This free online generator is a great, easy tool for rasterizing images quickly – without using Photoshop or Illustrator. Adobe Photoshop has a similar effect, and more options for sure (not to speak of plugins for rasterizing images), but this cool website does it all in a few easy steps and generates a PDF for you to download in less than a minute!

After uploading a picture or specifying an image URL, you can crop the image, resize it, and choose the rasterization method. Do you prefer small black dots or larger, colored dots? It’s all in your hands!

Remember, this free, web-based tool doesn’t replace any tools you might have, or even Photoshop. Instead, it’s a quick and easy way of rasterizing images without a lot of work. The results, while not the most optimal, are quite good indeed.

This is what your raster image result could look like:

You can jump to the Rasterbator here. Have fun rasterizing!

It’s still January, but you know what, we don’t care! Neither does Bittbox: after a 2-day server downtime due to a senescent hard drive (honestly!), they reward us with three very ’summerish’ vector sunflowers for Adobe Illustrator!

As you may have noticed……Beeex.net featured quite a few things from Bittbox in the past. Now, to be honest, this kit isn’t one of their best ones, but we still decided to feature it. Although it only contains three sunflowers, they are not bad at all, and they can be quite useful indeed.

These sunflowers come as EPS vector files, you can use them with either Illustrator 10 and up or with another vector graphics editor like Inkscape. Alternatively, you can also download the SVG version of the sunflowers.

You can download this .zip file right here. Enjoy!

Swwwwwiiiiiirrrrrrlllllllllllll – Ssssswwwwwwwooooooooossssssshhhhhhhh – Bbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrusssshhhhhhh

Here come 28 nice swirls and swooshes for Illustrator. The brushes are in an .ai file ready for use.

Download this kit here!

We also have a very interesting post on creating your own Illustrator brushes. View it here.

Here comes the 2nd set of free Illustrator Swirls and Curls from CreateSk8! You can find the first one here. This time, the kit contains ‘elementals’.

To use in Illustrator, simply open the contained ‘brushes’ file and save the palette for future use.

You can find this free brush kit here.

Here come 22 beautiful curly, swirly and swooshy Illustrator Brushes for your convenience! You’ll need Adobe Illustrator to use this kit.

Once you open the .ai file in Illustrator, the brush kit is loaded onto your brushes palette atuomatically. You just have to save it in the options menu of the palette to access the brushes every time you open Illustrator.

You can download this kit as zipped AI or EPS from here.

If you’re looking for a Illustrator Brushes, you’ve come to the right place. This is a hair brush kit from jlw design.

It comes in different files for all Illustrator versions 8+. The files are the brush source. Once you open the .ai file, you’ll see the brushes on your artboard. They are also in the brushes pallette; all you have to do is click on the palette options menu (to the upper right of the palette) and select “Save library as…”. Now, you can access the brushes from every other document by opening this library.

Download these hair brushes in a .zip file here!

We added a new feature to Beeex.net today.

• From now on, you can submit your own links to tutorials, tips and freebies for review. If we find your submission interesting and worth sharing, we will post it on the front page the next day!

It doesn’t matter if it’s your own site or something you’ve found on the net. If it’s a valuable tutorial or quality freebies in one of our categories (Design and Web Development), you can send the link to us.

As you know, Beeex.net is completely free. Because we want it to stay this way, we only accept links to free content. We also don’t post links to sites where you have to register first before you can view or download stuff. Beeex.net is free and will remain free, so please check if your submission meets these requirements before sending us a link.

• Here is how it works: Click on Submit in the upper right corner on Beeex.net, fill out the easy form, and hit Submit.

Happy sharing!

Your Beeex.net team

Here come some free nice, glossy and shiny vectors for you. They are glass/metal buttons, or icons.

Thanks to Bittbox for these! As they are vectors, you need a vector program like Illustrator or Inkscape to use them; but they also come as SVG and PNG files – ready to use.

You can download the .zip pack including AI, EPS, SVG and PNG files from here.

Welcome to the first Swooshes and Swirls download here on Beeex.net! This is the first in a series; there are many more to come. Swooshes and Swirls are very popular nowadays, as you might now. So watch out for follow-ups!

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The download includes AI, EPS and SVG files. Download the .zip pack here.

This is a follow-up on our previous post about how to make glass buttons in Illustrator. While that covered basic, round buttons, this tutorial is about making more sophisticated buttons, and bars.

The tutorial also includes the vector source file for Illustrator.

View this tutorial here.