50 Superb & Free PSD Files From Dribbble To Learn From The Best

  Either for self-promotion or simply for goodwill and to help others, the truth is that finding free resources and inspiration can be a really easy task. If you are an experienced designer, you know the best way to learn is by just looking and studying other people’s work. PSD files can be a powerful way to learn and fulfill your work expectations.

Today, one of the main references for this purpose is definitely Dribbble. Dribbble is not only an awesome place to be inspired by many talented designers. You can actually stumble upon some fantastic free PSD files and examine them and learn more.
This collection includes some fantastic UI kits, a lot of assets for web and graphic design, as well as a few cool icons. These PSDs are as perfect for learning as they are for your future projects. Personally I haven’t practiced learning from PSDs lately but by checking out some of these I surely realized how much you can learn from a well-built PSD.

Do You Want to Be a Famous Designer?

Every designer would like to be recognized and even some wants to be famous. For those who want to be a famous designer, we have a few tips to help you. Getting famous doesn’t happen overnight so you really have to work hard on it. Some designers wants fame for this could give them lots of benefits, like you will have more clients (and these clients are famous people too!) and you will have a higher rate. Being famous may also mean you could have more income. Let us find out how you can be famous as a designer.

73 Blog Designs From Deviantart You’ll Never Forget

For some long time I’ve been gathering great blog designs from deviantart to get inspired and now I will showcase them all in one huge article!! Surprisingly finding great ideas and designs have been much easier in Deviantart than any other web design showcase sites.
I didn’t add any comments this time – compare these designs yourself and try to understand why ones really stand out, well others seem a little bit classical. Notice small things, how designer puts a little bit unique style in its design to make emphasis like folding, comment,date boxes which stand out from layout, icons, background textures and nice shadings.

What  I noticed though – for blog designs light colors always look better and are more user-friendly since visitors need to read information – light background and dark text always seem to work great!

45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts

One of the trends in creating site designs right now are in Hand Drawn Concept. And talking about Hand Drawn Design, using a Hand Drawn Fonts is mostly a must to match the design. On this matter I list down 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts. This are the most popular hand drawn fonts that used on the web and free to download. Most of these are available under a Creative Commons License. Make sure to check details before using for commercial use.

FFF Tusj

Grutch Shaded

Free Photoshop Actions for photo manipulation

Photoshop actions can be a tremendous time-saving tool for designers and photographers. You can either create your own actions or take advantage of the many that are freely available from the community of Photoshop users. This post is a collection of 60 actions (actually more since many of them contain multiple actions) for touching up or enhancing photographs.

Free Photoshop Actions:

Photo Colouring 11.2

Soft Touch Action

Digital Painting Tutorial

What it covers
Basic principles about coloring and shading skin and clothes
Basic masking technique
Basic layer management
A few tips and thoughts

What it does NOT cover
Painting hair (this will come later)
Advanced techniques about stuff (you guys have to experiment and try things out by yourself )

 This said, I hope you will find it easy to understand, and easy to follow.
You don't need to be an advanced user to use it. The only tools you will use in there are the brush tool, the zoom tool, and the eyedropper (maybe). No fancy brush, no fancy filters, no fancy thing that no one understand.

This tutorial was made on and for photoshop CS3.
BUT! It will will work just as fine on older versions (I'm not sure about before 6.0, I haven't used those in a long time), and could probably be even adapted to other softwares such as Gimp or PainterPro or whatever there is out there.

400+ Files, Tutorials, and Inspirations for Nature Inspired Design

Eco care is a major concern today. Almost everyone if putting his focus on environment today, and it is no surprising that the “going green” trends will be reflected within web design. There are so many beautiful things to be found natural that make a great design element. Here we have collected some web design samples for your inspiration and some tutorials, textures, brushes to help in designing a nature inspired design.