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Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place

152 points by nc 14y ago

gtCameron 14y ago
Bookmarked. Thank you!
smartial_arts 14y ago
Adding an IFTTT trigger aimed at HN's RSS feed with filter by "free" paid off again.
- viraj_shah 14y ago
  Hahaha, this is a good idea!
- unimpressive 14y ago
  I read that "book" is also a good one. I need to buckle down and write an RSS reader. Or find one that fits my use case.
  - nwh 14y ago
    Hopefully one that's not based on Google Reader; they're few and far between.
    - unimpressive 14y ago
      Tied to a propriety service? Why even use RSS?
      - nwh 14y ago
        I've no idea. I can't find a single decent Mac / iOS client that's not based on Google Reader.
  - smartial_arts 14y ago
    Oh for sure. I probably should write a blog post that lists all of those tricks aimed at selective news sourcing VS constant watching in fear that you miss something.
aviswanathan 14y ago
Someone needs to do this for Themeforest themes haha
- bluetidepro 14y ago
  Can you explain what you mean? Do "this" how? Like when a Themeforest theme is free or something? Or just a better gallery of Themeforest themes?
  - sgdesign 14y ago
    Themeforest has free files, but they're only free for one month as far as I know. They don't want to get their users into the habit of getting stuff for free, which is smart.
    - aviswanathan 14y ago
      Si
igul222 14y ago
If you found this useful, take a look at 365psd.com (with whom I'm not affiliated)- they're really high quality and have been very useful.
nc 14y ago
Creator here. If you have a spare dribbble invite and think this is worthy, I'd love one!
- MichaelApproved 14y ago
  I'm not sure how Dribbble works, can you please clarify it for me? I guess you need an invite to be a designer that posts work but do you need an invite to download the PSD or can you sign up on your own to download them?
  - elliotanderson 14y ago
    It's a place for designers to show off their current work and projects by posting 400x300px shots. You can only post and comment however if you have been "drafted" (invited) by another player and those invites are pretty hard to come by - a good thing considering the quality of work that's on display. There's no member restriction on downloading any of the PSD's that the designers have posted - this site just scrapes those freebies into one location.
- sfard 14y ago
  Were you inspired by http://throwww.com http://throwww.com for the name?
  - nc 14y ago
    Inspired by a basketball free throw, considering dribbble already has that theme going for it.
killahpriest 14y ago
91 pages of PSDs. Add search and filtering by tags, please! Other than that, this is amazing.
danielrakh 14y ago
This is amazing. Thank you!
sgdesign 14y ago
Another similar option: http://psddd.co/ http://psddd.co/
elliotanderson 14y ago
Looks like it is just doing a tag search for PSD, so many of those shots don't actually contain a free PSD to download. One option to reduce the noise might be to grep for URL's in the comment and attachment that point to downloadable files.
- cwilson 14y ago
  This is definitely the main issue I have with the site. I can produce exactly the same results on Dribbble itself by using the tags feature, but the "psd" tag doesn't actually mean you can download a PSD (the user just decided to tag it with "psd").
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
- nc 14y ago
  Will do, hacked this together in a couple of hours so that didn't make the cut.
envex 14y ago
A "View All" option would be awesome!
rhizome 14y ago
The lazy scroll-loader is quite lagged, you might want to add some anticipation.
tokanizar 14y ago
Just passed it to our design team. They liked it!
kombinatorics 14y ago
wow, didn't know dribbblers lurked hn. nice to see that.
kumarm 14y ago
I can't seem to find license agreement anywhere for the PSD's. Is there a license agreement so these PSD's can be used?
- justjimmy 14y ago
  Usually the author (that posted it on Dribbble) will have a description of how he likes the PSD to be used - ie: Not for redistribution or doesn't want to see it used and reposted on Dribbble etc. Safest bet - contact the author directly and clarify. You can find their contact info through Dribbble. Personally when I find resources I'd like to use (mainly non print, commercially), I contact the authors directly and offer to buy a license. Everyone's pretty open and friendly.
  - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    Half the value of these sorts of resources is in having a clearly displayed license. If you're managing such a service why would you not require people to specify a license at upload (which could include "must contact me at user@example.com") rather than have each individual have to make the effort of establishing the license conditions? I used http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html recently, they have a clear statement of terms and each image download page has the copyright details on it; handy.
    - nc 14y ago
      It varies too much, that's why the service doesn't link to the psds directly when available. Usually the creator will specify some loose terms.
- hfz 14y ago
  Freebbble is less populated, but contains license information for each item. http://freebbble.com/ http://freebbble.com/ Disclaimer: I develop it.
KMBredt 14y ago
I suggest displaying 24 items per page, so there is no blank spot at the end when it displays 3 items per row. 24 obv works great with 2, 3, and 4.
- equilibrium 14y ago
  Another suggestion would be to have an alternative viewing/layout such as infinite scroll in addition to the paginated one you've got.
- nc 14y ago
  Done
flixic 14y ago
Found about 40 iOS resources (phone templates, UIs, etc.) before finding a single Android resource. That leads to nothing good for state of mobile design.
- jsavimbi 14y ago
  It's a clear reflection of the market. Both creative producers and creative-minded consumers will flock to a platform that inspires grass roots design. Android is neither from a production or consumption point of view. And there's nothing wrong with that. RIM survived for a very long time living off of soulless business users interested in nothing more than reading an email.
jordanmoore_ 14y ago
Also: http://fribbble.com/ http://fribbble.com/
philippbosch 14y ago
Would be nice to credit the designer on the site.
JoachimSchipper 14y ago
This seems... likely to be somewhat contrary to the interest of dribbble and the designers who have uploaded these.

