify The Designs (12 brushes)

Various Brushes For Christmas

Christmas tree, santa & ornaments (8 brushes)

Design Items For Christmas

Christmas Trees (6 brushes)

Photoshop Christmas Ornament Brushes

Christmas Related Design Tutorials

3D Snow Globe

Snow globes are a part of Christmas & Winter. This Photoshop tutorial helps creating a chic one.

Night Before Christmas : Photoshop Tutorial And WallPaper

This tutorial (Photoshop) shows creating a nice & comforting wallpaper.

How to Create That Last-Minute Holiday e-Card in Photoshop

A detailed Photoshop tutorial on creating a Christmas E-card with few steps.

Drawing Christmas Trees

An Illustrator tutorial that presents creating snowy New Year trees.

Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop – Christmas Tutorial

This Photoshop tutorial, inspired from Dreamworks logo, shows how to create fluffy clouds (completed at a Christmas theme.)

Christmas Ornament Balls

Tutorial (Photoshop) to create Christmas ornaments. A very handy tutorial as ornaments are one of the master design elements of Christmas.

3D Text Effect: 2009

Colorful & 3D 2009 text for attractive new year designs.

A Nice Christmas Or New Year Card

A Photoshop tutorial for creating a good looking Christmas Card.

Gift Box Illustrator Tutorial

A tutorial on creating a charming gift box.

Christmas Hat

How to create a Christmas hat with Illustrator in few simple steps

Other (& Similar) Christmas Related Resources

• Christmas And New Year Icons
• 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 16 Stunning High Resolution Christmas Wallpapers
• 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials
• Free Christmas Vectors
• Christmas Icons and Christmas WordPress Themes

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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

Vector Pumpkin Package Template

Vector Halloween

Halloween Heads

Halloween Avatars (GIF, PNG, ICO & ICNS format)

Pumpkins PSD File

Pumpkin Patch PSD File

Witch PSD File

Brushes

Pumpkin & Creepy Cat Brushes

Various Halloween Brushes

Happy Halloween Pumpkin Brushes

Bat Brushes

Classic Halloween Brushes

Dark Wings – (GIMP version)

Assorted Halloween Brushes (25 brushes in the set)

Pumpkin Brushes

Pumpkin, Bat, Spider Brushes & More

Halloween Pumpkin Brushes

Halloween Brushes (17 Brushes)

Photoshop Hallows Eve Brushes

Set Of Various Halloween Brushes

Skull Brushes

Vintage Halloween Brushes (5 brushes)

Zombie Brushes (5 brushes)

Creepy Tree Brushes (12 brushes)

Hope that these resources will help you create your Halloween-related designs easier & faster.

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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.

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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.

You may also like:

• 55 Free Human Brush Sets And Vector Images – Giant Design Pack
  
• 64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors – Giant Design Pack
• Oriental Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images For Mysterious Designs
• Photoshop Heart Brushes Collection

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

Photoshop Retro People Brushes

Vector Retro Images

Format of these free vector images varies (Illustrator, Freehand or Photoshop).

There are not too many free retro vector images around & these are some of the most beautiful ones.

Vector Retro Shapes

This is a vector retro rainbow curves tutorial with a downloadable PSD file:

This is a tutorial for creating retro 3D vector stars with downloadable EPS & SVG files:

If you know other free retro Photoshop brushes or vector images, please mention them in the comments to make the list better.

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