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9 Websites All Graphic Designers Should Have Bookmarked

No longer will you have to start vector images from scratch.

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9 Websites All Graphic Designers Should Have Bookmarked
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So you have a new design project on your plate. Where do you even start? By deciding on a color palette? Or sifting through Pinterest board after Pinterest board for inspiration? Regardless, the whole design troubleshooting process at the beginning can waste a lot of time if you aren't inspired right away.

If you are like me, you can't afford to use all your time on one project, so here is a list of websites that will make your design process ten times faster.

1. Pexels.com

We can't all be expected to have every picture we will need for a design in our own personal library. Pexels.com is my personal favorite site for beautiful pictures that are completely free to use. Yep, that's right, free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

2. Unsplash.com

Another website for high-quality pictures and also very free.

3. Vecteezy

If you don't want to start building a vector image from scratch this is the perfect site to download fully editable vector files to make completely your own. You could also just skip the editing part and just drop them in your design.

4. Creative Market

Creative Market is literally a marketplace for tons of unique design elements that you can purchase, like custom fonts, social media templates, product mockups, you name it! However, if you're like me, you aren't trying to drop $30 on a project that you aren't being paid for the best thing about Creative Market is when you make an account you will get 6 free design elements per week, straight to your inbox. Once you download them, you have access to them through creative market forever!

5. Web Designer Depot

Same concept as Creative Market but WAY more freebies.

6. Colorzilla

Colorzilla is an eyedropper tool plug-in for Chrome and Firefox that tells you the exact color of something on any website. No more dragging screenshots into Adobe creative suite.

7. The Noun Project

It can be so hard to find the right icon when you need it. Luckily the Noun Project has your back with icons for literally anything you would need. Oh yeah, and they are also fully editable.

8. Graphic Burger

More free and editable templates! Hooray!

9. Kuler

Coordinating color palettes has never been easier.

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