Chris Cornell

Alan Jackson

Darryl Worley

Justin Timberlake

Anthony Hamilton

Francesca Battistelli

Rocket Club

U2

Daughtry

Death Cab for Cutie

Jake Owen

Zac Brown Band

Brad Paisely

Darius Rucker

Madonna

The Specials

Jason Aldean

Maxwell

Jason Mraz

Rascal Flatts

Tim McGraw

David Cook

Mat Kearney

Jennifer Hudson

Kellie Pickler

All these psd icon sets are free to use and modify as they are full layered and can be manipulated with adobe photoshop. You can always create a icon but if you can find good quality work as freebies then what’s the need. Just manipulate it according to your needs and use it.

Designers can save a handsome amount of time if they use such resources and have them utilized properly. I hope you will like our selection and let us know which one is your favorite among these.

1) Weather Icons

2) 8-Kiss-Social-icons

3) The Leaves Social Icon Set

4) Gorgeous-Mini-Social-Icons-Set

5) Detailed Headphones

6) Designers Icons

7) iVista Icon PSD

Vinyl Record Icons

9) Icons

10) Iconica

11) Globe Resource

12) Blue Themed

13) Glass Layer Styles

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14) E-maniacs RSS Free Icons

15) Windows Button

16) Crystal Icon Set

17) 6-PSD-Icons

18) On Stage A Free Icon

19) PSD Adobe Icon Template

20) PSDFox

21) Peely Icons

22) Medien Konvergence Icons

23) Gems By Nicceye

24) Buttons PSD

25) Radium Icon PSDs

Color used should be eye soothing, they shouldn’t be much brighter or dull. It should be in such a manner that all the written contents become visible to the viewer. Therefore, here are the best examples of websites with beautiful and amazing color scheme.

Odopod

Soh Tanaka

Tutorial9

Zurb

SonarHQ

Search Inside Video

Koodoz

Cobblestone

Finch

Great Works

Envato

Hull Digital Live 2009

We Make

Manchester City

New City

J Taylor Design

Vamizi

Life Lab

Glasdach

Ustvarjalko

Emotions

Destination Organic

Veerle’s Blog

Quommunication

Flourish

Daguia

Colourpixel

Notify

Glue

365 Days of Astronomy

Contrast

Bram Nicholson & Associates

Marius Roosendaal

Virgin Vie Consultants

Tennessee Summer

New to York

Ecoki

LondonCreative+ (via Themeforest)

Mutant Labs

Maurivan Luiz

Oyster Design

Guerra Creativa

Puma

Trent Walton

Brooklyn Fare

Eastern Ranges

Analog

Alessandro Cavallo

Jay Hollwood

Clearleft

Custom Toronto

El Tesoro

Memorial Baptist Church

Alaska Sun Tanning Salon

Celebrific

Pixel House

Visit Cascadia

Global Zoo

Inspiredology

Joomla Junkie

Capture the Valley

Web Designer Wall

Carsonified

Panelfly

S0, today we are presenting you a quality assortment of 45  ready to use PSD files which you can tinker with as per your requirement without shelling out a penny. Have fun !

1. Pin Picture :  A fun way to show off your Christmas pics on your desktop.

2. Home Web Buttons : Can be of great use for web designers.

3.  Under Construction: Started your website in a hurry only to find that some particles still need editing, Don’t worry, use this template to get out of it neatly.

4. Film Strip with reflection : This is one of my personal favourites. Gives real cool celeb effects to your self portraits.

5. Demon Wings:  Need something really cool to share on your facebook profile. Just remove the text layer and add your picture in between these wings.

 6. Bat Wings/ Dragon Wings: This shall shine up your Halloween preparations !

 7. Fairy wings :  Here’s something for the ladies.

8. Proxal Icon Set :  More than 90 Icons in a single pack.10.  Art Gallery :  Make your invaluable moments shine with this PSD file. I suggest you to get a printout of your creation get it framed and hang on your wall. It would look great !

 11. Product Box :  It can be a great marketing help for those who wish to sell their products online. I think Norton used this type product box design first with their Antivirus products.

 12. Wing PSD : This one is real cool. Just add these photo around your Portrait. Edit with a few stylish filter and TADA ! you would just Rock !

 13. Newspaper Template : How about landing directly into the NY Times !

 14. Social Buttons Template :  A collection of nice Social Networking Icons templates to give that ‘in vogue’ look to your website.

15.  Deviant ID Card How about a Super cool and Highly customizable ID card !

16. DVD Label : Are you a budding singer, looking to fool your friends with your own CD label. This one’s for you !

17.  DVD Plastic Case : Customizable DVD plastic case template.

18. Afterglow : Beautiful imagery for use as a background layer.

19. Nice Album : Ideal template for giving a style quotient to your best clicks.

20. WWE 2007 DVD Cover Template : How about featuring yourself on the WWE  DVD Cover !

21. 3D red push button : If I were a website owner, I would use it as my startup page link for entry into my blog. Pretty cool template. Isn’t it !

22. Gold guarantee seal :  Another cool graphic for you blog.

An amazing way to be eco-friendly and to Go Green when you are hooked to work to your workstations. We have over 25 eco-friendly website designs you can inspire yourself from.

Kooba

Komodo Media

IMyGarden

Hyderabad

Go Glamping

Fran Boot

Eco Vitta Residencial

Eco Lecom

Ecoki IPhone App

Ecoki

Eco Environments

CURE

Cookiesound

Bear Grylls Live

Aussie BBQ Legends

Allure Graphic Design

Tori’s Eye

Toasted Digital

Sunrise Design

Summer Activities

Stop The Vom

Sproutlet

Sera Tomate

Ryan Scherf

RxBalance

Purple Tree Farm

Priid

Origen Creatives

Meomi Cloud House

Lipton Green Tea

Whether you’re fresh out of university or the creative director of a huge studio, some days there will be a sneaky problem that you just can’t solve. Improving your skill in transforming a brief (and a blank piece of paper) into an ending, beautiful and effective design is a never-ending task-often aided by a little outside inspiration. We spoke to some of the most successful graphic designers and upcoming talents to mine their collective knowledge for tips, ideas and new approaches that will help your craft and beat creative block.

COMING UP WITH CONCEPTS

1. Start with a blank sheet

I encourage designers to start with a blank sheet of paper and turn off the Mac when coming up with ideas. Free from the distractions of the Internet, Photoshop or fonts, sketch out your ideas unedited and raw. Artistic ability is irrelevant. If your client is an orchestra, go and listen to them in conect. As Bob Gill says, “Don’t sit at your computer, waiting for lighting to strike” – it won’t.

2. Ask the right questions

Questions everything. In some cases it may be necessary to question the brief, and it’s nearly always important to question underlying assumptions and how they may affect what you’re trying to achieve for your client.

3. Be ambitious

Always push to keep the big ideas scribbled on the small bits of paper in the first stage of a project. One day you will get them through and then you, too, might end up having to work out how to get a cannonball lodged in a pub sign (see opposite).

4. Collaborate from the outset

Most of the best ideas come from discussing a project arround a table with everyone scribbling away. Collating early sketches gives you a good launch pad when starting to visualise the project on screen.

COMPOSITION

5. Step away from the screen

Work with pen and paper. The more you do off the computer, the less constrained you will be by pixel perfection. When the shape of a design is ready and there is an idea, the computer becomes a bit useful. Idea first, grid last.

6. Divide and rule

There’s no accounting for how people read – from beginning to end without a break; flicking through from the back; scanning words and pictures. Build some signposts into your layouts, such as subheads in long text, descriptive caption to help the reader or images to break up the next.

7. Use a 12 – column grid

A great starting point is to work with a 12-column grid. This allows a great deal of flexiblity, as it can be broken and thrown off-kilter to dis guise it – area division can appear loose yet formalised, page furniture can flow over images, and content can run off edges.

8. Sort out your priorities

It’s essential to have a hierarchy of visual elements. Without one, it’s a bit like all the instruments in an orchestra playing at the same time and volume: a mass. Not only that, but many clients start out with lots of massages and images, and they are convinced all are equally important. Help them see things from their audience’s perspective, to identify what’s most important, what can take a more secondary role, and – where possible – what could be removed and kept for another, more appropriate piece of communication.

