Ive been looking around at a lot of beautiful photos on Flickr of space and astronomy. Galaxies and Nebulae are just absolutely stunning and pleasing to the eye. It got me thinking if these types of image could be created in photoshop so i started to play around. This is what i came up with so i decided to write a tutorial and share it with you. Enjoy!

 
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Ive noticed lately that all designers have the same thoughts, loves and pet hates about design. These are things that bring us together that other people (ie. non designers) just dont understand. So I decided I would create some cool vector based badges with quotes that only us designers will understand. They can be displayed on your websites/blogs to show your feelings.
 
There are six in this set and they can be downloaded in vector format at the end of the page.
 

 
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About time I posted right? Yeh I have been pretty slow on the posting department lately. This is because Ive been busy designing for the PSDtuts contest. I’d really love to win a place so Ive been concentrating on that rather than my own site. Anyways…
 
Im really glad to say that DesignNerd has been featured on the killer vector site AiVault ! They have been very kind and have featured my Free Vector Grunge Splats and my Free Vector Grunge Elements . I just wanted to say a big thankyou to AiVault. If you havent already please go and check out their site today!
 
Stay tuned for more freebies coming soon!

All designers love fonts, i mean, who doesnt?! Sometimes we just cant find that perfect font we are looking for. Well thats not a problem anymore! I recently came across this awesome new site called Fontstruct . It is brought to us by the amazing people at FontShop.com. Basically you create an account and you can design and download your own fonts. Not only that but you can then share your creations with other users! There are already tons of awesome creations available to download…and all free!
 

 
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Hey Guys, Bout time for another freebie…and we all know theres nothing better than a vector freebie! Here Ive made some really awesome Vector Grunge Splats! I was finding it hard to find any vector grunge so i decided to try and make some myself. They are all fully scalable and should be easy to use. They file format is Ai.
 
As always please credit and link back to DesignNerd when using.
 

 
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