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Introduction

 

*UPDATED 10.19.09*

I made this page a while back, and I just noticed a lot of my bad grammer. So sorry about that :) Plus, theres tons of new inspiration now, so I'd say you should check out my "Toolbox" category in my blog if you want new links. But if you wanna go and tweak out, keep on reading...

 

This is a collection of links that I have gathered in time and want to share with everyone so you can:
-know what sites are popular and known in the design community,
-tutorials to help you grow your skills,
-inspiration to increase your eye for art,
-portfolios to look up to,
-brush/vector/texture/image sources to increase your design arsenal,
-articles to read that are useful and informative on design and knowing vital techniques / information,
-and round ups for quick references to tutorial sources and inspirations.


This is post will widen your design skills, view and knowledge in design become stronger! All these links are basically almost all the sites known in the design community and what I have collected till now. Design is always changing and newer articles, tutorials and resources are always being published, so check out the "MY RECOMMENDATIONS" for my opinion on what sites are the VERY BEST to visit daily to keep up with time and change. (btw, sorry for some fragments and repeated words in the descriptions).

 

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*And yeah, I tweaked on this ish. But since I made this, I won't ever have to worry about finding links to inspiration useful articles, and how-to's.


INTRODUCTION
DESIGNER BLOGS
TUTORIAL SITES

TUTORIALS
——USEFUL METHODS
——ABSTRACT
———SPACE
———GLOWS / AURA
——COOL EFFECTS
———LINES / PIXEL STRETCH
———POSTER / COLLAGE
———VARIOUS EFFECTS
———ADVERTISEMENT
———ORBS / WATER
———SMOKE
——MANIPULATION
———PHOTO
———COLOR
———SKIN / EYE / HAIR
——EASY / QUICK EFFECTS
——TYPE
———UNIQUE
———NEON / GLOW
———SLEEK / GOLD / CHROME
———MOVIE / GAME EFFECTS
———3D LETTERING
——VECTORING
TUTORIAL ROUND UPS
ADVERTISEMENT
GLOWS

TYPOGRAPHY

VARIOUS
PHOTO RETOUCHING
OTHER
ARTICLES
PROMOTING
SOURCES
DEFINE BAD
VITAL INFO
IMPROVING YOURSELF
IMPROVING YOUR PORTFOLIO
LOGO CREATION
ASSETS
STOCKS
——FREE
——PAYMENT
——OTHER
VECTORS
——ROUND UPS
——FREE
——PAYMENT
BRUSHES
——ROUND UPS
——FREE
FONTS
——ROUND UPS
——FREE
——PAYMENT
TEXTURES
——ROUND UPS
——FREE
——PAYMENT
PATTERNS
COLOR
PORTFOLIOS
INSPIRATION

3D
ADVERTISEMENTS
BROCHURE / BUSINESS CARDS / FLIERS / RESUME

---CD COVERS
PACKAGING
POSTERS
LOGOS
MASTERS
TYPOGRAPHY
VARIETY
VECTOR
WALLPAPERS
WEB DESIGN
WOMEN
WEB DESIGN
GALLERIES
MY RECOMMENDATIONS (CONCLUSION)



DESIGNER BLOGS - These are blogs that share articles, tutorials, inspiration and tips in design. You should definetly keep up with them to keep up with trends, imerse yourself with art, and gain knowledge in design.
Creattica Daily
- From the envato network, is Creattica Daily. They post really high quality articles of design that are useful for designers.

The Dieline - Great for package design inspiration.
FormFiftyFive
- This of many designers favorite web site. I guess because it there is daily non stop inspiration from around the world! This is my homepage because of the clean/fresh layout and good posts of inspiration and design.
Just Creative Design - Blog about all types of designs with interviews, freebies, tips etc…
You the Designer
- THIS HAS TO BE IN YOUR FAVORITES, OR HOMEPAGE. There are tons of articles that you should find useful to improve your skills and knowledge of being a designer. Also has tutorials, freebies, news, inspiration etc…
Web Designer Wall - Keep up with the trends at web designer wall along with tutorials. The layout here is really tasty and hip. Tasty.
Smashing Magazine
- Smashing Magazine is one of the sites that I know that has the greatest tutorial and inspiration round ups. Check them out for sure. You’ll probably find a good tutorial that suits your needs in their round ups. Each round up has a different theme, its really a good site.
Positive Space
- This site is really great. Its more of a motivation site for designers. There are posts about portfolios, students, articles debating what is good or not, inspiration and so on. The articles are very well written. It will definitely improve your skills, knowledge and view of design. Very high quality posts. Definitely should be in your favorites.
Abduzeedo - Abduzeedo used to be more of a tutorial site, but now has tons of tons of inspiration. This site is great to inspire you from graphic design and web design. Some posts would include poster inspirations, daily inspirations, interviews of other cool designers and more. I really love the Best of the Week posts. Those are useful because they post all the crazy, cool, unique, news and stuff around the internet in one post every week. Top notch site! Another site that should be in your favorites.

Creative Tempest - Great collection of inspirational artist. You'll really enjoy the great artist they feature and the creative descriptions.
Designfeedr - As they say “feeding the creative monster inspiration”. You’ll find just tons of inspiration here.
Fuel Your Creativity - There are interviews, inspiration and typography love. It has a really simple and clean layout, with posts that are high quality.
Designerside - Has really good round ups, articles and inspiration.

DesignFlavr - Nice place to get good source of inspiration.
Vandelay Design - Another site with good round ups, articles and inspiration.
BittBox - Bittbox is known to give away very high quality freebies from brushes, vector, fonts and textures. Lovely.
Design you Way - There are really good round ups here. If you don’t have time to keep up with the internet and the growing tutorials and inspiration, just check this site every often with their “Weekly Top Photoshop Tutorials” feature and various inspiration round ups. Plus for the web designers, check out their “Weekly 30 Inspirational Web Site” feature. Really helpful and useful site. Another site worthy for your favorites.
Change the Thought - There are cool posts from ranges of different type of designs. There are inspiration and articles from motion graphics, graphic design, music, art, world, typography, it goes on… really cool site, not just for design.
Go Media Zine - Go Media, I call, are the vector kings. Its all about illustration here. Check out the Go Media Arsenal for very useful elements to add to your work. And then check their tutorials for some hip and trendy stuff.
Design You Trust - I find this site to have constant updates, like almost every 5 hours maybe. When I check it in the morning, there are always tons of inspiration and entertaining things to look at. Has some immature stuff sometimes, but a still a fun site.

yay!everyday - Great blog thats updated daily with photography and design.
My Ink Blog - My Ink Blog is a new blog and has really interesting and useful articles with some freebies here and there along with tutorials.
FreebiesLinkShare - Not really a blog, but really really useful and resourceful for freebies. There are TONS from brushes, vectors, stocks, to textures, patterns, icons, everything, all freebies. Sweet DOOD! It will really prepare your designer arsenal.
Dezignus - Not really a designer blog either, but TONS of free cool freebies also. It’ll make your arsenal even greater.
Blog Spoon Graphics - This is the blog of Soon Graphics. Not really big, but has some nice freebies.
Colorburned - There are really cool and useful freebies here from retro to paint.
Logo Design Love - A great blog to immerse yourself into the logo community.
Dzineblog - Has good round up of tutorials and inspiration.
Photoshop Disasters - Heh, this sites just for fun… It shows some designs that have flaws and mistakes in them.

Inspiredology - Great site for inspiration.



TUTORIAL SITES - These sites will give you tutorials for free on how to do many effects. Tutorials will help you get used to designing and also learn some very useful techniques along the way.
PSDTUTS - From the envato network is PSDTUTS. This is known to be the greatest tutorial site ever made. They really are the kings of photoshop tutorials, along with some other mediums that go along with design to integrate with photoshop. They post really high quality tutorials that you can learn techniques and skills from to use on your own to stretch the boundaries of creativity with what you learn. A very top notch site. Also check out the USER COMMUNITY LINK FEED and Best of the Web, for daily links about design, freebies, news etc. This has got to be in your favorites.
Computer Arts - Very professional site for 3D and 2D design. Very high quality tutorials that you can download in PDF format.
Digital Arts - Similar to Computer Arts but the tutorials aren’t in PDF format.
Photoshop Lady - Now I really love this web site, and Ill tell you why. They save you a lot of time from looking for the right tutorial that you need, that are also high quality written tutorials from around the world. This is all you need. Another site that has to be in your favorites.
Tutorial 9 - Tutorial 9 has some really easy neat and fun tutorials. They give you enough steps to create a look and then its your choice to stretch you knowledge of creativity to it. They are also into photography, really a clean site.
Tutorials we Heart - Very clean and fresh layout with various collections of high quality tutorials.
Tutzor - Has very cool tutorials every so often. I don’t see why they don’t get that popular, but they are pretty neat and interesting. They have tutorials like creating a phone ad, recreating logos from movies/games, cool photomanipulation tutorials and so on. Check it out.
PSDFAN - Really inspired from PSDTUTS… obviosly. But all these tutorials were written from one guy. There are some really unique tutorials here that don’t go with trends, but are creative.
PSHERO - At PSHERO, you’ll find not only tutorials that are trendy, but tutorials with useful techniques.
PSD Learning - There are really cool tutorials here that are very colorful outcomes.
Tutorial Dog - You’ll learn many techniques here from tutorials for web to graphic design.
Photoshop Star - A nice and clean site with very easy, hip, fun and useful tutorials.
Photoshop Tutorials - You’ll find some useful tutorials here.
Photoshoplab - Not really updated much, but check out their tutorial section for some really simple and cool effects.
Pixel2Life - The next few sites that are going to be listed are tutorial directories. Pixel2Life is one of the higher quality directories. They have tons of tons of tutorials.
Photoshop Road Map - You will also find high quality tutorials. plug ins and downloads here.
Adobe Tutorialz - Directory of stricly tutorials.
Design Float - Design Float is has tons and tons of posts for any type of design, from graphic to web to motion and so on.
Good Tutorials - As the title says, Good tutorials. Not much activity, but its still nice.



TUTORIALS - Tutorials can really expand your view on design and open up new ideas that you couldn't think of and increase your skills with the use tools.
Useful Methods
School of Photoshop - This will help you learn what tools are there, what they do, and how to use them. VERY INFORMATIVE!
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week - Another article that is even more informative!
Photoshop Path’s Made Easy - This shows you how to use the pen tool.
How To Make A Photoshop Brush - This will show you how to create brushes in photoshop.
Create Custom Photo Brushes - Another article that will teach you how to create brushes.
Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor - This will show you recolor art with Illustrator.
Illustrator: How to Make Custom Swooshes, Swirls, and Curls - This will show you how to create swirls and curls in illustrator.
Add Visual Texture 3 Easy Steps - This will show you how to add a bit of spice to a design using textures.
Wrapping Text Around An Object - Ever seen text wrap around objects but couldn’t find the right tools in photoshop to do it? Well this will show you how using the pen tool.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop! - This will show you how to make a picture pop by 4 different blurring techniques.
The 5 Essential Photoshop Reflections - This will show you how to create 5 different reflections. The Flare, 3D fold, glossy, environment and surface.
Designing for Print - Setting Up Crops and Bleed - This will show you to prepare a design for print so it won’t bleed.
Guide to Halftone Pattern - This will show you how to create a halftone effect with various useful techniques.
Double and Triple Strokes in Photoshop - This will show you how to create double and triple strokes to text.
Wrapping Text Around An Object - Ever seen text wrap around objects but couldn’t find the right tools in photoshop to do it? Well this will show you how using the pen tool.
Designing for Print - Setting Up Crops and Bleed - This will show you to prepare a design for print so it won’t bleed.
How to Add a Border to a Picture in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a border to an image that can vary in thickness.
Fast rounded corners in Photoshop - This will show you how to create rounded corners on an image with the shape tool, paths and opacity.


Abstract

Space
Space Environment- This will show you how to create a space environment with stars, a planet. a dust trail and color. Really cool!
Make a real planet - This will show you how to create a planet with textures and blending modes.
Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps - This will show you how to create a cool space environment with stars, colors, clouds and gradient line effects.
Photoshop Space and Planet Scene - This will show you how to create the same effects as above in a different way, also with creating a planet.
Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop - This is pretty unique. It will show you how to create a planet with a abstract effect above it. Its very easy too.
Make a Realistic Star Field - This will show you how to create a more detailed realistic star field other than other basic star field techniques in other tutorials.
Space Background - This is a simple tutorial that will show you how to create a space milky way type of effect.
Making of an Abstract Art Piece: “Lonium” - Not really about planet and stars, but very space like with abstract 3D shapes.
NoPattern “Jumper” Effect - This will show you how to create a “Jumper” effect like light sucking an object into the unknown. It can be used in different ways to create stunning designs.
Abstract Signature - This isnt really about space, but it can be under the space spectrum. Itll show you how to create an abstract texture that is used in many forum signatures.


Glows / Aura
Advanced Glow Effects - This will show you the very basics of how to create glowing lines using the pen tool and blending modes.
Girl in Tempo - This will show you how to create a very cool
Light Saber Effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a light saber and put it into an image. I like this tutorial. One of the first things I tried on photoshop haha.
Energize Your Graphics with Abstract Energy Lines - This will show you how to create abstract glowing crazy lines using the pen tool. or drawing them in.
Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop - This will show you how to create amazing glowing flying sparks in very easy steps.
Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a cool slick dusty scene with the use of colors, lighting effects, motion and vectors.
Create cool neon effects - This will show you how to create a crazy cool neon effect to any object using lines, warping, masking and lighting effects.
Make photos sparkle - This looks great on fashion shots. This will show you make photos sparkle with various effects.
Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop - This will show you how to create cool sprakling effects to any image in very simple steps.
Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect - This is will show you how to create exploding parts along with some nice coloring effects and a useful line technique that you’ll find useful.
Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect
- Inspired by light paintings, this will show you how to create the same effect using photoshop.
Cool abstract background - This will show you how to create glowing abstract lines and bubbles.
Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop - This will show you how to create energy spheres and apply it to an image.
Beautiful Lady Effect - This will show you how to create a stunning abstract effect in very simple steps.
Electrifying Glow Album Art - This will show you how to create glowing lines and particles to a person.
Magic lighting effect in photoshop - This will show you pretty cool techniques with glows and explosion of light.
Chroma Wallpapers - This will show you how to create chroma wallpapers by having glowing lines, manipulating them using the warp tool plus with glowing particles.
Create an Energy Drink Ad Design - This will show you how to create an energy drink ad design with use of difference blending Mode and the radial Blur Filter to achieve unique colors, contrast, and lighting.
Lighting effects - This will show you the basics of creating light effects, in which you can add other designs to it to create a unique piece.
Adding Light Streaks To A Photo - This will show you how to create not only glowing lines, but glowing streaks. Good tutorial to be more unique with the glowing line trend.
Soccer Theme - This will show you how to create glowing lines with glowing lines attached to them.
Even fairies have to rest - This will show you how to add glowing lines, also the use of lens flare and adding color to them.
Electrifying Energy Beams - This will show you basics of creating glowing lines in simple steps.
How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop - This will show you how to make an object glow along with glowing lines and a textured background.
Creating a Simple Valentine’s Day e-Card - This will show you how to create a valentines day design with glowing stars and typography with hearts in the background.
Photoshop: Light Beam - Ever watch Dragon Ball Z? Remember the kamehameha attack? This will show you how to create a similiar effect. Its very simple and very cool.
Make an Apple Coldplay Style Ad in Photoshop - Have you seen the apple commercial “Viva La Vida”? This and the next 2 tutorials will show you how to create that colorful effect along with the smoke effect.
Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop - This will show you how to do that effect with some simple effects.
Barack Obama’s Coldplay iPod + iTunes Commercial in Photoshop - Very simple tutorial to create the same effects.
Reflective Bubbles - This will show you how to create reflective glowing bubbles.
The Spotlight is here! - This will show you how to create a simple vector look spotlight area that looks vibrant.
Leopard Aurora Borealis - This will show you how to create something similar to the Apple Leopard Aurora background.
Windows Vista Aurora Effect - This will show you how to recreate the Windows Vista Aurora effect in pretty simple steps.
Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper - This will show you how to recreate the Windows Vista Aurora effect with in depth and detailed steps.


Cool Effects - All the categories under here is a mixed bag of different types of effects.

Lines/Pixel Stretch
Fashion Shot - This will show you how to create cool trendy lines and add it to a person.
Aurora Borealis - North-South Polar Lights - This will show you how to create a nice, simple and color line effect that also shows you how to create a blurred type.
Create simple light stripes effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to create stripes in 3 simple steps that can go further with your creativity. Looks great for simple backgrounds.
Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars - This will show you how to create abstract colored lines. Doesn’t work well for designs at 300 dpi, but looks nice on small stuff.
Lines Tutorial - This will show you how to create colorful detailed lines in very quick and easy steps.
Shiny Starburst Effect - This shows you how to create lines like above, but having them explode! Looks cool and is easy to do.
Seamless Metal Texture - This shows you how to create a metal texture by the use of stretching pixels.
3D Pixel Stretch Effects - This will show you the basics of creating 3D objects by the use of stretching pixels. Very useful idea to create more stunning work if you go creative with it.
A Retro Wallpaper/Poster - This will show you how to create a retro run way look by stretching pixels.
Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial - This will show you how to create geometric lines in illustrator, and manipulated in photoshop.
Create AdaptD.com Paper style Lines - This will show you how to create simple and retro lines. Its easy to do and looks great!
Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs - This will show you how to create retro curved line shapes and add it to an image. Inspired by James Whites designs.
Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop - This will show you how to create circle shaped objects with lines, some color and texture.
Design a 3D Retro Strip - This will show you how to create 3D retro strips using the pen tool.
Turn Photos of People into Line Art - This will show you how to create pictures into line art using the pen tool.
Diagonal Scanlines - This is a quick tutorial that will show you the basics to create diagonal scanlines.
Plaid Patterns - This will show you how to create a plain pattern with the use of grids.


Poster / Collage
Creating A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop - This will show you how to a retro poster with great use of textures, colors and brushes. It also explains why sketching is important to gain concept.
Creating an Urban-Style Piece of Artwork - This will show you how to create an urban style design with textures and brushes.
Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop - This will show to create an old world look design. It looks very vibrant.
Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster - This will show you how to create a constructivist poster with great use of textures, stock images and gradients.
Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster - This will show you how to create a flier with the use of textures and stock images. It will also show you how to put together the information stylishly too.
Making a Grungy Business Card - This will show you how to create a business card that has a grungy feel but also very sleek.
Designing a Typographic Concept Poster - This will show you how to create a poster full of letters and words in a grungy format.
Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids - This will show you how to create a collage of portfolios out of one photo.


Various Effects
Photo Cutout - This will show you how to make an object from an image look like its coming out of it with the use of the extraction tool and free transforming.
Creating fireballs and explosions - This will show you how to create a war scene with explosions of fire and smoke.
Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to make objects gold and have great composition.
Create a Glowing Surreal Planet Design - This will show you how to create a circular planet using a panoramic photo.
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect - This will show you how to apply a comic book effect with the halftones and typography to a photo.
Deep and Moody - This will show you how to create an image with depth and detail with a couple simple steps.
Design Watercolor Effect Menu - This will show you how to create a water color effect to paper.
Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a grass texture from scratch and make some parts of it look like it was cut.
Vanity License Plate - This will show you how to create a liceanse plate.
Make Your Own iPod style Photo - This will show you how to create the old Apple iPod commercial ad with taking a regular photo and turning it into a siloutte.
Phoenix Hair Effect - This will show you how to make hair look vibrant.
Illustrating the Flower Pattern - This will show you how to outline and color a scaned sketch.
Metallic Styles in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a metallic stlye using gradients and layer styles.
Creating a Rocking Silhouette in Photoshop - This will show you how to take a photo, turn it into a silhouette and add effects to it to make it rocked out.
Make Photos More Suggestive - This will show you how to create a disapating look to a photo and add color to it.
Water Spirit - drawing fire - This will show you how to create a simple fire ball.
The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper - This will show you how to create a grunge design with light.
Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop - This will show you how to create the mac background in very simple steps.
Photoshop tutorial to create a Credit Card - This will show you how to create a cool and modern looking credit card with major use of layer styles.


Advertisement
Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design - This will show you how to create a friendly looking phone ad with the use of various elements.
Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer - This will show you how to create a futuristic phone ad with various filters and brushes. Also a useful gradient line technique.
Design an Awesome Product Ad - This will show you how to create a futuristic dark phone ad with glows and lines.
Design a Stylish Fashion Advert - This will show you how to create a fashion ad with vibrant colors.
Add a Fresh Splash to your Design - This will show you how to create drink ad that looks very fresh and lively.
Water effect on products Photoshop tutorial - This will show you how to apply water effects to product which looks very clean and fresh. With the techniques you learn in here, you can go creative with it to add it to other designs etc…


Orbs / Water
Water effect on products Photoshop tutorial - This will show you how to apply water effects to product which looks very clean and fresh. With the techniques you learn in here, you can go creative with it to add it to other designs etc…
Create amazing photomontages - This will show you how to take a picture of a person, maniputlate his body parts off and make water splashes coming out of him.
Realistic water running on tap - This will show you how to create realistic looking water coming out of a faucet in very simple steps.
Create Water Drops - This will show you how to create realistic water drops and offer a PSD so you can just use the layer style to create the effect.
Water Drops - This will show you how to create water drops in very simple steps.
Glass Ball - This will show you how to create a realistic looking glass ball resting on a newspaper.
Aqua Tutorial - This will show you how to create an aqua effect on an orb, and also show you how to create a Dragon Ball Z ball out of it.
Interface Orbs - This will show you how to create a cool sleek orb where you can add your logo into.
Smoke
Creating Smoke - This will show you how to create smoke using shapes and the liquify tool.
Smoke Effect - This will show you how to create a very digital looking smoke.
Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect - This will show you how to create a digital futuristic smoke with the mix use of illustrator and photoshop.
Smokin’ Woman - This will show you how to make a picture of a man smoking have a women appear out of it.
Smoking Gun - This will show you how to create a smoking gun using the smudge tool.


