FreeButtonWeb is an online website that has a collection of free and stock buttons that you can use for a variety of purposes including download links, social bookmark buttons, UI elements, button templates, control buttons, and much more.
While they do have a large collection of free buttons, they also offer higher premium buttons that they call stock buttons that are still offered at a cheap price, usually at around one dollar. These buttons could be used in numerous different places such as your own website, a software project, print media, or any place else that you need some sort of button graphics.
The button download procedure is quite simple. Each button or set has a separate page that can be accessed by clicking on the main / search / category page thumbnail. Once on the page there’s the download link.
Currently the website has over 500 free buttons and button sets available for download and over 600 stock buttons indexed. The button sets are organized in free and stock buttons and classified in 22 categories so finding exactly what you need is quite easy.
FreeButtonWeb has quite a good search function for this type of website. The results are displayed using their respective thumbnails so spotting what you are looking for is really user friendly.
For more information check out FreeButtonWeb.
This article is part of our “Weekly Design Inspiration” series. We are showcasing once a week cool and inspirational designs submitted that week in the CrazyLeaf Web Gallery. If you think your website belongs here, you can submit it for review (nw).
Jesse Jacobs is an artist and illustrator based in London, Ontario. He has created t-shirt designs, newspaper illustrations, record covers, skateboard graphics, and comic books.
Stockfresh is the newest royalty free stock photography websites with an ever growing portfolio of over 1.2 million gorgeous, impressive and practical stock photos at the most affordable price, all at the end of my fingertips. Stockfresh is a small team of internet professionals with nearly a decade of stock photography experience (stock.xchng and stockxpert).
As a designer you are in constant need of stock photos, vectors and graphic elements to use in your designs. Stockfresh focuses mainly on the ease of use, quality, simplicity and also their contributor commissions are among the highest in the industry. Their goal is to provide high quality stock photos, graphics and vector illustrations at affordable prices through a hassle-free, clean interface.
Online since 2010, Stockfresh offers over 1.2 million high quality images and vectors for download with new stock photos added every day. Offering only standard and extended licenses only the file types offered by Stockfresh are JPG and Adobe Illustrator EPS.
You can buy photos using these payment methods : Paypal, WorldPay, Moneybookers and bank transfer.
International support is pretty well represented, Stockfresh being available in quite a few languages : English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese.
The prices for images are very affordable starting at 1$. Images can be bought through a credit system or via a subscription plan.
The images are organized in quite a few categories, 28 to be more precise so finding the right stuff is very easy.
The search function is pretty basic, but it has an advanced search option which can help you search by size, file type (photo, graphic element or vector file), by shape, subject position of color. Also there’s the option to exclude or to search by photographer. Where the search excels in their search options is after you complete the first keyword search. Stockfresh enables the buyer to further define their search through click boxes so that the search can be narrowed.
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You can find Stockfresh some of the most popular social media services such as Facebook and Twitter.
For more info you can check out Stockfresh or browse through their most popular images.
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a visually appealing mock advertisement for a bottle of water. We will utilize different types of brushes and effects to achieve the final look :
