Freebies
Last week I shared a tutorial showing how to create a retro text style using Adobe Illustrator. I had lots of fun producing that effect, so I’ve been busy crafting a number of additional colour combinations to create a collection of 10 free retro text styles for you to download. Apply them to your text elements with just a single click to produce a variety of colourful titles with faux-3D, halftone texturing and subtle shading effects.
I have a new collection of free textures for you to download today! These 10 concrete images have been processed to create a set of textures that work great as backgrounds or as overlays to distress your designs. They come in full 3000x2000px 300ppi versions, as well as 2000×2000 seamless tiles which will infinitely repeat to fill areas of any size. They range from light to moderate levels of grunge to provide subtle texturing that won’t overpower your artwork.
I have a new free download for everyone this week that will help you create some really cool sci-fi and tech themed designs. These 12 spheres are made in a variety of different abstract styles, resulting in detailed graphics that work perfectly as planets and stars, microscopic organisms, or high-tech illustrations in your artwork. They’re all 100% vector, so you can open them in Adobe Illustrator and scale them to any size, making them extremely versatile for use in all kinds of print and web based projects.
I hope everyone’s 2016 is off to a great start so far. I thought I’d treat my readers and make this year’s first post a new free design resource for everyone to download! This collection of grain textures features 9 high resolution scans that help you add grungy distressed effects to your artwork. They’re actually made from scatterings of tea granules, which turn out to make great design resources as well as hot beverages! Each of the 9 textures has various levels of dispersion and is available in JPG and PNG format with transparency to allow you to find the best texture to work with your design.
A couple of months ago I shared a free pack of film burns for use when editing videos. A number of people seemed to find them useful, so today I’m back with another free collection of video resources! This pack of blue light flare transitions contains 14 short videos of bright flashes that help you create high-tech style transitions between your clips. Place them over your footage, then set the composite mode to Screen (or experiment with the other blending modes for different effects). Check out the preview video below to see them in action!
All the resources I’ve shared here on Spoon Graphics so far have been graphic design related, but today I have something a little different. I also quite enjoy a bit of videography in my spare time and this free set of film burns and transitions helps achieve some of the popular video editing styles with retro analog effects. The pack contains 30 video clips in 1080p 60fps format with colorful blurs that mimic light leaks when placed over your footage with the Screen composite mode in your favourite editing software. The clips range from 1 to 16 seconds to provide a mix of fast transitions and more prolonged overlays.
