More good stuff from Smashing Magazine. They’ve made available, for FREE, a really cool - albeit a small one - retro icon set. That is just too good to pass up.
Smashing Retro Icon Set
Smashing Magazine has put up a bunch of links to some great looking textures and patterns - free to download. Head on over there and check it out.
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns
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.
Using textures are undoubtedly a large part of many designers’ work in Photoshop. Having the right ones, and knowing how to use them right, can make or break a piece.
deviantART is a great place to use when looking for textures and inspiration, so I decided to put together a list in 2 parts of the 25 most popular texture collections on deviantART.
There’s patterns, tilable, large and small textures. Plenty of stuff to use in your digital art.
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
A little site news here.
I’ve added a new page - Stock Images. Here you can browse and search for free stock photos and images from Big Stock Photo all without leaving the comforts of this site.
I hope you’ll take advantage of it.
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

Web Design Ledger has an impressive list of free downloadable patterns for Photoshop. Whether you use them on your websites or in you digital art, there’s a lot to choose from with over 200 different colors / patterns. Click the links to start downloading.







