Free Plugins for Fireworks and Photoshop

A very popular site offers a huge and free collection of plug-ins for photoshop and for Fireworks. Use these plugins to enhance your photos or to obtain nice effects.

Free Plugins

This site proposes several free plugins (+1 shareware) which support Photoshop, RealWorld Paint.COM , Photofiltre Studio, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Paint Shop Pro, Macromedia Fireworks and others photo retouching software.

How to install plugins ?

Usually, you just have to copy plugin files, into the "Plugins" or "Plug-ins" sub folder, inside the retouching software's folder. Restart your application. Plugins will appear in the "Filters" or "Effects" menu. ("Xtras" menu for Fireworks).

Paint Shop Pro obligates the user to specify the folder which contains Photoshop plugs. Thus, go to the menu "File", choose "Preferences" and then "File Locations". Select the tab or item concerning plugins, and then press the browse button.

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Vintage 3D Typography

Vintage 3D Typography in Photoshop with Repoussé

"Sunday is the day to play with Photoshop and try some new ideas. As usual I went through some books and Web sites to find some inspiration. I am still addicted to the Handy Book of Artistic Printing, it's a must have book for some old style print references. I got some ideas and also found this amazing image from Alex Beltechi on Dribbble called Twisting in the Wind. Then I new the effect I wanted to know how to create in Photoshop."

You will learn in this Photoshop tutorial how to create a 3D effect using Photoshop and the Repoussé tool. The whole process is quite easy with less than 10 steps and won't take you more than 30 minutes.

Free Photoshop Tutorial Here

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Vintage Traveler Diary

In past articles, we’ve shared great fonts, vectors and textures that you can use for free. So now if you want to learn some techniques to put those to use, you’re in luck, check our future posts. Here is very useful and popular Photoshop tutorial that will teach you techniques to add vintage elements to your retro style designs.

You can learn from this Photoshop tutorial by Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja, how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. Learn how to mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the retro style effect.

Free Tutorial Here

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Free PSD : Polaroid Icon

Enjoy this free polaroid realistic icon with a retro style, that was not designed with illustrator but photoshop full of details and ready to use. Don’t miss our next freebie, remember to share !

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Free PSD : Ribbons Pack

Free trendy ribbons, photoshop psd source file with color variations packed in a great set of different ribbon elements, pixel perfect, and carefully designed.

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Free PSD : Photo Frames

Another free psd source file packed with a cool set of photoframes, check all details and shadows, everything has been done carefully. Don’t forget to share !

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139 Grunge Vector Shapes for Photoshop

This free set of shapes for Photoshop is nicely released by Ardcor

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28 Free Photoshop Patterns

There is a large collection of free Photoshop patterns all over the web. This set of 28 photoshop patterns is released by photoshop-stock. Enjoy!

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