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40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files

Mao-tun — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:24:36 +0000

Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, resources and .PNG downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next adobe fireworks effect.

1. Add Radial Gradient in Text

A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.

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2. Add Radial Gradient in Text

A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.

3. Awesome Light Effects in Fireworks inspired by the James White’s O series

This tutorial will reproduce James White’s style using Fireworks. The process is simple, just playing with some circles, blend modes and a bit of color!

4. Abstrakter Effekt in Fireworks

This tutorial will teach you how to create an abstract effect in adobe fireworks.

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5. Extracting Logos

This tutorial will show you how to extract a logo and/or logotype from a raster image, using only Adobe Fireworks Live Filters. With this method, you also have the option to re-color the lifted logo in anyway you want: solid, gradient, or textured. All of this, while avoiding the temptations of the quick-and-dirty Wand Tool.

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6. Circular Shadows & Highlights

Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe Fireworks. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need. This tutorial will start by putting into a canvas a circular graphic to add shadows and highlights to.

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7. Simple Orbs Tutorial

The Simple Orbs Tutorial is a very simple technique , yet it could add some dramatic touches to your design. It is just one layer object but you can replicate it over and over, and change the sizes.

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8. Papel de Parede 2009

Learn how to create a grass text effect in adobe fireworks.

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9. Create a vector in Adobe Fireworks

This is a video tutorial that will teach you how to create a vector graphic in Adobe fireworks.

10. How to make Animations and Animated Graphics in Adobe Fireworks

11. Text effect download

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12. Creating the iPhone Interface on Fireworks

Learn how to create the iphone interface on Fireworks.

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13. Fireworks 101

This tutorial will cover some basic functionalities and it’s very useful for those willing to improve their Fireworks skills. You will learn how to play with paths, combining, subtracting and much more. Also you will end up creating a logo.

14. Creating the IE7 logo effect in Fireworks

Learn how to recreate the IE7 logo in Fireworks.

15. Remove Foreground Object in Fireworks/Photoshop

Learn how remove a foreground object from a picture and keep the background with amendments to make it appear as though the object was never there to begin with.

16. Adobe Fireworks: Text to path

Sometimes we want to align or place our text freely, without having to limit our self to vertical and horizontal view only. Maybe we want to create some so called typography art – which requires us to place text in, let say, a circle, or any free form shapes, created using pen tools. With Adobe Fireworks, you can easily attach texts onto any shape or path created using pen tools.

17. Beautiful night scene

You don’t have to be Van Gogh to create a beautiful night scene. Fireworks artist Angelo Sabal will show you how you can easily create a realistic night sky using Fireworks.

18. Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create some cool effects with fading light linear vectors in Fireworks. It’s really easy to do and takes just a few minutes. Create fading lights using vectors, then convert these vectors into bitmaps, and learn to use effects from Fireworks CS3.

19. Pixelate Effect Tutorial

Have you ever wanted to create a pixelize look on your designs but you didn’t know how? Well here is your answer ! In this tutorial you will learn how to install 3rd party plugins in adobe fireworks and use them.

20. Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop in 5 minutes

Download .PSD file is available, you can open in fireworks as well

21. Creating A Thick Text Outline

22. Masking Effects Using Bitmap Masking

Learn to use layer masks (Group as Mask) in Fireworks CS3 to create faded image silhouettes.

23. waterDrop

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24. Sticky Notes

Sticky notes are little pieces of bright-colored paper with an adhesive strip on the back, allowing you to jot down reminders, checklists, or *gasp* passwords and post them onto a surface. This Adobe® Fireworks tutorial will show you how to recreate them digitally, with a certain degree of realism, for your own design projects.

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25. Create Vista-like Wallpapers with Fireworks

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26. Fireworks 101

This tutorial will go through some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel.

27. Amazing Neon Lights on Fireworks

This tutorial will go through a few steps to create neon effects on Fireworks.

