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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. – Margot Asquith
We continue our series of posts devoted to various useful and free Photoshop tools. Today we focus on free symbol Photoshop brushes which allow you to easily implement symbols of different type and origins into your designs. Being the most important social archetype, symbol remains one of the most influential inventions ever made by human race. It was at the dawn of the era of verbal communication. Symbol has a huge visual value and often it is perceived much better than text information. That’s why using symbol-based Photoshop brushes is such a popular thing in web design. Below you’ll find tons of arrows, hieroglyphs, runes, stamps, zodiac symbols, warning signs, and electrical symbols and so on. If you are one of those kinds of design persons that care about the small details then you are in the right place. Have fun and don’t forget to give us some social love!
Oh, and one more important thing. If you’re into this whole brushes thing, don’t forget that TemplateMonster now provides an awesome Designer’s bundle – brushes edition. It contains hundreds of awesome brushes of different styles as well as other essential design items that you as a designer will be interested in.
Fist Brushes
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Grunge Stamps
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Poker Brushes
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We know that website and graphic designers like to manipulate the gradient effect. They just commonly use different gradient fills to paint the shapes or web spaces with attractive color ranges. Well, now many creatives develop gradient combinations and put them up for free download. And we thought you would appreciate if we gather the best free Photoshop gradient packs and list them here for you. Previously we also posted 60 free gradient sets for Photoshop, so check them out as well. You can download and use any of these gradients for whatever purpose that you want, but don’t forget to share our post if you like them.
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4500 Free WEB 2.0 Photoshop Gradients
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Colorful Gradients
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NCreative 3520 PS Gradients
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What would be perfect for any design project you may happen to be working on is certainly some free Photoshop stuff! Here, we are going to share with you the most beautiful Photoshop brush sets that should help you out with your next swirling, curling, or flower shaped ornamental design. You can use these swirl & floral Photoshop brushes as they are or mix and match some of them – with a strong decorative flair, they will add a certain artsy touch to your work. This is actually the third collection of free Photoshop brushes that we have posted so far in our blog. The first round-up included smoke brushes for Photoshop while the second contained retro Photoshop brush sets. You may also like our previous posts about 60 free Photoshop gradient sets and 45 free fractal Photoshop brush sets made to improve your graphics.
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Heart Swirls
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Free Floral Brush Pack
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Abstract Swirls
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The gradient as you probably know is a fill consisting of two or more colors smoothly blending together. In this post, we were able to come up with 60 beautiful Photoshop gradient sets free for download and use. With these tools at your disposal you can style your backgrounds, buttons, tabs, icons, toolbars, and all sort of this stuff. Also, they can be effectively used to bring spectacular sky, landscape, vintage, or dark effects, and other types of effects and layer styles that you prefer. Today’s collection includes the best available free gradient sets of high quality. Make this your valuable library of presets and try new gradient styles easily, impelling your web and graphic design process.
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Clean Gradients Set
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1000 Free Gradients – Web 2.0 Gradients
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Everyone needs to backup important data. If you accidentally delete files or if your hard drive fails, that’s especially critical since you can easily connect to the remote server to retrieve all your important files with the click of a button. Searching for a secure means of online data backup, we found some of the best services that let you upload your data to a web-based server and access them from any of your computers or mobile phones. What’s particularly great is that these online data storage solutions offer free services to create a backup. However, upon choosing from this variety consider the storage size limitation, the ability to automate backup, security of stored data, restrictions on file size or extensions, as well as on upload speed and bandwidth. Over each image and link below you’ll see short descriptions that will help you make up our mind regarding which solution to use.
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SugarSync is one of the most feature-packed online storage services. With the ability to store, share and synchronize your files online, this solution offers free sign up with 5 GB of online storage, plus users can even get up to 5 free GB of storage space for referring friends. When you make a change or add files on any of your PC or Mac computers, SugarSync automatically syncs your files to the cloud where you can access them from your computer, smartphone or iPad. This service also makes the previous five versions of every file available. However, some people believe that SugarSync could have had more support options.
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Mozy is online backup provider for both Windows and Mac users that offers 2 GB of automated backup for free and the option to add more through paid services. What’s great is that it has a light application and high speed of upload and download. Mozy allows users to back up data continuously, manually or schedule updates; it also backs up based on file changes, only uploading the portion of a file that has changed. Other features include outstanding security, encryption capabilities, and great support.
