Design Vitality

Having a wide variety of brushes gives designers a larger toolset when creating images. Grunge brushes can be used to create a textured site design, floral brushes can help fill empty voids and even more brushes can be used to create nice little touches. Below is a collection of resources for expanding your Adobe Photoshop brush palette:

1. Free Brushes at Brusheezy!
   This site has a very large collection of high quality brushes.
   
2. PS Brushes.net - Photoshop Brushes
   This site currently has 511 quality brushes of all varieties.
   
3. Getbrushes.com - 150+ High Quality Brushes
   Like the name implies, get all your photoshop brushes here.
   
4. Designfruit » Photosho Brushes
   Amazing photoshop brushes made by Design Fruit. All the brushes are also available for purchase as vectors.
   
5. Photoshop Support - Photoshop Brushes
   A mix of swirling and stylish brushes.
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In today’s busy world it can be hard to be tied down to one computer. With web based applications becoming so advanced it is now possible to still get work done anywhere there is a computer without installing any software. From image editing to Word documents, you can do it all online.

Here are 40 excellent web based tools to help you design from anywhere:

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Well, the voting period is over for our 2007 WordPress theme design competition and the winners have been determined.

Here are the top three winning WordPress theme designs that you, the readers, have chosen!

Each winning theme author will receive one of our cool prizes.

So without further ado, we present to you…

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We present to you the qualifying themes for the 2007 DesignVitality WordPress Theme Design competition. We have created a gallery including a preview of each WordPress theme and the authors name. All the themes are available for you to download and enjoy.

Vote for your favorite themes and help the theme designer win one of $1,500 worth of prizes.

Get a look at all the hot new WordPress themes here.

First off, we would like to wish everyone of our readers a happy new year. May it be your best year yet. We will be making all the WordPress theme entries available for viewing, downloading, voting and all around enjoyment on January 7th. Read the rest of this entry »

No matter how many fonts you have now, if you are a designer and you see a free font that you like you download it. Period. Of course whenever you go looking for free fonts, a crap load of the search results that show up will get you interested by showing you some good looking fonts and then tell you to pull out your credit card for that one you really liked.

Fortunately, we found just the thing to let you tell those sites that try to charge for fonts to take a hike. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of people have emailed us requesting more time to complete their entries and after hearing it from so many people, we have decided to go ahead and give you one more chance to win some of the cool prizes. The last day to submit your entry is now December 19th.

There will be no more extensions, so wrap up your themes and get them submitted! Read the rest of this entry »

Do you feel like something is missing from your site? Do you want to give your design a little snap? Make your site stand out with icons! When used correctly icons can add flavor and character to your site. Below are the top 50 sources for designer icons for use on your website: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s happened to us all: We come across a site with very helpful information and we print it. What do we get? A broken layout, ads and cut-off sentences. How do we remedy this? We use these 15 tools and CSS stylesheets to create printer friendly websites of course! Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s face it: Owning a website for your business is pretty much a requirement in this day and age. What good is a website that only shows customers what your company sells? Why not actually sell to them while they are there?

Use any of these 20 open source shopping carts to maximize your sales potential. Some of these aren’t open source, but they are all free. Create an online store and increase your revenue. Read the rest of this entry »