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This article is from May 20, 2013, and is no longer current.

Free For All: Free Fonts and Photography Goodies

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Get in shape for summer with Lightroom presets, Photoshop actions, fonts, vector animal silhouettes, and printable paper templates—all free, of course.

Summer Light and Color Presets for Lightroom

Evoke the feelings of summer in your photographs with these free Lightroom presets.

Summer Light and Color Actions for Photoshop

Not a Lightroom fan? These free Photoshop actions bring summer light to photographs inside the august image editor itself (pun intended).

41 Vector Animal Silhouettes

While not an everyday need, on certain occasions it can be life saver having access to more than forty vector-drawn silhouettes of animals. Thanks to 16 year-old artist Lukas Iniho and the folks at Creative Beacon, if and when a time comes that you want the silhouette of a lion, tiger, or bear, oh my, you’ll have it.

 

Printable Paper Templates

Have you ever needed graph paper on short notice? What about to draw something in perspective—you couldn’t use standard graph paper for that? How about a mockup of a Web browser, iPhone, or iPad for a user interface sketch? Sure, you can find most such pre-printed papers at your local Pearl’s Art Supply and even some at Staples or Office Depot, if you’ve one of those nearby, if it’s not after hours when you the paper, and if you’ve got the scratch to pick up these pricey papers. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had access to free graph paper, free mockups, free blank music sheets, free lined papers, and more? Well you do: GeneratedPaper.com makes available for free download more than 40 such print-it-yourself templates as PDFs. As I’m sure someone will point out, the paper and ink you’ll need isn’t free, of course; only the templates are free.

Free Fonts

Ah, Free for All readers’ favorite freebie—fonts!

What can I find free for you? Want more free fonts? More Photoshop brushes? How about more online applications that do this or that for free? Tell me in the comments what you’d like to see in future installments of Free for All, and I’ll do my best bloodhound impression to track it down for you.

Please note: Free for All will often link to resources hosted on external Web sites outside of the control of CreativePro.com. At any time those Web sites may close down, change their site or permalink structures, remove content, or take other actions that may render one or more of the above links invalid. As such neither Pariah S. Burke nor CreativePro.com can guarantee the availability of the third-party resources linked to in Free for All.

 

Pariah S. Burke is the author of many books and articles that empower, inform, and connect creative professionals.
  • Crunch Hardtack says:

    Can you find any nice fonts for using in nameplates below a photographic print?
    I’m looking for sans serif, thin to regular, simple elegance, and not too squat. That would be so helpful!

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