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Fresh collection of great free icons for your designs.

Ali Chorov — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:50:02 +0000

Today I will present you again a new collection of free icons for your designs. This time I’ve searched for the newest icons which have been released in the period of January 01 — April 12 2010. So all of them are fresh and I guarantee that they are really nice. I hope you’ll like this huge collection of awesome icons. Thanks to everyone from the world of design!

The icons I collected this time, are very different and you can use them in many projects and in a lot of ways. For your web sites, for your desktops with files and folders, interfaces and other.

Note: It’s important to read the fine-print before using any icon sets; although they are free, some of them may have restrictions for commercial use (or require that you give credit to the designer).

Web Design icons:

Partner Controll site icons

Copenhagen

PixeloPhilia 32PX Icon Set

Basic Set 2

blue style 5 icons

Art Icons:

This is ART Icons

Windows icons:

Windows 7 icon

Windows 7 icon 2

Windows 8 icon

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Single icons:

Royal Badge Icon

Apple Fruit Logo

Icon design “bottle ship”

Icon of biplane

Bugs Bunny Icon

Binoculars

CANON 500D ICON

Pencils in a container

Other icons:

Beginning…Android

Cartoon Icons Preview

Littlear icon

Don’t forget to visit the authors pages and thank them for this beautiful icons. They’re really awesome and useful, also read the requirements for using them in their pages.

Feel free to post any comments with questions, suggestions or critique any time and to share this post with your friends.

Copenhagen

Download free flowers custom shapes

Ali Chorov — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:45:15 +0000

Today I am giving you a free custom shapes of flowers for Photoshop from me. This are free to use any way you want, there is few cool flower shapes in this pack.

In this preview wallpaper image I made using this shapes you can see some of the flowers you will find in this archive.

Use the download link right here: Flowers custom shapes (58)

Download free Vector car design for Adobe Illustrator

Ali Chorov — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:01:09 +0000

This is the post with free AI file from the vector car tutorial. It is free for use in any way you like.

Preview image:

Vector car file download (137)

Best collection of free twitter icons for your websites

Ali Chorov — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:07:31 +0000

We all know how much twitter is important for our online business this days. All site owners and especially Bloggers use it to bring some extra traffic for their web sites. That’s why using attractive twitter icons in your web sites is so much importand. In this post I will show you a very nice collection of free beautiful twitter icons you can use in your web sites.

You’ll see that you can choose from a big variety of beautiful and attractive free icons for your websites.

Zwitscha Twitter Icon

Twitter Bird

Twitter Icon BIRRRDFON

Adiumy Twitter

Twitter Icon Set — Blitter

Twitter Bird Icons 01

Free Twitter Icon Set

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

Free Twitter Fun Icons

Freebies: 2 Awesome Twitter Icons

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

Cute Tweeters Icon Set

High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons.

Twitter Icons

FREE Sports Twitter Icons

Free Twitter Icon

Download your Free Twitter Bird

Free Twitter Birds

Birdies: A Free Twitter Icon Set

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

Icon Texto Twitter Buttons

Follow Me…Twitter Icon

I have tried to collect the best twitter icons I know here and I think I did. I am sure you will like them. We can only say a one BIG thank you to all this people who make this sweet and cool twitter icons.

You can download all icons from the pages of their respective owners. Thank you for reading this.. Have a nice day!

10 Awesome Photoshop actions for your photos.

Ali Chorov — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:26 +0000

Using action can make the work of a designers and photographers much more interesting and fun. It can also help us very much to make our work faster. In this article I am happy to share with you 10 awesome Photoshop action you can use in your photos. They’re all very nice, useful and you’ll achieve awesome results using them. Enjoy!

Example of what you can do:

I have used this stock image and some of the actions from this post to show you what effects you’ll achieve by using this actions.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

As you see this actions can be very beneficial and you can do a lot with them.

Here is my list of 10 awesome Photoshop actions for your photos, you can download only from the pages of the artists. Click on the images to visit their pages:

Action Season pack PS by ~SissieBelle

Focus Action by ~Amr-Mohsen

Actions set by ~surrender—x3

Old Photo Action by ~shagagraf

Photoshop actions — 32 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 55 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 57 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 69 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 139 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 142 by ‘night-fate

I hope you will like this actions and they will be in great use for you. Feel free to share and post your comments.

The icon designer Kyo Tux and his new set of icons

Ali Chorov — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:27:21 +0000

One of the most important things in web design and development is using of beautifully created icons. Designing Icons is hard, you need to have talent, skills, ideas, knowledge and good software to produce your work. From this words that I have said, you can have the software, you can have the ideas and knowledge, maybe you’ll have some skills in design too, but there is 1 thing that’s not always there. It’s the talent! In this post I would like to present you, one really talented with those gift to design icons artist.

His name is Asher and he call himself Kyo-tux , you can find him and his works on his Deviantart page here: Kyo Tux

He and his beautiful works are really famous, he ussualy give his works for free use with some requirements and permissions which you can read in his profile:

It’s possible that you have used some of his icons and you didn’t know about it. You can find his sets of icons also on
Tutorial9 and IconFinder and other web site for free icons.

We’re also very happy to inform you about his new release set of icons Nixus which you can find here:

NiXUS

and new social set of icons Roundy

Roundy

Download this set from here

This are really a great set of icons and we’re thankful to him.

Here are some of his old set of icons possibly you already saw or used before:

Phuzion

Soft Icons

For all of his Icons and works you can visit his gallery here Kyo-tux gallery

Hope you liked them and don’t forget to share and comment.

10 free image editors for you designers!

Ali Chorov — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:04:25 +0000

Every designer like to try new image editors from time to time and to experiment, or you’re probably on on a shoestring budget and you search for some free software.

Here is my list of 10 free image editors which can help you some times, somehow.

1.http://gimp.org It’s almost famous as Photoshop, it’s free, works Linux, windows and Mac , it’s a little different and some peoples like it, yes this is Gimp.

2.http://www.photoscape.org/

3.http://www.inkscape.org It’s a very good Vector Graphics Editor — For Win. linux and Mac

4.http://www.pixelmator.com/ Free image editor for Mac:

5.http://picasa.google.com Picasa from google.com. I like to use it.

6.http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

7.http://splashup.com

8.http://www.lightboxeditor.com/

9.http://aviary.com Online editor:

10.http://www.pixlr.com Online editor.

I hope this list of free editors will be in some good use for you and if you have some suggestion please post your
response and tell me if I am missing something.