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I hope you liked the first part, because it’s time for the second installment of the two-part post.

Here’s the remaining 13 texture collections from the most popular 25 texture packs on deviantART.

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Using Photoshop with Illustrator is like cookies and milk. As delicious as they are seperately - they’re even better when used together. Vandalay Design has a list of great tutorials using Illustrator and Photoshop to accomplish something extra-ordinary.

25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results

The blog - Design Your Way - has a new collection of…everything.  Photoshop and Illustrator Brushes, Textures, Patterns, Icons, PSD Files, Fonts, Wordpress Themes, and Wallpapers. Phew, that was a long list.

Here’s the link.

More free resources for designers to download

Seeing as today’s a slow news day, I’ve been digging through my bookmarks in order to find something good for you today. I found a good post on Noupe for you with loads of tutorials, brushes and much more.

80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources

Smashing Magazine has a batch of a 100 great looking, free textures for you this afternoon. Below is your link.

I hope everyone has a good weekend, and I’ll see if I can scrounge up some nice links for you during the weekend, even though the big sites take Saturday and Sunday off.

100 Beautiful Free Textures

Six Revisions has compiled 15 Illustrator tutorials for you, all with the common theme of logo design. So if you need some inspiration or just some more Illustrator hours under your bel - here’s plenty to get you started.

15 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials Using Illustrator

PSDTUTS has a new collection of 50 great free brushes for Photoshop.

There’s some really great, odd, fun and awesome brushes in there. So make sure you click on the link below and hean on over there to start downloading.

50 Insanely Weird but Awesome Photoshop Brushes

Eyes On Tutorials has a short Photoshop tutorial on making a “Color Nuke”.

There’s some creative tips in there on custom brushes, color use and the end result is in my opinon - fantastic. Check it out below!

Color Nuke - Special Effects

Adobe Illustrator is a great tool to use for adding that Illustrator touch to your designs and art.  If you haven’t got a great deal of experience with it, blog. SpoonGraphics has a bunch of tutorials for Illustrator. Go take a look by clicking the below link.

50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See

Making your text stand out in order to make an impression is probably the most important thing when designing. Instantshift has compiled a huge  list of tutorials for making awesome text effects in Photoshop.

65+ Smoking Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials