Great Adobe Illustrator Resources

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Adobe Illustrator is the must have tool for computer illustration, but what do you do with it once you have it? Here are a selection of my favorite vectors, tutorials and other resources.

Tutorial Websites 

Pink ZAP
Free tutorials for Illustrator and Photoshop
Smashing Magazine
Some great tutorials and info. This is a great magazine to check out!
Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials
Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.
Themes Live - Graphic Resources Sharing
Themes Live is a blog dedicated to web developers and web designers. It contains free High Quality Themes for wordpress, snews, joomla, drupal, serendipity and much more.
Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days
This FREE 30 days Illustrator crash course is created for beginners interested in learning Illustrator. Each lesson will take around 20 mins to complete and
Vectortuts
Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide, Illustrator & Vector Tutorials
Go Mediazine
A great online magazine
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Tutorialized
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Videos Through Google
A great google source for tutorial videos
Adobe
Go to the source. Tutorials from Adobe.
50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See | Blog.SpoonGraphics
Collection of hand-picked Illustrator tutorials that every designer should see, whether you're a beginner or advanced user, there will be something here for you!

Website Design Tutorials 

The 60 Best Photoshop Tutorials to Design Your Own Amazing Site |
A compilation of 60 of the most awesome photoshop tutorials which can assist you to create an amazing, professional website. Enjoy! Photographer

Great places to find free vectors 

Hey, we all need a little help now and then. These sites have some of the best free vectors that I have found.
Download Free Vector Graphics at Vecteezy!
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best designers around the world.
You the Designer - Graphic Design Blog
Graphic Design Blog - Graphic Design Tips, Graphic Design Resources, Design News and Much More!
Free Vector art, images and graphics
A lot of free vector art and graphics ideal for your designs. Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, Corel Draw CDR files classified by tags. You can use them on your web, for prints or to design a unique T-shirt. Just download and enjoy.
Free Vector Graphics for Download at CoolVectors.com - CoolVectors.com
Free Vector For Download at CoolVectors.com
Free Vector Art & Graphics
BittBox
Homemade vector freebies, design tips, tutorials and bitts.
Go Mediazine
Real world advice from working artists and designers.
Quality Free Vector Graphics
Qvectors.com is the place to find all the quality free Vector images & graphics from around the web.
Blog.SpoonGraphics
Design Tutorials, Graphic Design Articles and Free Vector Downloads from the blog of Graphic Designer Chris Spooner
Category: FREE
I Heart Vector's FREE Vector section

Illustrator Resources 

Smashing Magazine
smashing magazine is a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers
Dezignus.com - vector,icons,brushes,textures, wallpapers,anime,girls,tutorials
Dezignus - friendly community of people interested in design. It provides sharing of design freebies: vector (icons, silhouettes, floral ornaments, shapes), photos (textures, backgrounds, wallpapers), brushes, tutorials and some royalty free stuff.
Obsidian Dawn: FREE Photoshop Brushes, Patterns, & Tutorials (PS 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
Obsidian Dawn: FREE Photoshop Brushes - by Stephanie Shimerdla

Drawing Resources 

Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons
Drawspace.com offers diverse downloadable and printable drawing lessons featuring Brenda Hoddinott's unique and highly acclaimed style of teaching. Brenda is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing People, and Drawing for Dummies.
Tutorials - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
GFXartist.com the best place to be a digital artist and to become one. Digital art resource. Digital art community
Unknown
Inking and Coloring the Comic Strip “The Brads”, Illustrator & Vector Tutorials

Great Photoshop Tutorials 

Photoshop Tutorials you should see… at Paintbits - Life in Colors
Streaming Webdesign, Digital Art, Cinema, Music, Life…
PSD Tuts
20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects, Photoshop Tutorials
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters | Vandelay Website Design
A big collection of the best tutorials to improve your skills be learning poster design.
50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials | Design Reviver
Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you
CG Textures - The worlds largest free texture site
25.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!
Free Photoshop Tutorials, Downloads, Brushes and Forum
get all the latest on photoshop along with tutorials, resources and a friendly Photoshop forum only on Photoshopgurus.com
25 Amazing Photoshop Drawing Tutorials
Some more great photoshop drawing tutorials
Vibrant Photo Manipulation | Learning Resources for Adobe Photoshop
Using vibrant colors is the best way to make an image stand out, although getting the right balance is not always easy. Here we learn how to use lots of vibrant
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week
A good place to start
Photoshop Tutorials on Photoshop Contest
Photoshop tutorials from some of the world's most knowledgible photoshop experts.
Phong Tutorials
Photoshop, flash, pov-ray & polar graphing tutorials
40 Cool Abstract and Background Photoshop Tutorials | Photoshop Tutorial
Attractive backgrounds to any graphics, banners or ads are relatively important. Getting the correct theme, whether it's an abstract art, vector, or texture

Photoshop Resources 

BrushKing - Free Photoshop Brushes
Download free Photoshop Brushes on BrushKing
Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers - Six Revisions
28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.
godonholiday's videos on Vimeo
Use Vimeo to share your videos with only the people you want to. We have a bunch of privacy options so you can choose exactly who can see your videos, like just your friends or everybody.
CG Textures
25.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!
Tutorial Web Design
an online magazine to web design
50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends - Six Revisions
In this collection, you'll find over 50 free Photoshop brush sets for current design trends and styles such as vintage, retro, grunge, hand-drawn, swirls, and nature-inspired.

Some related useful information 

The power of color in direct marketing
Color is one of the most powerful elements of design for direct mail, ads, and other marketing materials. Why? Because color is a form of nonverbal communication.
250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray and Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
Don't have the time to buy the right materials and create your own incredible, traditional-style-painting Photoshop Brushes? No worries - we've found nearly 250 of them that we think you'll love!

Great Websites to Check Out 

Photoshop Brushes: 150+ High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes
GetBrushes.com - Featuring the best Adobe Photoshop brushes on the net and their authors, free PS brush downloads, as well as linking you to the finest Photoshop resources, tutorials and art communities
Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!
Photoshop Brushes - Brusheezy is the a HUGE collection of Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns to download, or upload your own!
BittBox
bittbox - Homemade vector freebies, design tips, tutorials and bitts.

Other Free Stuff That You Might Find Useful 

Fine crafted stock icons
Small, simple and sharp. Download FREE for personal and commercial use.
Design Fruit
A neat site with a lot of interesting vectors and ideas
25 Free Stock Photo Sites :: Digital Image Magazine
25 sites offering free, royalty-free stock photos
PSD Rockstar
Download 60 awesome grunge backgrounds for free

Places for Free Images 

[CG Textures] - The worlds largest free texture site
25.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!
Free Textures from love textures
A Free resource of Creative Textures to download

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Cheat Sheets 

Everyone needs a cheat sheet now and then
14 Most Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets | Web Design Ledger
A well rounded web designer's day is spent immersed in multiple graphic design programs and writing front end code.
CreativeTechs Tips » Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet.
Another handy cheat sheet.

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