Manipulation - These will teach you how to manipulate colors on a photo to complete photo manipulation.

Manipulating Colors
Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional - This is a very useful tutorial that you can use in photos that you decide to use to make them look proffessional and clean.

Achieve HDR Style Effects Using Photoshop and the Lucis Art Filter - This will show you how to get a HDR effect to a regular photo using an image enhancing program.
Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor
- This will show you recolor art with Illustrator.
How to turn your photo into movie-like - This is one of the first tutorials I attempted when I started using photoshop. This will show you how to create a movie scene with good use of contrast, noise, brushes and colors.
Achieve The Indie Movie Look - This will show you how to create an indie movie look with the use of color balance.
Trendy Neutral Photo Effect - This will show you how to create an effect that many photographers use in there photos to bring focus to an object.
Photoshop vintage effect - This will show you how to apply effects to an image to make it look vintage with the use of contrast/saturation, curves, vignette effect, and lastly a hint of color.
Coloring Effects - This will show you how to create a cool color effect but desaturing an image, add color using brushes and blending modes.
Blue glow dreamy portrait - This will show you how to create a dreamy blue effect to an image with very easy steps.
Compositing and Enhancing Photos - This will show you how to turn an ordinary photo and turn it into a vibrant and fancy photo with the use of the pen tool, curves, color balance, blurs, blending modes and channels.
Lomography - This will show you how to recreate a lomography effect to an image with very simple and easy steps.
Artistic Sepia / Colorizing Effect - This will show you how to give an image sephia colors while you learn a thing or two about gradient masks, and a few stock Photoshop filters.
The Romantic - This will show you how to create a high contrasted brightly colored image.
Old Retro Style - This will show you how to create an old retro style image with a gradient map and the grain filter.
Retro Colors - This will show you how to create retro colors with the use of 2 colors and the match color filter.
Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to give a vintage look to a photo with the use of a gradient map, opacity changes, blending mode, noise and blur.


Photo Manipulation

The Making of Mystic - This tutorial is absolutely legendary. I have'nt tried using the techniques here yet, but its prettty crazy. It takes various images and effects to create the "Mystic."
The Garden: part 1 - This will show you to manipulate a mans face with a waterfall coming out of his forehead with cracks using a dry mud crack texture and various stock images.
How to make your Twins | Multiply yourself - This will show you how to create twins of yourself in one picture with the blending tool and eraser.
Light Your House On Fire - This will show you how to take a regular picture of a house, and make it look like it is on fire with the use of filters, brushes and blending modes.
The RoboHorse - This will show you how to take a picture of a horse and turn it into a robot with the use of various stock images.
Scared Photomanipulation Tutorial - This will show you how to take a picture of a man having his hands over his face, and making something scary and outragous with it using various stock images.
Tattoo Coming to Life - This will show you how to take 2 images, a girl and snake, and make the snake look like a tattoo that is coming to life off the girls back.
Create a Graphic Statue in Photoshop - This will show you how to take a man, and turn him into a bloody statue.
Let’s Rock - This will show you how to take a picture of a girl and turn her into a marble statue.
Exploding Planet 2 - This will show you how to take a dry mud crack texture, and turn it into an exploding planet.
Minimize, colorize and bodypaint a Supercar - This will show you how to take a regular sized car, and turn it into a mini car with new paint, skin, and neon lights.
Give your car a little wood - This will show you how to take a picture of car from the side, and make it look like its made out of wood.
Orange Porsche. Fruit Skin - This will show you how to take a picture of a car, and make it look like its made out of oranges skins.
Turn a car into a hover car! - This will show you how to turn a car into a hover car using only 2 stocks with the use of the pen and warp tool.
How to do the “cars” Photoshop - This will show you how to take a picture of a car, and make it look like it has the faces of the cars from the movie “Cars”.
Snail race photo montage - This will show you how to take pictures of snails and a road to make it look like they are racing.
Add A Realistic Rainbow To A Photo - This will show you how to create a realistic rainbow to an environment with the use of a gradient, blending mode, blurring and more.
How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds - This will show you how to take a picture of clouds and an outside environment and add sunlight breaking through the clouds.
Vibrant Photo Manipulation - This will show you how to take pictures of colored pencils and fruits and make it look like the color is dripping with the use of the pen tool.
Smokin’ Woman - This will show you how to make a picture of a man smoking have a women appear out of it.
Create a Spectacular Graffiti Effect - This will show you how to take a regular brick wall with perspective and add graffiti to it that looks real.
Casting Light Through Window Blinds - This will show you how to take a regular image of a girl, and give it shadows to make it look like there is light casting through blinds.
Create Your Own Planets - This will show you how to create a cool planet with the use of panoramic photos.
Digitally Collage a Camouflage Paper Jacket - This will show you how to blend an clothes into a background with texture or patterns.
Easy Watercolor Painting Effect - This will show you how to take a field of flowers and turn it into a watercolor painting by duplicating some layers, applying a few filters, and using a few different layer blend modes.
Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect - This will show you how to create a vintage polaroid with the use of textures, layer styles, blending modes and a picture.
Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster - This will show you how to create a hollywood chick flick movie poster by blending photos with the user of layer masks and color to make them match.
Sin City Style - This will show you how to recreate that sin city style look with the use of levels and lines.
Adding Reflections To Sunglasses In Photoshop - This will show you how to add reflections to sunglasses.


Skin / Eye / Hair Retouching
Age Progression - This will show you how to take a young person, and make them look old with various pictures. Kinda gross.
Photo Editing Tutorial - This will show you how to soften skin and remove blemishes with use of the clone tool and blurring.
Superb Skin Airbrush Technique - This will show you how to soften skin without it looking to fake, but with realism.
Changing Hair Color - This will show you how to change hair color by using the pen tool, color variations and the eraser.
Color hair locks - This will show you how to change hair color by using the hue/saturation and masking.
The “Perfect” Eye - This will show you how to change the color of an eye with the use of the pen tool, color balance and blending modes.
Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation - This will show you how to change a regular boring picture of an eye, and make it look evil with the use the burn tool, dodge tool, brushes and layer modes.
Hulk Eyes Effect - This will show you how to take a regular picture of an eye, and make it look like its gonna turn into the hulk using the burn tool, dodge tool, burn tool, color, and layer modes.
Phoenix Hair Effect - This will show you how to make hair look vibrant.



Easy and Quick short effect - These are short tutorials that don't show you how to create a complete design, but just some techniques to create small elements and some useful things like adding texture, create focus etc...
Add Visual Texture 3 Easy Steps - This will show you how to add a bit of spice to a design using textures.
Double and Triple Strokes in Photoshop - This will show you how to create double and triple strokes to text.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop! - This will show you how to make a picture pop by 4 different blurring techniques.
The 5 Essential Photoshop Reflections - This will show you how to create 5 different reflections. The Flare, 3D fold, glossy, environment and surface.
Thick Diagonal Lines and Stripes - This will show you how to create diagonal lines onto an image using the pen tool and pattern tool. Also comes with already made patterns!
Guide to Halftone Pattern - This will show you how to create a halftone effect with various useful techniques.
Easily Blend 2 Images Together - This will show you how to blend 2 images together using layers, a layer mask and the gradient tool.
Designers, Get the Grunge Out in Photoshop CS3 - This will show you how to create your own splatter grunge brushes.
Motion Light Trail - This will show you how to create a simple motion light trail by using layers and opacity changes.
Folding Corners - This will show you how to create a folding corner on a piece of paper using the gradient tool.
Delicious Golden Ribbon - This will show you how to create a simple, gold, with texture, non-wavy ribbon.
Creating a Ribbon - This will show you how to create a glossy ribbon.
Designing Glossy (Web 2.0) Badges - This will show you how to design a glossy 2.0 badge using the shape tool, layer style, blending modes and the pen tool.
Web 2.0 Badge Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - This will show you how to create a web 2.0 badge in illustrator.
Simple GunMetal Interface - This will show you how to create a metal texture in simple steps.
Adding a Blurry Glass Effect - This will show you how to create a blurry glass effect using layer styles.
The Elegant Studio Shot - This will show you how to create a studio shot type of image by creating a dark lit room with a reflection of the object.
Cinematic - This will show you how to bring focus to an image in a simple technique.
Patchwork Grids - This will show you how to create a trendy color burn onto an image in 4 simple steps.
Grid Effect - This will show you how to create a grid to the size of your liking onto an image.
3D Perspective Grid Photoshop Tutorial - This will show you how to create a perspective grid by using the pattern tool and the transform tool.
Transform your Photos into a Beautiful Mosaic - This will show you how to create a mosiac onto several merged images in very easy steps. You’ll notice this in some magazines.


Typography Effects - These will teach you how to create effects on type like making it glow, creating 3D art with in and so on.
Unique Effects
Double and Triple Strokes in Photoshop - This will show you how to create double and triple strokes to text.
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a water color look using text, stock vectors and images.
Super Cool Frilly Bits - This will show you how to create text with floral bits coming out of it using stock vectors.
Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design - This will show you how to create a unique poster with repeating text in different angles.
Awesome Grunge Text Effect - This will show you how to create grungy text.
Decorating Text - This will show you how to create a unique with drips, lines and color.
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to create a text that looks like it is made out of grass.
Retro Text - This will show you how to create retro stiped text using illustrator and photoshop.
Brick Text Photoshop Tutorial- This will show you how to create a text that looks like its inside bricks.
Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop - This will show you how to create text that is on fire using special techniques and stock images.
Hell of Tutorial - This will show you how to take 3d letters from illustrator, bring it to photoshop, and make a hole in the ground with the shape of the letters and have fire explode out of it with smoke effects and a cracking ground.
Creating a crazy cool logo - This will show you how to a fresh logo in illustrator using shapes and strokes.
Designing a Typographic Concept Poster - This will show you how to create a poster full of letters and words in a grungy format.


Neon / Glowing / Colorful
Cool neon text effects - This is will show you how to create text with neon glowing wrapping and exploding out of it with very in-depth steps.
Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect - This will show you how to create multilayered text and layer styles to create a unique glowing text.
Shining Neon Text Effect - This will show you how to create glowing text with very easy steps.
Vibrant Pop Text Effect - This will show you how to make text vibrant using a layer style. Also offers a download for the layer styles.
Scanline Text - Thi will show you how to make text have glow like scanlines.
Colorful Light Burst Text - This will show you how to make text with explosion of light.
Colorful Glowing Text Effect - This will show you how to make text glow using gradients.
A Slick Supernatural Text Effect - This will show you how to create glowing text with smoke.
Spray Paint Text - This will show you how create a glowing grungy spray paint type.
CD Cover Design - This will show you how to create a colorful and distorted looking text.


Sleek / Gold / Chrome / Shiny
Simple, Sleek & Stylish Text Effect - This will show you how to create clean and shiny text using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
How To Create A Gold Text Effect In Photoshop - This will show you how to create gold text using layer styles.
6 Quick’n’Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch - This will show you how to create sleek, shiny and glossy text effects using layer styles.
Simple Golden Text Effect - This will show you how to create a grungy gold text effect using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
Making some nice Chrome Text - This will show you how to create chrome text using layer styles.
Simple & Cool Urban-Style Logo - This will show you how to create a nice and simple urban style text.
*Bling Bling* Simple Gold Text Effect - This will show you how to create gold text using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
Smooth Glass Type - This will show you how to create glass looking text using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
The Glossy TEXT web2.0 style - This will show you how to create glossy text, similar to creating web 2.0 badges.
Plastic Jelly Styles - This will show you how to create a plastic jelly text using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
THE SHINY FLOOR EFFECT - This will show you how to create a simple clean room with text and its reflection using simple steps.


Recreating Movie/Game Logo Effects
Star Wars text effect - This will show you how to create the star wars text effect using layer styles and textures.
Starcraft 2 wallpaper design - This will show you how to create the star craft game text using layer styles and textures.
Matrix Text Effect - This will show you how to create the matrix glowing text effect with the falling numbers and letters in the background.
Indiana Jones Movie Logo/Text Effect - This will show you how to create a Indiana Jones movie text by using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect - This will show you how to create the Bee Movie text effect using layer styles. Also comes with a layer style download.
Transformers Effect - This will show you how to create the transformers text effect using layer styles and multiple layers. Also comes with a layer style download.


3D Lettering
The new way to create 3D text - This will show you how to create 3d words using a 3d program and photoshop.

How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D - This will show you how to create an explosive typography effect in Cinema 4D and bring it to Photoshop to add more style.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text - This will show you how to take 3d letters made from illustrator and bring them into photoshop to make it look like its falling and burning up.
Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes - This will show you how to create 3d glowing abstract letters using Xara 3d and photoshop to manipulate it.
3D typographic effects - This will show you how to create 3d letters that you can put patterns and designs in them with xara 3d and photoshop to manipulate it.
Stunning neon light 3d typography - This will show you how to create glowing 3d letters using illustrators 3D extrude and bevel to create the letters and photoshop to manipulate it.
Design Soft Stylized 3D Type - This will show you how to create soft looking 3d letters with illustrator and photoshop.
3D logo Tutorial - This will show you how to create a 3d logo using illustrator.
Kaboom! Exploding Text - This will show you how to create exploding 3d letters using 3d max and manipulating it in photoshop.
3D Text 2 - This will show you how to create an exploding 3d letters with extreme perspective with only photoshop.


