Free Resources For Graphic Designers

Everyone is aware of resources in graphic designing that not only save you time but also helps in bringing quality, uniqueness and make your project meaningful. Whether you are working side by side or having a low budget, many free resources can help you out.

Here are listed some free design resources that can help you provide everything that you are looking for from images to videos and fonts to design tools.

Free Stock Of Images

• Burst is an eCommerce platform where anyone can download the stock images free of cost and use them with no attribution.
• Landing Stock is a niche site offering a stock of photos for free that you can choose for your website landing page. It has only high-quality and minimalistic images that you can crop well.
• Photo Creator allows you to combine stock photos to create on your own. Use the drag-and-drop interface, which is quick and easy.

Free Illustrations

• Humaaans has modular and vector illustrations of humans, which can be mixed, rotate, match and position to create your designs.
• Joe Schmoe has illustrated a collection of avatars for web designing projects. They are widely used as profile picture placeholders for live websites or design mockups.
• Ouch Pics is a collection of free vector illustrations and featured clean trendy and colorful designs. They are perfect for any web or app user interface.

Free Icons

• Ionicons has premium icons which are used by designers in web, Android, iOS, and desktop apps. These icons are free and open source.
• Animations is a set of animated GIFs that can be customized. Due to their small file size, they are compatible with all major browsers, different size devices and emails without requiring any special plugins.

Free Fonts

• Right Fonts is an intuitive and robust directory of web fonts that are widely used by designers and enable them to use in the way they want it to utilize.
• BeFonts has an extensive collection of free fonts including the script, display, symbol fonts, retro, blackletter and non-western styles.

Free Stock Videos

• The cover is a source of elegant shot stock videos that you can download for free, no attribution required.
• Motion Places provide you with creative, high-quality, and free stock footage. A good thing is there are no ads, no sign-up required, and no affiliate links.

Free Graphic Design Tools

• The pencil is an open-source, free alternative to AdobeXD and a powerful tool that enables you to design the prototypes for mobile, desktop applications,s and almost for all platforms.
• Canva is simple to use in the browser without requiring downloads. It is a flexible graphic design tool, but not photoshop. A good thing about the Canva is, it can do a lot of basic design tasks using the drag and drop option.
• Gravit Designer is well known full-featured vector graphic design app that is utilized on all platforms. Its free version comes with 500MB of cloud storage.

Free Mockup Tools

• Shotsnapp is a free tool that allows users to download their device mockups in seconds. What you need to do is take your device, add an image of your design or screenshot, make the tweaks you need and download for mockup image.
• Screely allows you to turn a screenshot into a mockup instantly without requiring a sketch or photoshop templates.
• Screenpeek is free for iPhone mockups only. You have to copy and paste a URL into Screenpeek, and your mockup will be generated in no time.
• Smartmockups has an ever-growing mockup library that helps to create a beautiful mockup inside your browser on various devices.

Free Image Editing Tools

• Remove is utilized to remove the background from a photo with just one click.
• Social Sizes offers excellent sizes to use for image and video content on social media platforms.
• Photopea is an online image editor that enables you to open and edit PSD, XCF, Glimp, Photoshop, Sketch and other image files for free.

Free Screenshot Tools

• Collabshot is a web and desktop application that you can use to grab screenshots and share the URLs with others quickly.
• Giphy Capture is a free Mac app that is used to easily capture parts of your screen and export them as MP4 or GIFs files.

Design Inspiration

• Behance is a part of Adobe Network, is an online platform to showcases and browse creative work including graphic design, illustrations, animation, and UI design.
• Httpster is another resource showcasing website designs around the world.
• Dribbble is another lively online community known for showcasing creative work. It specializes in smaller snapshots of in-progress work.

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