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Top 50 Free Photoshop Brushes Resource Sites

Top 50 Free Photoshop Brushes Resource Sites.

1. Photoshop Brushes on deviantART

6. 500ml Brushes (Original and Free Photoshop Brushes)

12. Bashcorpo | Photoshop® Brushes

16. BEAUTIFUL-SIN.NET » Brushes

17. Blinding Light - Download PS Brushes

19. Lush Brushes, Original PSP Brushes by Cari

20. Arte de Késsia Nina - Brushes

and the rest…

21. PhotoshopGoodies.com (http://www.photoshopgoodies.com/brushes.html).

22. Mel’s Photoshop Brushes (http://melsbrushes.wordpress.com/category/photoshop-brushes/).

23. SuitePSDs (http://suitepsds.com/psds.php?cid=226)

24. MetroStation (http://www.peamarte.it/02/download.html)

25. jeffsdigital.com - Photoshop Brushes (http://www.jeffsdigital.com/brushes/).

26. Alice Grafixx (http://alice-grafixx.de/brushes).

27. Panicked|Photoshop Brushes (http://panicked.nuclearcentury.com/psbrushes).

28. KLOUD-NINE.com (http://www.kloud-nine.com/wp/wp-content/themes/default/brushes.php)

29. Brushes for Photoshop - free brushes by damnedinblack.net (http://www.damnedinblack.net/brushes.htm).

30. 7 Days PS Brushes (http://7-days.net/index.php?x=PSBRUSHES).

31. Pitic Style Brushes (http://www.piticstyle.com/2007/10/21/free-photoshop-brushes/).

32. My Photoshop Brushes (http://myphotoshopbrushes.com/brushes).

33. Easy Elements Photoshop Brushes (http://www.easyelements.com/free-photoshop-brushes.html).

34. Free Photoshop Brushes (http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/brushes.htm).

35. Free Photoshop Brushes (http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/brushes.htm).

36. Couleur Rouge Photoshop Brushes (http://couleur-rouge.chez-alice.fr//brush.html).

37. Tom Ledin Photoshop Brushes (http://tomledin.com/stuff/brushes.html).

38. Kiss My Pixels (http://www.kissmypixels.com/brushes.html).

39. Amadaun Brushes (http://amadaun.net/brushes/brush.htm).

40. Encre Photoshop Brushes (http://amadaun.net/brushes/brush.htm).

41. r0man Photoshop Brushes (http://r0man.de/).

42. Photoshop Free Brushes (http://www.photoshop-free-brushes.com/.

43. Obsidian Dawn Brushes (http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/brushes.htm).

44. Celestial Star (http://celestial-star.net/brushes/).

45. Brushfed Brushes (http://www.brushfed.com/).

46. GFX Fever (http://gfxfever.com/).

47. Emma Alvarez (http://www.emmaalvarez.com).

48. Chez Plumeau Photoshop Brushes (http://www.chezplumeau.com/php/main.php/EN/).

49. Photoshop Decor (http://www.photoshopdecor.com/).

50. Photo-shop Brushes (http://photo-shop-brush.com/).

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14 Amazing Free Photoshop .psd Resource Sites

14 Amazing Free Photoshop .psd Resource Sites.

6. Free Photo Clips | Background-Free Photo Objects

8. 20+ Free Adobe Photoshop web buttons

and the rest…

11. PSDProtocol (http://www.psdprotocol.com/psds.html).

12. Photoshopit (http://photoshopit.wordpress.com).

13. Free Logo Makers (http://www.thefreelogomakers.com/).

14.Alterform psds (http://www.alterform.com/).

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How do they do that? All about Google Map APIs, tutorials ,examples and demos.

Google Map Example The free web mapping service from Google is everywhere, it seems to appear on every other website and new web apps are appearing everyday. It is truely great.
But, how do they do it? Hopefully this article will help you on your way.

