Best Design Resources of June 2008

by Alex
Posted in Graphic Design, Resources on July 2nd, 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

Photoshop Brushes

PSBrushes is  a cool and clean website dedicated exclusively to Photoshop brushes.

Textures

Wood Textures

Photoshop Wood Textures

A large collection of wood textures by Abduzeedo.

Grunge Textures

Photoshop Grunge Textures

A collection of high-resolution aircraft aluminium textures by GrungeTextures.com.

Tutorials

Create Rainbow Lines Tutorial

Rainbow Lines Tutorial

Photoshop Lady - All The Best Photoshop Tutorials in One Place

Photoshop Lady

Beginners Guide to Digital Coloring

Beginners Guide to Digital Coloring

Tutorial9 - a website with quality Photoshop, Illustrator and Photography Tutorials

Tutorial 9

Old School Type - Line Gradients

Old School Type - Line Gradients

The Radiant Vista Photoshop Video Tutorials - a collection of downloadable (Windows Media Player and QuickTime formats) Photoshop Video Tutorials.

Radiant Vista Photoshop Video Tutorials

15 Amazing Photoshop Text Effects - DesignerSide

15 Amazing Photoshop Text Effects

Dramatic Text on Fire

Dramatic Text on Fire

Dancing in The Dark Photo Effect

Dancing in The Dark Photo Effect

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

Design an interstate road sign

Design an Interstate Road Sign

How to see through computer screen

How to see through computer screen

Photoshop Resources

200+ Textures, Brushes and Fonts

200+ Textures, Brushes and Fonts

Vectorial Graphics

30 Vector Tutorials that will make Graphic Design easier

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.

Vector4free

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

Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon

HTML

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess - a great tutorialregarding all aspects of working with a .htaccess file.

CSS

Free CSS Menus for download

Free CSS Menus for download

CSS Globe - a community driven site dedicated to web standards. The website is based on user content contributions.

CSS Globe

General Design

CSS Addict | Get Inspired - a good collection of great inspirational websites.

CSS Addict - Get inspired

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.

18 abstract wallpapers

18 abstract wallpapers

NetTuts - a superb tutorial website covering HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, and Flash.

NetTuts

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.

PSD 2 CSS Online

Weekly Stray - the most updated collection of Javascript, DHTML and AJAX resources website.

Weekly Stray

49 Amazing Wallpapers - a superb collection  of great wallpapers.

49 amazing wallpapers

Web Resources Depot - Free Web Resources Updated Daily

Web Resources Depot

Font Struct - Build, Share and Download Fonts

Font Struct - Build, Share and Download Fonts

Awesome photo manipulation inspiration - exceptional techniques of photo manipulation. The results are quite simply awesome.

Awesome photo manipulation inspiration

77 of the best logo design resources

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

71 Gradient Resources for Web Design

Function Icon Set : 128 Free Icons for download

Function Icon Set : 128 Free Icons for download

The Color Wheel and Color Theory

The Color Wheel and Color Theory

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

21 Incredibly Creative Flash Websites

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.

Highslide JS

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.

Pixel Criminals

Pixel Criminals

Nem Studio

Nem Studio

Aviary

Aviary

Sessions by Collective Idea

Sessions by Collective Idea

Michelle Dinan

Micelle Dinan

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  5. Best Photoshop Resources of August 2008

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  • David Airey
    July 2, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Hi Alex,

    Thanks very much for giving Logo Design Love a mention, and wow, this is some list of resources!

    David Aireys last blog post : Why are designers never 100% satisfied?

  • liam
    July 2, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Thanks for giving my Icon Set a mention, appreciate it! Very nice collection, can’t believe there’s so much I’ve missed! Thanks.

    liams last blog post : We are Interviewed on FuelYourCreativity

  • Steven Snell
    July 3, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Wow, that’s quite a list! Thanks for linking to my post.

    Steven Snells last blog post : 25 Incredibly Artistic Websites - Part II

  • Alex
    July 3, 2008 at 2:51 am

    @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.

  • David Leggett
    July 3, 2008 at 8:32 am

    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!

    David Leggetts last blog post : Add Visual Texture 3 Easy Steps

  • Shaun
    July 3, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    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

  • Jeff Finley
    July 4, 2008 at 6:47 am

    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

  • suz
    July 4, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Nice list, some great designs there.

    suzs last blog post : Monotone wordpress theme

  • Totonet
    July 5, 2008 at 7:24 am

    Nice list of designs.Thanks for sharing this.

  • Skout™
    July 5, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    great list. i’ll add some to i.

  • Matt Strange
    July 7, 2008 at 1:23 am

    Very useful information and inspirational.

    Matt Stranges last blog post : Beautiful Minimalistic Mac Apple Wallpaper

  • James Abney-Hastings
    July 8, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Great collection, all sorts of useful resources here, thanks.

    James Abney-Hastingss last blog post : Amazing pop-up book for graphic designers

  • PrintPlace
    July 9, 2008 at 11:19 am

    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!

  • Yacine.benz
    July 26, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Thanks. great.

  • Lucky
    July 27, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Thank you “YOU ARE THE BEST”

  • Image Media
    February 13, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    This list of tutorials are great! It’s sites like this that make graphic designers top notch. I wise man once told me “You’re only as good as your best reference material”. Tutorials like these are absolutely vital to increasing your worth as a designer. Kudos!

  • Postcard Printing | DesignsnPrint.com
    March 27, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Thanks. What a list!

  • 4design
    May 25, 2009 at 9:08 am

    And where is my blog http://www.4design.su/ in Best Design Resources of June 2008? ;)

  • Vermin
    October 2, 2009 at 7:34 am

    Nice list. Thanks. :)

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