Best Design Resources of July 2008

It’s been another busy month in the world of design. Here are the highlights of July 2008:

Photoshop

Tutorials

Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes – a Photoshop tutorial on how to enrich your images and designs with 3D splashes.

Design a refreshing beer ad in Photoshop – enhance a basic beer ad giving it a fresh look

100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials

Star Wars Text Effect – learn how to create the Star Wars text effect in Photoshop

Tutorials Garden – a tutorial bookmarking website hosting links to over 1900 Photoshop tutorials.

41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects. Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur.Take a look and see some professional photo editing skills.

Photoshop Tutorials you should see – a collection of 40 Photoshop top tutorials.

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

6 Quick’n’Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch

Create a Polaroid Photo Effect

Textures

99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures

Sand, wet sand and rocks textures

720 DPI scanned wood textures

300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes

Brushes

Animal brushes

Photoshop Brushes – Top 10 Releases for Summer 2008

General Design Resources

100 greatest movie posters

10 Free Chart Scripts

Studio 7 Designs – 101 design links

10 Fab Flyer Design Ideas

12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript

Favicon Gallery

50 Absolutely Killer Flash Templates

Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery

Web Designer’s Color Reference Poster

The World’s best photos

When logos look alike

The Top 30 Free Ajax & Javascript Code for Web Designers

Leaves – a superb falling leaves simulation using ActionScript

Iconic Logo Designers

21 Must-Have Scripts for Your Favorite Javascript Library (JQuery, MooTools, Prototype)

Creative and Unique Poster Design Inspiration

Web 2.0 Background Generators

The Web Designers Tool Kit 

Good Walls – submit wallpapers and tutorials and get paid

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

Icons

Webappers Free Web Applications Icons Set

PixelResort High Quality Free Icons

VistaIcons – Free Vista-style icons

40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

Upgrade your RSS icons

Smashy The Alien Icon Set

CSS

Tooltips using CSS only, no Javascript

CSS Tricks | Great examples of CSS usage free to download (Garage Door Style Menu, Rounded Corners, Unique Twitter Updates Page etc.)

Tutorial to create a cool CSS horizontal menu

Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks 

Best CSS Tools

Time Sensitive CSS Switcher – change your website’s look based on the time of the day

HTML

Pretty Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

Vector Graphics

Free Watercolor Brushes and Tutorial

10 Great Grunge Vector Packs

Create vector and cartoonish characters: Top 25 Photoshop tutorials

Create a Cool Air Balloon Wallpaper

Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

50 Beautiful Feminine Illustrations and Artworks

Top Website Designs of July 2008

The websites above were selected from our Web Gallery. For more designs take a look.

Sevenedge

Geek Storage

Narf Stuff

Photoshop Lady

Okapi Studio

Design Disease

Hicks Design

Project Vino