Google Map API Links and Downloads

Homepage: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html.
Download: Sign up for a Google Map Api key here.
Docs: Google Map Api Docs.
Google Maps for your Mobile: Google Maps Mobile

How can I use it? (Tutorials)

1. Working with Google Maps.
This is a great article from .net which will give you a create overview of what you can do with Google Maps.
2.Keep it simple User Guide to Google Maps.
Visit and Learn have written this tutorial on the basics of implementing Google maps.
3. Articles and Tutorials on Google Maps.
And of course Google themselves have the best indepth tutorials.
4.Google Maps API Tutorial.
Making instant maps by embedding maps.google.com from ecoynm.
5.Google Maps API Tutorial from Lifehacker.

Some great examples

Name: Plottr.
URL: http://www.plottr.com/

Name: My Space Map.
URL: http://www.myspacemap.com/

Name: Ebay Motors Map.
URL: http://ebaymotorsmapped.ning.com/

Name: Flickr Vision.
URL: http://flickrvision.com/

Name: Twitter Vision.
URL: http://twittervision.com/

Recommended Wordpress Plugins

1.XML Google Maps.
2.Google Maps Plugin for WP.
3.XML Google Maps Quicktag.

Top 5 Free Icon Editors for the Pro Designer

There are a lot of Premium Icon Editors you could use, but if you look deeper there are FREE Icon Editors that are just as powerful (in some cases more so) as premium versions, easier to use than Photoshop or Illustrator, and can create amazingly polished professional icons.
Here are my top 5 FREE Icon Editors

1. IcoFX 1.6

Icon Freeware URL: http://icofx.ro/.
Features: Support for Vista icon with PNG compression; Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista; Support for Mac OS X icons; Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons; Create icon libraries; Create favicon for websites or blogs; Easily convert images to icons; Add, change or delete icons inside exe files; Support for transparency (alpha channel); Batch processing for import, export and extract; Multiple language support; More than 40 effects + custom filter; Resolutions up to 256×256; Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha; Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll; Import and export images; Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools.
View: This is by far the the best Free Icon Editor, with its feature list seemingly endless and the quality of the end product pheneomenal. Recommended.

2. Iconmaker

Icon Freeware URL: http://free-icon-editor.com/.
Features: Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors. Standard icon sizes are 16×16, 32×32, 48×48; Make icons with transparency; Make icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel; Paint images with pen, brush, airbrush, ellipse, rectangle, line, curve tools; Roll, shift and rotate images; Import and export .ico, .png, .xpm, .xbm, and .icpr formats; Sort images inside icons; Copy and paste images to other applications; Test icons.
View: Strictly speaking this isn’t free, but you do have a 30 day free trial. Overall this is an excellent editor, not as good as IcoFX, but very powerful and professional all the same.

3. IconDeveloper

Icon Freeware URL: http://www.stardock.com.
Features: Create & Edit Small Sized Icons (16×16); Create & Edit Standard Sized Icons (32×32); Scale Icons to different formats; Convert PNGs to icons; Create & Edit Windows XP formatted icons; Right click on images from Explorer and convert to icons; Convert images from clipboard (copy & paste) into icons; Create & Edit Very Large Sized Icons (48×48); Create & Edit any sized icons (any resolution, up to 256×256!).
View: There is also a premium version from Stardock which offers a few more features, the free version offers enough to make it a very good good editor. The interface looks amazing, making it the easiest editor to use.

4. aaIco Icon Editor 3.0

Icon Freeware URL: http://www.xceedz.com….
Features: This hasn’t got as many features as the rest, but is a great little icon editor, that will create basic icons. This would be great for the novice designer.

5. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (version: 1.51)

Icon Freeware URL: http://greenfish.extra.hu/downloads.php.
Features: Easy to use, lightweight, requires no installation (portable); Supports file drag and drop; Has multilanguage support (included: English, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Serbian, Spanish); Help also available in French, separate download; Click here to help us by translating the program; Sample documents are included; Uses dynamic color depth; Opens and saves in ICO, CUR, ANI, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats; Can create icons and cursors up to 256×256 @ 32-bit, which can also be PNG-compressed for use in Windows Vista(tm); Can create animated cursors; Can handle images up to 1024×1024 and larger; Can extract icons and cursors from executable files and icon libraries; Can batch convert image files to icons, or to another image format; Has advanced selection handling (marquee, lasso and wand tools, saving/loading selections from files); Offers various gradient styles for filling shapes; Lots of filters including Remove matte, Drop shadow, Inner/Outer glow and Bevel.
View: The interface isn’t as polished as IconDeveloper, not as easy to use as the rest (thats why I haven’t got it at Nu.1), but my god look at the feature list. This is an editor for the pro.

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Want to be an Icon Designer? 15 Amazing Photoshop Icon Tutorials.

Ever wondered how the great icon designer do it? Well, here are 15 Photoshop Tutorials that lets you peek behind the curtain and get you started. Want to be an Icon Designere? Try these…

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Can Toshiba be the leader in laptop design and technology?

logo I have been using a Toshiba laptop for well over a year, it surprised me (for the mid-price that I paid for it) how reliable and durable it has been. I never bought it for style, or to make a fashion statement nor even for gaming. My needs were not grand, all it had to do was meet my work requirements. I wanted to open Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Apache, mySql, an FTP programme and run Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer all at the same time. And the laptop came up trumps, it perfomed very well with no obvious slowness. I am creature of habit, I knew now that I would be a Toshiba fan for the forseeable future, and for those that read my blog regularly will know, I love simple things, things that do exactly what they do on the box. This is what I thought Toshiba was, how wrong I was.

Is the Portégé R400 Series the Coolest Laptop?

Portege Toshiba isn’t really known for its style, or famous for being a uber-powerful machine that will run high-spec games, its probably known merely as the inventor of the laptop. Which is an amazing accomplishment in its self, and how thankful we are for that. But behind the scenes Toshiba are fighting back, no more will the Mac or Sony be the pioneers in super cool laptop design, no longer will they tolerate there reliabilty and durabilty tag, they are chasing it all. The Toshiba Qosmio G40 Laptop series and the Portégé R400 Laptop Series are just that laptops. Especially the Portégé, which I think is one of the best designed laptop I have seen, with its screen that can swivel 360 degrees and even removed to be used is as a tablet PC, and its sleek black and white case which would rival any other laptop with style.

“Take a Closer Look” at Toshiba

Toshiba are running an exclusive media event on the 6-7th of May in Paris called “Take a Closer Look”. It is a closer look at the future of of laptop techology, design and style. The chance to hear experts discussing the importance of style and design in PCs, it will have hands on experience of the latest innovations and an exclusive look to see how the laptop of the future could evolve. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it. I already love Toshiba, it will be interesting to see what new things are going to come from them, and there vision of the future.

This is what is happening on the day:
- Welcome and Strategic Context - Alan Thompson (11:00).
- The Age of Style in Consumer PCs - N.N. Forrester (11:30).
- Consumer Electronic Devices as fashion statements - Thomas Teckentrup and Emily Shirley (12:15).
- Demo area open (12:30). (Can’t wait for this).

Thanks to TalkToshiba for my invite.

Has anyone got any questions they would like asked?

I am going to have the opportunity to interview some of the experts, has anyone else got a question they would like asked? I will write a post on Wednesday the 7th with all questions answered.
Click contact, to send me your questions. Or you can leave a question in the comments section below. Leave a link to your website, and your question. This is a great opportunity to get your questions answered from the experts, don’t miss it.
I’ll need all questions in by Monday the 5th of May.

So, can an Toshiba be the leader in laptop design and technology? I’ll let you know on Wednesday.

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30 Vector Tutorials that will make Graphic Design easier

Vector drawing has been a hobby I have been working on for over two years, I am no were near the level I would like to be at, but I am trying. Below are list of tutorials I have used and benefited from. They range from the very difficult (hair, I hate hair), to the slightly easier. So you want to be a great Vector Artist? Try these tutorials, they will put you on the right track.

1. Create a Sports Vector Car in Photoshop.

Title: Create a Sports Vector Car in Photoshop.
URL:http://donbenni.deviantart.com/

2. Create a Mini Vector Car in Photoshop.

Title: Create a Mini Vector Car in Photoshop.
URL:http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/vector.asp

3. Illustrator CS Vector Hair.

Title: Illustrator CS Vector Hair.
URL:http://crazychild.deviantart.com

4. Create a Vector Image of a Woman.

Title: Create a Vector Image of a Woman.
URL:http://labs.jerlynthomas.com/

5. 3D Vector Vintage Stars.

Title: 3D Vector Vintage Stars.
URL:http://www.bittbox.com…

6. How to create groovy vector art.

Title: How to create groovy vector art.
URL:http://www.instructables.com…

7. Box drawing tutorial (vector).

Title: Box drawing tutorial (vector).
URL:http://webtutes.com…

8. Vector Sunburst - Photoshop Tutorial.

Title: Vector Sunburst - Photoshop Tutorial.
URL:http://webtutes.com…

9. Business Coupon Design.

Title: Business Coupon Design.
URL:http://www.slicktutorials.com…

10. Vector Texture Tutorial.

Title: Vector Texture Tutorial.
URL:http://tracksix.wordpress.com…

10. Vector Fruitorial Tutorial.

Title: Vector Fruitorial Tutorial.
URL:http://tomleeman.deviantart.com…

11. Mans Head Tutorial.

Title: Mans Head Tutorial.
URL:http://tikideputy.deviantart.com…

12. All That Hair Tutorial (yes, another hair tutorial).

Title: All That Hair Tutoria.l
URL:http://catchmybreath.org…

13. Create a Vector Cartoon Girl.

Title: Create a Vector Cartoon Girl.
URL:http://lillemorgull.deviantart.com…

14. How to Make Vector Grunge.

Title: How to Make Vector Grunge.
URL:http://www.bittbox.com…

15. Vector Polishing Techniques.

Title: Vector Polishing Techniques.
URL:http://www.webdesignerwall.com…

16. Create your own Vector Portrait.

Title: Create your own Vector Portrait.
URL:http://www.vectorportraits.com/

17. Create Abstract Backgrounds.

Title: Create Abstract Backgrounds.
URL:http://vectips.com/

18. How to Combine Pixel and Vector to Produce Striking Artwork.

Title: How to Combine Pixel and Vector to Produce Striking Artwork.
URL:http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/…

19. Stylish Vector Flower.

Title: Stylish Vector Flower.
URL:http://www.ndesign-studio.com/…

20. Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator.

Title: Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator.
URL:http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/…

And the rest…

21. Vectoring ‘Funky’ Colours.
22. How to do pop art portraits.
23. Glossy Vector Web 2.0 Logo Text in 5 Easy Steps.
24. Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character from a Hand Drawn Sketch.
25. Vector effects.

Vector Video Tutorials

26. Vector Tutorial.
27. Vector Tutorial (Drawing Path Shapes).
28. Transparent Vector Tutorial.
29. Vector Glassy Gel Button in Illustrator - Tutorial!.
30. Photoshop CS 2 Vector Tutorial.

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155 Wordpress Resources, Tutorials, Plugins, Themes, AJAX, Podcasting…WP Monster List

This list below has took me a few weeks to compile, I have sifted the net and came up with 155 of the best Wordpress Resources, covering, tutorials,plugins, themes, WP and AJAX, forums, podcasting, WP and DIGG (social bookmarking)…and on…and the list goes on and on… I think I have covered everything.
Everything here for the novice all the way up to the expert.