PIECESINTOPLACES RESOURCE MASTERPOST #1:
I get a lot of asks wondering what resources I use, where I find editing materials, or where I learned certain things, so in order to clear this up and make it easier for everyone, ♫ here are a few of my favorite things. ♫ Like or reblog this post if you found it helpful, and please make sure you like or reblog the posts below if they’re from blogs to support their creators!
Textures & Things:
Paper/vintage textures (1, 2, 3)
Grainy/paper textures (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Antique textures
Flower PNG pack
Watercolor PNG pack
Paper/watercolor textures
Brush stroke textures
Header templates
TexturePorn (Literally just a blog of textures!)
Misc. texture downloads (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
GIF overlays (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Fonts:
My font masterpost
Google Fonts
Fontsquirrel (with a handy font identifier if you wanna see what someone else used or fonts like it!)
What the Font (another font identifier!)
ilikefonts (A whole blog of fonts you can download!)
Some useful font masterposts (1, 2, 3, 4)
Fonts in Use (Tells you what fonts were used in really great designs)
FontPair (Shows you what fonts look great together)
Pixel Surplus (Free fonts!)
Tips on combining fonts
Tutorials:
Making GIFs
Multiple GIFs compiled into one GIF
Cropping a background out of a photo
Extended text shadow tutorial
Using gradients (+ combining textures)
Making pastel GIFs
Some fun GIF text animation tutorials (1, 2, 3, 4)
Flat lay graphic tutorial
Vintage coloring tutorial
HQ Royalty-Free Photos:
Unsplash
Pixabay
Free Photos CC
Pexels
ISO Republic
PNG Tree
Misc. Resources:
thatsickbeat Resource Pack (Graphic templates! PSDs! Gradients galore!)
ofabeautifulnight Resource Pack (Fonts! Palettes! Textures! Cutouts!)
swifth Masterpost (Links for typography, font resources, textures, tutorials, etc.)
Web Designer Depot (Lots of freebies like fonts and textures!)
Color Hunt (Lots of great color palettes!)
Coolors (Literally develops a color palette for you! You can pick as many or as few colors that you want to be in the palette, and it will choose ones that go nicely with them!)
Design Seeds (Palettes!)
The Stocks (A great source for tons of design things around the internet)









