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Free Vectors For Your Valentine’s Day Designs

Free Valentine's Day Vector GraphicsEvery now and then a certain holiday knocks in. Just like in 2012, this year’s Valentine’s Day is near and you will need some cool vectors preferrably for free. Whether it’s for your beloved ones or just a client who wants to send a beautiful love card to his/her Valentine.

TrueKolor comes in handy just in time. As there are too many sources for such occasions, I’ve hand-picked Read more »


High Quality Art Professions Icon Set

icon setJust wanted to share this beautiful icon set created by designers from BanzaiTokyo.com for Smashingmagazine.com, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License and totally free.

The set consists of 34 professionally designed PNG icons in eight sizes: 32×32 px, 48×48 px, 64×64 px , 72×72 px, 96×96 px, 128×128 px, 256×256 px, 512×512 px. Best is to see the preview of course: Read more »


New Guide: What’s New In Photoshop CS6

Hi, Photoshop lovers! I hope all of you could afford the latest Photoshop version – CS6. It’s worthy 200%! No,  I am not an affiliate, it’s just my opinion. If you are curious about what’s new in it, please don’t hesitate and download my latest guide. I’ve covered the most important new features and tools and how to use them.

Whether you’re looking to get the most out of your newly-purchased copy of CS6 or wondering whether it’s worth the upgrade, this ultimate outline will teach you all of the tricks and tools the latest version of earth’s best photo manipulation software can offer. Read more »


Photoshop CS5 Guide: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects

As I promised before, I’ve finished writing another Photoshop Guide titled “An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop, Part 4: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects” for MakeUseOf.com and now it is available for free download. No matter whether you are a beginner or an advanced Photoshop user, this guide will teach you some cool things for sure.

What will you learn in this guide?

This time, I’ll show you how to make use of some amazing features that came with CS5, such as Content-Aware and Puppet Warp and some handy tools that we had before the CS5 Read more »


Download Free T-Shirt, Hoodies, Crewneck and more Templates

If you are designing something for a T-shirt (or other clothing) you will need a template to put your design on it and see how it looks. Or, let’s say you are submitting your design to an online service like Threadless. Or you just want to show off before your friends online.

There are many free templates online, but I suggest downloading these – they are prepared by professionals, free and layered. All of them are available at Threadless.com, you can get them there of course, but I brought them to our site as well. Read more »


An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop pt III: Pro Tips (Free Download)

I’ve finished writing the Third part of Photoshop Guides for MakeUseOf.com and am really proud to announce it! It’s totally free and cool!
In this Pro Tips part I covered more than 30 most important Photoshop tips and tricks, which will be useful for both beginners and professionals (please believe, some of them you didn’t even know about). Moreover, I’ve included some detailed tutorials like Creating a YouTube Partner banner with links, How to create a favicon in Photoshop, Silhouette tutorial; Read more »


Awesome Photoshop Plugin to Make Grids Friendlier (FREE)

Free Photoshop ExtensionIf you have ever used Photoshop for any project where alignment/layout of elements is very important then you are familiar with Guides. Especially web designers, who deal with templates know what I am talking about. And calculating guide spaces is not the sweetest part of the job. Some skip this part and put guides relying on their eyes. But it’s not accurate.

Today I will share one of the greatest contributions to Photoshop extensions. Please welcome – GuideGuide. Created by Cameron McEfee, this extension/plugin is totally FREE and absolutely Awesome. If you are using Photoshop professionally, then you have to have it. This will make your life easier.

I’ve downloaded it and installed, tried just for a few minutes…the result is – this post to share the knowledge. Read more »


Free PDF Guides to Help You Start With Photoshop

I am currently working over another PDF guide on Photoshop, that’s why I thought it would be cool to give you the first two parts of the series. These guides are best for beginners – once you go through them you will not be scared when you open Photoshop for the first time.

The first two parts of  “An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop”  series of guides explain how to use some basic tools (from How to create a new document to How to add a fake tattoo to your photo and help you to get prepared for more advanced operations. The Part II was written by me and was downloaded more than 20800 times from MakeUseOf.com. Numbers don’t lie, Read more »


Ultimate Collection of Best Free Halloween Brush Sets

Halloween BrushesEven though we’ve already kissed Halloween goodbye, there might still be a need for some nice brushes. Some of us may have forgotten to send some scary e-cards to friends on time and now in need for nice brush sets. However, a nice collection of high-quality brushes is always a must-have for designers. Next year, you will remember my words, so get them now.
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12 Free and Fresh High-Quality Fonts Worth Having

12 Free Fresh Hi-Quality FontsFonts are a huge and very important part of design. Any design, as you see text in every design product. And choosing the right font for your text is not an easy task. There are just so many new fonts coming out everytime on the web. Mostly, the coolest and high-quality fonts are paid, but we find free ones for you (but they have various licenses though).

I am not posting just to post an article, for I want visitors be satisfied with information. Every time I write about fonts I do a thorough research and find only the best for you, so you don’t have to spend your precious time looking around for the right choice. We already have covered hundreds of coolest fonts on TrueKolor, so if you check back regularly you won’t miss a single one.

Today I’ve hand-picked 12 fresh fonts of high-quality and all of them are distributed for free by their authors, but please make sure you check the license before using them (some of them have restrictions) Read more »