Design Shard

Friday Freebie: Old Vintage Paper Tag

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome ( pretty obsessive haha ) so I took a snap of it and removed the background and the text so its great for adding to web designs or photo manipulations.

The tag is in .PNG format with a transparent background, one with the text and one with it removed, in the preview i used a Burlap Texture for the background i released on Texture Lovers which you can also download for free.

What Size is it?

The tag is about 1776 x 578 px so its pretty big to work with, which is always a good thing!

Download Via RapidShare

http://rapidshare.com/files/248593670/designshard-old-tag.zip

Download Via MediaFire

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjydntm5zyy/designshard-old-tag.zip

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Usage Terms

Use it for Commercial and Non Commercial Projects for free, No credits required but please don’t redistribute or repackage and sell it.

Do You Like It!

What do think of it? will this be useful at some point? leave a comment

25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

I’ve collected some great examples of space and lighting effects that are quite commonly used in web design these days as inspiration, usually accompanied by vivid colours and streaks of light, which is currently one of my favourite styles.

If your interested in creating space effects you might want to check out the space and planet Photoshop tutorials post I put together.

45 Royale

The Beatles Rock Band

Studio 7 Designs

Sourcebits Nerve

Revyver

Radiiate

Pure Dezigner

Klick Studios

Kavoon

Satellite Dev

RJ Designz

Larva Labs

Jan Pivonka

Noe Design

Monofactor

Ligne 13

Honey Design

Gummisig

Evan Ekard

Brain Fart

Australia 2018

Amber Miro

Albert Lo

365 Days Of Astronomy

Votaw

Comments

Do you like this style of web design or do you find it too over powering. Your thoughts are apreciated please leave a comment below.

19 Awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet, I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for some thing a little bit different.

Candy Coated Text

Smooth Glass Type

Slow Shutter Effect

The Original slow shutter tut is unavailiable but some one kindly uploaded it…

Glassy Text Effect

Text In Stitches

Milk Typography Effect

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Smoke Text Effect

Papercraft Text Effect

Creating the Sky Logo

Write a message in Sand

Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration

3D Oasis Text Scene

Gooey Text

Funky Sticker Style Text

Liquid Text Effect

Metal Chrome Text

Gold Text Effect

Comments

Do you have any favourite effects, or have you seen some other text effect tutorials on the web that you like, please feel free to share them in the comments.

New Site Launch: Texture Lovers

You may or may not know I’ve been working on a little side project and now its ready to be launched so here it is Texture Lovers and a little bit about it below.

About The Site

Texture lovers is a site that only collects free to use textures that can be used for commercial and personal use without permission, but you’ll also find texture related inspiration and tutorials.

1) If you have free to use textures you can submit a link to me and ill add them to the site. (You can also see the nice leather texture in the close up.)

2) Its really easy to share Texture Lovers with your twitter friends just click the twitter bird and it will take you to twitter and make a message for you to update you status, why not even follow Texture Lovers on Twitter.

3) That symbol means “external link” you’ll see it on the archive pages and main page, this takes you directly to the website so you don’t have to bother clicking in to the post if you don’t want.

If you do click on the image that will take you to the post and you can see related posts and other information about the post.

4) You can easily see which category a post has be filed under hopefully this will make it easy to go straight to the category your most interested in.

5) You can browse by tags if you want to find something more specific, in the future I shall be adding a archive of all the tags on the site but at the minute you can see the 10 most popular tags.

Close Ups

Updates

I’ve still got plenty of textures that i have to add and the site will be continually updated until we’ve got every last one added!

Feedback

Take a look around the site and let me know what you think in the comments on here, do you think that this site might be helpful for you?, let me know you feedback id be happy to hear from you.

Credit to Wefunction for the screenshot presentation idea.

Textures For Commercial & Personal Use with No Attribution

Hello everyone it seems quite a while since my last post, but ive been working on a new project!

The New Project

The new project is actually almost finished and ready to be released its sort of like a directory for textures from around the web but only for free textures that can be used for commercial and personal use without giving attribution (this means you can optionally give credit back to the person who made the textures)

Steven Snell from designm.ag made this post 12 blogs with freebies for commercial design use which demonstrates some great blogs offering these types of textures and freebies.

Do you have Free Textures?

Have you created any textures that you have released under the creative commons license (same as Flickr) and you waiver the attribution (meaning its optional for someone to give credit back to you when used in a piece of work) or you would like to.

Waivering the attribution is important!

Please leave a comment with a link to where your textures can be found and ill do my best to add them to the new site.

Note: The textures will not be hosted on the site and will be directly linked to, I understand that in most cases it is strictly forbidden to sell and redistribute the textures.

Your Details

If possible leave you full name or a name that people know you best as, along with your link to the textures, because ill be making a list of people who give permission to use their textures on the about page of the site.

Alternatively you can use the contact form, to let me know that you have free to use textures, if you prefer not to leave a public comment.

Does this make sense to you?

I hope this made some sense and isn’t confusing you, let me know if you don’t fully understand in the comments and ill try to clarify.