40 Free UI Design Tools, Toolkits and Resources

Written by Robert on May 4, 2012 in Graphic Design, mobile, web Design

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User interface design grows and evolves on a continual basis. To stay current, you need to keep an eye on trends, new resources, and new techniques being implemented and talked about. And you also need to try things out on your own, and come up with original ideas and implementations. The UI Design tools listed below can help you do all of those things. Feel free to share any more resources you’ve found useful in the comment section below.

This article focuses on UI Design Tools and standalone applications, as well as resources that you’ll need to build your own wireframe: wireframing kits, browser windows, form elements, grids, Mac OS X elements, mobile elements, which you’ll use in any typical graphics editor such as Photoshop or Illustrator Or you could use pen and paper.

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45 Cool and Height Quality 3D Wallpapers

Written by Robert on May 2, 2012 in design, Graphic Design, Inspiration, Wallpaper

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Desktop wallpapers suggestions are always welcome since sometimes we don’t have time to browse to find one, so we check on the suggestions available at our favorite websites! We know that we can find tons of great wallpapers online.  For this post, we’ve collect 45 3D Wallpapers that you can download into your desktop. Each of these wallpapers that are featured are of different themes, so if you feel like checking them out one-by-one, feel free to do so. Who knows, you may get one for yourself. Read more…

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40 Business brochures Design for Inspiration

Written by Robert on May 1, 2012 in Graphic Design, Inspiration

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Brochures are one of the most powerful marketing tool for companies and organizations. Through brochures companies are able to tell people about their products or services as well as their mission/vision as a company or organization. In creating a brochure, design is a major factor such as the choice of color scheme, the size of the brochure, the printing process to be used or applied as well as the type of paper. These are just some of the major considerations when conceptualizing a brochure design.

Check out the brochures below to see what solutions other designers have come up with. If you need a reliable and affordable brochure printing company to print your design or brochure templates to make sure your design file’s all ready for printing, check out.

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35 Best Collection of Dirty Wall Textures

Written by Robert on April 30, 2012 in Graphic Design

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Texture describes the tactile quality of a form. Accurate rendering of an object’s texture is the key to very realistic drawing. Texture is very useful for every graphics and web designer that’s why we will post more high quality textures more often. With just a little tweak of imagination and creativity, they can already create good design artworks with it.

Today I will release the second free textures set for my readers/subscribers. Here is 11 free Grungy Wall Textures that you can use for your future project. We hope that this post will inspire you to add some textures into your designs as well. Feel free to download and share these textures to your friends. Read more…

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30 professional Web Designs Inspiration

Written by Robert on April 24, 2012 in Graphic Design, Inspiration

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Professional web designs / graphic designer, must have an online portfolio which exposes your work and sells yourself and your services. Today I would like to share 30 professional Web Designs for your Inspiration. This post is to inspire you with the fresh inspiring designs submitted by designers worldwide. I may publish your work here. Enjoy! Read more…

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50 Creative and High Quality Free PSD Files For Download

Written by Robert on April 23, 2012 in Freebies, Graphic Design, Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop ranks high among the ultimate tools used in graphic design and most designers wouldn’t even think of designing without Photoshop installed on their computer. Having high-quality PSD files can not only shave time from your workflow, but can also come handy for any rush jobs a client needs. PSD files allow designers to customize them according to their project needs and individual client tastes.

Here is the showcase of some fresh and high quality PSD files for you that you can download for free. All the PSD files are completely editable to match your requirements. So, take a look at this collection and enjoy!
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32 best Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Written by Robert on April 21, 2012 in design, Graphic Design, Photoshop, tutorial

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Photoshop is a powerful tool in the hands of a really skilful designer or photographer. It helps to bring your ideas into reality and mostly used for Photo Manipulation. These tutorials are made for those people who have creative mind and like experimenting with different effects. The tutorials listed below will help you learning various techniques of how to manipulate images using Photoshop.

In today’s post we bring together fresh Photoshop photo manipulation tutorials released in 2012. If you want to learn new techniques which you might not see yet then the below Photoshop tutorials are for you. Here is the collection.

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32 Useful and New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Written by Robert on April 19, 2012 in design, Graphic Design, Illustrator & Vector, tutorial

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Adobe Illustrator is one of the most powerful tool for creating vector graphics and can be used for creation of elements for web and print design. Illustrator uses mathematical equations to make shapes, this feature makes vector graphics scalable without the loss of resolution. It is very important to know what needs to be done to effectively use its tools and create certain effects. So these step by step tutorials will help you to learn how to create these amazing effects and illustration techniques.

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorialsbrushespatternsvector packstips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community. Read more…

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25 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils for Designers

Written by Robert on April 11, 2012 in Freebies, Graphic Design

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In this article we have 25 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils for Designers that are perfect for the initial mockup stage of a web design project. Most of the kits are editable and the kits are in either .psd, .ai or .png format, but you will also find some Omnigraffle stencils and some kits in .svg format. So, whatever your preferred format you are bound to find the perfect kit for you. Read more…

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35 Free Simple Textures for your Next design

Written by Robert on April 10, 2012 in Freebies, Graphic Design

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In this article, we collected some great texures that are extremely useful in decorating your designs to make your viewers feel that they have transported back in time. You will no longer spend much of your time in browsing vintage textures on your local antique shops or on your grandmother’s attic since we have already done this job for you. Here are 35 Free Simple Textures for your Next design. Hope that these wonderful pieces of art will be useful in designing your vintage-themed projects. Enjoy browsing! Read more…

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