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28. Glowing light trail

This tutorial will teach you how to create a colourful glowing light trail. This is rather a simple tutorial that can be performed in only 6 basic steps.

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29. Exporting CSS and images in Fireworks CS4

Wouldn’t it be nice to simply draw a website design in Fireworks and then instantly export the HTML, CSS code, and all associated files required to display the page, so that all the files are ready to upload to your web server. This article describes the new “CSS and Images” export option available in Fireworks CS4 and gives tips for getting the best results out of it.

30. Create Windows vista buttons

31. Create a Slideshow in Adobe Fireworks CS4

This tutorial will teach you how to create a beautiful slideshow gallery with transition effects, categories, captions and resizable images in Fireworks CS4.

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32. How to Change the Colour of an Image Object in Adobe Fireworks

Quite often, when searching for a relevant image to go on a new website we are designing, we’ll find one that’s almost right, but not quite! Read on to find out how simple it is to change the colour of a selected part of an image in Adobe Fireworks.

33. An example of how to create a computer mouse

34. Light Painting in Fireworks

How to create Light Painting in Fireworks.

Worth Checking Resources

- 131 Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Fireworks

This set is based on Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Photoshop and is re-done for Fireworks.

- 75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions

Here are some of the best 75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions (MXP), nearly all are compatabile with Fireworks MX, 8 and CS3 (and quite a few with Fireworks 3 and 4).

- Fireworks Developer Center

- List of Fireworks compatible plug ins

- The Things You Might Have Missed

- Rapid prototyping in Fireworks CS3

Let’s take a quick look at how the prototyping process works today in the real world.

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80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources

Mao-tun — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:51:55 +0000

Due to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want.

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community.

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

- Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

In this tutorial, we will learn how to construct a group of cool vector ninja characters using just the basic shapes and a variety of simple tools, making it a good start for Illustrator beginners.

- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough

Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion.

- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough

- How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

This tutorial is all about how to make those really cool hyper detailed wings that all those bro-dawg brands are rocking.

- Master Painting in Illustrator

Transform your sketches into stunning textured artworks.

- Woman and Cats How-To Advanced

- Experimental text effects

Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips.

- Create A Wood Grain Texture

Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips.

- How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps

Achieve the space like scenery with the glowing lines using Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll learn how to add subtle effects using textures and different blending modes.

- Twitterlove Bird, from sketch to vector in Photoshop and Illustrator

- Create an envelpe icon with a satin feel

In this tutorial you will learn how using the basic tools of illustrator , ie gradient , rectangle , pathfinder and line can create a simple looking envelope.

- 3D Text Tutorial

5 Steps tutorial describing the process of 3D Typography creation without any 3D software. You’ll need only Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

- Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch

A tutorial which told of magical and enchanting ways to create Fairy Tale pages in Adobe Illustrator.

- How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to create a cute bunny character. This tutorial uses simple shapes and gradients that are easy to apply to other character illustrations. The great thing about his tutorial is you don’t have to be an amazing artist to create it!

- 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator

thirty Illustrator tutorials that will teach you the nuances and subtleties of Illustrator.

- Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout

This tutorial is perfect for the beginning to intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist. Learn how to create a layout of a website and prepare it for use on the web.

- Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to easily make realistic-looking shiny vector hair. You will learn how to create S shapes and using them to construct natural looking hair.

- Vectoring Hair

- Creating A new Typeface in illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice typeface using Illustrator CS4 and its new, and very useful, features for editing anchor points.

- Super cool abstract vectors illustrator and photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a abstract sort of flower using the Blend Tool in Illustrator then playing with it in Photoshop to produce a very colorful wallpaper.

- Crazy cool vectors illustrator and photoshop

In this tutorial you will create a very nice image inspired by the amazing work of Andy Gilmore.

- Creating vector characters in Illustrator

- Character Illustration

- 20 Exceptional Websites for Learning Adobe Illustrator

In this collection, you’ll find 20 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality tutorials and information on vector illustration and Adobe Illustrator.

