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40 free resources designers need for 2015

A Good collection of designers resources to create amazing projects. Here is a list of great resources including sites, PSD. files, actions, UI elements, mock and more. Totally free and ready to download.

 

1. Icons for your website, iPhone mock up or PSD’s for your landing page

Fribbble

2. Behance background template.

Behance project template

3. More free PSD files, blurred background or UI elements.

psddd.co

4. This is a site that I go to. It’s perfect for some visual inspiration!

COLOURlovers

5. From rocks, sky to trees. Very handy when it comes down to matte painting!

CG textures

6. Subtle Patterns have a diverse gallery from around 400 patterns for you to download.

Subtle Patterns

7. Webydo lets you design a website for free – without code.

Webydo

8. Guides to Web design, so here is a simple solution.

GuideGuide

9. make gradients look more smooth.

No more banding

10. make your own grid paper that you can print!

Gridzzly

11. This tool resizes and optimizes your icon designs into all formats needed for iOS and Android mobile app.

Makeappicon

12. With Perfect Effects 3, you’ll find intuitive and powerful tools that make it easy to add effects.

Perfect Effects 3 

13. Use Cut & Slice to export your assets to different devices in seconds. 

Cut & Slice

14. free Photoshop extension of a collection of seven scripts that make tedious job easier.

Layrs Control 2

15. Hexy allows you to use the Eyedropper tool to simply click on the color of the object you’re after and copies it directly to your clipboard.

Hexy

16. Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit a screenshot to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in its database.

WhatTheFont!

17. Typewolf shows fonts in use on actual websites, as well as background info about the font and personal recommendations for similar fonts.

Typewolf

18. Size Marks is a helpful Photoshop script for Web designers and front-end engineers.

Size Marks

19. Velositey lets you design a website within seconds in Photoshop, letting you pick from several templates and modules.

Velositey Version 2

20. Search for an icon and click to create a new layer shape which you can easily edit.

FontAwesomePS

21. With LiveShare PS you can now broadcast any Photoshop document to as many people as you want through an instant LiveShare meeting. If you make a change to your Photoshop document, the tool will instantly see your changes in the LiveShare meeting—you don’t even have to hit the save button!

Liveshare PS

22. Share your design instantly within Photoshop using Layer Hero’s Photoshop Share plugin.

Photoshop Share plugin

23. Prisma brings them consistently to all supported applications.

Prisma

24. The best Lorem Ipsum generator plugin for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.

Free Lorem Ipsum Generator

25. Helps you build your Behance portfolio presentations in a click with a free PSD File and PS Action.

Free Behance Presentation Builder

26. A simple Photoshop plugin to translate your text layers to a different language.

Kaku

27. A nice 13-filter pack that replicates the app Instagram for Photoshop.

Instagram Filters

28. Recreate a VSCO kind of effect within Photoshop. Have fun!

VSCO Cam Effect in Photoshop Tutorial

29. Social Kit by Made by Source covers images, profile pictures and ad banners for social media in a free up-to-date Photoshop plugin.

Social Kit

30. Free Mobile UI elements PSD files by designer Chrometaphore.

Mobile UI Blueprint psd files

31. Free Images provides over 395,000 stock photos to download.

Free Images

32. The largest user interface design database in the world, with over 46,608 UI elements to download.

UI Cloud

33. Mock Up Zones have great collection of free Mock Ups for you to download – from iPads, iPhones, business cards to shirts.

Mock Up Zones

34. Macbook Air and Thunderbolt Display PSD’s free for you to download by designer Jozef Mak.

Macbook Air and Thunderbolt Display

35. inspiration for many 3D artists and full of wonderful tutorials.

Greyscalegorilla 3D Tutorials

36. Vray materials for for example Cinema 4D, this is the site to go to.

Vray Materials

37. This extension for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator searches thousands of assets, including popular icon packs, without having you to leave Photoshop or Illustrator.

Blendme

38. this site provides you free beginner courses for several Adobe programs.

AdobeKnowHow

39. A great site offering you free tutorials for several programs for you to learn. For beginners, but also for the professionals. You can never know enough.

Tuts+

40. Pixeden is a site not to be missed in this list and provides you a great collection of ‘freebies’ from mock ups, templates to text effects.

 Pixeden

Original post: TNW