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In case you’re developing a business website, there’s something you might be interested in. Here we have compiled different icon sets that represent business related topics and are sure to blend seamlessly into your professional website enhancing its usability. With all-around exceptional designs, these business web icons pass on only relevant information for effective communication with the end users.
What’s also important about them is is that all these icon sets have been made available for you in our bonus icons package which you can easily get through buying any of TemplateMonster’s products until May 10th 2011. Your purchase then will get you a whole lot of our 2,400 premium icons including these awesome ones in the mix – completely for free! Please feel free to learn more about our promo on a special icon sets package promo info page. Note that we have made it a point to make our icons available in various styles, so make sure you’ll certainly find a set suiting your needs whatever these needs are. So don’t delay any longer, place an order and have these professional web icons today!
Square Buttons Business Icon Set
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Glossy Style Business Icon Set
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Emboss Buttons Business Icon Set
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Such small details as icons often play very important role in web design by adding some uniqueness and charisma to website’s design. You’ll agree that design aesthetics consists of various factors and well-designed web icons is one of these. The great thing about icons is their versatility because by adding some original navigation icons you can kill two birds with one stone – improve visual appearance of the website and of course make it more user-friendly. In fact, navigation icons are negotiators between your website and visitors and it is vitally important for your project to have effective icons that would be simple, clear and attractive for the same time.
Today we’ve collected a bunch of navigation icon sets that are various by their design and also we want to remind that you can get our latest 200 icon sets (including these ones) absolutely for free! All you have to do is just purchase any product on TemplateMonster until May 10th 2011 and you’ll receive free 2400 professional web icons as an extra bonus. More information about this promo is available on our Free Icon Sets Pack presentation page.
Circular Buttons Navigation Icon Set
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Reflection-Based Navigation Icon Set
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RSS-based Navigation Icon Set
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Exquisite and unusual design can be presented by performing and mixing various styles and techniques. Hand drawn style is very popular these days and it is a perfect example of what a really exquisite design should look like. As a matter of fact we have been featuring this design approach a couple of times in our web design trends researches.
Anyways, since this whole hand-drawn approach thing is so popular, we thought that it would interesting for you to check out some elements you may use in a design of this type. We’re talking about free and really beautiful icon sets that are performed in a hand drawn style. We believe that these freebies will help you to create really elegant and stylish projects that would amaze the audience with original details and creative approach. Before you start downloading these wonderful icon sets please, read carefully their respective terms of use to make sure your website is actually allowed to use them. Rules are rules, y’know.
1. Natsu Icon Set
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2. Social Sketches
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In the medium of online social activity, there’re few different services that allow web users to share web content the quickest manner possible. Now we’ll again bring into focus the fast-growing Tumblr platform for micro bloggers. And upon the foregoing blog entry about 40+ Free Tumblr Themes to jump on stylish blog appearance, we’ve kept on searching across numerous Tumblelogs and over the available free Tumblr themes to come up with a new compilation of what we consider to be the most attractive Tumblr themes for your projects.
TemplateMonster has also submitted some custom-made Tumblr themes to the templates repository on the official Tumblr website. So if you’re looking for some interesting solutions, the following list of free Tumblr themes is probably the most convenient way to choose your favorite skin, install it in a click, and start your own streamlined Tumblr-powered blog today. Once you’ve chosen to go with Tumblr platform, keep in mind also that when setting a tumblelog you can easily customize the theme and use it as your own unique identity and share multiple types of content. Use this chance and see the showcase rolling on!
Firsts
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Clarity
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Free blogging services these days have made an easy way of creating blogs where users can start blogging by just signing up for an account. Tumblr is that very thing – an easy to use, fast-growing micro-blogging platform for simple, no hassle content sharing would it be text, photos, URLs, music, or video clips. This service is absolutely free to use and doesn’t require users to install or manage any software on their own servers. So, you don’t have to worry about server maintenance, besides Tumblr format even allows to configure the URL to match a domain you already own. Now that it is becoming the platform of choice for micro-blogging, Tumblr theming is taken up a notch. What’s good is that Tumblr makes it really easy to change pre-made themes on the fly and it has also ramped up its theme customization options so that users can change the blog design and style with font, color or text. To help you give a personal touch to your Tumblr space, we’ve made a handpicked showcase for 40 of our favorite free Tumblr themes to dress up your Tumblog. Time to jump on your stylish appearance!
Adaptation
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Organ
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