The people who are following these accounts can then see your tweets which could mean some much more targeted traffic, here are the ones that i found.

Finding news about #design and #webdesign and RT them

hashwp #wp
Finding news about #wp and #wordpress and RT them

Retweeting the people who talk about #wordpress

Finding news about #win and #windows and RT them

Retweeting #html #css #htm #xml

Finding news about #social and RT them

Finding news about #php and RT them

Finding news about #photoshop and RT them

Finding news about #photo and RT them

Finding news about #linux and RT them

Finding news about #joomla and RT them

Finding news about #java and RT them

Finding news about #iphone and RT them

Finding news about #fail and RT them

Example of Hash Tags In Use

Here you can see the #wordpress tag in action this can then be re-tweeted by the hashwordpress account, but obviously you can tag any of your tweets with any thing you want making it easy to use twitter search to find relevant content.

Comments

Do you know of any twitter accounts that re-tweet your specific tweets? Please leave a link in the comments

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Trent Cruising

Squarespace

Theater Website Services

Serj

Mediocore

Macalicious

Yourt Web Job

Jamison Banham

Alcomi

Us trendy

Poolie Studios

Pixel-House

Twiistup

Source Bits

Sergey Stanchev

Icon Dock

Graphik

Future Tap

Fernando Sergio

Feels TV

Digimurai

Design Disease

Causecast

Box Wish

Code Art Media

Comments

Seen any more light effects in designs any where feel free to leave a link in the comments.

A few of you may know that I’m really in to my ornaments and swirls so you can get a bit of inspiration from this post I wrote earlier: Ornamental design inspiration - Baroque

Download The Background

There are 3 variations to choose from below - Right Click the image and “Save As”

Light

Dark

Stained

The subtle stains were added using my free grunge stained paper textures.

Example In Use

Click the image to see a biger preview

Comments

If you use it on your twitter profile feel free to post a link in the comments so we can all see it in action

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This one isnt really a tutorial beacuse it doesnt supply any of the assets to complete it, but i thought id ad it here to serve as inspiration.

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

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

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.

Candy Coated Text

Smooth Glass Type

Slow Shutter Effect

Glassy Text Effect

Text In Stitches

Milk Typography Effect

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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.

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.

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.

These Textures have been kindly contributed by Robert who has been shooting some textures for you, feel free to follow him on Twitter, and if you would like to contribute any thing to design shard please get in touch with me.

In total there are 15 high resolution Concrete textures in this pack, with the extra details such as oil stains, dirt and grime, Ideal for adding some fine detail to a piece of work.

Roberts Textures On Flickr

You can see many of Roberts Textures on Flickr which I’m sure he will be gradually growing in to a great collection.

If you want to download all of these textures choose one of the options below.

Rapidshare Download (20.2mb Zip File)

http://rapidshare.com/files/234215418/Concrete_may-2009_hellogreenstar.com.zip

Mediafire Download (20.2mb Zip File)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2nmjnjwemyu/Concrete_may-2009_hellogreenstar.com.zip

Additional info:

• Quantity: 15 Images
• Resolution: 2080 x 1368
• Contains: Concrete

Usage Terms

Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

A Closer Look

SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE

Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !