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Over 100 Free Halloween Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List

Brian — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:00:39 +0000

Okay, this is what we’ve bee leading up to. For those of you who love those huge lists of resources, I’ve now compiled my free Halloween graphic design resources posts into one huge Mega-List with a few bonuses thrown in for good measure. Vectors, Photoshop Brushes, Photoshop Layer Styles, Tutorials, Icons, Templates, Fonts…they are all here. Please Digg me, float me, and all that jive.

VECTORS

BenBlogged
Vector zombies available in AI and EPS formats.

MagicPeople
Three of several AI and EPS files available.

Open Clip Art Library
SVG format.

Wikimedia Commons
SVG format.

Public-domain-photos.com
SVG format.

Halloween Pumpkin Vector and Tutorial from N.Design Studio
N.Design Studio shows you how to make it and provides the original Illustrator file as well.

BenBlogged
Available in AI and EPS formats.

Free Clip Art
One of 9 pieces available. In WMF format.

Microsoft Office Online
Microsoft has tons of holiday art available in WMF format.

Open Clip Art Library
SVG format.

furaworld (DeviantART)
A set of vectors including these skulls. AI format.

anticubicle
Available in AI CS2 format.

BenBlogged
Here’s some cool ones for you.
Available in AI and EPS formats.

zwischenzeit (DeviantART)
Highly disturbing stuff but it’s Halloween so there you go.
Available in EPS format.

Go Media
Lots of good stuff in their Vector Pack Sample.
Available in EPS format.

Thomas Christoph Mediendesign (Vecteezy)
Check out the cool skull design on the shirt.
Available in EPS format.

Digital-Clipart
2 sample files available in AI and EPS formats.

Clip-Art.ru
WMF format.

Our first exclusive freebie! These are vectorized bats taken from copyright-expired art on Wikimedia Commons, done in 2 different styles. Feel free to to use them however you choose. Just don’t forget to show Design Bliss some love!

The file is an Illustrator CS2 file.

PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

anodyne-stock

creakystairs (DeviantART)
22 brushes.

wyckedBrush (DeviantART)
13 brushes.

Scully7491
Spiders and spider webs.

seleneheart (DeviantART)
25 brushes. Personal use only.

BRUSH SET REMOVED BY REQUEST

Bats Photoshop Brushes by wyckedBrush (DeviantART)

Bats Photoshop Brushes by Microbion Graphics

PHOTOSHOP LAYER STYLES
Here is another Design Bliss exclusive! Five free Halloween Photoshop Layer Styles whipped up just for you guys. Hope you like them. Use them on your projects however you want; just don’t redistribute them without permission.

Click on the graphic to download the ASL file.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS
Here are some great Halloween-themed Photoshop tutorials.

Tutorial Quest – Carving a Virtual Jack-O-Lantern

Mopacity – Creating and Animating a Bat

Fiery Darts – Drawing a Halloween Cartoon – The Witch

TutorialWiz – Halloween Pumpkin
Plus you can download the original PSD file.

Photoshop Facelift – Create a Gothic Style Look

ICONS

Zeus Box
Desktop icons set. The set are contain 11 pumpkin smilies and 7 “graphical halloweeb.”

(Note: You can also purchase a vector set of these icons for $14.50.)

kearone (DeviantART)
PNGs included. For use with Windows XP/Vista.

TurboMilk
PNGs available.

Fasticon

Iconfactory offers lots of sets of icons, in PC and Macintosh formats, that are free for personal desktop use. Year after year, they offer some great sets of free Halloween icons. Here are my favorites:

World of Aqua: After Dark

Haunted Hard Drives

Halloween 2004

Vintage Halloween

Litho Halloween Icons from Iconfactory

And their latest offering…Spooky Stickers.

deleket (DeviantART)

With so much of the early success of this blog being attributed to my massive RSS icons post, I couldn’t resist playing around with some Halloween rss icons for you. I think the jack o’ lanterns could work well, and I’ve done 2 different versions of a bat as well as just for fun. These are completely vector, done in Illustrator CS2. Again, use them as you want but don’t distribute them as your own. Include them in website designs, templates, whatever. A link back or blog entry would be nice. Anyway, here they are:

WEBSITE TEMPLATES
Finding good, free Halloween templates for websites proved harder than I thought. If you know of any good ones, please add them in the comments.

Mango

A Free Web Template – Halloween Pumpkin
Several other designs are available.

Free Site Templates – Halloween 1

Free CSS Templates – The Gathering
A decidedly dark template.

Rock-Kitty – WordPress Halloween Theme
2-column, Adsense ready Halloween theme.

Free CSS Templates
While not strictly a Halloween design, I thought the Web 2.0 style with the Halloween color scheme was worth mentioning.

STOCK PHOTOS
Here’s a few stock photos that could be used to great effect in Halloween-related projects. The last one is even a layered PSD with the crows already cut out for you.

Solitairemiles (DeviantART)

Stock.xchng

FreeDigitalPhotos.net

mjranum-stock (DeviantART)

CatONineTales (DeviantART)
Layered PSD. Personal Non-Commercial use only.

Here’s some more great free stock photos for Halloween from Stock.xchng:

Here’s even more great free Halloween stock photos for you, this time from Stockvault.