152 points by nc 14y ago

gtCameron 14y ago

Bookmarked. Thank you!

smartial_arts 14y ago

Adding an IFTTT trigger aimed at HN's RSS feed with filter by "free" paid off again.

viraj_shah 14y ago
Hahaha, this is a good idea!
unimpressive 14y ago
I read that "book" is also a good one. I need to buckle down and write an RSS reader. Or find one that fits my use case.
- nwh 14y ago
  Hopefully one that's not based on Google Reader; they're few and far between.
  - unimpressive 14y ago
    Tied to a propriety service? Why even use RSS?
    - nwh 14y ago
      I've no idea. I can't find a single decent Mac / iOS client that's not based on Google Reader.
- smartial_arts 14y ago
  Oh for sure. I probably should write a blog post that lists all of those tricks aimed at selective news sourcing VS constant watching in fear that you miss something.

aviswanathan 14y ago

Someone needs to do this for Themeforest themes haha

bluetidepro 14y ago
Can you explain what you mean? Do "this" how? Like when a Themeforest theme is free or something? Or just a better gallery of Themeforest themes?
- sgdesign 14y ago
  Themeforest has free files, but they're only free for one month as far as I know. They don't want to get their users into the habit of getting stuff for free, which is smart.
  - aviswanathan 14y ago
    Si

igul222 14y ago

If you found this useful, take a look at 365psd.com (with whom I'm not affiliated)- they're really high quality and have been very useful.

nc 14y ago

Creator here. If you have a spare dribbble invite and think this is worthy, I'd love one!

MichaelApproved 14y ago
I'm not sure how Dribbble works, can you please clarify it for me? I guess you need an invite to be a designer that posts work but do you need an invite to download the PSD or can you sign up on your own to download them?
- elliotanderson 14y ago
  It's a place for designers to show off their current work and projects by posting 400x300px shots. You can only post and comment however if you have been "drafted" (invited) by another player and those invites are pretty hard to come by - a good thing considering the quality of work that's on display. There's no member restriction on downloading any of the PSD's that the designers have posted - this site just scrapes those freebies into one location.
sfard 14y ago
Were you inspired by http://throwww.com http://throwww.com for the name?
- nc 14y ago
  Inspired by a basketball free throw, considering dribbble already has that theme going for it.

killahpriest 14y ago

91 pages of PSDs. Add search and filtering by tags, please! Other than that, this is amazing.

danielrakh 14y ago

This is amazing. Thank you!

sgdesign 14y ago

Another similar option: http://psddd.co/ http://psddd.co/

elliotanderson 14y ago

Looks like it is just doing a tag search for PSD, so many of those shots don't actually contain a free PSD to download. One option to reduce the noise might be to grep for URL's in the comment and attachment that point to downloadable files.

cwilson 14y ago
This is definitely the main issue I have with the site. I can produce exactly the same results on Dribbble itself by using the tags feature, but the "psd" tag doesn't actually mean you can download a PSD (the user just decided to tag it with "psd").
deleted 14y ago
[deleted]
nc 14y ago
Will do, hacked this together in a couple of hours so that didn't make the cut.

envex 14y ago

A "View All" option would be awesome!

rhizome 14y ago

The lazy scroll-loader is quite lagged, you might want to add some anticipation.

tokanizar 14y ago

Just passed it to our design team. They liked it!

kombinatorics 14y ago

wow, didn't know dribbblers lurked hn. nice to see that.

kumarm 14y ago

I can't seem to find license agreement anywhere for the PSD's. Is there a license agreement so these PSD's can be used?

justjimmy 14y ago
Usually the author (that posted it on Dribbble) will have a description of how he likes the PSD to be used - ie: Not for redistribution or doesn't want to see it used and reposted on Dribbble etc. Safest bet - contact the author directly and clarify. You can find their contact info through Dribbble. Personally when I find resources I'd like to use (mainly non print, commercially), I contact the authors directly and offer to buy a license. Everyone's pretty open and friendly.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  Half the value of these sorts of resources is in having a clearly displayed license. If you're managing such a service why would you not require people to specify a license at upload (which could include "must contact me at user@example.com") rather than have each individual have to make the effort of establishing the license conditions? I used http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html recently, they have a clear statement of terms and each image download page has the copyright details on it; handy.
  - nc 14y ago
    It varies too much, that's why the service doesn't link to the psds directly when available. Usually the creator will specify some loose terms.
hfz 14y ago
Freebbble is less populated, but contains license information for each item. http://freebbble.com/ http://freebbble.com/ Disclaimer: I develop it.

KMBredt 14y ago

I suggest displaying 24 items per page, so there is no blank spot at the end when it displays 3 items per row. 24 obv works great with 2, 3, and 4.

equilibrium 14y ago
Another suggestion would be to have an alternative viewing/layout such as infinite scroll in addition to the paginated one you've got.
nc 14y ago
Done

flixic 14y ago

Found about 40 iOS resources (phone templates, UIs, etc.) before finding a single Android resource. That leads to nothing good for state of mobile design.

jsavimbi 14y ago
It's a clear reflection of the market. Both creative producers and creative-minded consumers will flock to a platform that inspires grass roots design. Android is neither from a production or consumption point of view. And there's nothing wrong with that. RIM survived for a very long time living off of soulless business users interested in nothing more than reading an email.

jordanmoore_ 14y ago

Also: http://fribbble.com/ http://fribbble.com/

philippbosch 14y ago

Would be nice to credit the designer on the site.

JoachimSchipper 14y ago

This seems... likely to be somewhat contrary to the interest of dribbble and the designers who have uploaded these.