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Cool Backgrounds: Colorful Spectrum

Kendall — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:43:02 +0000

On the eve of this new year, we thought it would be appropriate to share a festive, cool background image of a colorful spectrum. The spectrum background was created in Photoshop using the noise, motion, and box blur filters, with some gradient overlays and blending applied as well. It’s a pretty cool effect for a background image. The background would look great in photo manipulations, on its own in web pages, and anything else you can think of. The file is a .png (was produced in 16-bit color) and is 1248 x 1200 pixels.

Like all our content on Ars Grafik, this cool background image is free for personal and commercial use. Please do not hotlink directly to the download, and links, tweets, and credits are appreciated! Please refer to our terms of use for more information and clarification regarding usage rights.

Vintage Bird + Flower Pattern

Kendall — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:13:13 +0000

Today’s awesome design freebie from Ars Grafik is a vintage/retro bird and flower pattern, good as both a Photoshop pattern and an Illustrator pattern. It was inspired by some retro fabric I recently fell in love with. It’s a playful, creative, and retro pattern, and it’s free to you! The pattern download includes an .ai file with pattern swatch, .pat file of the design, and a lossless, high-res .png for use in any other digital art program.

This design freebie is free for personal and commercial use. Please refer to our terms of use for more information about usage rights.

Photoshop Textures: Diamond Background

Kendall — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:28:21 +0000

In this free Photoshop texture download, you will receive a set of 5(!) diamond background textures, all of which are grunge textures. The background textures are a standard 1400 x 1400 pixels and have gradient fade-to-black edges, which means you don’t have to do anything to get them web-ready.

The diamond backgrounds consist of five color schemes: red, monochrome, grunge pink, umber, and circus. Here is a preview of what you will get in this free download of Photoshop textures:

Monochrome

Girly

Circus

Red

Umber

Hope you enjoy!

7 Victorian Damask Background Textures

Kendall — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:54:10 +0000

For today’s design freebie, we’re giving away a pack of seven(!!) Victorian damask background textures. These textures are web-ready with faded gradient edges on each so you don’t have to do anything to prep them; simply change your site’s background color to the color referenced above each image so it continues to fade to that specific color for larger screen sizes. The images are 1400 x 1400 pixels, giving you a lot of space to work with. I’ve cut a width-wide slice of each so you can get a preview of the background textures (they’ve also been reduced in size from 1400 px to 685 px). The set includes a Victorian grunge texture, as well as others in shades of yellow, black, silver, pink, violet, and white.

Please note that the file is rather large at 12+ MB, so help us pay for our bandwidth by linking/tweeting/digging, etc. At Ars Grafik, all our content is free for personal and commercial use. You may not hotlink to the download or claim it as your own by redistributing. Please refer to our terms of use for more information and clarification. Links and credits are appreciated!

Victorian Damask Background Texture: White

This white texture uses #ffffff for the gradient edges.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Violet

The violet background texture uses #eee9e6 as its gradient edge fade.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Silver

The silver Victorian background texture uses #e9eff0 for the faded edges.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Grunge

Victorian grunge background is simply #ffffff.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Yellow

The yellow Victorian background texture’s gradient edges fade to #d5d1a1.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Pink

The pink gradient edges fade to #edb6d9.

Victorian Damask Background Texture: Black

Black is black. #000000

Invisible Eye

Evan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:09:19 +0000

Note from ArsGrafik

Today we are pleased to offer another great pattern set from artist Dovi Vausk. Look for three classic vector patterns in this set.

Message from the artist

These 3 patterns is a result of very nice tutorial of Computer Arts Projects. I was inspired of very simple graphic element which has a form of eye. Just have a nice use of these patterns.

Baroque Plant and Flower Vectors

Evan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:02:21 +0000

Note From Ars Grafik

Several month ago we brought you one of our absolute favorite free vector graphics called “Animal Skulls” by our friend Sabastiano over at WeGraphics. Today we are pleased to be offering another fantastic freebie from Sabastino, this time it a medley of Baroque style Plants and Flowers. There are endless uses for these kinds of graphics, from borders to backgrounds, and from prominent to subtle.

While you are waiting for the download to complete, be sure to swing by WeGraphics to check out the wide variety of vectors both free and available through an annual subscription.

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Ars Launches CSS Gallery

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:36:10 +0000

We are pleased to announce the launch of a side project we’ve been working on: Ars CSS Gallery, a web design gallery showcase full of the latest web design trends and techniques. We’re not talking tables here, folks!

Go visit Ars CSS Gallery for inspiration, or submit your own stunning websites and get some industry recognition for all your hard work!

Ars CSS Gallery

Free Vector Twitter Icons

Evan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:44:46 +0000

Note From Ars Grafik

Today we have the pleasure of offering this uber cool set of handdrawn twitter bird vector graphics. This set includes some illustrated birds with the twitter logo and some without as well as a good variety of actions. We want to extend a very heartfelt thanks to StockGraphicDesign for making this collection available to us. be sure to check them out when you are looking for very nice premium works or samples to play with!

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Soft Glow Background

Kendall — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:54:25 +0000

Abstract, cool web backgrounds are in high demand these days, and there are many ways you can pack a lot of punch into a small image size to save on load times for your users. Today, we’ve created a set of 8 web backgrounds in various colors–including the source files!!! These backgrounds span 1600 x 50 pixels, and the image resolution can be minimized even more if you so desire. The soft glow effect is created from a 1-pixel line of different vertical gradients, so crop the PNG down to a 1-px line, span it down the page, and you’ll get the same effect. Make sure to set the background color of your web page the same as the edge color on the image, and you’ll be golden!

Free for commercial and personal use. Please check our terms of use for more information.

Seattle Skyline Vector

Kendall — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:54:59 +0000

While working on a recent design project, I needed a Seattle skyline vector and couldn’t find one anywhere! So I made one up myself and thought you might appreciate it next time you need a city skyline vector.

I love Seattle’s cityscape–especially because the Space Needle makes it a very recognizable skyline (all you Seattle natives might not be as crazy about the Space Needle, but it really has made a place for itself… at least in the skyline!).

The vector is easy to work with, so you can change the colors and lighten it up if you’re looking for a more generic skyline shot.

Free for personal and commercial work. You may not hotlink to the download or claim as your own. Please see our terms for usage.