No matter your reason, anyone doing some web design can benefit from some freebie PSDs.

Creattica

Envato’s Creattica site, which is primarily a design gallery slash place to hire freelancers, has a category for downloadable freebies. There’s some good stuff, from icons to textures to audio player skins.

PixelBeam

PixelBeam is largely one guy making some cool graphics (though he seems open to contributions). Everything is free for commercial use, with a few “simple rules” to follow, namely that you link to PixelBeam if you’re sharing the resources and that you properly credit PixelBeam if you use them in a project you intend to sell somewhere like ThemeForest.

Premium Pixels

“Premium Pixels is a bunch of free design resources & tutorials created by Orman Clark. Don’t worry, shameless freeloading is encouraged, feel free to use and abuse at will.” Licensing is similar to PixelBeam. You can do pretty much anything you want with the PSDs, so long as you don’t redistribute them as-is. Attribution is requested for projects you intend to sell.

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BittBox

BittBox is a good source for textures, patterns and the occasional Photoshop brush. There are tutorials and the like now and then, too.

First you want to find the application in the Finder. Right-click it and choose “Show Package Contents.”

A new window will open with a folder named “Contents” inside. Double-click it, and then open the “Resources” folder inside.

Now look for a file ending with a “.icns” extension. It’s icon should look exactly like the application’s. Double-click it to open Preview, and you should be greeted with an enormous version of the icon, along with several alternate sizes which can be viewed by selecting them in the sidebar.

Just press Command+C to copy the icon, and you should be able to paste it right into Skitch. That’s all.

The icons seem pretty good to me, and there certainly are a lot of them. The set seems to be more targeted for general user interface use rather than being yet another collection of social media button graphics. (Not that social media icon sets are a bad thing…)

The icons are 48×48 pixels in size, and easily shrinkable if you require a smaller size.

Overall I like the icons. The Twitter one looks okay, but it’s not my favorite. I like the folder ones a lot, and some of the Apple-themed ones look really nice.

The set has a truly massive number of icons. If you download the set, which is free with no restrictions, be careful you don’t lose any of the icons.

GloryInLife’s 51 RSS Buttons

Bittbox Glass Style RSS Icons

3D RSS Icon

Zeusbox Studio Feedicons

Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Icons