• May 29, 2012
• ABR, PSD
• 16.6 MB
• 12 item
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This Photoshop brush set contains 12 dirty smudge brushes. The set was created by smearing dirt onto canvas. These brushes are excellent for creating texture in digital art, or for making grungy web backgrounds.

April – May 2012 Freebie Packs

Angeles is a font that is thick and dirty. It extrudes filth and grime like any good urban font face should. Apply Angeles to your designs and transform them into a decayed grungy layout that says “welcome to the underworld”.

This set of realistic lens flare brushes make adding light effects to your photo a snap. Just one click can add incredible lighting to your work.

Bello is a simple and elegant WordPress theme. It’s designed to showcase beautiful imagery in a clean and open space. The design features several jQuery enhancements, such as… Fading background image, slideshow gallery posts, drop down menus, and more.

This kit includes 12 Photoshop brushes, a layered PSD, a sample PSD, and the original paper scans as JPEGs. Use these files to easily create rough grungy paper overlay effects. Give your designs a dirty destroyed look with these textures and brushes.

This set of 25 free Photoshop actions includes retro and vintage style coloring, HDR toning, black and white conversion, and grainy style sepia tone processing. This is a great set of actions to have in your design arsenal.

Infographics are incredibly useful design kits that include data related graphics. Laying out charts and graphs can be an unwelcome chore for some designers, but with a handy vector infographic kit it can be easy and effortless.

One Resume is a free one page web template that features a smooth jQuery slide between sections of the page. This template is perfect for a solo designer to general personal page. The template is clearly coded and commented for easy editing and expandability.

This icon set includes 20 more stained social media icons for use in your grungy site designs. This set includes the new stumbleupon logo, google+, and Pinterest.

This pattern set contains 10 seamless TV noise patterns. These patterns are excellent for backgrounds and abstract effects.

This brush set features 10 awesome burn effects. Some of the brushes have holes that allow you to place textures or images underneath. Download this set and give you artwork a nice scorched effect.

This resource includes an editable PSD template for a Facebook timeline cover and a Twitter background. The files feature Smart layer editing, 5 seamless textures, 6 vector extras, and easy color editing. Place your logo, or simply use the template to include your name and title.

Statik is a bold font face with a hint of static via radio transmission. This font is great for creating a tech look to your designs.

This free resource includes everything you need to launch your own fixed position smooth slide out menu navigation. The download includes html, css and javascript code. The icon images used in the demo are also included. These icons are from the Aluminum Vector Icons set.

This free resource contains 20 soft blurred background textures. These images are great for web use, or as a product display. The patterns are beautiful and abstract.

This free pattern pack contains 10 carbon fiber styled textures. The patterns are completely seamless and work great for web backgrounds.

• May 29, 2012
• PAT, PSD
• 108 KB
• 10 items
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This free pattern pack contains 10 carbon fiber styled textures. The patterns are completely seamless and work great for web backgrounds.

• May 25, 2012
• TTF
• 45 KB
• 1 item
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Valla is a hand drawn font face. The shapes are bold and uneven. The letters are slightly staggered and various sizes. Each letter also features a slight splatter surrounding the character.

Step 1 – A Good Photo

Start with a good photo. This may seem obvious to some, but that’s not always the case. There’s no Instagram setting available that is going to turn a bad photo into a good one. Trust me.

For my little tutorial here, I found this great photo by linh.ngan.

Step 4 – Square is the New Landscape

Part of the appeal of Instagram, in my opinion, is the square cropping. Why? Because it’s different. It’s not portrait, it’s not landscape… it’s something completely new. Cropping a photo to a square can sometimes be a challenge. You want to try and get everything important into the square so the new photo reads the same as the original.

Here is the photo cropped using the Crop Tool (C). Hold the Shift key down as you click and drag out the crop area. Press the enter key to complete the crop.

Step 3 -  A Little Cross Processing

A little goes a long way here, so don’t overdue your cross processing.

To add the cross processed look, I created a Curves adjustment layer over my photo.

I used the following settings for my Curves adjustment.

Here’s a look at the photo with these adjustments. Pretty big difference for one simple adjustment layer, huh?

Step 4 – A Must-Have Vignette

What’s a vintagey Instagram look without a nice vignette? Or maybe you’re asking “What’s a vignette? A vignette is that darkened edge effect that you see on a lot of vintage photo effects. Here’s how to create one in a single step.

Create a new Curves adjustment layer. On the adjustment layer’s mask use a large soft black brush to paint a circle in the center of the image.

Now when you make this adjustment it will only effect the outer edge of the photo where the white appears on the mask. Adjust the RGB curve to something similar to what I have below.

Here’s a look at the newly created subtle vignette.

Step 5 – Blurring the Edges

Instagram gives you the option to blur the edges around the subject matter of a photo. You can control the position and size of the focus area as well. Lets take a quick look at how to achieve the same effect in Photoshop.

Duplicate the original photo layer, and create a new layer mask for the layer copy. Run a Gaussian Blur (Filter | Blur | Gaussian Blur), and choose an amount that blurs the details of the photo.

Now on the layer’s mask, use a soft black brush to paint the area that you want to be in focus. This is essentially revealing the layer below that is not blurred. For this photo I chose the area over the subjects faces.

Step 6 – Adding a Border

Some of the effects in Instagram add a cool border effect. For this image lets add a nice rounded white border. To do that, choose the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) from the tools panel. While holding the shift key draw a rectangle in the center of the image. This creates a vector shape layer. Cmd+Click the vector shape layer’s mask to create a selection from the shape.

Now create a new layer above all others, then press Cmd+Shift+i to invert the selection. Press (D) then (X) on the keyboard to reset the colors and make white the foreground. Then fill the selection by choosing (Edit | Fill) or by using the Paint Bucket Tool (G). You can now delete the vector shape layer.

There you have it! I hope this little exercise has inspired you to create your own Instagram style vintage photos. Experiment and have fun!

• May 24, 2012
• AI, EPS
• 4.4 MB
• 12 items
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These type explosion vector graphics are incredible visuals. They add instant punch grunge to your graphic designs. Download them now to give them a test drive.

• May 23, 2012
• PSD, JPG
• 17.9 MB
• 20 items
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This free resource contains 20 soft blurred background textures. These images are great for web use, or as a product display. The patterns are beautiful and abstract. The download also includes a PSD file containing all of the images in separate layers so that you can edit the reflection layer, adjust blending modes, or invert the color tones.

• May 22, 2012
• AI, EPS
• 1.7 MB
• 10 items
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Adding the appearance of random dust or particles in Illustrator can be a chore, as each shape would need to be created and placed by hand. We’ve simplified the task by creating these scatter brushes. These brushes include an assortment of vector particles which can be placed at random by simply drawing a brush stroke.

• May 21, 2012
• ABR, PSD
• 56.4 MB
• 15 items
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These Decayed Overlay brushes are perfect for adding grunge to entire photos, patterns or solid colors in just one click. The brushes create grit and dirty edges that give your artwork a wonderful texture.