Our community means the world to us, and as a thank you for making 2015 so amazing, we’ve put together our biggest freebie bundle ever! This collection includes tons of quality resources from our top designer friends, and it’s 100% free!
Our Gift to You: A Huge, Free Holiday Bundle
2015 has been an incredible year for Design Cuts, and we’re so grateful for you being a part of that. Our wonderful community has now grown to 70,000 talented designers, who have collectively saved over $100 million! Throughout this, your comments, support and feedback continue to inspire and motivate us.
We have so much fun every day working with you, the DC community. As a thank you for making 2015 a year to remember, we have put together a special free bundle for you to enjoy. We know how expensive the holidays can be, and so this is a great opportunity to save some dollars, and still get your bi-weekly design fix.
Thanks to the generous contributions of our talented designer friends, this free bundle is every bit as huge, high quality and value-packed as our regular collections. It includes six best-selling fonts, tons of vectors, graphics, textures, mockups, photos and more! Best of all, it’s covered by our usual extended license.
Once again, a huge thank you! We already have massive plans for next year, and we can’t wait to share them with you.
Happy Holidays from Team DC
– Tom, Matt, Darren, Tina, Carol, Edita, Ben & Lauren.
This pack includes hand-made Christmas-themed watercolor illustrations . There are also 10 ready to print greeting card designs. With this file, you will able to create your own greeting cards, hero & header images and prints. All objects are high resolution and transparent. Feel free to use them on any color or any texture.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS1 and newer
Westcoast Letters is a fun hand-painted headline font by Cultivated Mind. This free sample includes Westcoast Letter regular. Westcoast characters are wider than Pacific Northwest and offer a new style of letters.
Taluhla is a lovely handwritten font. It is unique, elegant and easy to read. It can be used for invitations, greeting cards, posters, advertising, film, weddings, books, menus among many other uses! This free sample includes Taluhla regular.
Make your customers believe that your designs have come straight off the press with these realistic, vintage print layer styles.
Layer styles allow you to quickly change the look of text and objects with just one click! Because these are in vector format they can be enlarged almost infinitely without loss of resolution.
The pack contains seven different textured styles – each in 15 colors. You can adjust the colors to suit your own requirements after the styles have been applied.
Easy to use – instructions included.
Software compatibility: Adobe Illustrator CS1 and newer
Watercolor Text Styles
Make your audience believe that your headlines are painted with these ultra-realistic watercolor styles.
Styles allow you to quickly change the look of text and objects with just one click.
The pack contains 20 watercolour styles, the patterns that were used in the styles and instructions.
BONUS! – I’ve updated the pack, and it now includes an action that will add a rippled edge to your watercolor text and objects as in the preview.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS5 and newer
Hand-painted Banners
My painted banners will give your designs a hand-crafted feel!
I’ve supplied the files in five colors but they are fully editable and layered so you can adjust them as you please.
The banners were all created at 600dpi. They vary in size – between 2000 and 3000 px wide.
Each banner is on a transparent background, so they can be placed quickly and easily.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS5 and newer
Dope Script is a rough around the edges, hand-made paint brush font with bags of personality.
It comes with a large range of characters including capitals, lower-case, numerals, punctuation, currency and accents. Also try the characters { } [ ] for some bonus swashes to pop-out in your text!
Language Support: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish
This font includes web versions
Brother Nature
Brother Nature is our beach-bound paint brush font with bags of style! Great for attention-grabbing header text, advertisements, apparel designs, logos & much more.
Please note the font is all CAPS however does include a few alternate capitals in the lower case form. Also included are numerals, punctuation and currency glyphs.
Language Support: English
This font includes web versions
Rough Edged Borders & Frames
Check out this mega pack of 56 rough borders & frames! Perfect for creating stand-out frames for your artwork, or as attention-grabbing containers for both text & image content.
Included in this set:
• .PSD – Layered Photoshop file including 36 grunge borders, 11 torn paper borders, 4 torn box-containers and 5 various rough frames.
• .PNG – Separate files of all 56 elements, high resolution with transparent background.
• .ABR – 2 Photoshop brush packs for the 36 grunge borders and 11 torn paper borders (Roughly 2000px).
Software compatibility: .PNG files work with most graphic software. The .psd file is Photoshop CS3+
This is Winter Bear! He’s been floating around my imagination, eager to be brought to life. So here he is, ready and waiting for you to add some winter quirkiness to your creations!
Even though Bear thinks he looks the smartest in his coat and hat, you are welcome to dress him up, or dress him down. Just simply lay the clothing on top of him, and mix and match just for fun.
Winter Bear comes with:
• A Jacket
• Hat
• Scarf
• Christmas hat
• Dungarees
• 3 pre-dressed Bears
• A bird, frame, 3 floral elements and snow
Happy creating with the little guy!
Software compatibility: The vector files are compatible with CS3 and newer and you’ll receive high-res .PNG files of each element too. .PNG files work with most graphic software.
A set of 10 gorgeous .png rolled ink textures, ideal for grunge-ing up your creative work. These textures are high-res, super sharp and produced by world famous designer Ian Barnard.
Software compatibility: .PNG files work with most graphic software.
• Create scenes up to 5200x3600px
• Color masks for every material (the majority of items, but not all of them)
• Realistic mockups
• High-Res items
• Beautiful pre-made scenes (2000x2000px)
Embrace Textures
The textures 2 Lil Owls create are made with tons of layers and lots of love. Each texture is a little piece of art on its own so that when you combine it with your photography or design work – you end up with something really unique.
Software compatibility: .JPG files work with most graphic software
This festive collection includes 12 high quality 300 dpi digital papers in 12 x 12 inch size. Each paper is a unique pattern in chalk on an authentic chalkboard background. The patterns include snowflakes, snow, stars, script, Christmas trees, and more!
Software compatibility: .JPG files work with most graphic software
White Christmas Digital Paper
This unique collection includes 12 high quality 300 dpi digital papers in 12 x 12 inch size. Each paper is a unique Christmas pattern or texture in shades of white, silver, and chilly blue.
Included are several glitter and bokeh textures, icy glitter chevron and damask, and christmas balls, stars, script, and snowflake patterns.
Software compatibility: .JPG files work with most graphic software
Dust & Chalk Logo Mock-up
This effect simulates chalk on chalkboard and you can use it for logos and any other shapes. Easy to use via Smart Object and brushes.
Included in this set:
• 4 .PSD sample files
• 1 .ABR file with 10 different brushes to add dust details to your logo
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
8 Rust Metal Overlay Textures Mockup
Best for vintage logos, badges or insignia.
Included in this set:
• 1 Photoshop file for CS4+
• 8 different texture overlays via Photoshop Smart Objects for replacing artwork
• Easy to replace with your images
• Well layered and organized
• Dimension 3000 x 2000px / 300 dpi
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
5 Close-Up Logo Mock-ups vol.2
• 5 Photoshop files for CS3+
• Photoshop Smart Objects for replacing logos
• Easy to replace with your images
• Well layered and organized
• Dimension 2000 x 1300px / 72 dpi
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
This is a collection of 6 extremely large A1 halftones that have been created with very high screen settings for use with large format designs such as posters, prints, signs or other artwork.
Each texture measures 594 x 841mm @ 300dpi (7,016 x 9,933 pixels).
They work particularly well when layered over photographs, illustrations or artwork to create distressed ‘screen print’ and ‘letterpress’ effects.
Use the textures to create subtle overlays or severely distressed noise and screen effects.
I’ve found them very useful when having to scale up photographs for posters which start to look distorted at larger sizes. By overlaying these textures and applying blending effects, you can create some really interesting and authentic effects.
Alternatively you can easily resize them for projects with smaller dimensions.
Software compatibility: .PNG and .TIFF files work with most graphic software.
A collection of 4 clean geometric image mask designs created for large format applications such as photography exhibitions, prints, posters and signage.
Following the popularity of the Geometric Masks & Shapes Collection, I have had a number of enquiries from photographers and designers with requests for a geometric mask collection in much larger sizes and with different aspect ratios.
This collection features 4 different aspect ratios. Includes both portrait & landscape dimensions, plus a large 100 x 100cm (1 metre squared) format. Simple to use:
– Just place each of the white masks above your photographs, textures or other images.
– Paste the individual masks into your own documents that support transparent .PNG files such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc.
Software compatibility: .PNG files work with most graphic software.
Posters remain one of the purest forms of printed graphic expression. We hope the Poster Mockup Template Pack enhances the thrill of design by giving you some instant gratification. Here’s what you do: Just paste your merged artwork into the appropriate layer, and you’ll get a preview of your printed piece that’s suitable for showing clients or posting around the net.
Now with smart object functionality, these templates allow you to view that artwork you’ve worked so hard on realistically creating, in the perfectly right perspective, with just a few clicks! Yep, it’s that easy! Never heard of a smart object? We’ve taken all the hard work of creating the perfect clipping mask and turned it into a simple double click process. You click twice on the smart object, add your artwork, hit save and just like that your art adopts the perfect perspective, highlights, shadows and everything else!
Software compatibility:Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
American Tradition is an Americana inspired typeface. “American Tradition” is a hand-drawn font with interesting capital letters and alternative characters. This typeface gives a nice vintage feel to your work that may help you to achieve what your client has in mind. “American Tradition” comes in .OTF form made for the English language. It comes with all glyphs found on your keyboard and then some. This font is extremely fun to use!
Easily add realistic light leaks to your photos in seconds with Light Leaks Series I.
The FilterGrade Light Leaks Series is a fantastic collection of light leaks and bokeh effects to give your images that retro feel.
These effects are similar to the light leaks you’d see in a vintage film and are created by the sun. They emulate them perfectly and can be customized easily. The best part, these light leaks overlay beautifully on top of other Filter Grade Photoshop actions and were built with those effects in mind.
FilterGrade Light Leaks Series I Includes:
• 20 State of the Art Light Effects
• Highly Customizable Light Leaks and Gradients
• Help Files and Documentation
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
Add beautiful retro matte effects to your photos in seconds with the FilterGrade Retro Series I.
Retro Series I is a fantastic pack of 20 effects varying from the simplest subtle retro tones to the more advanced gradients. These effects were tested on hundreds of photos making them versatile and adaptable to look great on your photos.
FilterGrade Retro Series I Includes:
• 20 State of the Art Retro Photo Actions
• Advanced Vintage Filters and Tints
• Help Files and Documentation
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
Create a realistic Desk Calendar preview for your client in few seconds. Different angles of view and photorealistic backgrounds will help you promote your design the best way. Easy to replace pages with your designs using smart objects, double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save, and you’re done!
Actual size for your design on display Pages 4” X 6”
Product features:
• Easy to replace your own design (based on smart objects)
• 4 Cclendars angle of view
• Photorealistic backgrounds
• Independent shadows and highlights
• Organized layers for navigations
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
Business Cards Mock up (85×55)
Clean business card mock ups with Studio Light based on Smart Objects — best way to present your business cards design to impress your client.
Graduate Script is a contemporary calligraphic script. With over 825 glyphs Graduate Script can be dressed up or down, to enliven its style. You can add curls to beginning and end of any lowercase letter, or even in between them. Alternates for both upper and lowercase, as well as ligatures for double letters are included too.
OpenType features such as five numeral styles, fractions and both standard and discretionary ligatures, make Graduate Script a well equipped font.
Graduate Ornaments has over 300 glyphs and expands the design possibilities of Graduate Script even further. It offers additional ornaments and curls to add to lowercase letters, frames, automated borders that can be accessed by the keyboard and a lot more fun glyphs to work with. On top of that there are catchwords in different styles. Not finding the catchword you’re looking for? Just create your own! A full set of capitals, including roman accented caps, currency, numerals and punctuation is part of Graduate Ornaments. Designed to fit the same frames that are being used for the different catchword-styles, so you can easily integrate custom text with the existing catchwords.
This set of Folded Paper Overlays are extremely versatile and you can use these overlay textures to mix and match or use them separately. The Folded Paper Overlay Textures work best in conjunction with blend modes and reduced opacity.
Last sample above is used with the linear light blend mode and 15-25% opacity. Use in low opacity overlay blend mode for a more subtle effect or Multiply or Linear Burn blend mode for a more grungy effect.
The possibilities are endless for experimenting with blend modes, and different ways of combining the overlays, using them with your favourite digital art, backgrounds or popping them over photos for that folded paper grunge style. These overlays are fabulous for art photography, and a must have item for creative photographers.
Overlay Textures are 12×12 inches in size and 300dpi.
Includes:
5 Folded Paper Overlays (.PNG)
Software compatibility: .PNG files work with most graphic software.
This charming scene is perfect for showcasing your creative work, and includes a lovely background, envelope, pencil, paper, mug and other design elements.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
Pre-made Scene 9
This handy scene creator provides an array of technical and artistic drawing implements, as well as digital devices and tablets. It’s the easy way to showcase your design work in a slick, creative setting.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and newer
6 different objects in this high-resolution stationery mock-up. A nice looking kraft paper. But even better, you can customize the color of the paper and get a very realistic result. You can also change the background color and texture. By using smart-object you can change quickly the design content. There are 10 photo effects ready to use in this .PSD file.
Product features:
• Business Card: 85 x 55 mm
• Correspondence card: 200 x 100 mm
• Embossing press
• Envelope C6: 114 × 229 mm
• Letterhead: A4
• Paper Tube
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
8 Label & Logo Mock Ups
8 label or logo mock up on pine wood. You can show/hide the plant in some mock up. Perfect for a logo or label. Edit easily the design content with smart object. Also in each .PSD file three photo effects are available.
Software compatibility:Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
Inspired by the popular design trends in Portland and Austin. This style of vintage logos can be seen in shop windows, food carts, hand crafted goods and more.
Included in this set:
• 6 select vintage style logos.
• Links to the FREE fonts used in the files (free to download – see font license for details).
• 6 vintage graphics perfect for use with logos or any other way you’d like.
• Select Vintage Logos user guide.
• Easy to customize and rearrange elements.
Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer
Half a year in the making, 4 countries and 20 landscape nature panoramas photographs.
A beautiful set of vertical & horizontal nature landscape panoramas. From gorges in Georgia to fjords in Norway, from the Swiss Alps & Italian Dolomites to the mountains of Caucasus, from waterfalls to snowy mountains peaks and rough rivers – it’s all created by nature and captured in a panorama format.
Software compatibility: .JPG files work with most graphic software
Full Deal Terms & Licensing:
This deal includes extended licensing. This means that as well as using these products within personal and commercial projects, you can also use them in designs/products that you resell. Here is some further clarification:
You can:
Use these resources within personal and commercial projects, as well as items for sale. The resources must be used within a wider design though, and not comprise the entire design. This can include, but is not limited to posters, t-shirt designs, digital goods, merchandise etc…
You can’t:
Resell these files directly, or within items/goods where they can be extracted in their original form.
Sell a finished design where these resources comprise the entirety or vast majority of the design (i.e.: they’re used in a stand-alone fashion.) They should be used within a wider, original design.
Share these resources with others.
This is a single user license. Please contact us to enquire about multi-user licenses.
Here’s another look at some of the awesome resources included in this bundle:
Includes Our New and Improved Bundle Browsing Guides
We’re so pleased to announce that after listening hard to our community, we’ve upgraded our bundle browsing guides. These now feature an updated PDF guide, and a brand new Image Gallery guide. These let you easily browse every designer and item within your bundle, using a handy table of contents, and search functionality. We hope that they will be a huge time saver for Design Cutters everywhere.
You have gone WAY beyond generous with this one. I’m beginning to think you have a thing for us Design Cutters — thank you so much! A very Happy Christmas to you all and all the best for 2016 from Southern California!
Dear Carol, a wonderful happy new year first of all!
I couldn’t download this awesome Bundle, eventoughI got your reminder and Newsletter just yesterday! Would you PLEASE provide me a download link so I could try it again, and have access to this wonderful help for my projects.
I must be a chop, I downloaded it but only have the PDF no actual .psd .png of the stuff you mention above? Please dont make me read all those pdf’s just to find out how to get to actual files?
Diana Wolverton –
You have gone WAY beyond generous with this one. I’m beginning to think you have a thing for us Design Cutters — thank you so much! A very Happy Christmas to you all and all the best for 2016 from Southern California!
Ben Neeves –
You are very welcome, Diana :) Words can’t express how grateful we are for our community’s incredible support. You guys & girls absolutely rule :)
I hope you enjoy your new resources! A very Merry Christmas to you too and a Happy New Year from us here in the UK :)
Petra –
Thank you sooo much! LOVE it!
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Carol Sweeney –
Ha thanks Petra! You have made my day using Elaine :).
We are so pleased you love this one! We just wanted to say thank you to you and our community for an awesome year :)
Gabrielle Madsen –
Well I was late to get the mockups deal and then I found this! Kinda makes up for it *smiles*
Thank you for such an incredible gift!!
Carol Sweeney –
Hey Gabrielle,
Thanks for the comment and I am so pleased to hear the End of Year Freebie made you smile after missing out on the mockups!
I really hope you’ll enjoy your new resources and will get loads of use out of them!
If you do have any other questions or need help in any way, please do let me know. I am always happy to help :).
Graham –
Oh you guys
Many thanks for all this – and Merry Christmas to you all
Graham
Carol Sweeney –
Hey Graham,
You are more than welcome and thank you for the festive wishes!
We are so pleased you like the freebie :).
From myself and the rest of the team- we are wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
Haydn Dalton –
This is an amazing FREE bundle, thank you so much.
Great work all!
Haydn
Nick –
You guys so humble to give this awesome material “FREE” to help all creative foxes for less effort to show their work….thumbs-up
Carol Sweeney –
Hey Nick,
Thanks for the comment :). This is just our way to say a massive thank you to you and the rest of our community for your support!
We are sending you a massive thumbs up for being part of our community and have a very Merry Christmas!
Tom –
Dear Carol, a wonderful happy new year first of all!
I couldn’t download this awesome Bundle, eventoughI got your reminder and Newsletter just yesterday! Would you PLEASE provide me a download link so I could try it again, and have access to this wonderful help for my projects.
MANY THANKS !!!!
Tom
Carol Sweeney –
Hey Haydn,
Thanks for the comment and you are more than welcome!
We hope you get loads of use out of them :).
Have a fantastic holiday season and happy designing!
zara –
Hi
I must be a chop, I downloaded it but only have the PDF no actual .psd .png of the stuff you mention above? Please dont make me read all those pdf’s just to find out how to get to actual files?
Thanks
Gesa –
Thank you, it`s incredible!
Thank you so much and have a very Merry Christmas!
Gislaine –
It is my best Christmas present! :)))
Thanks guys