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Friday Freebies: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Graphics, Icons

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thank you for your great work, folks! We appreciate your efforts.

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The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.

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  1. 1
    celal
    March 27th, 2009 9:41 am

    nice as always!

    Reply
  2. 2
    millAh
    March 27th, 2009 9:44 am

    the brushes are great, but the icons are not as good “as always”.. :(

    Reply
  3. 3
    Thomas Strobl
    March 27th, 2009 9:54 am

    pretty nice as always

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  4. 4
    brian
    March 27th, 2009 9:57 am

    As 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.

    Reply
  5. 5
    DKumar M.
    March 27th, 2009 10:08 am

    Who can say no to freebies…I guess no one, so I also can’t.
    Thanks SM for free stuff.

    DKumar M.

    Reply
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    Ollie
    March 27th, 2009 10:16 am

    I 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?

    Reply
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    Kaspars
    March 27th, 2009 10:26 am

    Nice brushes. Thanks!
    EngraveYourBook link is broken (should start with www).

    Reply
  8. 8
    AYANO
    March 27th, 2009 11:18 am

    Cool stuff. Thanks. ;D

    Reply
  9. 9
    geoff
    March 27th, 2009 11:50 am

    great brush sets. Just what I needed. Thanks SM. Top drawer

    Reply
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    Therapix
    March 27th, 2009 12:02 pm

    Wow! I like freebies :D thanks!

    Reply
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    toothpick
    March 27th, 2009 1:36 pm

    the moleskins are a nice touch.

    Reply
  12. 12
    Ryan
    March 27th, 2009 1:44 pm

    Hey 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.

    Reply
  13. 13
    ffranz
    March 27th, 2009 2:05 pm

    this is a free brush for personal use?

    Reply
  14. 14
    Martha
    March 27th, 2009 2:46 pm

    Thanks so much!! I really appreciate the time, effort to gather these and offer them as freebies:)

    Reply
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    Geeee
    March 27th, 2009 3:50 pm

    Very Elegant, thanks for the good post ;)

    Reply
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    ilz
    March 27th, 2009 8:25 pm

    I 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.??

    Reply
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    Max Brown
    March 27th, 2009 9:31 pm

    I 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?

    Reply
  18. 18
    Joe
    March 27th, 2009 10:30 pm

    Awesome, awesome, awesome-o!

    Reply
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    velraj
    March 28th, 2009 1:54 am

    its really great ya

    Reply
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    bs.kishore
    March 28th, 2009 5:33 am

    Quite good,but isn’t something missing ?

    Reply
  21. 21
    rotpar
    March 28th, 2009 5:42 am

    thanks!!

    Reply
  22. 22
    Gonzalo LLorens
    March 28th, 2009 6:46 am

    Otra vez os volveis a lucir. gracias!

    Reply
  23. 23
    snnaqvi
    March 28th, 2009 8:40 am

    Cool

    Reply
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    goldfish300
    March 28th, 2009 9:25 am

    10x for that :)

    Reply
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    carlos
    March 28th, 2009 9:35 am

    Thank 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.

    Reply
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    Michael Arnaldo
    March 28th, 2009 10:07 am

    Amazing work as usual! Keep it up!

    Reply
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    Paul
    March 28th, 2009 10:10 am

    Thanks again, you guys do great work here.

    Reply
  28. 28
    Me
    March 28th, 2009 11:55 am

    Why no follow? You are no fun! :(

    Reply
  29. 29
    vamsi
    March 28th, 2009 11:08 pm

    thanks

    Reply
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    Apt
    March 29th, 2009 1:49 am

    Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
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    Hoteluri
    March 29th, 2009 2:55 am

    I love those hand drawn vectors. Thanks!

    Reply
  32. 32
    Sergey
    March 30th, 2009 4:10 am

    404 error

    Reply
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    Jacob Lee
    March 30th, 2009 4:11 pm

    Yeah i get that… should be: http://78.46.108.98/images/painted-canvas-brushes/stack.gif

    Reply
  34. 34
    TX CHL Instructor
    March 31st, 2009 8:39 am

    I find the PhotoShop stuff mildly interesting, but I would really like to see some articles featuring The GIMP.

    Reply
  35. 35
    philwebsupport
    March 31st, 2009 4:23 pm

    thanks for the link of brush,

    Reply
  36. 36
    Danny
    April 2nd, 2009 2:06 pm

    Ohhh, very nice… good work ;o) Im find link – free cars icons: http://www.dooffy.com Nice day… Danny

    Reply
  37. 37
    Danny
    April 2nd, 2009 2:08 pm

    Ohhh, working this “Leave a Reply”???

    Reply
  38. 38
    Matt Clarke
    April 21st, 2009 6:54 am

    Hi 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.

    Reply
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    LivE
    May 17th, 2009 2:06 am

    thanks so much!

    Reply
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    Erin
    May 31st, 2009 5:43 pm

    Just found you through designM.ag – thanks for sharing such great resources! It is appreciated :D

    Reply
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    JayGeeDoes
    June 11th, 2009 7:48 am

    thanks for the brushes. I can’t wait to use the canvas one…

    Reply
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    Paul Welch
    July 10th, 2009 4:37 pm

    Hmmmmm … 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.

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