Where can I get hot IM graphics?

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I'm very interested to hear of resources for creating fantastic eye-catching graphics for website creation.

I have all the software, but the raw materials are still necessary when putting together an attention grabbing header and all the other wonderful sizzle which goes into the creation of a really professional web design.

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks guys!
#graphics #hot
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    • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
      Originally Posted by Kieron View Post

      Thanks Kieron, but I was thinking more of graphics (preferably free) which I can use in my own designs using photoshop or similar software.

      Often we see great designs for software boxes, CDs etc and web page graphics, and I'd like to be able to produce them myself rather than pay someone else to design something for me, as I'm pretty artistic already (and fussy), so I'm just after the raw materials.

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  • Profile picture of the author ina696
    Hi, Norm. There are plenty of sites that sell software to make (or customize) marketing graphics. The best advice I can give you, though, is to go over to this website (not an affiliate link): Resell Rights Weekly :: Free Private Label Rights Products and take the $1 trial membership. There are a few nice products there but you will need to upgrade to the Gold membership for less than $20 a month (cancel anytime). Wow, the stuff under the hood there is great! You will find a lot of internet marketing stuff and software you can download that help with graphics. If you need more information, send me a PM.

    Also, try this link ...

    http://www.templatepacks.com/ecover-template-package/

    Ina
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    • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
      Originally Posted by ina696 View Post

      Hi, Norm. There are plenty of sites that sell software to make (or customize) marketing graphics. The best advice I can give you, though, is to go over to this website (not an affiliate link): Resell Rights Weekly :: Free Private Label Rights Products and take the $1 trial membership. There are a few nice products there but you will need to upgrade to the Gold membership for less than $20 a month (cancel anytime). Wow, the stuff under the hood there is great! You will find a lot of internet marketing stuff and software you can download that help with graphics. If you need more information, send me a PM.

      Also, try this link ...

      eCover Template Package - Template Packs

      Ina
      Thank you Ina... Looks like a lot of stuff to look through and I'll probably find something suitable here!

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      • Profile picture of the author ina696
        Originally Posted by ndaustin View Post

        Thank you Ina... Looks like a lot of stuff to look through and I'll probably find something suitable here!

        Norman
        Yep, Norman, there is a lot of great stuff (some of which you may find offered here by Warriors). Try the search function and look for software. You will find website graphic software there!

        Ina
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        • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
          Great suggestions... Thank you everyone for your inspiration.

          I realise that I must bite the bullet and learn photoshop better, and the resources mentioned are great raw material.

          I read through a photoshop tutorial this afternoon and made this composite for a JV Givaway for my interviews... Here is the result.

          I combined the microphone image with the graphic LED image (both downloaded from sxc.hu and then added photos of my interview guests. I then used 3d-pack.com for adding the graphic to the CD box.
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    • Profile picture of the author teleam
      Originally Posted by ina696 View Post

      Hi, Norm. There are plenty of sites that sell software to make (or customize) marketing graphics. The best advice I can give you, though, is to go over to this website (not an affiliate link): Resell Rights Weekly :: Free Private Label Rights Products and take the $1 trial membership. There are a few nice products there but you will need to upgrade to the Gold membership for less than $20 a month (cancel anytime). Wow, the stuff under the hood there is great! You will find a lot of internet marketing stuff and software you can download that help with graphics. If you need more information, send me a PM.
      Ina
      I checked the product search on RRW for just the keyword graphics and came up with 30 differant products and graphics. You have to be careful you can spend the whole day on that site
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  • Profile picture of the author awmi
    Free graphics/images: sxc.hu
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Stirling
    Where can I get hot IM graphics?
    Print out your favorite image on a piece of A4 paper and light a match under it..
    you'll have VERY hot graphics!

    sorry...couldn't resist
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    • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
      Originally Posted by Stuart Stirling View Post

      Print out your favorite image on a piece of A4 paper and light a match under it..
      you'll have VERY hot graphics!

      sorry...couldn't resist
      Actually you gave me a great idea... burn the edge of the paper with the printed image in the middle, then take a photo of the result.... Instant header with a burnt border!
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  • Profile picture of the author awmi
    Here are the cropped results of images I pulled from SXC.hu:












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    • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
      Originally Posted by awmi View Post

      Here are the cropped results of images I pulled from SXC.hu:
      Thanks tony... Very inspiring!
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      • Profile picture of the author awmi
        Originally Posted by ndaustin View Post

        Thanks tony... Very inspiring!
        No problem, I have been using SXC for about 7 years and have a ton of images. If you are looking for a specific image that you can't find I have have something that could work for you. Just let me know.

        Plus I am an amateur photographer and soon I fill have a ton of business, lifestyle related images. I will give away the small images for free and the large hi-res images I will offer for sale.
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  • Profile picture of the author tamilseo
    istockphoto.com , it is not free. but very high quality images for $1.

    You can learn photoshop pixel2life.com and good-tutorials.net
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  • Profile picture of the author James Danh
    I second, Istockphoto. Great place to get photos or images to use in designs, alot of designers I use, use this place.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Decent free stuff is hard to come by. I've made a hobby of buying Private Label Rights products and harvesting the best graphics from the products. Completely legal, easy to do and very cost effective.

    I've now got a file of more than 1200 great images for less than $50... And I've sold rights to those products over and over so my cost for the graphics was nil...
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    • Profile picture of the author ndaustin
      Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

      Decent free stuff is hard to come by. I've made a hobby of buying Private Label Rights products and harvesting the best graphics from the products. Completely legal, easy to do and very cost effective.

      I've now got a file of more than 1200 great images for less than $50... And I've sold rights to those products over and over so my cost for the graphics was nil...
      Now that's thinking outside the box! Thanks for the great tip!
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  • I design the majority of my graphics from scratch, but one thing that you can do as well is make good use of free icons. There are 2 icon search engines that I use FindIcons and IconFinder. Now what you want to do is use the filter function and make sure you are using icons that can be used for commercial purposes. And you can use these icons to design ecovers and marketing graphics.

    Hope this helps!
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