Friday Freebies: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Graphics, Icons
Over the last months we focused on releases of icons and themes, so we thought that it may be useful to release Photoshop brushes and vector graphics for a change. Hence, in this post we release a set of Photoshop brushes for space effects, a set of brushes to simulate the effect of a painted canvas, a hand-drawn vector illustration set and a Moleskine icon set.
Journey Into The Space Brush Set
This Photoshop brush set can come in handy if you are planning to use some space effects for your next design. This set, created by Sebastiano Guerriero from BestPhotoshopTutorials.net, consists of 15 high quality “space”-brushes (ranging in resolution from 800 to 2500 pixels) to create space effects with just one click. Created and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download this set for free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- large preview
- download the set (.zip, 21.2 Mb)
Painted Canvas Brush Set
In Photoshop there are several ways to simulate a painted canvas look in your designs either using textures or filters but neither of those methods are good at simulating the brush strokes created when an actual paint brush hits the canvas. The Painted Canvas Brush Set contains 55 high resolution Photoshop Brushes. Each brush was created specifically to simulate the effect of a painted canvas and each brush can be used in several ways.
This set was created by Colorburned specifically for the readers of Smashing Magazine. You can learn more about Colorburned by visiting their website or by following them on Twitter.
Download this set for free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- large preview
- download the set (.zip, 55 Mb)
Free Hand Drawn Vector Illustration Set
This set contains 18 hand-drawn illustrations which could be useful especially for designers who follow the hand-drawing trend. For more details about the hand-drawing style in web design, please read Smashing Magazine’s Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design.
The illustrations are purely vector, available in fireworks (png) format. The transparent PSD version has been included as well. Created by Gopal Raju from ProductiveDreams.com exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download this set for free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- large preview
- download the set (.zip, 0.6 Mb)
Bonus: Moleskine Icon Set
As bonus, we release a free Moleskine Icon Set, designed by Max Brown from OrangeYear and implemented by Joe Mansfield from EngraveYourBook. The set contains 7 Moleskine icons, released under Creative Commons Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. It includes music, plain, ruled, sketch, squared, storyboard, and address Moleskine notebooks. A layered TIFF-stack of the icons (see below) is included as well. Free only for non-commercial work.
- download the set (.zip, 0.1 Mb)
Thank you for your great work, folks! We appreciate your efforts.
celal
March 27th, 2009 9:41 amnice as always!
millAh
March 27th, 2009 9:44 amthe brushes are great, but the icons are not as good “as always”.. :(
Thomas Strobl
March 27th, 2009 9:54 ampretty nice as always
brian
March 27th, 2009 9:57 amAs always, the brushes are pretty cool, but I am a fan of making my own icons. As always, greaty job SM…cheers. As always lol.
DKumar M.
March 27th, 2009 10:08 amWho can say no to freebies…I guess no one, so I also can’t.
Thanks SM for free stuff.
DKumar M.
Ollie
March 27th, 2009 10:16 amI don’t understand what the difference is between the space brushes and regular old stock resources.
If it’s just a planet on a brush, couldn’t i just get a planet in a png that’s the same thing?
Kaspars
March 27th, 2009 10:26 amNice brushes. Thanks!
EngraveYourBook link is broken (should start with www).
AYANO
March 27th, 2009 11:18 amCool stuff. Thanks. ;D
geoff
March 27th, 2009 11:50 amgreat brush sets. Just what I needed. Thanks SM. Top drawer
Therapix
March 27th, 2009 12:02 pmWow! I like freebies :D thanks!
toothpick
March 27th, 2009 1:36 pmthe moleskins are a nice touch.
Ryan
March 27th, 2009 1:44 pmHey Ollie, I prefer using brushes when creating atmosphere and adding subtle effects. They are just easier to work with and force you to think creatively. Stock photos are better for planets/objects though.
I like messing around with space brushes though, right click and view my bg.
ffranz
March 27th, 2009 2:05 pmthis is a free brush for personal use?
