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Photoshop Goodies 

Brushes, Actions, Styles and more..

Photoshop Brushes on deviantART

the BEST place to find Photoshop Brushes!

Making Natural Brushes for PS by =Duffzilla on deviantART

This tutorial will explain how to create your own inksplat, brushstroke and charcoal/chalk texture brushes for photoshop. These are useful, not just for adding unique splats, drips and brush strokes to make your digial work feel a bit more handmade but are also useful for ageing effects.. and if you make you own, you know nobody else is using the same brushes.

Magic lighting effect in photoshop | Abduzeedo by design

Learn how to make this really nice Magic Lighting effect - great tutorial, wont take you long at all!

Vodka and Irony

beautiful well done collections of Photoshop brushes and textures. Link takes you to artist page in Deviantart,where you can download from.

Wacom Intuos 3 Review - Jennifer Borton | PhotoshopSupport.com

Illustrator Jennifer Borton reviews the Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet.

Gradient Mask Blur in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a gradient mask to add a blur effect to the background in your photos. After this tutorial, your digital pics will be winning awards.

Photoshop CS2 Tutorials, Tips- PhotoshopCafe Homepage - The free resource for Photoshop Users

Photoshop tutorials, award winning original photoshop Tips tricks and photoshop tutorials for adobe photoshop CS2 incredible photorealistic illustrations updated every week This is one of the top photoshop sites on the web

DESIGNFRUIT - Photoshop Brushes | Vector Art

Designfruit%u2122 was started by Jason Gaylor. Who design things. He provides provide resources and inspiration for designers like himself, and wonderful resources.

Obsidian Dawn: FREE Photoshop Brushes, Patterns, & Tutorials (PS 7, CS, CS2, CS3)

Obsidian Dawn: FREE Photoshop Brushes - by Stephanie Shimerdla

Photoshop RoadMap

Hundreds of Photoshop tutorials, plugins, downloads and other graphics related resources.

Photoshop How-To: Lens Blur with Alpha Channels

It's an effect every photographer appreciates from time to time: showing a sharply focused subject against a blurry, out-of-focus background. Instead of playing with aperture settings, you can achieve similar results using Photoshop CS's Lens Blur filter. Here's how.

Deziner Folio : Free Photoshop goods

3D n Animation Design Flash General Goodies Javascript News Resources Reviews Side Notes Tips n Tutorials Uncategorized Web 2.0

Kiss My Pixels // Brushes

Free Photoshop Brushes

Directory of free Photoshop brushes, with information on how to create and install Photoshop brushes.

Brushes link list

146 Brushes for Photoshop 7+

SEISHIDO.BIZ | oRiginal.phOtoShop.brushEs

free bRushes
All brushsets below are non profit sets, completely free and available for everyone. These sets have been made of original artwork copyright
by someone else. Some of the sets are made of rubberstamps, manga illustrations, anime characters or just something I have not designed myself

Dezignus.com - All around design surfer

Share place for Photoshop brushes & shapes, vector icons and silhouettes, clip arts and, of course, tutorials. All you need for design.

Photoshop Tips & Resources

Collection of good and informative tips, links, resources on self teaching and using Photoshop, that i am collecting for myself but i think will be useful for many others.

Articles & Tutorials 

indepth reading and how to's

How to create Swirly Curls in Illustrator

Decorative swirls are loved nowadays; people always use this style along with natural element into their design. I know that there are lots of tutorials which are sound similar with mine. Well the idea is to create swirly curls, but my technique would probably different than any others. The twirl effect result is having some hazy kind of curls, so I guess it would be interesting.

Color: An Investigation - Digital Web Magazine

explore the subject of color, including the historical underpinnings of contemporary color theory, key color theories, theorists who have been influential over the past few millennia, and the current state of color-including color in digital environments

Understanding HTML Color Codes

The HTML Color Code Combination Chooser has a cool slider-based interface.

Creating colour palettes | And all that Malarkey

When I am designing a colour scheme for a client site, I am often lead by the colours used in existing logos or publicity materials. But when the client only uses one or two colours, I use a favourite technique for creating a whole range of complimentary 'tones'.

CREATIVEPRO

Resources for Creative Professionals

Addictive Hobby-The art and web development community

Addictive Hobby, the art and web development community featuring art submitted by our community artists, Listed are our interesting links to Artists, designers and Photographers from around the globe

INKSCAPE TUTORIALS BLOG

INKSCAPE is a FREE Open Source program that is similar to Adobe Illustrator, where you can work with vector (SVG file format) type of work. Visit the inkscape tutorials blog, to get you started...

"Image Stolen - Now What?"

Sometimes, for whatever reason, artists find their work being used without permission. Recently this happened to a collaborative work I did with Helen McLean. Let me share with you how we handled it.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS 

Photoshop How-To: Lens Blur with Alpha Channels

It's an effect every photographer appreciates from time to time: showing a sharply focused subject against a blurry, out-of-focus background. Instead of playing with aperture settings, you can achieve similar results using Photoshop CS's Lens Blur filter. Here's how.

The Russell Brown Show

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TIPS & TECHNIQUES : The official, Russell Brown Photoshop tips & techniques page. Podcast/videos, free scripts + more!

60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

The techniques shown are advanced level and require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they actually require talent and knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, subtlety, etc. If you are an advanced user, I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful.

How to Remove Tourists from Your Photos

Every notable landmark seems to have one thing in common: visitors, and lots of them. But if you want that postcard shot or that image that shows how the location may have once appeared, you have a challenge ahead of you. This digital photography and PhotoShop tutorial will provide a means to remove the tourist throngs from your vacation images.

How to easily create digital abstract smoke

 Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect, Spoonfed Photoshop Tutorials : In this tutorial we are going to show you how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it's very customizable and you can do it pretty quickly.

PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES 

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

PHOTOSHOP SHAPES 

Custom shapes for Photoshop (R) and Photoshop (R) Elements. 12000 shapes collection + unique themed shapes sets

Custom shapes for Photoshop (R) and Photoshop (R) Elements. 12000 shapes collection + unique themed shapes sets, many different designs including zigzag custom shapes, line custom shapes, pattern custom shapes, torus custom shapes, horseshoe custom shapes, grid custom shapes, arrow custom shapes, un

Ladyoak

Ladyoak - High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tips and Tutorials. Learn techniques Photoshop experts use to create designs and layouts.

Free Photoshop Shapes Downloads

Mega List of Free Custom Vector Shapes for Adobe Photoshop - Part I.

VECTORS & ILLUSTRATOR 

free vectors, adobe illustrator resources & tutorial

Vectoroom.com - The place of high quality vectors

Vectoroom.com - The place of high quality vectors. Purchase composition packs or download the free vector samples..

Illustrator Ribbons | mulpo.com

Ever wondered how you draw a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator? A while ago a reader e-mailed me with this question. A prefect tip for a

inside Adobe Illustrator index

Teri Pettit's demo files with Illustrator tips and under-the-hood details about feature behaviors.

Anchorpoint

Anchorpoint(tm) is a Vector Graphics and Art community comprised of talented individuals from around the world who share a common passion for vector art. Thousands of designers, artists, developers and illustrators have access to FREE DAILY VECTOR ART DOWNLOADS from our own library of vector images

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.

Mastering Clipping Masks in Illustrator

Behind the Mask, Part 1

createsk8.com - Design that brings glamour to the grind

Download Free curls, swirls, and other fun Illustrator and vector graphics.

Illustrator Pen tool exercises | Veerle's blog

?How did you create those curvy lines used in motion trails?? The first thing that you need to master and become proficient in is the Pen tool.

Huge Collection of Adobe Illustrator Resources

If you're interested in improving your skills with Adobe Illustrator or finding resources that can make you more effective and efficient with your time in Illustrator, this is the collection for you.

Creating a Vector Face in Illustrator

by Natasha Graham, Shutterstock Submitter
Let's take the mystery out of creating a vector face using Illustrator. Although there is no single way of doing it, I will guide you step-by-step from sketch to the finished illustration using the magnificent Pen Tool....

Effortless Reflections

Create a Reflection in 5 K.I.S.S. Steps by Melissa Scroggins, Shutterstock Submitter

I Heart Vector:

Vector stock resource for graphic designers who love all things vector. Lots of FREE Vectors available for download.

WEB DESIGNER TOOLS 

tools and things to help make a great designs

Mark Horrell - Browser Screen Resolution Checker

The browser screen resolution checker shows what your web page looks like with the viewer's monitor set to different screen resolutions.

Designers Toolbox: Graphic Design Tools : Lorem Ipsum Text Generator : Create An Online Portfolio

Great site with lots of handy tools like CSS Generators, Print Tools, Charts, + more

Go Media's Arsenal - Professional Design Weaponry

The most KICK-ASS Design Products. Royalty Free. Some FREE downloads available, but the packs that sell here are VERY well worth the money.

HTML forms can be as simple as "Copy and Paste"

Put an HTML form on your site in about 8 minutes. No programming required. (Not even a little bit) Designed for people who want HTML forms without learning HTML.

The Best Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

There are tons of free design template directories on the net, but sorting through all of them can be a very tedious process. Instead, we suggest that you start with these four, which we consider to be the best free open source design template directories online.

HTML Basix - javascript banner rotator generator

Javascript banner rotator generator. Just enter the URL of pages to link to the URL of the images and it will generate the code for you!

Picasion - Create GIF Animations online

Picasion lets you immediately create Animated GIF online. Upload pictures or import them from your Flickr or Picasa Web, create avatars or funny animations and post them anywhere you can post pictures: MySpace, LiveJournal, Bebo, Facebook, HI5 etc. No need for flash.

Down for everyone or just me?

I bet you've wondered.. when you type in a web address and nothing happens or you get a 404.html etc. Well now, you can go here and check to know for sure!

HTML & CODES help for the lazy designer 

links to pages, tools and resources to make your design life easier *or just more fun'er!

Quick HTML Reference

All HTML Tags and Commands

HTML Entities

HTML Entities, by Daniel M. Short. A list of HTML entities for use on web pages.

HTMLKit.com CSS Poster

HTMLKit.com's CSS Poster is an online tool that can be used to generate graphical quick references for your CSS files.

List of CSS Tools

Lots of useful links to tools and resources for CSS designing

NCDesign Style Sheet Guide v6.0

vURL Dissection

This service is completely free and allows you to view the source code within a webpage without your having to visit the site itself. In addition to this, options have been provided to view all links and images within a page for those of you that wish to do so.

To dissect a webpage, simply enter the URL (web address) to the page you wish to view, and click Dissect.

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

Browsershots.org is a free service that generates screenshots of your web design on a wide number of Windows, Mac, and Linux browsers. Enter your web address and click "Make Screenshots." After 10-45 minutes (depending on current loads) you'll get screenshots of your site as displayed on a variety of different Windows/Mac/Linux browsers. The interface can be confusing at first, but it is a great free service.

Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer's life easier.

HTML-Ipsum

HTML-ipsum - click titles to copy to clipboard!

COLOUR SCHEMES TOOLS & LINKS 

THE BIG BAD COLOR TEST

This is a handy little javascript that will allow you instantly see how text and background colors complement each other. To switch the background to one of the 216 web palette colors click on the switch box by that text color. For any other color type in the hex number

((( Stone Design ))) -> Java - Color Coordinator>

ColorCoordinator lets the Web page designer instantly select and preview colors for the background, text, links, active link and visited links on an HTML page. ColorCoordinator then provides the HTML code required to use these selected colors in the bottom text field.

COLR.ORG *recommended!

play with colors! simple to use - gets random schemes

Web Page Design for Designers - Colors

A great selection of links.

Artima Color Schemer

A Java applet that lets you try out different web page color schemes.

PagePainter - The Free Web Page Color Scheme Editor.

PagePainter provides the tools and environment to help you work easily and efficiently in this important area of web design.

Color Palette Generator

Generate A Color Palette from Any Image. Useful for getting colour schemes for webpage design or flyer/graphic design

ColorCombos.com - Web Color Combinations Tool and Library

ColorCombos.com. This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations. Also has a library of pre-selected combinations.

Color Scheme Generator 2

Color scheme generator

PIC2COLOR

extract color schemes from any image, effortlessly!
©Copyright 2006 pic2color.com

HTML Color Code Combination Chooser

Choose the best HTML color combinations with this free tool. Easy to use color finder that generates HTML codes.

EasyRGB - The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the Web!

Color Matching Color Harmonies Search a Tint Color Calculator Match your computer generated RGB values to color cards, paint lines, inks, fandecks and more... Find an industrial standard match for your computer colors. Tran

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

Generate matching color schemes like never before!

Web Color Schemes : What do they have to do with sales?

When it comes to the design of your website, a good deal of attention should be paid to choosing its color scheme.
One thing I've noticed is that if website visitors do not like the color scheme, you'll have to work much harder to get him or her to read on. The reaction is immediate; they may just click away at that point.

Daily Color Scheme

dailycolorscheme.com is your daily color resource. A new scheme every day, with lots of schemes in the archive.

COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes

Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.

Color Hunter

create and find color palettes made from images

Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Color Theory for web designers

The Color Wizard is a color matching application for anyone who wants to create designs with great looking colors.

Top 10 Resources To The Perfect Color Scheme for Web Designers

kuler

Color Hunter

Color palettes made from images

25 Popular Color Scheme and Palette Generators

CSS Juice is a design weblog that aims to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.

RESOURCES | SOFTWARE | WEBSITES 

Script Software - Secure and Protect Your Digital Photos with iWatermark

iWatermark is the worlds No. 1 watermarking application for Mac and Windows. Stylishly Copyright all your images in just minutes. iWatermark includes new effects like aqua and emboss.

iWatermark is integrated to work with Photoshop, ACDSee, iPhoto, Cumulus, Portfolio, PhotoStation, iView and other photo organizers. iWatermark is an essential tool for anyone with a digital camera, professionals and beginners or graphic artist.

Graphic Designer Career Information. Graphic Design Schools, Jobs

Learn how to become a graphic designer. Read related career articles, find graphic design schools and jobs. Also explore video game design, animation, photography.

You the Designer - Graphic Design Blog

You the Designer is a graphic design blog dedicated to providing you with quality graphic design tips, graphic design resources, graphic design news and much more!

Bezuska.com : Free Stuff for Digital Artist

These Sites All Have Great Free Resources For Digital Artists, Graphic Designers, and Web Designers:

Free Online Photo Resizing - Resize Digital Photos

Resize large photos. Free online image resizing. Resize large photos into smaller size images. Resize jpg gif png files.

graphics-illustrations.com

Graphics-illustrations is all about providing illustrations, Photoshop brushes and useful resources in the form of downloads, tutorials and how-to articles

Blogger Buster

Blogger Buster is a resource blog for bloggers, offering hints, hacks, tips and tricks to help enhance your blogging experience

Pixelpipe - Free your media, upload and share anywhere

you can send your media through Pixelpipe and have it delivered to so many at the same time? Liberate your media with Pixelpipe and get your content out to your favorite social network, photo/video and blog service. We support popular destinations and provide a number of applications to free your media from your desktop.

Are My Sites Up?

Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down. It is completely free.

STOCK PHOTOS & TEXTURES 

best places online..

[CG Textures] - The worlds largest free texture site

21.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!

