Nature – the greatest artist of all time! Where artists and designers have to carefully colour-match everything, nature seems to be able to throw every shade of every colour into the mix without causing any clashes – just beauty. We may not be able to visit the beach, a lake or the mountains, but we can use the stunning high quality free wallpapers that are on offer to bring these vistas to our desktops. This is a round-up of just 30 such beautiful free nature wallpapers.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles was the title of a very funny 1987 film starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Surely the name was no accident.... those three forms of transport are the fastest means of getting from A to B, and represent 'boys' toys'.

You don't have to be a boy to appreciate speed and motion, and having a desktop wallpaper in that vein may inspire and motivate workflow (no guarantees here!). So today we bring you a selection of wallpapers featuring Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

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Today I am bringing you a free Photoshop action.

This action will give your images a dreamy, romantic effect. All layers are left unmerged so they can be adapted for your image.

Enjoy!

Click on the image to download the .atn file.

Here is a Photoshop action that will give a photo a watercolour painting effect.

When using this action, if the effect is too much and is knocking out all the details, reduce the opacity of Layer 1 and/or Layer 1 copy 2

I hope you like this action, can use it and enjoy it!

Click on the image to download the .atn file

Here is a set of 20 gradients for Photoshop. I have called them 'New Year' simply because they were created at the beginning of the year. There is no real theme to them, just a collection of gradients that will hopefully be useful.

Although many designers don't like to use pre-made gradients, they can be a good starting point for creating your own, therefore saving a lot of time - always a bonus for busy designers!

Click on the image to download the .grd file.

Today I am bringing you a .psd colouring file that will turn a daytime photograph to a red sunset.

The beauty of .psd files is that all the adjustment layers are available for making your own desired changes, and although for most images not a lot of tweaking should be necessary, the facility is invaluable to get the exact effect you require.

I hope you have a use for this and enjoy it!

Click on the image below to download the .zip file

As the season is approaching very rapidly, I have created a bright, colourful texture for free download.

The size is 3000 x 2000px, 72ppi resolution.

This texture gives some wonderful results overlaid on snowy scene backgrounds with a layer blending mode applied. The image below shows the results of 4 such blends.

I hope you have a use for this texture.... Enjoy!

Click on the image to download the .zip file.

Today I have created a psd colouring file that gives a dark, grainy effect for portrait photographs.

There is a texture included with this file. If the texture is too small for your image, simply use the Transform tool to resize it to cover the canvas.

I hope you have a use for this and enjoy it!

Click on the image to download the file.

I was wandering around my building site of a garden last week, camera in hand, and took some shots of the rubble laying around. They turned out to be quite decent textures, so I am offering the set of six as a free download.

There are no restrictions on the use of these textures, apart from the obvious courtesy: if you publish them anywhere else, please link back to here and don't claim them as your own.

I hope you can use them and enjoy them.

I dabble in photo manipulation a little, and I have been disappointed lately to discover that I cannot find textures that are just autumn colours, with no grain or images. So I decided to create some and offer them as a free download.

I hope you can use them and enjoy them.

Click on image to download the .zip file containing 4 textures.