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Posted on 05/05/06 4:12:31 PM |
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fitzpas
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'Flock', Massive free download of Photoshop resources
I haven't noticed this anywhere on here, but apologies if it's a duplicate. http://www.22pixels.com/flock.php It's an 88MB download and here follows the blurb, hope that it's some use to someone. "22Pixels Flock is a breakthrough in digital resources. Flock is one file, containing over 300 files inside. Flock contains 153 Fonts, that self install, 158 brush packs for Photoshop 7 and up, self install, and over 50 additional packs for Photoshop 7 and up. Each pack, contains about 30-40 presets, all in one file, self install. We would estimate that Flock contains over 7000 individual presets, in addition to the 150 fonts. All inone file, one download, one install. This is the one file that every digital, graphic, and web designer needs. And best of all it’s free. Below is File Lists.txt, which contains a list of every file in the install. Make note, that these are files, not individual presets. Each brush and texture file contains about 30 or 40 individual brushes inside." |
Posted on 05/05/06 11:58:11 PM |
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Dave
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Re: 'Flock', Massive free download of Photoshop resources
Thanks for posting the link, more new toys to play with!! |
Posted on 10/05/06 04:17:43 AM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply  |
Re: 'Flock', Massive free download of Photoshop resources
I think I will install my old Photoshop 7 to check those out.... Big presets like that can create a mess in your menus, but it is tempting...  _________________ |
Posted on 10/05/06 06:49:39 AM |
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Bob
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Re: 'Flock', Massive free download of Photoshop resources
Personally, I avoid things like this. Given that presets are easy to create yourself, it doesn't make sense to me to load up that many of them in the hopes that some will be useful. If you were to spend only 10 seconds per preset to look at and/or try it out, 7000 presets will take over 19 hours to examine. In addition, fonts and tool presets are loaded at startup time and huge numbers of them can slow down your startup, eat up valuable ram, and slow down your execution speed. Should you get a corrupted font, it can even cause your startup to fail or cause severe performance problems. Some presets, such as brushes, are loaded on demand. That mainly puts a drain on your disk space. But, Photoshop doesn't give you a preview function, you have to load each set and look at it to see what you really have. Again, time consuming. My preference is to make my own presets for most things and selectively download only those sets of pre-made brushes and such that would be directly useful in my work. |
Posted on 10/05/06 4:13:52 PM |
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mguyer
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Re: 'Flock', Massive free download of Photoshop resources
I tend to agree with Bob. Over time I have added all sorts of "add ons" only to see them go unused. Therefore lately I have pretty much stopped looking for these add ons and have focused more and more on photoshop itself...which still has a ton of stuff that I do not know what to do with. |