- 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials

50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials.

Creating Adobe Illustrator Patterns

- Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a range of simple vector objects based around the theme of a designer’s lifestyle, then tile them together into a cool looking repeating pattern.

- Memory Lock

- Design your own pattern swatches

Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using Illustrator & Photoshop.

- 3 ways to apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator

3 different technique on how you can apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator.

- Creating-Pattern

Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using Illustrator & Photoshop.

- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

How to create a geometric pattern shape and fill a background with it.

- Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps

- Pattern Maniac

- How to Create a Seamless pattern in 10 steps

- Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect.

- 450+ Abobe Illustrator Patterns

Adobe Illustrator Brushes

- 30 Illustrator Pattern Brushes for Making Flowers and Circular Designs

A set of 30 Pattern brushes for a fast way to get perfectly spaced, intricate circular designs.

- 105 More Delicious Water Color Illustrator Brushes

105 amazingly realistic-looking water color Illustrator brushes.

- Floral n Veins Brushes

- 81 Amazing Argyle Illustrator Brushes

- 50 Killer Retro Starburst Brushes

- Hair and line art brush for AI

- Swirly Curls – Sick Brush Kit

- Thorny vine brushes

- 10 custom vector-based Art Brushes

- 16 “Sketchy” Illustrator Brushes

- Ink/Watercolor

Adobe Illustrator Tool Tips & Tricks

- Illustrator’s Blend Tool: A Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive guide can help you unlock your creative potential and teaches the features, shortcuts, and in depth methods that the Blend Tool has to offer.

- How to Use Effects to Create a Cool Design

Effects are similar to filters, but the key difference is that they are non-destructive, meaning you can remove or modify them later on (through the appearance palette). Here is a review of a few quick Illustrator tips.

- 10 Illustrator Resolutions for 2009

10 features most people don’t use in Illustrator, but should.

- Transform Again in Illustrator

You can achieve surprisingly cool results using the Transform Again feature in Illustrator starting from a simple shape. As you all know simplicity is my motto. Here is a step-by-step tutorial using this simple feature.

- Illustrator Pen tool exercises

- Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect

- Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor

How you can recolor your artwork in Illustrator CS3 using the LiveColor feature.

- Colorful Waves

This is a common trick to produce abstract colorful waves in illustrator.

- Realistic Curtain

Create a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh.

- Simultaneously Expand When Creating Compund Shapes

- Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe’s most essential tool.

- Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts

- Huge List of Adobe Illustrator Plugins & Filters & Tools

Free Vector Packs & Resources

- Safari and Zoo Animals

A free collection of vector animal silhouettes, featuring a range of land based mammals alongside some aquatic life.

- Free Vector Icon Set 1 – 25 Icons

- Free character pack

- The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs

60 of the best and most useful free vector packs.

- Transportation Silhouettes

- Vector Elements

- Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup

- 60 Free Vector Icon Packs for Design Professionals

- Seamless Swirls

- Free Floral Vector Ornament

- Illustrator pattern swatches and textures

- 64 Vector Arrow Icons

- Free Vector Social Icons

- 125 free Japanese Patterns

- 10 Vector Sets of Flowers

- 17 Exclusive Web Icons

- Flourish Vector Ornaments

Vector Sources

- Free Vectors

An online gallery of free to use vector graphics.

- QVectors

- Cool Vectors

- Vector4free

- AllSilhouettes

- 123FreeVectors

- Vecteezy

- VectorVault

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25 Creative Illustration HD Wallapers by Blurburger + 9 Free Icon Sets

Mao-tun — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:37:45 +0000

Visual illustrators, in the past, were never ever mentioned in the same breath as traditional or fine artists, and they have consistently came second best in comparison with traditional graphic designers. Times have changed, and the exciting and fresh art of illustration is now firmly recognized as an art, and is gaining constant popularity, especially with young, adventurous and creative artists.
This post is a look at the portfolio of such an artist. His name is Pete Joisin (aka Blurburger). Enjoy.

Re Wave

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Playground

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Big Red Chair

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Adriftwise

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Out of the Airlock

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Fuming

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Chocoby Waters

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Fuzzy-Feeling

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Rascal and his Tongue

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Shower Surprise

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Utterface

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Morning Enough

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Waiting Discovery

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Wellforth

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Choice

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Head

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Bathroom

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Bridge

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Toast

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Wave

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Flyer

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Window

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Workrab

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Glumpy

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Banana at Rest

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Blurburger Icon Pack N.09

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21 Excellent 3D Text Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Mao-tun — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:47:31 +0000

You don’t always need to use a 3D application to create beautiful 3D text. The tools in Photoshop and Illustrator, when used correctly, can help you achieve very nice results. Here are 21 of the best tutorials for creating 3D text effects using Photoshop and Illustrator. Some of these are for using Photoshop on it’s own while others explain techniques for using Photoshop and Illustrator together.

How to Create a 3D Text Photo Manipulation

Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

How to Create Stunning and Bold 3D Text

Text effects

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Create 3-D text with some extreme lighting

How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

How to Create an Ice-cold Poster with 3D Text

Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop

3D Text On Fire

3D text effect – 2009

Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect

Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Glowing and sparkling intense light 3d logo

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49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics

Mao-tun — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:29:21 +0000

our search for free Vector graphics is over. Below we have compiled a list of the best free web sites to freely download Vectors, most of the sites don’t qualify into a category, we’ll call them general, but in the second half of the post you will find specialized resources dedicated to vector logos, brands, cartoons and icons.

Vecteezy!

I Heart Vector

QVectors

GoMediaZine

VectorVault

Vector4Free

Open Clip Art Library

CoolVectors

Vector Portal

Vector Art

AI Vault

123 FreeVectors

iDesign * Vectors

DryIcons – Free Vector Graphics

Free Vector Downloads

Vector Lady

Vector Junky

CLD Vectors

123 Vectors

Bittbox

Valley of Vector Resources

VectorJungle

Free Vectors Art Graphics

Vector RSS

VECTORSTUFF.blogspot

Free Design Magazine

Uberpiglet

Free Vectors

Vectordiary

Big Vectors

ZCOOL

Vector Resources on deviantART

VectorStock – Selection of Free Vectors

Vector / Illustrations – Dezignus.com

Webchantier Portail Images Vectorielles

Freebies – Blog.SpoonGraphics

Vector Wallpapers

Best Brands of the World

Vector Logo Database

LogoTypes

LogoZu – Vector Logo Sharing

Seek Logos

Marcas, símbolos y logotipos

Logotypes

LaLogotheque.com

Vector Brand Logotypes

Logotypes.ru

Vector of the World

Vector Cartoons

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30 Great Examples of Using Vectors in Web Design

Mao-tun — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:27:28 +0000

Using vector elements within your website design can show it off a little bit more, and make it that tad more eye-catching. In this collection I have included many different websites with abstract vector backgrounds, funky illustrations and site mascots. Vector elements within design is becoming more and more popular on the web. For this showcase I have picked a selection of the best websites who adopt this style. Thank you to Nick La (icondock) for the title image.

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Gisele Jaquenod

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eAnka

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Old Loft

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My Snow Buddy

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Clark Studios

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The Great Bearded Reef

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50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

Mao-tun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:59:23 +0000

When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, and the chance to extend the icon set, with the use of a .psd file is always helpful.

Radium Icon PSDs

Flavours Icon Set PSDs

Proxal Icon Set v2 PSDs

9 .PSD Icons Vol. 1

5 .PSD Icons Vol. 2

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 3

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 4

Radium Neue PSDs

openPhone PSDs

Peely Icons PSDs

iKons 4 CS4 PSDs

E-maniacs RSS Icons PSDs

Setup Icon PSDs

Glossy Icons in 4 Colours PSDs

On-Stage Vector PSD Icon Set

Designers Icons PSDs

Medien Konvergence Icons PSDs

Minimalistic Icon Set

Second Free PSDs Icon Pack

PSD Fox

Folder Icon Template PSD

Simple Elegance – Folder Icon PSD

Preview Icon Template PSD

Talk icon PSD

Apple Mail PSD

Filetype Icon PSD

Bookmark Icon PSD

PSD-Icons

StormTrooper Icon PSD

Free PSD Avatar Icon Set

Bevel And Emboss – PSD Icons

Folder Icon PSD

Trendy Mail Icon PSD

iPod Touch PSD

iPhone 3G-3GS PSD

Airport Express PSD

Product Box PSD

PLASMA TV PSD

Hard Disk Icons PSDs

DVD Icon Template PSDs

Headphones PSD

Zune 30GB PSD

Magnifa Pro Icon PSDs

RIM Blackberry Icon PSD

XBOX 360 Icon PSD

Wall Phone PSD

Basketball Icon PSD

Lifebelt Icon PSD

iPhone Icon PSD

Ganato.com – 24 Psd Icon Sets

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50 Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

Mao-tun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:20:17 +0000

Illustrated cartoon characters within web design has taken a surge in popularity recently, a most welcome trend. Those very effective cute, odd or even nasty characters will always stay in your memory a lot longer than the actual web sites content and even a sites logo, they have that effect on you.

In this post you will find 50 vector cartoon characters tutorials using Adobe Illustrator, each tut author takes you through there own individual cartoon character design process, teaching you new techniques in the process.

Create a Character Mascot

Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster

Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character

OWL DiNG Tutorial

Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

Cartoon Bug Tutorial

Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

Create your own Leprechaun

Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

Vector-Looking Cat Illustration

Creating vector characters in Illustrator

Drawing and Designing a Lovely Cartoon Character

How to Add Fur to Vector Animal Illustrations

Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater

The Making of Abe

Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character

Blue Vector Character from Pencil Sketch to Coloring

Vectorial illustration with Illustrator

Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny

Circle Vector Tutorial

Turn a Sketch into a Fat Cat Vector

Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character

Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

Maintaining Rhythm and Flow in Vector Character Design

Drawing a character’s face in Illustrator

Character Illustration

Primitive Art Man Cartoon

Drawing a Fish in Illustrator Tutorial

Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

How To Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

Make a Cartoon Turtle

Cartoon Monkey

How to Draw a Cartoon Duck

How to Draw an Amazing Vector Twitter Bird

Create a Cute Bird

Create a Simple Vector Creature

How to Create a Cute Hippo Character

Monster Character Series Part 1

Monster Character Series Part 2

Monster Character Series Part 3

Monster Character Series Part 4

Creating Line Drawings in Adobe Illustrator

Drawing a Funny Game Character

Character Illustration Wallpaper

Creating Convincing Characters

Twitterlove Bird

A Cow As Chinese New Year Zodiac For 2009

Fantasy Character

Drawing Kirby

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44 Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have

Mao-tun — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:16:22 +0000

You can find lots of free beautiful icons set on the web. We are lucky that some talented designers/artist are sharing their works by providing us some useful stuffs for free. Here is a 40+ Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have. These Icons can be use on customizing your desktop icons or for your website.

Cute Critters Free Icon Pack

A set of 13 painfully cute critters icon pack. This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution.

Archigraphs Porcelain Icons

A set contains of 15 Porcelain Dock Icons created for free use.
Can be use in MacOs X, Windows XP and Windows Vista.PNG files included.

Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons

A set contains 128 free good looking Icons available in 48×48px size. This included some of the main Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter & Many more…

Browser Icons

A set contains 9 web browser icons available in 64×64, 32×32 and 16×16 pixels. Includes major browsers like Mozilla Firefox,Internet Explorer, Opera,Google Chrome and more.

Made Of Wood

A set of wooden texture icons.

icon for transformers

Inspired by Transformers.This set contains 65 icons and size is 256×256 pixel.

