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Webby freebies » photoshop 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 Awesome Photoshop Brushes you Probably Haven’t Seen Before http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/free-awesome-photoshop-brushes/ http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/free-awesome-photoshop-brushes/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:02:38 +0000 admin http://www.webbyfreebies.com/?p=1484 There are lots of cool things you can do with brushes in Photoshop. This post contains a list of awesome brushes that you probably have not seen before. All brushes below are free, of course, and made by extremely talented graphic designers. If you like these brushes you might want to see this post with coffee stains brushes too. I hope will you will like them!

Veruct Brushes

3D Abstract Lines

Tribal Kittehs

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Spiral Brush Set

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Attack Brushes

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Stars Brushes 2

Six Smoke Brushes

Water Splash Brushes

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25 Cloud Brushes Volume 2

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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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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If you have not learned how to make a web design template in Photoshop yet than this post from BeCreative magazine a very good start.

2 Breed Template

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Solitude Template

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Shape

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Projection Template

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Hosting Layout #2

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Simple, modern web template

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Orange

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Free PSD Website Template

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Environmental Template

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e-Commerce

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DelliStore Template

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Fresh Template

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Free Portfolio PSD Template

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Business Company PSD Template

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]]> http://www.webbyfreebies.com/themes/14-awesome-free-psd-website-templates/feed/ 0 115 really cool splatter brushes for Photoshop http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/11-really-cool-splatter-brushes-for-photoshop/ http://www.webbyfreebies.com/graphics/11-really-cool-splatter-brushes-for-photoshop/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:21:20 +0000 admin http://www.webbyfreebies.com/?p=162 Yeah, as the title says. This is a post with 115 really cool Photoshop splatter brushes. However, I think they are really heavy. Particularly Bittbox’s brushes set that you can use to do nice wallpapers, brochures and so on. And so can you do with the others. Enjoy!

Splatter brushes by Smashing Magazine

Hi-Res Splatter Brushes by Bittbox

High Res Splatter Brushes by Lucidity

Photoshop Splatter Brushes by BenBlogged

Blood Splatter Brushes by QBrushes

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