PD Photo - Free Photos And Pictures (public domain, stock pictures, wallpaper, royalty free, clip art, etc)

PDPhoto.org is a repository for public domain photos. Use the photos for anything, including commercial uses, other websites, school projects, articles, ads, whatever. Public domain means the photo is not protected by copyright and may be freely used by everyone. Unless something is clearly marked as being something other than public domain, you can assume it is free to use.

Image * After - currently 18715 free textures and images available

Free high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.
mage*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

Urban Dirty

Free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops

Grunge Textures - Free Stock Photos, Images, Backgrounds and Digital Art

Grunge Textures! We have a growing collection of quality images ready for you to download including Aircraft Aluminum, Asphalt Textures, Brick Textures, Concrete Textures, Drains, Vents, & Grates, Grafetti & Vandalism Textures, Metal Textures, Mud, Clay & Earth, Old Machinery, Paper & Cardboard Textures, Peeling Paint Textures, Rusted Metal Textures, Spills & Splatter Textures, Stone Textures, Trash & Garbage Textures, Wood Textures, and other Distressed Surfaces.

13 Sites for Unique Textures

Textures can make interesting backgrounds for web sites, but they are also great for use in creating custom images with interest, depth and of course, texture. There are literally thousands of sites where you can find textures, but here are 13 that I check first when I need inspiration, something unique, high quality and low cost.

LOST & TAKEN : FREE TEXTURES

Lost and Taken is a depository of copyright-free stock photographic textures that you can use however you please...whether it be for a graphic design project or as a texture in a video game you're designing.

FONTS for FREE 

exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry

exljbris is Jos Buivenga's Free Quality Font Foundry.

TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts

Download free fonts at TypeNow.net - The Web's BIGGEST Typography Resource. Over 6000 free fonts for you to download

FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world's leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

You create ?FontStructions' using the ?FontStructor' font editor. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

FREELANCE YOUR SELF 

its in everyones capability to be able to earn some income thru their creative arts

Freelance Web Design Jobs | Programming Jobs | Freelance Design Work | Main Page

Find freelancers, freelance jobs, and freelance projects with Designcrowd.com

FREELANCING

Lori Leach-Forster shares advice for freelancers and others beginning in the graphic arts industry ... Graphic Designers Talk about Freelancing - DTG Magazine, the original design zine -- since 1990.

FreelanceSwitch

FREELANCE JOBS : Welcome to FreelanceSwitch, a Community & Resource for freelancers of all varieties - designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers ...

ProgrammerMeetDesigner - where web developers find web designers

This is a site for programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and writers to find each other and work together to create websites that look and function great.

BLOG TEMPLATES 

PsycHo: Free Template Generator

PsycHo, the Free weblog template generator by Aideen. Here, you can generate your blog's template without any require to HTML knowledge; even in Farsi language!
It's recommended to use FireFox browser for working with PsycHo.

Suckmylolly.com: Free Blogger Templates & Designs

Life is nicer with spice! Ditch that generic Blogger template and get something more original. ALL of the designs on suckmylolly.com are free!

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions - in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates

Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates has a simple goal. To Create Beautiful, stylish and functional templates for those using the new blogger beta. All the designs displayed on this site are FREE and given to you under the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial Canada License.

BlogHug!

BlogHug is a place to download free, high quality, CSS/XHTML validated wordpress themes for free. All our themes are original and unique with widget ready features. You can download any of our theme for free and can use for as many domains as you want.

SkinPress

Download free wordpress themes, web templates, flash intros, zen cart templates, pligg templates etc

ThemesPreview

The Only Website Offering Comprehensive Wordpress Theme Reviews and Ratings

Reviews of the Best Places to Find Blogger Templates

take a look at some of the best places to find Blogger templates, as well as what other services they have to offer. | Blogger Templates | ThemeLib

MAKING THINGS - HOW TO'S, RESOURCES, 

some things you can make yourself

God is Art - How to Screenprint Stickers

Godisart.com is a repository of information surrounding street art, bohemian lifestyle, graffiti, and living on the fringes of society.

Before & After magazine

Before & After, How to design cool stuff, Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone.