Our Favourite Free Design Resources
Do you want to design like a pro without breaking the bank? These are our top favourite FREE design resources that fuel our creativity, and let us execute our ideas flawlessly. This blog will reveal all the hidden gems that will help you design freely, even if you’re on a tight budget.
Here are the resources we’ll be sharing with you:
- Design Resources
- Cheat Sheets
- Perfect Mockups
- Online tool for reducing image file sizes
- Top 4 Online Colour Generator Sites
- Insider Design Tip
4 free design resources to help you pick the perfect photos for your website.
Need images for your website?
Whenever we design one of our website templates, these are the places we go to source the perfect image.
Unsplash
Unsplash is our favourite source for free photos online. All the images are also royalty and copyright-free.
Over the years, the quality and variety have improved out of sight as more and more experienced photographers add their work to this incredible platform.
Photo: Joanna Kosinka on Unsplash
Kaboompics
Kaboompics allows you to search for individual photos or go through the entire photoshoot – which means even more options.
Photo: Kaboompics
Pixabay
Rawpixel
Want to know more about these photo resources? Check out the entire blog here.
Cheat Sheets
With the constant changes to social media platforms, it can be hard to keep up with all the latest size dimensions!
We created these free design resources: handy Cheat Sheet Guides for you.
Click on the images below to be taken to the cheat sheet blogs.
Sick of searching for the perfect mockup?
Are you finally at a place where you want to show your designs on actual products but don’t know where to start?
Have you been searching for “the perfect mockup” but can’t find it?
We’ve done all the hard work and sourced the best FREE mockups for Pattern Designers.
This free design resource includes 10 categories of Free sites that offer both plain & lifestyle backgrounds.
The Best (& free) online tool for reducing image file sizes!
Visit the website tinypng and Panda George will help you resize your images.
Follow our step-by-step guide below or visit the blog for an even deeper dive – How to reduce image file sizes for the best SEO on your Showit Website.
Our Top 4 Online Colour Generator Sites
Whether you are a Surface Pattern or Textile Designer, Artist or illustrator, a simple way to lift your designs or branding is with colour.
But picking the right one is tricky.
Our insider secret is using a Colour Generator Site. Are you ready to discover this new online world of colour? Press play on the image below.
Before you turn to your laptop to start Designing – do this instead!
Grab pen and paper first, whether you’re designing a pattern, logo, or any type of visual branding!
Sketching your ideas out on pen and paper fires up the right side of your brain (the creative side).
While heading straight to your laptop you get caught up in how to use your computer.
Your brain’s analytical side (the left side) takes over and blocks your creative flow.
Our favourite tip Sketching Tip
We always use sheets of copy paper (that you would use for your printer) and a Sharpie.
Each separate sheet can be laid out on a table and sorted into stacks so you can shortlist ideas.
You Did it!
That’s a wrap on Our Favourite Free Design Resources. In this blog, we covered our top stock photo sites that will add a professional touch to your projects and Pinterest and Instagram cheat sheets that will help you navigate social media like a pro. We also shared the best mockups for surface pattern designers, experimented with colour generator sites, and learnt helpful sketching tips.
Where to now?
Want to check out the full blogs these tips came from? Click on the links below.
- 4 free design resources to help you pick the perfect photos for your website.
- Mockups for Pattern Designers – The Ultimate Resource Guide
- Our Top Four Free Colour Generator Sites
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