Ever wonder where Dribbble and Behance find their source material? Yes, even they need good material to make good work, and today we’re going to take a look at their source material. There are websites, THERE are PSD feed sites, there are hd image sites, there are BLOGS that collect UI elements, there are visual art collections, and these free materials are their inspiration library.
Like all of these lists, they may seem a little far from “great” design, but aren’t designers there to make the bad amazing?
1. Fribbble
Free material from Dribbble is collected on the site, including ICONS, PSD, visuals, and more.
2. Behance project template
Don’t know how to look good when Posting a design project on Behance? Take a look at this article, download the beautiful template at the end and solve your problem.
3. psddd.co
It’s also a great place to find free PSD documentation, blurred backgrounds, and nice UI elements.
4. colour lovers
If you’re struggling to find the right color combination, don’t miss this website, which has everything you need, from inspiration to molded solutions, to satisfy your every desire.
5. CG textures
This site provides a lot of free images of rocks, sky, trees and other textured objects. This site will be your best helper when you need to create textured objects!
6. Subtle Patterns
Texture god station! We’ve already recommended this site for you in our previous article “The Most Powerful Texture station ever! Highly customizable online Texture station (with CSS code)”! Not only does it offer over 400 high-quality textures, it also offers online texturing tools, so what are you waiting for?
7. Webydo
The famous code free website building platform Webydo is here, start to try ~
8. guideguide
If you’re struggling to design grids and layouts for your web pages, GuideGuide will be your guide. We also wrote a post on how to use this tool called the PS Guide Plugin GUIDEGUIDE.
9. No more banding
Sometimes photoshop gradients are not smooth, but rather have a step gradient. This action eliminates this step gradient and makes it look smoother and nice.
10. Gridzzly
Gridzzly can help you make your own gridded paper and produce great print patterns that are accurate and practical.
11. Make app Icon
This tool will help you transform your icon into an APP icon size for iOS and Android devices.
12. Perfect Effects 3
Designed specifically for photographers, Perfect Effects 3 makes it easier to add Effects, faster and more useful than the time-consuming Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture process.
13. Cut & Slice
You can split images into groups in just a few minutes, but remember to rename each layer.
14. Layrs Control 2
This is a set of layer management plugins with 7 different scripts to make your tedious tasks easier.
15. Hexy
Selecting layers, highlighting text, and then using the color picker to get the color can sometimes be too complicated, but Hexy comes in handy as it can quickly use the dropper to get the color and then copy it directly to the clipboard, ready-to-use.
16. WhatTheFont!
See a beautiful font and wonder what font it is? Try WhatTheFont, upload screenshots and it will match you in the database.
17. Typewolf
Typewolf displays the fonts used by the site you are viewing, suggesting similar fonts and background information.
18. Size Marks
Size Marks is a very useful Photoshop script that measures the distance between different elements, which is useful for designers and front ends.
19. Velositey Version 2
In just seconds, Velositey can quickly build web layouts in Photoshop with the help of templates.
20. FontAwesomePS
This tool allows you to quickly search for ICONS, create a new layer with one click, and edit them easily.
21. Liveshare PS
With LivesharePS, you can share your PSD documents online at the Liveshare conference and make everything you do visible, even if you don’t hit the save button.
22. Photoshop Share plugin
This plugin allows you to share your designs with one click without leaving Photoshop.
23. Prisma
Want to sync the color scheme in your AI to Photoshop? Prisma synchronizes color schemes in all software that supports the plug-in.
24. Free Lorem Ipsum Generator
This is the best fake text generator and can be used in Photoshop, AI, ID and Dreamweaver.
25. Free Behance Presentation Builder
This free Behance presentation generator helps you turn your work into a presentation with a free PSD document and Photoshop actions.
26. Kaku
A simple PHOTOSHOP plugin that helps you translate text on layers into different languages.
27. Instagram Filters
This is a set of 13 filters that will help you create Instagram-like images in Photoshop.
28. VSCO Cam Effect in Photoshop Tutorial
Simon Hartmann from Go Media has written this practical and cool tutorial on how to achieve VSCO image manipulation in Photoshop.
29. Social Kit
The Photoshop plugin includes a range of social media-ready images, Banner ads, and profile messages.
30. Mobile UI Blueprint psd files
This is a free set of PSD documents containing a large number of mobile UI elements.
31. Free Images
The site, previously known as SXC.hu, contains more than 395,000 free downloadable images.
32. UI Cloud
The largest UI design database in the world, it now contains over 46,000 UI controls and is available for free download.
33. Mock Up Zones
Mockup Zones is a great free download for everything from interface designs for iPhone and iPad to business cards and t-shirts.
34. Macbook Air and Thunderbolt Display
This is a set of visual PSD documents used to show the Macbook Air and Thunderbolt displays of the design work.
35. Greyscalegorilla 3D Tutorials
Personal site of Greyscale Gorilla, a talented designer who posts tutorials on how to create 3D designs on his website.
36. Vray Materials
If you are a designer who uses C4D a lot, don’t miss this site, it has a lot of good texture materials.
37. Blendme
This plugin for PHOTOSHOP and AI allows you to search and retrieve materials directly from your software.
38. AdobeKnowHow
This is Adobe’s latest tutorial site, offering free introductory courses on several well-known software products.
39. Tuts+
This is the best known photoshop tutorial site, and whether you are a beginner or a professional designer, you can learn a lot from it.
40. Pixeden
This is a great free resource pack, from visuals to templates and ICONS, don’t miss it.
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