Halloween Color Palettes from Color Hunter
With Color Hunter, you can look at existing color schemes made from photos tagged Halloween or upload your own.

FONTS
Here are sources of Halloween fonts for your projects.

Sinister Fonts
A bunch of very cool, original fonts created by Chad Savage.

The Halloween Chamber of Horrors
This is a very old Geocities site but appears to have a good collection available.

Acid Fonts
A nice collection of fonts.

Fontenstein
Another collection dedicated to Halloween fonts.

Fonts & Things

Blambot
Blambot specializes in comic book fonts and offers a bunch of free fonts that would be great for Halloween.

Dafont.com
Dafont. com has a large selection of Halloween fonts. Here is just a sample.

Dafont also has a selection of scary fonts that could work well.

UrbanFonts
Here is a selection of their Halloween dingbats.

Halloween.it
And here’s a large selection of Halloween fonts and dingbats from an Italian site.

Skull-A-Day – Skullphabet

Plus here’s some more Skull fonts from dafont.com.
Calaveras

Skull TS 2
Free for personal use.

TotenKopf

Old Skull Hellron

Horror Fonts from Abstract Fonts
They have over 90 available. Here is a small sample.

Free Halloween Graphic Design Resources – Day Nineteen: Halloween Grab Bag

Brian — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:00:24 +0000

As our selection of free design resources for Halloween winds down, we are just going to mix together what we have left. Here is a vector with a tutorial, some bats photoshop brushes, some icons, color pallettes, and horror fonts.

Halloween Pumpkin Vector and Tutorial from N.Design Studio
N.Design Studio shows you how to make it and provides the original Illustrator file as well.

Bats Photoshop Brushes by wyckedBrush (DeviantART)

Litho Halloween Icons from Iconfactory

Halloween Color Palettes from Color Hunter
With Color Hunter, you can look at existing color schemes made from photos tagged Halloween or upload your own.

Horror Fonts from Abstract Fonts
They have over 90 available. Here is a small sample.

Free Halloween Graphic Design Resources – Day Eighteen: Vector RSS Icons – a DB Download

Brian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:00:55 +0000

Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons

Brian — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:00:24 +0000

I’m not going to sit here and claim this is every different design, but I found quite a few them. I’ve tried to note where the vector or Photoshop files are available for download. Plus, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom, you can find resources and tutorials for making your own. Enjoy!

BittBox
8 different colors – various sizes and formats. Illustrator, EPS, SVG, PNG, and JPG formats.

UtomBox
Available in PNG format. Part of a larger set.

snap2objects
30 free icons in PDF vector format.

Vikiworks
Part of a Social Bookmark Iconset.

Fasticon

Part of a set of Social Bookmark Icons.

zeus box
A whole set using PNG format.

WebFruits
From (max)Icone Blog – Set 1

From (max)Icone Blog – Set 2

GoSquared
Available in Illustrator or JPEG versions.

Vector icons available in 5 different colors and in Illustrator, SVG, and JPEG formats.

PhotoshopCandy
Layered PSD available.

Perishable Press
In PNG format.

Bartelme Design
Available in PNG and Illustrator formats.

Kapowaz
Available in PNG format as well as the original PSD.

FreeIconsWeb
16 icons set in PNG, ICO, and ICNS formats.

Play Like A Girl
My personal favorite. Available in PNG format and the original PSD.

Arzo Icons
Available in PNG format.

Randa Clay Design
Available in PNG and EPS formats.

Ps graphiX
Available in PNG format as well as the original PSD.

Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq
Available as an animated gif.

Spheres Graphics
Available in PNG format.

Subtraction
Available in PNG format an in original PSD.

Dr. Web
Original PSD available and samples of lots of variations as gifs.

DevilCry
Available in PNG format.

SimDes
Available in PNG format.

Valentina Olini
Available in PNG format.

From deviantArt:

~nam0

carlnewton

leoparn
Available in PNG format.

jb55

petemh

Feeling inspired now? Want to make your own?

Feed Icons
Featuring a devlopers kit with AI, EPS, SVG, PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, and GIF formats included.

Want to start from scratch? Check out these tutorials:

Photoshoplovr.com
The original PSD is available as well as a tutorial on how to make them.

Pixel Hive Design
A Photoshop tutorial.

PhotoshopCandy
The PSD is available upon request.

Spoon Graphics
Illustrator Tutorial.

CMXtraneous
A Fireworks tutorial plus a PNG file.

Free Web 2.0 Layer Styles and Gradients from Deziner Folio

Brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:00:47 +0000

Certainly some of the most talked about layer styles for Photoshop I have seen are the Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles from Deziner Folio.

Some of these layer styles have been adapted for Gimp.

Deziner Folio also offers a set of 130 gradients that could come in handy for doing Web 2.0-style designs.

17 Free Website Templates from Styleshout

Brian — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:00:09 +0000

As I am primarily a print designer, I like to take advantage of all the great free templates out there across the web. One of my favorite template designers is Styleshout. He currently offers 17 different designs and keeps adding more.

Here are a couple of examples:

Here’s another example followed by a screenshot of a live site where I used it without changing it too much.