Christmas is getting close. Whether you are still in the midst of the last
minute Christmas newsletter design, or just want to spice up the desktop a
little bit, chances are there’s always something for everyone. We are talking
about the free Christmas related icons, vectors, fonts, wallpapers, tutorials, themes,
etc created designers and shared all over the net. They are probably our early
Santas.
Here’s our final Christmas related entry (except the contest tomorrow)
- a mash-up of the Best
Design Resources for Christmas around. If there’s any we’ve missed, let
us know in comment, we’ll add it in.Merry
Christmas in advance.
1. Icons
PSDTOP: 25+ Beautiful Chrisstmas Icon Set
PSDTOP would like to present especially for you 25+ Beautiful Christmas Icon
Sets which you can use for your web site or your desktop.
Web Design Ledger: 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets
Web Design Ledger presents you 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets to put you in the
Christmas spirit.
AComment: 13 Elegant Free Christmas Icon Set In PNG/Gif
aComment showcased some elegant and high quality Christmas icons which lets you
use them in your websites easily.
Design Bliss: 10 Sets Of Beautiful Free Christmas Icons From DeviantART
Design Bliss has hand-picked 10 sets of beautiful Christmas icons from
deviantART and they’re all FREE!
Smashing Magazine: Smashing Christmas Icon Sets
Photoshop Roadmap: Nice List Of Christmas Tutorials, Brushes, Clipart And Icons
Photoshop Roadmap built this list gathering some new (and old) Christmas related
tutorials, brushes, cliparts and icons for personal use..
Vu Nguyen: 20 Beautiful Christmas Icons
Vu Nguyes prepares 10 beautiful Christmas icons for you to decorate your web
according to the Christmas spirit.
Smashing Magazine: Christmas Icons And Christmas WordPress Themes
Smashing magazine has selected high quality Christmas icons, and Christmas
WordPress themes to let you get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your
personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or
weblogs.
2. Wallpapers
PixelResort: Xmas Holiday Wallpapers
You will find a few goodies of Xmas holiday wallpapers to decorate your desktop.
Smashing Magazine: Christmas Wallpapers
Some Xmas specials – for your desktop or current web-project.
Hongkiat: Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers For Your Desktop
HongKiat showcased some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for you to
decorate the desktop while counting down to Christmas.
Hongkiat: 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers, Part II
Here’s another 30
Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers collected
at our home.
A New Morning: Best Christmas Wallpapers 2008 Download
Some really nice Christmas wallpapers posted by A New Morning.
Crestock: 16 Stunning High Resolution Christmas Wallpapers
Take this opportunity to put your desktop in that festive mood with wallpapers
courtesy of some of Crestock’s finest contributing photographers and designers.
3. WordPress Themes
Developer Fox: 15 Interesting Christmas Free WordPress Themes
Developer Fox thinks you might be interested in dressing up your blog with a new
Christmas free wordpress themes.
SheepTech: 30 Christmas WordPress Themes
SheepTech has compiled 30 Christmas WordPress themes if you are a WordPress user
and wants some holiday feel on your WordPress blog.
Pulse2: 42 Free Breathtaking Winter WordPress Themes
Here is a list of 42 of the best WordPress winter themes to get your blog ready
for the winter.
4. Photoshop Brushes
1stWebDesigner: 48 Snow, Ice, Snowflake And Christmas Brushes
There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas related
brushes for every taste in this list.
Web Resouces Depot: Christmas Design Toolkit: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Images
And Tutorials
This is a giant design pack which includes Photoshop Christmas brushes, Free
Christmas vectors, and Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials.
Observin: 23 Wonderful Winter Photoshop Tutorials & Brushes
Observin has gathered these winter photoshop tutorials and brushes are the
perfect way to spruce up your designs and get you in the holiday mood.
Design Bliss: 5 Sets Of Free Christmas Photoshop Brushes (2008)
Here are some free Christmas Photoshop brushes Design Bliss found over the past
year.
Toxel: 20 Free Christmas Photoshop Brush Sets
A collection of free Christmas Photoshop brush sets that you can use to design
something special during the holidays.
Photoshop Roadmap: 25 Nice Christmas Photoshop Tutorials And Brushes
Photoshop Roadmap has compiled another nice selection of Christmas Photoshop
tutorials and brushes. All the brushes featured on this article are free to use
on personal, non-commercial, projects.
Gosublogger: 16 Photoshop Brush Set For Christmas
This sets include xmas tree brushes , xmas ornaments brushes, xmas decoration
brushes and other sets.
5. Photoshop Tutorials
Toxel: 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
To help you prepare for this year’s Christmas celebration, Toxel presents this
collection of free Christmas-themed Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
StayUpdate: 31 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
StayUpdate has gathered free Christmas Photoshop tutorial for designers to be
able to have the best design skills for Christmas.
My Ink Blog: 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials
My Ink Blog helps get everyone in the Christmas spirit by sharing some awesome
Christmas related tutorials.
Smashing Magazine: 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
You’ll learn how to design Christmas trees, snow globes, snowflakes, Christmas
candles, Christmas balls and much more.
6. Fonts
Dafonts: Free Christmas Fonts
Dafonts provides over 70 free Christmas for download without paying a single
penny.
Woork: 10 Free Christmas Fonts
Take a look at this list with some of Woork’s favourite Christmas fonts which
you can download and use on your design projects.
Font River: 20 Superb Christmas Fonts And Dingbats
Font River gathered a wide variety of funny fonts and dingbats to pep up your
designs. Make your own matching Christmas cards, invitations, favors bags, place
cards, napkin rings, and much more!
Simple Thoughts: 20 Attractive Free Fonts For You This Christmas
Simple Thoughts prepared 20 fonts for you this Christmas which are absolutely
free.
7. Misc
PSDTOP: 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards
You’ll find in PSDTOP’s post 45+
Beautiful Christmas Cards which
you can use for inspiration.
PSDTOP: 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks – Winter Inspiration
PSDTOP brings you 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks – Winter Inspiration hand-picked
from deviantart.
PSDTOP: 70 Impressive Painting Artworks – Winter Inspiration
PSDTOP has hand-picked an incredible amount of amazing painting artworks from
deviantart to inspire any artist.
Life Rock 2.0: Window XP Themes: Top 7 Christmas Themes
Life Rock 2.0 has compiled a list of top Christmas themes with Wallpapers for
Windows XP and Vista to decorate your desktop.
CrazyLeaf Design: Free Christmas Vectors
CrazyLeaf Design thought some free Christmas vectorial resources will be
welcomed for the coming holidays.
PSDFan: 20 Superb Christmas Designs
PSDFan has rounded up 20 of my favorite christmas themed designs. Hopefully
these will help inspire you in your own works:
Pixel Perfect Digital: Free Christmas Stock Photos
Over 50 high resolutions photos which related to Christmas available for free
download.
Garcya: 2000+ Christmas Goodies – PNG, Vectors, Icons, Wallpapers, Cliparts And
PSD Files
Garcya has prepared a mega list of free Christmas goodies just for you to have a
stack of Christmas resources .
Lifehacker: Holiday-Themed Desktop Roundup
Lifehacker highlighting the holiday-inspired goods of readers have created.
