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Webby freebies http://www.webbyfreebies.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:40:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Collection of Extremely Beautiful Free Water Textures http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/collection-of-beautiful-free-water-textures/ http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/collection-of-beautiful-free-water-textures/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:34:56 +0000 admin http://www.webbyfreebies.com/?p=1523 Are you tired of using solid colors as a background for your web design projects? In this post you will find beautiful water textures that you can download for free and use as backgrounds. Let your imagination come to you and just download some of these textures and see what you can do with them. I hope you will enjoy them.

Sea Texture 1

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Water Texture

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Water Texture 7

Water On Glass

Water Texture

Water Texture 12

Water texture

Water 07

Water

Poolwater

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Lato

Bigmouth

League Script #1

CODE

Dekar

Lane

Quicksand

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Zag

Deibi v1.0

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Veruct Brushes

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3D Abstract Lines

Tribal Kittehs

Spiral Brush Set

Attack Brushes

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Stars Brushes 2

Six Smoke Brushes

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Water Splash Brushes

25 Cloud Brushes Volume 2

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Paint Stroke Brushes Set

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1. Start with the background

Allright… Open a new document and size it to 1200×1200 or something like that. We are going to start to create a nice background. For that I use a flat color, in this case #121212, don’t use color overlay because we are going to add noise. Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and do like I did on the picture here:

2. Add lights

We want some lights on the background to make it look a little bit more dynamic. Pick the brush tool, size it up to 620px and the hardness to 0%. Create a new layer and click one time in the middle of the document. Then set the layer opacity to 25%. Add the same amount of noise to this too. It should now look like the image below.

3. Create the box

Use the Rounded Rectangle Tool with a radius of 3px and fix the size to 320×420 px. Now create a new layer and put a rectangle in the middle of the light that we did on the second step. Open Blending Options for the new layer and do like I did on the picture below.

4. Add the information

Now it is time to type the text about yourself. For the titles I use Arial, 14px, bold and for the normal text i use Arial, 12px, normal text-weight. I think you can figure out how to do it yourself. Take a look at the image and do like that. I also added the animated picture of myself in the right corner.

5. Place the social network icons

For this you have to download an icon set. I use Simple circular social media icons pack for this one but you can ofcourse use another if you want. Start to open up the facebook icon, copy it and paste it on your document. Make sure that you put this new layer below the box-layer. Open Blending Options and change the settings so that it looks like this:

Now you got a nice shadow on your little icon. Place the icon on the right side behind the box. It should look like this:

Do this step over and over until you have all the icons that you want on your contact page.

6. You need a logo

In this case it is your name. You can actually do this step however you want but I will show you how I did. For my name I use the font Fertigo Pro with a font-size of 56px. This layer is also important to be placed below the box layer. Again, open Blending Options for this layer and change the settings as below.

Result

This is how it should look right now and thats all! I hope that you have enjoyed my first tutorial on Webby freebies. Take a look at these icons that can be used instead of those I used in the tutorial.

Three nice free icon sets

Social Media Bubbles: Icon Pack

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Free Social Media Icon Set

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Social media icons

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1024×640 – 1280×800 – 1440×900 – 1680×1050 – 1920×1080

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Examples of websites

Icon sets to Download

Human 02

Set of social icons

Icon Pack: 256×256 Business Icons

Star Trek Props: TOS 2

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Office Icons

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15 Fantastic Collections of Free Icons

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Gallery 1.2

Demo | Download

BlueBubble

Creative by Nature

Demo | Download

Portfolio WordPress Theme

Demo | Download

Irresistible

Demo | Download

Viewport

Demo | Download

SimpleFolio

Demo | Download

Imbalance

Demo | Download

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1. Ad Injection

This is my absolute favorite plugin. I use it myself on many of my other blogs and I think it works very well. This plugin has features that many others have not. You can include rotating banners and easily add Adsense ads in the sidebar.

2. Easy AdSense

This WordPress plugin is simple, while it is full of necessary and incredible features at the sametime. With this plugin it is very easy to place Google ads wherever you want them.

3. Advertising Manager

This is the plugin for those who want to use and display ads from many different known services in advertising, like Adsense, Adify and Commission Junction. The simplicity also makes this plugin to one of the best.

4. AdSense Now!

Adsense Now! is a plugin that is constantly updated and a good reason to use this plugin is that it has multi-language support. Plus you can easily place ads anywhere on your entire blog.

5. Google Adsense Dashboard

Google Adsense Dashboard may be one of the coolest tools available. With this plugin you can see your earned money in the dashboard of your admin panel. Check it out, you will not be disappointed.

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1. A nice background texture

This is not necessary if you prefer plain backgrounds, but I think that it’s more fun with a bit pattern. Take a look at some examples that you can download and use for free. If you would like to see more textures then you can browse the Graphics category.

Brick & Stone: Texture Pack

10 Free High-Quality Jeans Textures

9 Free Hi-Res Wood Panels Textures

2. Brushes

If you want to get some life into your website, it might be an idea to use different brushes to spice it up.

115 really cool splatter brushes for Photoshop

35+ Must Have And Fresh Free Nature Themed Photoshop Brushes

3. Icons

A few nice small icons can never be wrong right? You can find more icons in the Icons category.

Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

Panda social network icons for free

Archigraphs Collection Icons

4. Fonts

Stylish Typography is very important for websites today. Here are some examples below.

GOTA

Fertigo

League Gothic

5. A little bit of love and fantasy

Now I can not help you anymore. Grab a cup of coffee, an LSD pill and drift away in your imagination. Just watch out for those pink elephants.

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50 High-Resolution Wallpapers

60 Must-See Creative Vector Wallpapers on DeviantArt

40 Stunning Ubuntu, Mac, and Windows Wallpapers

78 Stunning Landscape Desktop Wallpapers

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