The internet has come alive with free Christmas gifts for download. It was hard to choose from all that was available but I have tried to bring you a selection of the best. I have spent hours searching, likely a subconscious excuse to put off wrapping Christmas gifts.
Graphics and Icons
Smashing Christmas Icon Sets Smashing Magazine always has great resources.
Nicu’s holiday gallery contains these:
There are 16 icon sets to be found at FreshFreeStuff.net including social networking and RSS buttons – Free Christmas Holidays Icon Roundup . This is a selection from the sets available:
Gifts From Designers To You: Best Of 2008 – goodies include icons, fonts, wordpress themes and headers.
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 including this Christmas set:
A set of Christmas smilies is offered by Christmas Corner, many of which are animated:
DigiScrapDepot.com has 3516 Christmas Freebies if you want to
decorate the pages of your Christmas photo scrapbook pages.
1stWebdesigner brings us a range of Photoshop brushes- 48 Snow, Ice, Snowflake and Christmas Brushes
Mel’s Photoshop Brushes gives us a set of Christmas Illustrator Brushes
A search for Christmas on Adobe Exchange shows a plethora of Illustrator and Photoshop images, gradients, patterns, shapes, styles and brushes.
Desktop Wallpapers and Screensavers
25 Outstanding Christmas Wallpapers to Decorate your Desktop! from sagacious of Weird Resources
Vlad Studio has a whole range of Christmas Images/Desktop Wallpapers (higher resolution by subscription) and E Cards.
Wallco.net has a huge selection of free Christmas wallpapers in various resolutions – 42 galleries to date. I really went to town with these and created a whole folder of them to use as a My Pictures Slideshow Screensaver.
To create your own Christmas screensaver slideshow (or any other sort) in Windows XP – go to Desktop/Properties/Screensaver and choose “My Pictures Slideshow” in the drop down box. The default folder is My Documents/My Pictures but in settings you can choose any folder of pictures you want.
Not free but a good bargain – Woo Themes have a 4 for 1 special going until 24th December – $70 USD for a single licence and $150 for a developer licence.
Christmas Image Tutorials
Strobist lets us into some secrets of How to Photograph Christmas Lights using even a basic digital camera. I love Christmas lights although the ones I have appreciated the most this year were the new green and red lights in the car park of a newly renovated shopping centre which showed me the way which spots were free.
Smashing Magazine gives us 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
PS Lover has a whole range of Photoshop Christmas Image tutorials but turn your speakers down as they advertise those very annoying smilies who keep saying “Hellooo”
What not to do when blogging
Finally but not least, Michaela Lica of eWritings has provided us with some good Christmas blogging reading by publishing her ebook Blogging Tips: How to be Cocky and Vexatious – a collection of blog entries that followed her 10 Ways to Make Your Fellow Bloggers Hate You meme.
Thanks to Design Bliss for putting me on to many of these freebies in their – Over 100 Free Christmas Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List post
I am now off to join the teaming throngs at the shopping centre which is enough to provoke this Christmas emotion in anyone:
Things are looking pretty Christmassy around here
Wow, what a fantastic list of resources Sue! Lots of fun for everyone, and every thing!
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Thanks Deborah – Seasons greetings from here too.
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You always manage to find some of the neatest stuff, Sue. These are fantastic and beautifully colored in bold colors. I like bold colors.
Happy Holidays, Sue!
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Many thanks for including my Illustrator brushes Sue! The link should be http://www.melsbrushes.co.uk/?p=501 though – on the new blog. Merry Christmas!
Sorry Mel, I have updated your link now. Mel has a whole lot of goodies on his site – for Photoshop, Illustrator and for Scrapbooking.
Thanks for the icons.It´s time to decorate the blog with a few “Christmassy” things.
Good icons.
Great list thanx very much
difficult to find stock images sometimes, i feel all festive now
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Good, then my goal to spread Christmas cheer is succeeding at least a little
Those are high-quality images. It’s amazing that they are free. Thanks for the great resources.
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Yes it is surprising what you can find. Many designers sensibly give away freebies to help showcase their work.
Ah. That makes more sense. I wondered how designers could afford to give these away.
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Darn, wish I had seen this post before I made our Christmas card. I was looking for some good images and ended up just using what I used last year.
I was a bit late getting this post finished. Apologies – you can bookmark this for next year perhaps
Same here, was searching and searching for images that could suit my taste. Ended up with some not so satisfactory stuff. And today bang
, where was this post earlier or more correctly where was I searching. 
Thanks for this. Stumbled And dugg.
Many thanks Franklin
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What a wonderful collection of Yule Decoration for all kind of purpose and use – thanks for sharing it all in one post with us!
Stumbled of course.
Ohh yea, while I’m at it: I wish you and your family A Marry Christmas with a lovely Holiday Season in all!
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Thanks Renny and God Jul to you and your family, although it sounds as if your celebrations have already started with the Winter Solstice.
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Thanks for sharing this list, it’s a nice resource. Thumbs up as well
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Thanks Mike and good to have you as a visitor here.
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This is a great list of images!
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these are eye catching as well as Christmas spirit catching
Thanks for sharing! Now my desktop have a more christmas look.
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This is a great list — will keep me busy downloading and trying a few. Thanks!
Nice collection of graphics you have taken the time to compile here,but… if only i had found this yesterday. Merry Christmas anyhow
You will at least be well prepared for next Christmas – I know I will be as I could not resist downloading a fair proportion of what I viewed.
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Hi Sue
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you and your family.
saw and stumbled this post the other day but was in a hurry to comment
great list
Thanks for coming back again, Pearl, thoughtful as usual
I hope your Christmas went well and that the year ahead brings happiness.
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Hi,
Thanks for taking the trouble to visit my site. I was delighted to get your comment. You are the third person whom I have never met who has commented on my blog. Otherwise its all family and friends.
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I hope I am just the 3rd of many to leave comments. It can take some time to build up readers but you are doing the right thing by commenting on other sites, the more the better.
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Well that will teach me to get behind in my blog visiting!
Missed all this great stuff!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
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Mammoth post Sue. I’m saving a few of the icons to use as favicons on my sites for next season. The photography how to was super helpful as well. All my Christmas light shots have always flopped, so perhaps it will help.
I’m set to go check out a huge display later this evening, so hopefully some of them turn out nice.
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I hope that I can use all these richnesses in my congratulation cards and can bring much joy to my friends.
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Thanks a lot for sharing a good icons. I really feel Christmas here in your site. Keep up the good work.
I used to customize my site(s) to holidays, but I have too many now… I really like the stockings though!
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So cute! I wish I’d found the icons in time for me to use them.
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Happy New Year to everybody!
thanks for share
hehehehe
Very cool icons, I really liked the concept of the Christmas Social Bookmarking websites as Stockings
Till then,
Jean
Hi i visit through your blog and i found it quite helpful for me to buy Christmas gifts online. I am looking forward to know more about how to the gift downloading hope to see it soon on your blog .Thank you
Very useful post. Thanks for sharing. It’s great to see all these icons and art. They’re wonderful!
A holiday screensaver can dramatically increase the holiday cheer and spirit in your loved ones. Sending them one of these holiday screensavers will allow them to get amped about the true meaning of the holidays.
Good resource of images. Thanks for good information.
They are rellay good images. Look so wonderful.
Thanks a lot for sharing a good icons. I really feel Christmas here in your site. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks for that wonderfull Icon my Friend…
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It´s time to decorate the blog with a few “Christmassy” things.
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Nice info, usefull for me.. thanks….
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Thanks a lot for sharing… great idea…
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Its almost July… soon I will get into the “Christmas in July” spirit. Typically we go down to the beach and try to build a sandman. We watch some Christmas movies as well. Those images just reminded me that very soon we will be celebrating Christmas in July… tehe.
-Randy
wow, first of all thanks for sharing this best Christmas images resources photos.
Think about it when you hear the words Christmas tree,what images come to your mind or what pictures or things come to your mind that you first think of when you hear that word,
I LOVE Christmas trees I have always adored Christmas.
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Great list of icon, I like it… very cool and beautiful… thanks for share, have nice day….
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Thanks for sharing. It’s great to see all these icons and art… amazing…
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WOW this is truly a wonderful resource for Christmas icons, thank you Sue.
Wow..nice post, Good list of images.
gooooooooooooooood thanks
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Great Christmas screensavers – it’s never too early to look!
The most beautiful Christmas screen saver on the Internet, thankyou very much for sharing.
Great icons. Thanks.
Nice and informative article.
Beautiful colletion, I congrats you on this great work.
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Beautiful collection of christmas icons. Thanks for good resource.
Thank a lot, it is helpfull.
Very nice and beautiful collections you have here, thanks for taking the time to assemble them.
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These are all great xmas gift ideas to consider….
This is like a Christmas image and icon heaven. Thanks. I will be using many of these on my Christmas pages. Cheers, Chris
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I am so happy I found you site. The christmas images you share on your site will help me a great deal with my sites.
Thanks
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These are very useful articals for me.Thank you ! Best wishes !
Mammoth post Sue. I’m saving a few of the icons to use as favicons on my sites for next season. The photography how to was super helpful as well. All my Christmas light shots have always flopped, so perhaps it will help.
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These are really high quality. Hard to believe they’re being given away. Lot’s of nice goodies to decorate mine and my kids computers. Thanks heaps.
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That is a lot of free images. I love the Santa hat on the RSS feed icon.
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This is quite a unique collection, it really does put one in the festive holiday spirit. I wish I could use some of that on my Christmas Gifts For Guys blog.
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Beautiful collection of christmas icons. Thanks for good resource.
wonderful icons. thank you for sharing
Beautiful collection.
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These are very useful articals for me.Thank you
u have very fantastic Christmas images
i was searching for this. thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing. nice collection.
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Oh, dear, thanks a lot for those X-mas screensaver of yours! It’s something awesome, even my husband said that it’s simply cute!
Thanks for the icons.It´s time to decorate the blog with a few “Christmassy” things.