9. Communication over decoration

Commercial posters are not art prints. Your clients are investing in you because they want their audience to do something – buy beans, book tickets, think differently about a political party. As well creating as a stunning, engaging design, remember the basics of communication. Don’t forget to include the details – what a product or event is, when an event is happening, how to book tickets etc.

IMAGE ISSUES

10. Shoot in-house

Try shooting your own project photography: it will improve your thinking and the originality of your solution. I often set up simple shoots for small-budget projects, sometimes using available light or portable studio lights. If you need to commission a full-on shoot, involve the photographer early on – then they’ll take your ideas and really make them sing.

11. Trust in the photographer

The idea you have for a picture never quite looks the same when you look through the lens. Work with the photographer to create the best possible shot, not a substandard version of what you imagined.

12. Make smart use of stock

Stock photography has a bad rep, some of it justified, especially with hideously cliched corporate imagery and other photograpic eqivalents of clip art. However, a lot of the image problem is down to laziness among designers, who can resort to stock photos as an easy option. You need a clear brief as to what sort of stock image to look for, and what you want it to say. Be selective and discerning, and have a good eye for what makes a well-taken photo. Stock photos will often need cropping, too, in order to focus on the aspect most relevant to your brief.

13. Plan your shoots

If you are doing your own photo shoot, think about the content and the massage. Do scamps before the shoot so you know what you want to achieve, and think about where the images are going to be used. Don’t shoot everything in portrait orientation if you’re producing an A4 Landscape brochure.

14. Build relationships with illustrators

Working with an illustrator should be a rewarding experience for them, you and the client. It’s an opportunity to articulate a message with a defined look, and create something memorable and unique. Commissioning an illustrator successfully is about building a relationship and working with them in an open and honest way. It’s worth rereading a brief before you send it to an illustrator and trying to imagine how you would respond – does it match up with what you actually want?

15. Photos must work together

When choosing photographs for a layout, get them to ‘talk’ to each other. Go for pictures of a similar scale or play large and small subjects off against each other. Make the reader turn over the page to see what’s next.

TYPOGRAPHY

16. Turn Logos on their head

If you’re having trouble getting a logotype or headline nicely letter-spaced, just print it out and look at it upside down. You’ll see the letters as abstract shapes and it will help you spece them evenly.

17. Fit your type to your audience

Think about the age and culture or background of your target audience. You wouldn’t use a graffiti stencil for a brochure targeted at OAPs (well you might, but probably not). Check whether the brand has a typeface you need to use. If it doesn’t, push yourself to find something different, not the ‘nice and safe’ typefaces that are overused.

18. Push type of the limit

Test your type in extreme or unusal situations – what does a typeface look like at 300pt, in tight columns, as a standalone strap line? Look at the typeface alongside imagery, in colour, in isolation; also look at different typefaces and then refer back to your typeface to weigh up how it compares. If the project has an online dimension, check if you can license the font for web use.

19. Bespoke type speaks volumes

Creating a bespoke typeface is an opportunity to communicate much more than text on a page; it’s a chance to challenge the conventions of typography, experiment, and create a communication device that’s an intrinsic part of a bigger idea. For the Injured Jockeys’ Fund, we constructed a typeface inspired by the patterns found in UK regulation racing silks (left). The beauty here is in having a typeface that not only conveys a powerful massage, but also contextualises it within the subject matter.

20. Print it to really see it

When copyfitting, get into the habit of printing it out. How something appears on screen is very different to how it looks on paper, and printing something will help you better gauge the adjustmentd that may be needed. If you’re strapped for space, you can use incrmental line specing, if your type is say 10 on 12pt, then use a half-line return (6pt) betwqeen paragraphs. Although it will throw copy off any baseline grid, the text will balance again on the next paragraph return and save you space if needed.

PRINT TECHNIQUES

21. Give weight to paper

We recently worked with the University of Oxford to update their fundraising campaign report. It was to be sent to over 170,000 alumni worldwide, so it needed to be printed on a lightweight stock to keep postage costs down. We settled on a bible-type paper stock.

22. The importance of blind testing

The quality and weight of the paper you print on can make ir break your piece of communication. As an experiment, take three very different, blank sheets of A5 paper and put them in an envelope. Blindfold a client or colleague and ask them to open the envelope and explain what each ‘leaflet’ might be advertising. You’ll be amazed at how much people will read into feedback from their sense of touch.

23. Get to know the printing process

A little knowledge of printing can go a long way to making a good project a great one and can help you stretch a small budget. Learn the process, meet the printers, go on site. Think about using overprinting; two colours can make three colours, three make seven. Be clever and the results can amaze.

24. Use materials to trigger emotional reactions

Choosing the right materials is as integral to the execution of an idea as the choice of typeface, words [and] imagery. Paper and print in one colour. If you want it to look and feel not-for-profit, use a recycled board and print in one colour. If you want a brochure to signify that a company is the best in the business and their price tag is justified, then throw the kitchen sink at it.

25. Sometimes it’s good to be frugal

Lavish brochures are increasingly a thing of the past, and you can turn today’s constraints into a virtue. When faced with a limited production budget for a recent annual review. We kept the document loose-bound. This reduced costs, any by borrowing the feel of a newspaper it put across the idea that the review addressed current issues of importance.

PROBLEM-SOLVING

26. Turn restrictions into an asset

Sometimes what seems like a problem can actually inform the solution. Our job as creative thinkers is to transform the lacklustre into something brimming with imagination and flair. Last year we were designing a brand environment for Deloitte at the World Economic Forum is Davos (left). The space we found the solution, a 440-square-metre anamorphic installation that made a virtue and an immersive experience out of the fact that people had to pass through it.

27. Keeping fussing over colour

If you don’t have to stick to brand colours, then think about where the piece will be seen and what colours would work to make it really eye-catching. If it’s a printed piece, find out how it will be printed, whether you can you use special links and how it needs to be set up. Always remove any swatches wghich are not used and ensure the atwork is setup with the colours as specced.

28. Do it yourself

Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. When budgets or time frames are tight, get stuck in and have a go yourself.

29. A dash of humour works wonders

Wit grabs people and can make a communication memorable – smiles don’t go out of fashion. Creating a twist or something the audience needs to ‘get’ will give them a moment of realisation that they won’t forget in a hurry.

30. You can’t check work too often

Always check your copy. Get others arround you to read it and ask clients to check and approve it even if they’ve sent it to you. It’s really easy to skim over copy you’ve been working with for a while, and that can result in a costly mistake.

At the same time, photography can be a good idea with beautiful backgrounds everywhere.  The snowy background can add special effects to the photographs, which adds beauty to the picture. Here we present you amazing collection of snowy photographs. Hope you will like it and feel free to comment.

Red mountain

Enjoying winter

Lonliness

Beautiful winter

Black cloud

Completely ice

Mountain

Beautiful!!

~voorikvergeet

Unknown

Dave Steers

Dave Steers

Unknown

Unknown road but beautiful!!

Zeb Andrews

Saul Santos Diaz

Gary Minish

*gjoa

Eleanor Rigby

Tristan Shu

Jacek Stefan

Jacek Stefan

Floyd K. Hopper

Shir Goldberg

Marc Shandro

Andreas Manessinger

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Marc Adamus

anders r. naesset

Marc Adamus

Marc Adamus

Av Clara Lidström

Av Clara Lidström

Paivi Valkonen

Sandra Rugina

Unknown

Unknown

*joffo1

Guido

anders r. naesset

The Children

Lao.coon

Janina Kulcsar

Joe Nicora

Leif Westling

gnato

Sesjusz

Peter Bowers

Winter Afternoon

A Winter Artic Sky

Lighthouse of Marken at Sunrise

Horsetail Falls

Winter Fall

Winter Mist

Winter’s Night

It’s Cold Outside

Winter Evening in Mutlangen

Winter Reflections

Winter Wonderland

First Winter Storm

Winter Wonderland

Winter has Arrived in Cleveland

Winter New York

Winter Waves

Winter Scenery: Sunset Behind 3 Benches

Winter Rush

Winter Woodwork

Clearing Winter Storm

Winter Fiery Sunset

Winter

Avie Rowan Winter

Winter Barn

Winter Sunset

Winter Fog

Winter

Winter Awe

Winter Came

Winter

Winter’s Glow

Spectacular Photos with Reflection

Winter Photo

La Resistance

Winter

Winter Wonderland

Winter Sunset- moment in Time

Surviving Winter

Winter road

This Morning

First Snow

Winter Tree

Path of Winter

Galaverna

Frosted Rose

Finnish Winter

Winter Crystals

The Mountain Exhaled

Beech Leaves

Frozen Dawn

Dead Leaves

Ice Age

Kiilopaa-Lapland

Frozen Drop

Winter on the city3

Winter Day

Winter Landscape

Powder Blue Evening

Winter

Mountain Graceful

Rising Sun Wallpaper

Iced hips

Alpine Sight

The Old Hunting Shack

Cold Reception

Make no little plans

Frosted Leaves

Ruins in Twilight

Mother Squirrel With Winter Camouflage

Grass and Frost

Birches in Winter

Death in the afternoon

Another Stray Cat

Ice Mountain

Snow Crystal Landscape

Winter Landscape

Winterly landscape #6

Winter Landscape

Polarized Winter

Ice Mountain

I’ve reached the end of the world

Hallett Peak and Bear Lake

Brrrrrr

Winter postcard

Desolate bush wallpaper

Winter at the river

Winter Nap

Winter Trees

Male ciche

Winter Cabin

Sleepless

Bergs

Frozen Trees

Glowing tree

Time is contagious

School’s Out For Ever

This features again makes all facebookers to spend their time on their new Facebook profile with new cover picture and graphics as for a reason if they want to go creative and have a thought to go out of the box. We have some awesome Timeline Cover Photos as used by various random users that how creative your Facebook Timeline Cover can get.

Helbert Campos

Giuseppe Draicchio

Gianmarco Carrieri

Florim I. Qerimi

Fabio Maravilla

Eyal Shahar

Enk Shahbaz Mehdi

Emanuele Bartolomucci

Eduardo Calvo

Dustin Thaxton

Delphin Hauchard

Antonio Fadda

Andrew Grojean

Aly Moffatt

Tom Lambie

Scott Lamb

Rudolfo Nobre

Robert Falkén

Richard Kårström

Ori Hasson

Oliver Elsner

Oliver Alexander

Nirajan Bom Malla

Niels Langeveld

Nagaraj Vijayarangan

Murat Çizer

Mohammad L. Azzam

Menteş Nihat Baran

Maurizio Mazzanti

Manoj Varghese Mathew

Maarten Walraven

Louise Lundberg

Leo Lee

Lanfranco Nantele

Kay Int Veen

Jörgen Bröms

Johnny Gigantic

Jessica Barnard

Jerome Vadon

Jeremy Bronson

In addition, if you are getting bored from your PC old desktop wallpaper then on the Christmas Eve we are showing you beautiful and creative desktop wallpapers.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

A Small Gift For Christmas

Christmas Art Decor

Christmas Tree and Fireplace

Green Merry Christmas

Christmas Cow and Sheep

Merry Christmas Angel Wallpaper

A Cheshire Kitten (Christmas)

Merry Christmas

The Merry Snowman

Christmas Tux 2007

Merry Christmas

Christmas Wallpaper

Arctic Christmas

Christmas Snowmen

Christmas Village and Bear

New Year Light

Sweet Tree Candies

Christs Born

Candle on Red

Santa on the Roof

Earth and Xmas

Dulce Navidad

Reindeer & Snowman

Bells Blessing

Christmas Champagne

Christmas Wallpaper

Merry Christmas

She is Santa Claus

Christmas Starleaves

Snow Globe

Christmas

Blue-xmas Wallpaper

Christmas Imperfection

Warm Holidays

The 5th Anniversary

Christmas Tree

Messy Christmas

Merry Christmas

Christmas Bag

Santa Flying

A Christmas Song

Horned Candle Wallpapers

Where Christmas Gifts Are Born

Merry Christmas Single

Kitty Santa

Christmas Tree

Holiday Spirit

Christmas Volcano

Merry Christmas 2012 New Year Wallpaper

Gifts for Christmas

Waiting For The Miracle

Teddy’s present