Vectoring - Im just getting more into vectoring now, so I dont have much links. But these are some pretty cool tutorials I have found.
Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster - This will show you how to create a OBEY type of poster. Very fresh and cool.
Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo - This will show you how to make a unique technique using vector shapes and a face. This is popular and trendy technique that is easy and also looks crazy cool.
Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment - This will show you how to create a 3d pixel type that looks clean and fresh.
How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment - This will show you how to create a retro type with swirls and vibrant color.
How to Make a Map in Illustrator - This will show you how to create a map using a real picture map, like using google maps, and create a vector map out of it. Very useful.
Command shape in Illustrator - This will show you how to create a striped command shape.
Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial - This will show you how to create geometric lines in illustrator, and manipulated in photoshop.
Creating a crazy cool logo - This will show you how to a fresh logo in illustrator using shapes and strokes.

 

 

Tuturial Round Ups - If you don't want to look through all those certain tutorials, and just want to see all the best effects of each category, check out these round ups put together by other people.
Advertisement
15 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Product Advertisements
Glows
Dreamy, Magical and Lighting Photo Effects Tutorials
Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects
50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky and Space Effects
40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
20 Amazing Photoshop Light Effects
25 Brilliant Glow Effects


Typography
The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
50 Creative Photoshop Text Effects
50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials
50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II
22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials


Various
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
Photoshop Tutorials you should see…
Tutorial Attack 2
100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials
53 Killer Photoshop Illustrator Effects and Tutorials
45 Explosively Colorful Photoshop Effects
41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials]
40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects
30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop
30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II


Photo Retouching
70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
40 Cool Beauty Amplifying Photoshop Effects


Other

#2 Top 5 Design Tutorials Compilation

40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops
40 Cool Abstract and Background Photoshop Tutorials
40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Tutorials [Photoshop Tutorial]
35 Tutorials for Mastering Photoshop Brushes
27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets
25 Amazing Photoshop Drawing Tutorials
25 Beautiful Fantasy Photoshop Tutorials
15 Great Tutorials on Grunge Design Styles!



Articles - Articles will really help you gain view and insight of design, tricks and tips.

Promoting
Top 10 Places to Submit Photoshop Tutorials - If you created a really unique tutorial, but don’t know where to publish it, this will inform you of the top 10 places to submit photoshop tutorials.
15 Design Blogs To Promote your Articles - Have an article you have written but don’t know where to publish it? Check out this list of 15 design blogs to promote your articles.
How To Promote Your Posts in 10 Minutes to 1 Mio People - This shows a list of even more places to submit your articles and posts for design.
6 Ways To Promote Your Blog Article - This shows 6 ways to promote your blog article with the good content.
Top 10 websites to submit your design portfolio - This will show you the best places to submit your portfolio.
10 Ways to Build a Name For Yourself - Building your name is the best way to build your presence as a designer, and this article will show you 10 ways to build it.
Top 5 Graphic Design Forums - Graphic Design Forums are a great way to really immerse yourself into the graphic design community. You can meet other designers, ask questions, talk about the latest design news, ask for critiques of your work and much more. Also to get your name out among the designer community.


Sources
80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without - This is a nice collection of graphic design blogs, groups, design directories and good inspirational portfolios.
101 Design resource sites
- As a designer, it is important to know where to look for sources like fonts, brushes, templates, tutorials etc… This is a list of some good places to look. VERY USEFUL!
The best 32 Free PSDs you can find on DeviantArt - This is SOOO USEFUL. It shows you 32 FREE PSD downloads of various objects that is very useful plain objects to add a design to like an empty dvd box, empty room, plain skateboard, plain shirt etc… Very noice!
25+ Free Stock Images Websites - This is a list of 25 places to get free stock images for your designs.
30 Sites to Download Free Stock and Royalty Free Images - This is another list of 30 sites to download free stock images. After all these sites listed, you should be able to find the right image you want to use, for free! :D

Clear Images for Indentity, Brand Creation - This has 250 and more clear images to showcase your concepts for logos, brand images, identy etc on various objects like packets, stationary, bottles, screens, souvenirs, girfts, cars, bottles and more. VERY USEFUL!


Define Bad

13 Signs You’re A Bad Graphic Designer - I kind of disagree with some of these, but these are what a lot of people do, and it will wake you up to what are bad techniques.
Top 7 Most Overused Techniques & Elements Used In Graphic Design - A list of some techniques and elements that over used in graphic design. Their not really bad techniques, but should push you to be more original.
Top Mistakes Graphic Designers Make - This is a list of of 27 common mistakes graphic designers make.


Vital Info

The Graphic Design Resume Guide

How to get your FIRST Graphic Design Job
25 Graphic Design Career Preparation Tips - This shows 25 things that you should prepare and do to prepare for a career in graphic design.
Top 10 Design Questions from Students - Questions that are always on the mind of designer students
Top 10 Places to Work as a Graphic Designer
- This shows you the best places to work as a graphic designer and the positives of them.
Why I love the Design Community & Industry - This is a compilation of 8 ideas that show why the design community and industry for the graphic design career is more humble then other communities and industries.
6 Things Every Designer Should Have - Shows the 6 important things that a designer should have.

Fast, Good, Cheap: Pricing Freelance Work - A very good article regarding how to price your designs. Also has links to other very good articles about how to charge your freelance work.


Improving Yourself
Thinking Outside the Design Box - This shows you a technique how to think outside the box and how to think beyond the basics with color, typography, aesthetics and communication with clients.
12 Ways to Tap Into an Endless Well of Creativity - This shows 8 very useful and important ways to keep your creativity game up!
30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download - A high quality round up of some good PDF’s that are very informative and useful.
Twenty-eight ways to be a better designer
- Designfeedr contacted 4 artist and asked them to share their most valuable advice.
Unique Style: A Designer’s Perspective - Abduzeedo contact many popular successful designers and asked them basically if unique stlye is important or not. Here is the list of all the repsponses. Some are short, and some really change your way of designing. A good read!
25 Ways to be More Productive as a Designer - A good article that shows you 25 ways to help inspire you to make the most of your work days, become more involved in your career and be a healthier and more productive designer and person.
Logo Design Basics: The Five Types of Marks - There are 5 different type of classes for creating a logo. This will really help you draw an idea of what type of logo you want to create.
Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design - A list of the top 7 fonts used by professionals.
13 ways to trick your client into happiness - Tricks to have a happy client.
Top 5 Terms You Don’t Know for T-Shirt Printing
Want to know how to design? Learn The Basics. - This shows some of the principles and elements of art. He should just post the rest of the principles and elements, but he shows the ones with the most impact to a design.
Making the Most of a Tutorial - Some tutorials just show you the basics of how to do a certain effect, this will talk about how to go creative with what you learn.
Typographic Contrast and Flow - This shows you how to create typographic contrast and flow by emphasizing certain text with various techniques.
10 Techniques That are Essential For Successful Photo Manipulation Artwork - This is bascially about 10 techniques, like the title says, to improve your photo manipulation skills with important knowledge and ideas.



Improving Your Portfolio
12 Steps to a Super Graphic Design Portfolio - This shows you how to make your portfolio strong.
Portfolio - have you thought enough? - This shows you how to create a strong online portfolio.
Creating A Successful Online Portfolio - This shows you the flaws that are usually in portfolios and 12 Principles of Effective Portfolio Design.
The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide - This shows you how to create a strong, 1 page portfolio.
10 Tips On Creating A Design Portfolio, From 10 Yetis - Tips to help you build a strong portfolio.
6 Things Every Designer Should Have - Shows the 6 important things that a designer should have.


Logo Creation

Logo 101: information, tips and inspiration - Very good article. Mentions tips, what not to do, links to logo design blogs, inspiration, articles and tutorials.

Logo Design Basics: The Five Types of Marks - There are 5 different type of classes for creating a logo. This will really help you draw an idea of what type of logo you want to create. VERY SMART!
10 things to expect from your logo designer - Well if your a logo designer, read this so you know how to look better to your clients.
The Logo Design Process of TOP graphic designers - Explains 8 things that top graphic designers do in the process of creating a logo.
Why logo design does not cost $5.00 - Compares and contrasts the difference between cheap and expensive logos. Then explains why they are different and why creating a logo is expensive.
How To Design A Logo - 5 useful tips for creating a successful logo.



Assets - Your collection of sources is very important in design, these will help you finding textures, brushes, vectors and more!
Blue Vertigo - Has almost every link to a design source site for logotypes, stock photography, sounds, photoshop brushes, fonts, vector art, and more.
Freebieslinkshare - A huge directory of free textures/brushes/vectors and more.
Dezignus - Another great place for free textures/brushs/vectors and more.

Stocks

Free
stock.xchng - A very popular place to get free stock images in the young design community.
stockvault - Another place to get nice stocks
deviantART Stock Images - This is the stock category of deviantART. Very high quality stocks for free.


Payment
istockphoto - If I had money to buy these, I would go straight to this site. Very high quality stock photos, vector illustrations and audio.
stock.xpert - Sister site of stock.xchng.
dreamstime - Some really good stock photos, some for as low as 20 cents.
Corbis - Nice place to get images.
Crestock - Another great stock image site.


Other
25+ Free Stock Images Websites - A round up 25 free stock image sites.
Katanaz Stock - Very nice artist who has very high quality stocks.
Smoke Images, Wallpapers - A download with bunch of high quality pictures of smoke.
Pictures of Fire Flames Wallpapers - A download with a bunch high quality fire/flame pictures.
Blue Water Wallpapers (HQ JPG) - A download with a bunch of high quality water pictures.
Five (Multi-Purpose) Abstract 3D Renders - 5 really cool abstract 3d renders in PNG format.
Clear Images for Indentity, Brand Creation - This has 250 and more clear images to showcase your concepts for logos, brand images, identy etc on various objects like packets, stationary, bottles, screens, souvenirs, girfts, cars, bottles and more. VERY USEFUL!
Clear images for identity design - This is great for placing you graphic, logos etc on stationary, packaging, corporate gifts, multimedia and outdoor advertising.


Vectors

Round Ups
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” - A round up of ornamental and floral vectors.
30 First-Rate Vector Packs. Take Them. They’re FREE…. - A round up of 30 free high quality vectors.
Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup - Round up of free high quality ornate and floral vectors.


Free
Vecteezy - Great place for free high quality vectors.
Vector4Free - Another place for free quality vectors.
Cool Vectors - Another great place for free vectors.
MDstock - Still a growing site, but has some nice vectors.


Payment
Go Media Arsenal - Tons and tons of high quality vectors. You can probaly find the right vector here that you need.
Designious - Low priced, high quality vectors. Also has a freebie section of vectors.
Vectorroom - High quality vectors for a low price. I mean, its still expensive, but pretty low for vectors.


Brushes

Round Ups

1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets - Round up of grunge, floral, swirls, glow, miscilnea, hair, water color, wood and splatter brushes.

250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray, & Watercolor Photoshop Brushes - Round up of splatter, spray paint and water color brushes.
300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes - Round up of vintage brushes and textures.
500+ Excellent High Quality Free Tribal Brushes in Photoshop - Round up of tribal brushes.
Sketchy Brushes - Round up of sketch and hand drawn brushes.
55 Free Human Brush Sets And Vector Images - Giant Design Pack - Round up of people, body parts, silhouettes, and skulls.
122 Raster & Vector Wings - Round up of wing brushes, vectors and rasters.
200+ Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes - Round up of
100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes - Round up of floral, paint, splatters, grunge, halftones, random, buildings, and more!
75 Insane High Res Photoshop Brushes - Round up of very high quality brushes of floral, paint, splatters, grunge etc…
Best of Photoshop: 40+ brush sets - Round up of various types of brushes.
40 Sets of Abstract Glow Brushes - Round up of abstract glows.
14 Great Abstract Photoshop Brushes for Light Effects - Round up of high quality abstract brushes.
1000+ great Photoshop free brushes by PaulW - Round Up of abstract brushes from PaulW.
35 FREE abstracts and cool Photoshop brushes hand-picked from Deviantart - Round up high quality abstract brushes.


Free
Brusheezy - Sister site of Vecteezy. Great place for high quality brushes.
QBrushes - Another great place to get high quality brushes.
Brushking - Another place to get high quality brushes.
PSBrushes - A great place with tons and tons of all types of brushes.
BittBox - I typed in brushes in the search button to show all their brushes. They have really good high quality brushes.
Mediaslap - Free brushes and you can pay for them to use for commericial work.


Fonts

Round Ups
36 Font Resources You Should Have in Your Bookmarks - The best places to get fonts.
10 Awesome Grunge Fonts - Round up of free grunge fonts.

18 Custom Cool Fonts - Round up of some creative and fancy free fonts.

10 Ultra Cool Retro Blocky Fonts - Round up of retro block fonts.
63 Must have Grunge Fonts - Round up of grunge fonts that you have to have.
80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design - Clean and simple fonts.
40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design - Round up of clean professional fonts.
30 Fonts That ALL Designers Must Own - Must have fonts.
30 Incredible Free Fonts for Designers - Round up of various types of must have fonts.
30 Fonts You Want to Have - Round up of various types of fonts.
40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART - Round up of various very nice high quality brushes from deviantART.
20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources - Round up of handwritten fonts.

21 Awesome Free Fonts - An awesome round up of various cool free fonts.


Free
dafont - My favorite site to go to for high quality fonts. It is a popular place to get free fonts.
FontCubes - Another great place for fonts.
FontStruct - Yet, another great place for fonts.


Payment
Myfonts - Popular site to buy fonts.
Adobe Fonts


Textures

Round ups
99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures - Round up for the best canvas, paper, paint and metal. This is my favorite post to look for textures.
24 Free High-Res Textures - High resolution stone textures.
30 Great Free Paper Backgrounds and Textures - Round up of paper textures.
36 Cool Free Textures - Round up of various types of textures.
Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures - Round up of plain and grunge paper textures.
Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures - Super high quality / resolution paper textures. This is most likely the most popular textures on the net. Also my most favorite textures.
Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures - Some high resolution wood textures.
Free High-Res Texture Pack: The Anatomy of a *Really* Old Book - Really great textures from a old book.


Free
Texture King - This is my favorite place to get textures. It has a bunch of categories, and they are high quality.
Lost and Taken - Another great place to get free textures.
texturez - Once again, another great place to get textures.


Payment
TexturePacks - Very high quality textures for a low price.


