Free Bottle Vector, Fireworks Vector & Party Vector Graphics

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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Who doesn’t love celebrating and having a party? Now you have the vector illustrations to accompany any party graphics and material! These high quality Fireworks vector, bottle vector, cake vector and more are sure to get you in the fiesta mood! You can view a preview of these vectors below:

Free Bottle Vector, Fireworks Vector and Cake Vector are just a few of the awesome vectors in this free pack
Free Bottle Vector, Fireworks Vector and Cake Vector are just a few of the awesome vectors in this free pack

Free Bottle Vector, Fireworks Vector and Cake Vector are just a few of the awesome vectors in this free pack

These vectors are offered free and without limitations for use in your personal, commercial and metaphysical works. Please feel free to review and link to these vectors, but you are prohibited from hosting and distributing them yourself. A link back to http://chapolito.com would be appreciated!

In the party vector pack you will find a number of bottle vector graphics, including a wine bottle vector, beer bottle vector and numerous party themed vectors that are associated with bottles such as champagne cork vector, martini olive vector, red beer cup vector, and a lime slice vector.

For the smokers, there are a cigar vector and cigarette vector, although I must admit I find both of these repulsive! Regardless, cigars are often a celebratory indulgence to many people in a party and celebrating mood.

For those culturally inclined, I have included my favorite: a donkey piñata vector. He’s so colorful and fun! I never had a party as a child without a piñata — in fact, I still don’t , and it’s always the highlight of the party. Of course that is also why I have included the cake vector – because no party is complete without a birthday cake. Celebrate a birthday with a birthday cake vector and do it with style!

When it comes to giant celebrations (such as an independence day), you can now celebrate with a real ‘BANG!’ with a fireworks vector. The illustration of the fireworks vector is sure to excite your friends and guests.

Additionally there is a Mardi Gras mask vector, beer keg vector, top hat vector, cool shades vector, and illegal pills vectors (for those of you who like to push your luck). I hope you can make good use of these vectors!

Free Template Layout of a Corporate Web Design

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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Solely for practice, I fully designed a template layout in Photoshop for the fictitious company “Elevator Tools,” and am offering the web PSD template for free. The design is intended for a corporate web site, but with a few tweaks I’m sure you could turn it into a number of different web sites.

You can view a preview the free template layout in the image below:

full view of the corporate web design
full view of the corporate web design

full view of the corporate web design

I think many of the people downloading this PSD file are designers looking to learn from the layout or incorporate parts of it into their designs, and I encourage both! This web PSD template is offered free and without limitations for use in your personal, commercial, and metaphysical works.

Once you download and open the layout in Photoshop, you will see that all the layers are clearly organized and labeled. You should have no problem navigating the PSD file and I hope you will — if you don’t already — start employing some of the organizational methods used. If your PSD will ever make it into the hands of fellow web designers or developers, they will love you for keeping the file organized!

detailed view of the corporate web design
detailed view of the corporate web design

detailed view of the corporate web design

The fonts used are Verdana and Rockwell. If you do not have Rockwell, a simple Google search should turn it up. When it comes to web-safe fonts, I’m a big fan of Verdana — both for its legibility and clean characters. Rockwell is an awesome typeface, but I wouldn’t want to read more than a couple lines set in it. This is why Rockwell works great in small amounts, such as for big titles that need a little extra flair. You will notice in the PSD file that, with the exception of buttons, only instances of Rockwell have effects applied to them. This is, of course, because Rockwell is not a web-safe font.

This web design layout was the starting point for an extensive tutorial I wrote for PSD Tuts+ titled How to Elevate Your Web Design Process and Results. For more details about the thought process and Photoshop techniques employed to create this template layout, please refer to the tutorial.