One more time, before You use these icons read licence terms and legal agreements.

1. FamFamFam

Actually I think this is one of the best founding I ever had, that’s why this resource is the first in the list. Very useful and huge silk, flag, mint and mini icon sets to add in web design as spice. Nice quality, small file size – what more can You want?

2. 2 Button PSD’s by easydisplayname

3. PSD Resource Pack One by deluxive

4. Deluxive Creative Pack by deluxive

5. Slash N Flash Buttons PSD by el3ment4l

6. Varied Glass Style Set by allhopeislost

I added also Photoshop Style files from great designers, which are even better, because You can use style surface on any element You want, also it’s useful for icon creation and easy way to get glassy effects.

7. Designer’s Delight Style Set by allhopeislost

8. Varied Glass Style Set 2 by allhopeislost

9. Pin Pictures PSD by godspeed0

Here is offered very nice way, how to present Your photos or works.

10. Gems PSD by niccey

11. Aero Avatar and Sig PSD by fastnfurious

12. Glass Orb Styles by kjherstin

13. Template PSD Pack by tyr4nt

14. Preview Icon Template by whyred

15. Star Sticker PSD by matu666

16. Radium Neue Icons 5 PSD by gakuseisean

17. Vista Flare Orb by frnak

18. PSDFox by vathanx

19. Radium Icon PSDs by gakuseisean

20. Office Cork Board Version 1 by jakekimpton

21. Refraction Sphere by gusti-boucher

22. World orb icon PSD by keitaru-san

23. PSD Avatar Pack by eupholic

24. iVista Icon PSDs by gakuseisean

25. Globe Resource PSD by sneakytomato

26. Iconica Icon Set by dangeruss

27. Glass Video Playback Buttons by birofunk

28. Login Panel PSD by sundox

29. Free Brush Illustration by lorddarq

30. Paperbag Template PSD by mangion

31. Icons PSD by igorka

32. FREE Sponsor Advertise Buttons by grafon

33. Windows Button PSD by vicing

34. Free PSD Icons (24 Icon Sets)

35. DezinerFolio: On-Stage: Free Vector PSD Icon Set

36. DezinerFolio | Freebies

Actually there are a lot more freebies, good quality icons, themes, Photoshop styles to find.

37. Computer Icon + Tutorial by gakuseisean

38. Free Web Templates/Elements in PSD for Photoshop!

Offers really good quality icons, buttons, badges, backgrounds, templates and so on. Worth checking out.

39. Sweetie

Cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application. Two icon sets with totally 219 icons, free to use for commercial purposes.

40. Honeycomb Patterns by c130

41. GraphicRiver

42.IconsPedia

Site is totally dedicated to free icon collecting, however You should stick to license agreement too.

43. Developer Icons by sekkyumu

44. 135 Vector Icons

45. Web 2.0 Badges

And lastly I got this website with badge generator and also wide range of already premade badge collection.

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45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

1. Sxc.hu

The leading free stock photo site. If You don’t know about this site and call Yourself a designer, I’ll feel ashamed – MUST KNOW site offering an impressive collection of many high-quality photos taken by amateur photographers from around the world. There are more than 380.000 quality stock photos. If You are searching for something this is the first place where to look, totally my favorite one.

2. EveryStockPhoto

EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos!

3. MorgueFile

One more site worth looking for. “This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits.” – Quote from their homepage.

4. Flickr

Everybody know about this site with their main purpose as photo management and sharing application.  Great place for inspiration and searching for good photographs, but don’t forget to check  author’s license, before using them.

5. Deviantart

Very popular community and also very good photos sometimes can be found there, but yes, don’t forget about license and asking authors first for their permission.

6. Kavewall

All images are  separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation.

7. StockVault

More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now.

8. Image*After

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial and currently there are more than 20,000 free textures and images available.

9. CreatingOnline

10. AllDigitalDreamer

11. FreeFoto

FreeFoto.com is made up of 122879 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories for now, pretty impressive indeed.

12. DreamsTime

Over 4 million photographs are over here for free or 0.20$/image.

13. FreeRange

All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects.

14. FreeDigitalPhotos

15. FreeStockImages

16. TurboPhoto

17. Visipix

18. FreePhotosBank

19. Cepolina

Over 8,000 photos available for now, each photo can be downloaded in five formats – up to 1024x768px.

20. BigFoto

This interesting site offers high resolution and really beautiful photos of continents.

21. OpenPhoto

20 different categories with high quality nature and architectural photos.

22. ShutterStock

4,9 million royalty-free stock photos with almost 80 000 new photos every week.

23. PdPhoto

Several thousands of royalty free pictures here and free for use.

24. FromOldBooks

FromOldBooks site offers scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books

25. FreeImages

2500 original stock photos for free.

26. DexHaus

27. PublicDomainPhotos

More than 5,000 free photos out there and free for commercial use.

28. FreeLargePhotos

29. ImageBase

Every picture is free to use and really high resolution – from 1600×1200 until 3072x2048px!

30. PhotoRack

All pictures listed at PhotoRack are Free to use for personal and commercial projects.

If You know some more good free stock photo sites, please share with us, to evolve our design community!!

If You are a graphic or web designer, great texture always becomes handy in your workflow. You can create amazing effects just combining those textures together and playing with them. I just took a look around and thought that I need to make a list of amazing textures, because quality images and textures are never enough. There are many great resources all around the web, I just tried to select those most better known web pages and those with great collection and quality of textures. All of those textures are free, so You can use them freely in your personal or commercial works.

Free texture web sites

1. More than 17GB Huge collection of textures and reference photos for artists.

2. Stylish collection of free textures and photos ( for now 415).

3. Freebies from Kave Wall stock.

4. Maybe most popular one with the biggest set of textures, at this moment 878 textures:

5. Also very good known web-site with great collection:

6. Design is not very encouraging, but textures are:

7. Folks from Designviver.com summarized nice pick of textures too:

8.Texture Warehouse

9.Grungetextures

10. Design is very simple, but sometimes less is more ( more than 10 000 textures!):

11.Lost and taken thinks so big, I cant even fill all logo in the page:

12.Web site with stylish design and textures:

13. Fabio Sasso from abduzeedo.com has made some nice collection too from 36 textures:

14. Great texture web site and even their logo is texture! Original!

15. Textures will be enough there for all Your life!! Maybe not, but for now there is 7292 textures

I just love all those vintage, grunge, rusty textures and so the last ones are hand picked 5 great texture packs which I like the most. Hope You enjoy.

1. 5 nice old scratchy paper textures :

2. Even more 6 interesting textures with  some more neat text effects taking action.

3. Nice  paper textures with clouds in the background:

4. All those 4 texture packs comes from amazing artist Princess-of-Shadows, I really love her work.

5 more great textures.

5. Great selection offers fellows from bittbox:

6.  31 Grunge Surfaces – nice texture pack created by velvetmoth.com:

That’s all for now my friends. And Yes, maybe You see great textures all around and don’t know how to really use them?

Then I am here for You to tell this one – just create new document, make some nice gradient or fill color effect and then easily open some texture, export on image and just play with opacity, levels, color balance and mainly layer styles. With those styles You can get unbelievably great results! Just try it out – it’s really not that complicated!