Best Design Resources of June 2008
For the past month we’ve received and collected a lot of design resources and we thought there’s enough stuff for an article. We hope you’ll find lots of interesting and useful links in this article.
Photoshop
Brushes
PSBrushes is a cool and clean website dedicated exclusively to Photoshop brushes.
Textures
Wood Textures
A large collection of wood textures by Abduzeedo.
Grunge Textures
A collection of high-resolution aircraft aluminium textures by GrungeTextures.com.
Tutorials
Photoshop Lady - All The Best Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Beginners Guide to Digital Coloring
Tutorial9 - a website with quality Photoshop, Illustrator and Photography Tutorials
Old School Type - Line Gradients
The Radiant Vista Photoshop Video Tutorials - a collection of downloadable (Windows Media Player and QuickTime formats) Photoshop Video Tutorials.
15 Amazing Photoshop Text Effects - DesignerSide
Dancing in The Dark Photo Effect
Design an interstate road sign
How to see through computer screen
Photoshop Resources
200+ Textures, Brushes and Fonts
Vectorial Graphics
30 Vector Tutorials that will make Graphic Design easier
Vector4free - a web site dedicated to free vector graphics: Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, Corel Draw CDR files free to download.
Create a detailed camera with photo icon - This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a sleek web 2.0 style icon
HTML
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess - a great tutorialregarding all aspects of working with a .htaccess file.
CSS
CSS Globe - a community driven site dedicated to web standards. The website is based on user content contributions.
General Design
CSS Addict | Get Inspired - a good collection of great inspirational websites.
Top 21 websites for freelance designers - good compilation of resources useful to any freelancer.
Top 80 CSS Galleries - a list of the top 80 CSS and Flash Galleries, with statistics for each one.
NetTuts - a superb tutorial website covering HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, and Flash.
Get More Traffic: 18 Social Media Sites for Web Designers - article covering the most known 18 social media websites focused on the design industry. Learn where you can get your work noticed.
PSD 2 CSS Online - Online free convertor from a Photoshop template (psd) to a CSS coded website.
Weekly Stray - the most updated collection of Javascript, DHTML and AJAX resources website.
49 Amazing Wallpapers - a superb collection of great wallpapers.
Web Resources Depot - Free Web Resources Updated Daily
Font Struct - Build, Share and Download Fonts
Awesome photo manipulation inspiration - exceptional techniques of photo manipulation. The results are quite simply awesome.
77 of the best logo design resources
Color Palette Creator - a cool tool that creates a hole palette of colors starting from a base color, chosen by the user.
71 Gradient Resources for Web Design
Function Icon Set : 128 Free Icons for download
The Color Wheel and Color Theory
80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without
21 Incredibly Creative Flash Websites
Javascript
Highslide LS - an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages.
Wordpress
Wordpress Plugin - Comment Info Tip - This WordPress plugin provides you and your commenter’s a bit of information on their posting stats. When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter.
Wordpress Plugin - Extra Comment Fields - This Wordpress plugin allows you to add additional fields for users to complete when submitting a comment. The extra data will be saved in the wp database and can be retrieved when showing a post’s list of comments.
Best Website Designs of June 2008
This selection of great CSS and Flash Websites is brought to you via CLD Web Gallery.
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Comments
Thanks for giving my Icon Set a mention, appreciate it! Very nice collection, can’t believe there’s so much I’ve missed! Thanks.
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Wow, that’s quite a list! Thanks for linking to my post.
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@David … I really like both your websites and I enjoy each article.
@liam … It’s a great icon set. It was worth spreading the word about it.
@Steven … You have one of the best design blogs out there. Keep it up.
Thanks for mentioning Tutorial9 here Alex 
Happy to see Photoshop Lady getting some publicity too. In my opinion, that site is not getting as much attention as it should be!
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Fantastic list, Alex! So much good stuff here. And thank you for the link!
Shauns last blog post : Make Reusable Components for you Web Pages - a Tutorial
Those websites at the end are awesome. And thanks for the link to our Ornate Lettering tut!
Jeff Finleys last blog post : Go Media User Link Feed
Very useful information and inspirational.
Matt Stranges last blog post : Beautiful Minimalistic Mac Apple Wallpaper
Great collection, all sorts of useful resources here, thanks.
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Thanks for this loonng list! It must have taken forever to get it together! These are all really cool design ideas and they have given me some ideas I wouldn’t have come up with on my own. It’s awesome that these designers are willing to share their secrets and for free, no less!
Hi Alex,
Thanks very much for giving Logo Design Love a mention, and wow, this is some list of resources!
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