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Please bear with me for a bit as I’m completely updating TheDesignPlaybook blog… New LAYOUT, New TUTORIALS, New FREEBIES, and much more on the way soon… As always, thanks for stopping by and please return soon!

Photoshop Picture Frame Freebie

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Check out this simple little Photoshop picture frame freebie that’s fully-adjustable both horizontally and vertically. Just place your photo into the designated layer and you’re done. Don’t forget to check out the accompanying video demonstration below.

Illustrator Vintage Badge Freebie

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Here’s a Illustrator freebie file of a badge that’s built all within the Appearance Palette. It’s super customizable with easy one-click changes that are demonstrated in the attached video.

Halftone Distress Freebie

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Here’s a little package of four free halftone distress tiff’s that can be used in either Photoshop or Illustrator to distress your art. All files are sized to a little larger than letter size @ 300 dpi so they’ll work for most any project. Download link below…

Illustrator Vintage Screened Poster Effect

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In this tutorial you learn how to crank out a really cool looking vintage screen poster effect with most any 1-color logo in your collection using only Illustrators Appearance Palette. This effect could be adapted for use on many different logo projects, poster layout, or even web graphics.

Illustrator Live Text Banners

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In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial you’ll learn how to create a fully-editable text based banner all within the Appearance Palette. By combining multiple Fills and Strokes along with Shape Effects, Warp Effects, and Drop Shadows which are all built in to Illustrator you will have a easy to edit banner that could fit into all sorts of design projects.

Baseball Champions Vector Freebie

Beginning of a layout that never got used on a recent project. Feel free to use and abuse! Download file(s).

Vintage Label Banner Freebie

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Simple banner vector from an old beer label… Enjoy!

Photoshop Retro Grid Background

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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to knockout a really cool retro background effect with Photoshop that can be slightly adjust to fit many different types of design projects.

Vector Splatter Freebie

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Some actual paint splatters I traced in Illustrator for use on a t-shirt design.