Access All Areas members have a brilliant collection of textures to download this week, courtesy of Texture Club. Aptly named “Grit It or Quit It”, this volume of 24 high resolution images features thick and gritty textures, with a handful of more detailed subtle textures. Hand made with ink and other materials, they will help you apply detailed grungy distressed marks to your designs and artworks.
Access All Areas members have a fantastic premium font to download this week courtesy of Retro Mart. Directors Gothic is a tall and powerful sans-serif typeface that originated in the 1930s, when it was used for advertising headlines and smart corporate materials. Developed by the Lettering Inc company, it was inspired by the Art Deco movement that was popular at the time of its creation and remains a timeless classic.
This week, Access All Areas members have a collection of pretty gold confetti backgrounds and overlays to download, courtesy of Alaina Jensen. These 30 PNG files with transparency contain a variety of glitter and foil textures to mix and match as photo overlays and brighten up your compositions. Each one has a unique gold confetti pattern that produces different gold textures, with fine glitter, chunky glitter and gold foil. Also included are 14 JPG files with combinations of each glitter overlay patterns to produce a range of ready made digital papers.
Subtle grunge Photoshop brushes like this are such versatile tools. I regularly use them to quickly add a touch of texturing to a background, or to rough up an element with the help of a layer mask. The beauty of Photoshop brushes is not only are they always available to grab from the brushes panel, you can also easily resize them, change the colour and apply them with just a click of the mouse, which makes regular texture image files seem so cumbersome in comparison! There’s 10 presets at a 2000x2000px resolution that add detailed grainy textures to your work. They’re really handy tools to have saved directly in Photoshop for whenever you need to add distressed effects to your designs.
Access All Areas members have some new resources to help with their web projects this week, courtesy of ecomm.design. This set of user interface outline icons features 37 graphics to represent a range of common actions and visual metaphors to help you produce clean and tidy UI designs. The icons are available in vector AI and EPS formats so they can be scaled while retaining perfectly crips edges, and be easily customised with different colour fills. Individual PNG files and SVG graphics are also included in the download to round off a variety of useful formats for use in every day projects.
This week, Access All Areas members have a new collection of vector textures to download, courtesy of designer and letterer David Larusso. The pack contains 10 detailed grainy textures that produce a subtle distressed look for your prints, logos, illustrations, typography, and the other beautiful things you create. Use them individually, or layer them to enhance the texturing effects. They can be quickly accessed via the layered AI file, or separately as a range of EPS files for maximum compatibility with Illustrator, Photoshop and other design applications.