Patterns
Brusheezy - The link goes to the patterns section of brusheezy. Very nice patterns.
Squidfingers - A great amount of free patterns.
DinPattern - Another great place for free patterns.

Color
COLOURlovers - My favorite place for color inspiration. If you can’t think of a good color combination, check this place out!
Kuler - This is similar to COLOURlovers, but is created from Adobe.

The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions - A great round up of photoshop actions that manipulate photo colors.

 

 

Portfolios - These are some portfolios that I came across in time of what I think are the best.
Nopattern - (Chunk Anderson) One of my favorite artist! One of the first graphic designers I was inspired by. He has some really cool dreamlike designs and has a impressive client list.

Brisseaux - (Kervin W Brisseaux) An architect, but also has impressive talent in digital art too.
Art of Wong - (Jonathan Wong) I like his abstract and illustration style.

Ars Thanea - (Peter Jaworowski) He also has some cool and sick art. I love this style.
Aeiko - (Pete Harrison) I don't like his personality, but his work is pretty dope.
Superlover - (Justin Maller) He is the known as the man who created the abstract 3D render trend.

Fatoe (Mark Orduna)- As you can see, I really love this style. This is a favorite.

Foan - (Renato Simoes) Very colorful, detailed and tasty designs.
ShinyBinery - (Nik Ainley) Another favorite artist who creates some really impressive 3D typography and abstract art.
Jesar One - (Heiko Klug) Really beautiful abstract and photo manipulation work.
Mosk - (Maciej Mizer) He really is good at everything. He has some great 2D and 3D pieces. Also has some sick graffiti.
Perttu Murto - He has some really colorful and cool abstract work.
Wilson2000 - (Steven Wilson) He has some really colorful tasty designs.
FRESHFAUXX - (Herman Lee) Very colorful and trendy work.
Ginger Monkey - (Tom Lane) One of my favorite artist! He has some really colorful work with beatitful floral elements
Bastard Graphics - (Julien Rivoire) Clean and unique work.
Made Like Me - (Daryl Campbell) He has colorful interesting illustrations.
Illustplosion - (Bruno Fujii) The artwork for the calanders he created all look so fresh and clean.
Camelie - There are some really nice drawings and vector illustration.
Menachem Krinksy - He has a done print media, logos, photo manipulation and photography.
Marconi - (Guilherme Marconi) He has some really colorful wallpaper type of designs.
Brand Nu - (Radim Malinic) He has some really colorful and abstract work.
Hydro74 - (Joshua M. Smith) He has some really nice shirt designs.
SA3S - (Dean Cook) - I love his flyer designs. Really tasty to the eyes.
Effecktive Design - (Greigh Anderson) He has clean and unique work.
HelloColor - (Pawel Nolbert) Another favorite designer! He has some really colorful 3d and 2d work.
Steve Leggat - He has some strong and good logo design.
Joan Charment - All his work are interesting photo manipulations.
Cycliondesign - (Gonzalo Rescalvo) Check out his fashionable artwork, they are very amazing.
wilmer dario galindo - Very clean and proffesional work. He proves that less is more.

Digitalmash - (Rob Morris) I love the layout and design of his portfolio. He also has very nice graphic and web design work.

 


Inspiration

3D
25 Tasty 3D Graphic Design Treats
25 Tasty 3D Graphic Design Treats Part 2
The beauty of 3d typography


Advertisements
Advertising at its best!
103 Really Cool Advertisements
24 Unforgettable Advertisements
35 Creative Advertising Campaigns


Brochure / Business Cards / Fliers / Resume
Best of Brochure Design - Cool Samples and Examples of Brochures
Cool Flyers, Posters, Leaflets - Great Flyer Design Inspiration
The Coolest Business Cards - Use of Cool Shapes, Textures, Creativity, & Talent
Coolest Business Cards Part 2
More Cool Business Cards - Business Card Layout & Design Part 3
The Coolest Business Cards - Beautiful & Unique Business Card Designs Part 4
10 Fab Flyer Design Ideas
25 New Business Cards - Best of July 2008
24 Creative Business Card Designs
The 20 most creative resumes i’ve seen in a long time. Pure inspiration

 


CD Covers

99 Best Designed Album Covers

Another 79 amazing album covers

 


Packaging
More awesome product packaging

Inspiration: Packaging Design

Beautiful and Expressive Packaging Design


Posters

Creatives Ads : Volume 3
Design Inspiration - Posters
50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters
27 Attractive Movie Poster Designs of the Year 2008
Creative and Inspirational Posters
Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Phenomenal Packaging Design & Inspiration



Logos
Faveup - Inspiration for logos, business cards and templates.
LogoPond - A place to fish for ideas, Brand and Identity showcase.

Wolda - A great place to look for high quality logo designs from graphic designers around the world.

Brand New - Article blog all about redesign and new brand identity.
10 successful logo redesigns
20 Inspirational Logo Designs
54 Creative Logos Hand-picked From Logopond

50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks


Masters
10 Photoshop Masters
10 Grand Graphic Designers

10 Amazing Computer Artists
15 amazing portfolios of Photoshop Gurus from Behance
Creativity Spark From Masters Of Illustration


Typography

Typography Mega Inspiration

Typographic Madness: 30 Brilliant Piece of Work
Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds
40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials
Typography is Sexy: Part 1
Typography is Sexy: Part 2
Table of Contents: Creative Examples
Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography
The Showcase Of BIG Typography
100 Design books covers

Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration



Variety
deviantART: 30+ Breathtaking Artworks
2008 Design Trends
Creative/Beautiful Photos To Inspire You

Lighting Effects Inspiration


Vectors
30 Brilliant Vector Logo Designs, Deconstructed
40 Stunning Vector Landscape Illustrations
70 Cute and Cheeky Vector Animal Characters
20 Vector Illustrated Masterworks, Deconstructed


Wallpapers
101 Gorgeous Wallpapers hand-picked around the web
40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers


Web
50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006
100 of the best inspirational blog designs
24 Kick Ass Portfolio Designs


Women
30 Color and Pattern Inspiration Bikinis



 

Web Design
66 Links To Learn The Webdesign Basics - I don’t really need to post anything for this category becase this article covers mostly everything that is vital to learn in web design, general information, programs, HTML, CSS, tutorials, resources, use of search engines and more!
Lightbox 2 - Creates an overlay of an image on a page. Great for galleries.
Startlogic - Their ones hosting my site.
CSSdrive - Good for inspiration and sources for css.
web design | Abduzeedo - Inspiration for web design.
40 Options for Converting PSD to HTML - If you like to create layouts in photoshop, but don’t really know how to code them, these guys will do it for you.
Javascript in Modern Web Design
df Javascript Smooth Scroll
Web Design Ideas - 12 Ways To Improve Your Websites Design
25 Sites to download Free Web Templates
30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes


Galleries
depthCORE - My favorite site to look at some tasty digital art. I love the abstract, colorful and crazy designs.
Behance Network :: Gallery: - High quality designs.
Flickr - There are tons of designer groups to share all your work.
deviantART - All things art!
Faveup - Inspiration for logos, business cards and templates.
LogoPond - A place to fish for ideas, Brand and Identity showcase.

 

 

MY RECOMMENDATIONS (CONCLUSION)

*Updated 10/19/09*

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