7 websites with excellent free Graphic Design resources

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Designers use a great number of resources for our Projects. Backgrounds, icons, images. Sometimes we need fresh resources so we present you a list of 5 great free Hand picked Graphic Design Resources for Backgrounds, Images, Vectors and Photoshop files.

 

Pepsized

http://pepsized.com/

 

A new site where you will find quality freebies such as: vectors, patterns, Photoshop brushes, textures, photos, buttons, icons, UI elements.

 

 Free Vectors Daily

http://www.freevectorsdaily.com

 

Free vectors daily is a place to find high-quality free vector sets that can be download daily. We browse around some of the best artists websites around the world and list the best free vector sets from them for our readers

 

 

Design Freebies .org

http://www.designfreebies.org

 

Graphic and Design Free Resources is all about providing everyone design tutorials, stock images, vector graphics, 3d models, web templates, desktop themes, wallpapers, icons, and many more. All for FREE.

 

Morgue Files

http://www.morguefile.com

 

The morguefile was created by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. It is currently a collaborative effort between brothers Kevin Connors and Michael Connors, with Johannes Seemann. The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site.

 

365 PSD

http://365psd.com

 

Every day a different PSd resource.

 

6. Pixeden

7. Wegraphics

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Every day new on line tools appear that helps us work faster simplifying the design process. If we can speed up the development time for our web pages it really makes our life easier.

This hand picked list contains simple tools to combine fonts, create grid systems, adaptative images, calculate border radius, font size, and create templates, CSS Editors and experiment with color combination.

 

The Web Font Combinator

http://font-combinator.com

This tool has been built to allow previewing of font combinations in a fast, browser-based manner. There have been numerous printed books through the years that allowed a designer to put a headline font next to a body font, and this is an attempt to recreate that for the web.

 

Golden Grid System

http://goldengridsystem.com

Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design.

 

Adaptive Images

http://adaptive-images.com

Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embedded HTML images

 

Kuler

https://kuler.adobe.com

Discover Adobe® Kuler® — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

 

css2less

http://css2less.cc

This tool has been thought for front-end developers who are tired of working with CSS. Here you can quickly convert your old CSS files to fresh new FEWER files. As easy as copy/paste. You can also convert files locally by install the css2less RubyGems.

 

Color Scheme Designer

http://colorschemedesigner.com

This tool provides colors in the form of a color wheel that offers mono, complement, traid, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic color variations in the percentage ratio; and it also highlights the same with the suitable scheme chosen.

 

CSS Menus

http://cssmenumaker.com/builder/257431

CSSMenuMaker.com is here to provide the average webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible website menus. Our menu generator makes it easy to create custom CSS menus without having to know all the complicated HTML and CSS.

 

CSS 3.0 Maker

http://www.css3maker.com

A css 3.0 genertor

 

CSS Button Generator

http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com

CSS Button Generator will create beautiful css buttons for you to use on your web pages without the need for any images.

 

Seamless Lite

http://www.colourlovers.com/seamless

Seamless Lite makes it easy to design a seamless pattern. With simple editing tools you can resize, rotate and add shapes, lines and text to the canvas and it tiles automatically. Save your pattern template and see how the world colors it in.

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