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Ornate and floral elements are extremely useful for creating traditional or vintage design styles. These kinds of ornamental vectors can be very time consuming to create manually, but thankfully there’s a range of ready-made vectors available for free download and use in your design projects to help speed up your workflow. This post rounds up [...]
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There’s an abundance of Photoshop actions available that allow you to quickly transform your photos with a retro or vintage effect, the problem is choosing the best actions from this vast collection. Over 40 Photoshop actions were downloaded and tested to create this showcase of the best freely downloadable retro and vintage actions. The original [...]
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December marks another year of the Access All Areas addition to Blog.SpoonGraphics, which means the bundle of awesome design goodies is now getting pretty big! This post rounds up all the downloadable premium resources that have been made available to …
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It’s now over four years since I posted my first set of vector snow flakes. I remember the original pack proving pretty useful for a bunch of designers so I thought I’d revisit the topic and produce another set of free snow flake vector graphics. Download this free vector pack of detailed snowflakes for use [...]
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It’s inevitable that one day in your design career you’ll need to create some kind of letter, postcard or parcel complete with postal marks. Be ready for that day with this roundup of high quality Photoshop brushes. These sets contain numerous high resolution brushes based on various stamps, post marks and mail signs from around [...]
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It might only be November but we all know Christmas sneaks up on us fast! A couple of years ago I released a set of free sketchy Christmas vectors which were pretty well received. This year I’ve created a pack of cute Christmas themed characters, including a reindeer, polar bear, penguin and a robin, not [...]
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It has been a while since I last posted a set of free Photoshop Brushes, so I thought it was about time I got busy creating a new pack. I always find the simple Photoshop brushes the most useful in my own project work, so I created this subtle grain pack to help add light [...]
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Instagram is one of the most popular apps for the iPhone, allowing users to quickly and easily apply retro style filters to their snapshots to create trendy effects based on authentic photography techniques. You don’t have to limit these effects to your iPhone photos, this post rounds up a collection of high quality Photoshop Actions [...]
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