Martha
March 27th, 2009 2:46 pmThanks so much!! I really appreciate the time, effort to gather these and offer them as freebies:)
Geeee
March 27th, 2009 3:50 pmVery Elegant, thanks for the good post ;)
ilz
March 27th, 2009 8:25 pmI hate to be negative, but this is the first post i’ve seen on here that i think is sub-par.
Pictures of space, hand drawn pictures that you should be drawing yourself if you’re a designer, and bad icons? Seems like a filler post, which is pointless on this website with so many great posts. Just my opinion though.. maybe someone is looking for space brushes.??
Max Brown
March 27th, 2009 9:31 pmI made the Moleskine icons posted above, but they failed to link to my website as requested (www.orangeyear.com).
Similarly, they botched the link to Joe Mansfield’s site (www.engraveyourbook.com).
Can anyone at Smashing fix this?
Joe
March 27th, 2009 10:30 pmAwesome, awesome, awesome-o!
velraj
March 28th, 2009 1:54 amits really great ya
bs.kishore
March 28th, 2009 5:33 amQuite good,but isn’t something missing ?
rotpar
March 28th, 2009 5:42 amthanks!!
Gonzalo LLorens
March 28th, 2009 6:46 amOtra vez os volveis a lucir. gracias!
snnaqvi
March 28th, 2009 8:40 amCool
goldfish300
March 28th, 2009 9:25 am10x for that :)
carlos
March 28th, 2009 9:35 amThank you to all people who make these brushes and offer them to the masses to use. I appreciate the time you put into these and look forward to more. I will make some and get you all back on them. Thanks again.
Michael Arnaldo
March 28th, 2009 10:07 amAmazing work as usual! Keep it up!
Paul
March 28th, 2009 10:10 amThanks again, you guys do great work here.
Me
March 28th, 2009 11:55 amWhy no follow? You are no fun! :(
vamsi
March 28th, 2009 11:08 pmthanks
Apt
March 29th, 2009 1:49 amThanks for sharing!
Hoteluri
March 29th, 2009 3:55 amI love those hand drawn vectors. Thanks!
Sergey
March 30th, 2009 4:10 am404 error
Jacob Lee
March 30th, 2009 4:11 pmYeah i get that… should be: http://78.46.108.98/images/painted-canvas-brushes/stack.gif
TX CHL Instructor
March 31st, 2009 8:39 amI find the PhotoShop stuff mildly interesting, but I would really like to see some articles featuring The GIMP.
philwebsupport
March 31st, 2009 4:23 pmthanks for the link of brush,
Danny
April 2nd, 2009 2:06 pmOhhh, very nice… good work ;o) Im find link – free cars icons: http://www.dooffy.com Nice day… Danny
Danny
April 2nd, 2009 2:08 pmOhhh, working this “Leave a Reply”???
Matt Clarke
April 21st, 2009 6:54 amHi All, I have listed a reviewed round up of some of the best design/web resources.
And have a page that you might like to bookmark to help with your work?
Just a thought, here it is: http://www.design-intellect.co.uk/free_design_resources_list.html
Hope useful, Matt.
LivE
May 17th, 2009 2:06 amthanks so much!
Erin
May 31st, 2009 5:43 pmJust found you through designM.ag – thanks for sharing such great resources! It is appreciated :D
JayGeeDoes
June 11th, 2009 7:48 amthanks for the brushes. I can’t wait to use the canvas one…
Paul Welch
July 10th, 2009 4:37 pmHmmmmm … I think Gopal Raju or SM should give Ed Emberley due credit for the illustrations. And if you want to start learning to draw, the whole collection is fantastic. I bought them for my kids, but I seem to be getting more use out of them.
Dimo Geo
February 13th, 2010 5:06 pmDownload free Photoshop Brushes
Focus PRO
March 1st, 2010 7:38 amI Use this in my photos!!! try it
focuspro.org
RL
May 4th, 2010 10:18 pmcan’t dl Painted Canvas Brush Set….
Jason
October 1st, 2010 5:39 pmNice Canvas Brushes! Thanks Colorburned :-)
olivia
October 25th, 2010 12:15 amwow i like this hand drawn images