The best design articles from 2014

January 1st, 2015
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Happy new year to all our readers on Creative Nerds, thanks so much everyone for your support through out 2014. We hope you stick around in 2014 for the exciting ride we have ahead of us, because we have some amazing stuff waiting in the pipeline. This has been another tremendous year, for Creative Nerds and have truly enjoyed every moment of it thanks to you our readers for your support.

This round-up is a personal favourite when we look back at the past year, and create a round up of our personal favourite blog posts which where published on Creative Nerds. There’s some greats blog posts certainly worth checking out, which you may have not seen for the first time round.

How To Remove Unwanted Objects From A Photo In Photoshop

This is a very useful Photoshop quick tip on how you can remove unwanted objects from a photo in Photoshop. The tutorial takes less than minutes or so to implement technique, which you will find yourself using over and over again. The tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop content aware fill feature.

275 Amazing Free Animal Vectors

This a must download free resource to add to your design inventory. The set includes
vectors and PNGS for insects, dinosaurs, mammal, fish and insects with a total of 275
vectors. The set can be used in commercial and personal projects. The possibility’s for how
and where you can use this vector set is endless perfect print projects as well as for web
design.

Every CSS Filter Every Web Designer Must Know

CSS filters are a great way to enhance and edit photos without the use of Photoshop.They allow you to use pure CSS to apply popular Photoshop style filters such as desaturate, blur, invert etc. It’s very rarely these day that I ever do a web project without incorporating some sort of CSS filter into that project. I’m a huge fan of CSS filters I would love to hear your thoughts, and any experience you may have had using CSS filters in your own projects, In the comments section below.

Jaw Dropping 80s Style Neon Artwork Designs

This post is a flash back to 80’s looking at ever so popular design trend then neon style movie poster designs. We have decided to showcase in this article our personal favorite designs inspired this design trend, which first started in the 90’s. Please your thoughts, and feedback in the comments section below.

50 Photoshop Tutorials For Creating Amazing Icons

Photoshop has evolved from just being a great tool for editing photographs . The possibilities of what can be achieved using Photoshop are simple jaw dropping the days of it being used for just editing photography are distant memory. As a web designer its one of the key tools I cant go a day without using.

Amazing Free Thick Smoke Photoshop Brush Set

A thick authentic free smoke Photoshop brush set. I love putting together Photoshop brushes, and this is certainly another great free Photoshop brush to add to your design inventory. The set comes with a limited amount of brushes, but are all a large scale size which can be used in a variety of different ways. If your a fan of Photoshop brushes this unique thick smoke brush set is a must download.

How To Cut Out Objects From Photos In Photoshop

The Best Halloween Design Resource 10 Free Vector Flyer Templates

The resource is a truly a jaw dropping freebie. Not only is this one of the best Halloween resources out there its design a bundle, which features 10 high quality vector posters. The posters are all print ready vectors, which can all be used in personal and commercial design projects. The perfect resources to incorporate into design projects festive Halloween design whether that’s a print or web based design project.

30 Creative Uses Of Typography In Poster Designs

A great look into typography specifically creative typography used in poster designs. Its a great inspirational blog post, which showcases some truly jaw dropping uses of typography. This is the perfect source of inspiration to fuel your creativity, if your embarking on creating your own poster designs. I would love to hear your thoughts on the poster designs in the comments section below.

Hi-Res Free Cloud Photoshop Brush Set

A really cool realistic cloud photoshop brush. This brush is a great resource, for creating and adding an authentic cloud effect into your designs. The set includes a few different brush strokes to incorporate into your designs. It’s one of our favourite brushes we have created this year, we hope you like and can incorporate into your designs.

20 Websites To Find The Best Free Fonts

Typography is a crucial part of any website design, or in fact any print design project. A good font selection and the right font combination can certainly make or break a design. This blog post is a showcase of the very best sites for picking up some amazing free fonts to download and use in commercial and personal design projects.

Soft Curved 3D Social Media Icon Set

This is another great social media icon set, with a great subtle 3D effect applied to the icons creating a great effect. The icon set includes 12 icons for 12 of the most popular social media websites. The set of icons can be used in a wide variety of different projects from web design to app design.

Shiny Christmas Light Free Vector Set

Our great friends over at freepik have created an amazing design resource exclusive to you our readers on Creative Nerds. This spectacular vector set consists of over 12 different Christmas festive light scalable vectors. This is the perfect resource, which can be used in commercial and personal design projects, and comes at the perfect time to incorporate into all of your Christmas print and web design projects. Download and enjoy this is one of our personal favourite Christmas design resources ever released on Creative Nerds.