Design Inspiration by Squid Fingers

Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007

These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
squid fingers pattern
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.

Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap

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Think Color

Posted by Snap! on August 3rd, 2007

We often find seasoned bloggers using clean templates with little or no color and hardly any imagery. Colors and graphics do make a theme visually appealing, however they do conflict with the content if not used carefully. All themes cannot be plain and generic though, so for those of you who love colors and are constantly looking for inspiration, here are a few resources (which some of you might be familiar with) to jazz up your themes!

Colour LoversCOLOUR lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends by providing not only color galleries, but a palette of the trendiest colors in the blogosphere based on a variety of genres. It would serve as a good reference guide for web design, architectural specifications, interiors, product design, ad campaigns, magazines, etc. You can also suggest a website of your choice for an add. It’s cool and contemporary, and one of the hottest sites for color resources.

Color Combos offers a variety of irresistible features such as:

9 Rules Logo ColorsCombo Tester: Extracts colors from websites, gives complimentary color options, gives text color options, and you can even try your own template with different header, sidebar, footer color and text options.

Color Library: For color combination ideas

Articles: On colors, color meaning and application.

Daily color scheme (Beta) provides you one inspirational and usable easy color scheme a day. If you do not want to use the colorpicker or the eyedropper tool, this site is for you. As of now, you cannot make a search to get instant color information of a site that is not listed in their archives. The enhanced search feature will definitely make it a steal.

Color Burn Widget

The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day with 4 colors, along with its hexadecimal values. Each daily palette has the option to change your background from black to white and back again. Previous palettes are saved for one week.

Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Mix, match, darken, lighten, and add your own color combinations to the gallery.

Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, Colors, Colour lovers, Design Inspiration, Dot Dot Dot, Graphics, Hearts, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Resources, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Themes, color burn, color combos, color schemer studio, daily color schemes, wpsnap

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Graphic Design Inspiration

Posted by linda on August 2nd, 2007

Do not make derivatives of these greeting cards. Just a bit of inspiration from O+D for your designs.

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Tagged: Bittbox, Creative, Graphic Design, Graphics, Inspiration, PimpDaBlog, Social Bookmarking, wpsnap

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Free Photoshop Brushes by Hawksmont

Posted by Snap! on July 28th, 2007

Photoshop brushes are artistic tools for creating collages, icons, making borders of photographs and images, blending images and graphics, which artists and web designers cannot do without. If you have already bookmarked Bittbox set of freebies, here’s another one to bookmark.

“Making brushes is easier than I thought. Just drawing, saving as a brush and that’s it!”, says the Polish artist from Hawksmont.com.

Wow, if only it were as easy for all!

Here’s a small collection of some of the various possibilites of creating various impressions with varied textures which evoke different feelings altogether. You can download these free Photoshop brushes and many more such as grunge, bubbles, stars, guns, etc. from the Hawksmont.com Free Graphic Resources.

Free Fingerprints Photoshop Brushes
Free Fingerprints Brushes

Free Dill Brushes
Free Dill Brushes

Free Doodles Photoshop Brushes
Free Doodle Brushes

Free Splatter Photoshop Brushes
Free Splatter Brushes

Free Pink and Red Hearts Photoshop Brushes
Free Hearts Brushes

Free Floral Photoshop Brushes
Free Floral Brushes

Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, Bubbles, Design Tools, Doodle, Fingerprints, Floral, Fractal, Free Downloads, Free Photoshop Brushes, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Graphics, Guns, Hawksmont, Hearts, Ink Splatter, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Selection, Skyline, Stars, wpsnap

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Freebies: Free Foliage Vectors and Illustrator Brushes

Posted by Snap! on July 24th, 2007

If you love Photoshop, graphics, images, colors, textures, layers, etc., you must bookmark the Bittbox set of freebies, because this is a unique set of freebies that is a class apart! I could have added other interesting freebies on this post, but Bittbox deserves a special mention.

It’s arty, it’s vibrant, it’s versatile.

Free  Vectors Foliage
This set of free foliage vectors made in Illustrator is available in AI, EPS and SVG formats.

Free Illustrator Brushes: Teardrop Foliage
This set of free Illustrator brushes (Teardrop Foliage) can be used to make Foliage with rounded edges. Simple, yet captivating.

Free High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes
Free High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes” />Squawkdesign.com’s high-resolution scans converted to free ink splatter brushes.

If you like these, head over to the site to check more.

Tagged: Amazing blog, Artistic tools, Bittbox, Creative, Free Downloads, Free Foliage Vectors, Free Illustrator Brushes, Free Photoshop Brushes, Free Vectors, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Graphics, Hearts, Ink Splatter, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Teardrop Foliage, wpsnap

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