Useful Resources
Useful Pixelmator not Photoshop resources we have curated to help bring your ideas to life.
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Seeing your designs come to life quickly is really rewarding. But finding useful design resources for your project can be a huge pain. So here is a list of some of our favourites we use with Pixelmator, which will help you bring your ideas to life.
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Have a great Pixelmator resource you want to share with the Pixelmator Not Photoshop community?, then please leave a comment or email us, so that we can continue to keep this list updated.
Colors
- Colour Lovers ā A great resource to help you select perfect colour combinations
- Flat UI Colors ā Awesome resource for choosing flat colour combinations.
- Flat Color Picker ā Best flat colour picker for UI designs.
- Coolors ā A nice web app to create your own unique colour palettes.
- Material Design Colors ā A great site to help you select UI colour combinations and palettes.
- Colourful Gradients ā An awesome tumblr site collection of gradients to die for.
- Brand Colors ā A site where you can find the colour combinations for the biggest brands and websites.
- BootFlat Color Picker ā A colour picker which gives you perfect colours for flat designs.
- UI Colors ā Give you awesome UI colours for your website designs.
- Colorion ā Create awesome colour palettes using a simple drag and drop online tool.
- Canva Colors ā Really cool colors and color combinations for inspiration.
Fonts
- Google Fonts ā Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
- DaFont.com ā Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
- Font Cab ā Loads of free fonts for commercial use.
- Font Space ā Hundreds of free truetype and opentype fonts for Windows and Mac.
- Font Squirrel ā A great collection of handpicked free fonts.
- Abstract Fonts ā Free as you please fonts.
- Open Font Library ā Free to use as your please fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts ā Free for all fonts.
- The League Of Moveable Type ā well-made, free & open-source fonts.
- Adobe Web Fonts ā Large selection of free web fonts.
- The Northern Block ā Full of free fonts.
- Urban Fonts ā Tons of free fonts to be had (make sure they are free).
- Font Struct ā Design and share free fonts.
- Fonts In Use ā Shows you the fonts used in the real world.
- I Love Typography ā A great typo blog.
- Type Wolf ā A great set of typo resources from Type Wolf.
Icons
- Make App Icon ā A tool to auto-generate the various app icon sizes required for IOS.
Inspiration
- Abduzeedo ā Really cool inspiration for graphic design (and also check out some of the pixelmator tutorial too).
- Deviant Art ā Largest online art exhibition and gallery. Also a great place to pick up some free graphics.
- Illustration Friday ā Art exhibit and challenge website with some great artwork.
- Inspiration Grid ā Graphic Design Inspiration (and lots of them).
- Designer Daily - Daily dose of graphic design inspiration.
- Iso50 - super artist blog by Scott Hansen.
- Jimmy Turrell - another artist we like for his iconic designs, Jimmy Turrell.
Patterns
- Subtle Patterns ā All awesome patterns on this site can mostly be used free of charge.
- Pixelmator Templates ā Check out some of the patterns on our store.
Photo Resources (mostly free)
- Unsplash ā Free (do whatever you want) high resolution photographs. 10 new photos each day.
- Pixabay ā Free high quality images you can use anywhere. Now with AI generated images.
- New Old Stock ā A really cool collection of vintage photos.
- Death To Stock Photo ā Great photos for all purposes (from free to commercial use).
- Public Domain Archive ā 100% free stock photos each week.
- Little Visuals ā Weekly high resolution photos, free to use as you want.
- Pic Jumbo ā Free photos for all your projects.
- Free Images ā Free images and stock photos.
- Gratis Photography ā Free, use as you please, photographs.
- Super Famous ā Great high resolution photos (attribution required).
- Startup Stock Photos ā Free photos for you to make something.
- Morguefile ā Free photographs for commercial use.
- Picography ā Gorgeous free photos.
- GetRefe ā Free real life photos.
- Jay Mantri ā Free pics to do anything.
- Travel Coffee Book ā Creative photos from travel (mostly free).
- Pexels ā Free high quality stock photos.
- Lummi.ai - Free high quality AI generated stock photos.
Shapes
- Pixelmator Templates ā Free and Premium shapes created by us.
Textures
- CG Textures ā A great site providing free textures for 3d and graphic design (make sure to read FAQ for T&Cās).
Website Tools
- Ghost.org - our current hosting provider, if you are looking for something simpler than WordPress.
- Gumroad - our current digital product hosting platform - so simple to use. (affiliate link)
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Have a great Pixelmator suggestion/resource you want to share with the Pixelmator Not Photoshop community?, then please leave a comment or email us, so that we can continue to keep this list updated.