Puck Icons Pack II

A set contains 210 icons for pc and mac .PNG files.

Prostor_icons

A set contains 8 icons to download.

isabi

Includes icons for most Adobe applications, Microsoft Office 2008 as well as a few extras in 16, 32, 48, 128, 256 and 512 pixel sizes.

I-KID ICONS FOR IPHONE

A set contains 20 beautiful iphone icons.

Coquette Icons

A free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

Free Vector Icon Set 1

A set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons. You can open the .ai file with any version of Illustrator above 8.0. With earlier versions.

Web 2.0rigami

A set contains 15 origami icons. These includes the origami icons in a variety of sizes in transparent pngs, and the PSD and EPS files.

Web 2 Icons

23 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks and Networks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares. The Linux version includes .PNG files sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. Great for Bloggers.

Qure for Adobe Creative Suite

A set of glossy good looking icons. free to download

HP Dock Icon Set

This pack only includes the .PNG files.Every single icon is free to use commercially or not.

Feed Me Animals: A Free RSS Feed Icon Set

This set contains 5 original RSS-feed icons. The icons are available in in .png, .jpg, .eps and .psd.

Web Application Icons Set

There are 20 icons designed specially for web applications (e.g. Charts, Profile, Search, Add, Delete, Email, Print, Warning and etc…). Icons come in 3 sizes; 48×48 px, 32×32 px, and 24×24 px. All of them are in PNG format with transparent background. Web Application Icons Set is completely Free for both personal and commercial

Black Pearl Files

A total of 39 icons PNG files in the compressed folder.

Free web development icons

A set contains 60 icons in web 2.0 style. File types are .png, .ico, .tif, .gif, and .bmp. Colored with and without shadows, with a subtle gray shade and transparent

Free eCommerce icons

A set contains 32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.

Icons Set 1

A set contains 20 cute (128×128 png) icons

3D Cartoon Icons Pack

A set contains 111 icons. These are software and application icons for your dock or desktop

Black and Blue Icons

A set containing 6 icons. The set includes iChat, iCal, iTunes, Text Edit, iPhoto, Address Book Icons

Glossy Member Icons

A set contains 4 Glossy Member Icons. You can use this icons for PERSONAL websites, blogs etc.

Black and Blue Icons Add On 1

A set contains 6 Mac OS X application icons such as Chess, GarageBand, Quick Time Player, Mail, Pages and Preview in black and blue colors.

RSS icons

A set contains 4 Glossy RSS Icons. You can use this icons for PERSONAL websites, blogs etc.

OldSchool Icon Set

A set contains an oldschool icons.

Weby Icon Set

Weby Icon Set brings to you 100 icons at 64×64 pixels ready to be used in your application or website.The icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format.

eico 1 year

A set contains 17 glossy web icons

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

A set of 22 social icons in .png and in resolutions 16×16, 32×32, 64×64.

Icon Set

Icon Set contains 27 .png dock icons and 25 .ico files.

Sticker Iconpack

Scrap Icons

A set contains 68 dock and desktop replacement icons

3D Cartoon Icons Pack III

A set of 205 icons

UMI Icons

A set contains 9 beautiful icons

V!VA Icons

A set contains 9 icons.

Dellipack 2

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ALL ICONS pack “limewire…”

A set of icons includes limewire, folders, image folder icons and many more.

AccBox

A set of 5 icons

Windows Icons V1

A set of custom Windows XP / Vista Icon pack.

Onibari light

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Realistic Icons

3 Icons in PNG + ICO format. 256px, 128px, 64px + ICO. format.\

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Disk Jockey Sigma Style

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100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

Mao-tun — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:21:56 +0000

Seamless patterns can be used for complete website backgrounds or to fill a specific area in a design. There are plenty of patterns out there, but if your tired of seeing the same ones over and over, then you’re in luck. Here are 100 beautiful seamless patterns that have just been created in the past few months.