Photoshop is an ever evolving piece of software that even the masters learn new tricks ever now and then. These 50 web sites full of free tutorials, fonts, paint brushes and just about anything a true Photoshop junkie can dream up. Best of all, nearly all of the tips are free and incredibly easy to understand for beginners and advanced Photoshop users.

There are lots of cool illustrations that can be found on the net which can be a good basis to get some inspirations. Just like the 50+ Cute and Adorable Monster Characters Illustration that I showcase a days ago, here is another list of some cool illustrations to enhance your ideas. This time it is a 40+ Beautiful Robot Characters Illustration. These showcase are a different types of Robots Illustration where some of them are cool modernistic and some are cute. Check out this cool illustrations made by some of the talented graphic artist lived.

Graphic design from the 70s, 80s and 90s has plenty to offer modern-day designers. Here we introduce a bunch of modern-day graphic designers using the best of retro-styles to create incredible and original work that melds the past, the present, and sometimes, the future!

In this post, we're taking a look at the cover designs of 42 album cover designs from reggae and related genres. See how Scientist rid the World of the evil curse of the Vampires, say hello to Uglyman, and learn why the colours red, gold and green are so central in reggae and Rastafari culture. American R'n'B transmitted by radio to the little island nation of Jamaica mixed with African rythms and evolved into a whole string of musical genres from the 1950s onwards. Mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae and finally, dancehall which jumped back across the western Atlantic to become a major influence on early east coast Hip-Hop in the USA. Accompanying a seemingly endless list of artists and their releases where all sorts of different album cover designs. Ranging from sublime to sordid, from hilarious to dead serious, there's a lot to pick from. This post takes a look at 42 album covers from 1965 up until 2008, covering all the genres mentioned above except mento. Most of the artists and bands are Jamaican, though a few are of European and African origin.

I was going thought deviantart when I realized they have a great selection of poster designs, so why not take a couple of them to share with you guys, they really well worked and very creative on their own way, check it out!

In Twitter theme design designers are restricted to change only few colors and background that limits designers creativity, but some designers gives a high impact beautiful designs even with these restriction, here I’ve listed 40 beautiful twitter themes to get inspired and to create your own beautiful twitter profile page.

Design inspiration can come from all kinds of sources. Dirt, stones and rust can be excellent sources of inspiration for textured and grunge-style designs. Many websites are now using textured background images to replicate these items, and these techniques can be used in a variety of ways in graphic design. In this post, we'll look at some photographs and websites for inspiration, tutorials to show some techniques for incorporating these textures into your work, and some Photoshop brushes to make it easier.

Some of the world's most outstanding Photoshop illustrators don't only use Photoshop. Many have also mastered Cinema 4D, allowing them to add stunning 3D shapes and effects to their work. If you feel like you've got some skill with Photoshop, why not challenge yourself by adding a new design weapon to your arsenal? In this post we've collected 40 high quality and free C4D tutorials to help you get started!

A photoblog is a very specific type of blog. Its focus is photography, and there are typically few words beyond a caption and comments. Photoblogs are easy to set up and maintain, and they make great photo galleries for photographers who are put off by the complexity of HTML coding or installing a CMS such as WordPress. It’s because of this simplicity, not to mention the development of free yet sophisticated tools like Pixelpost, that photoblogging has exploded in popularity over the last few years. Photoblogs.org, for example, lists over 32,000 photoblogs! That’s a lot of photos, and a lot of photographers vying for your attention. Dedicated as ever to making your life easier, we’ve handpicked over 50 brilliant photoblogs for your viewing pleasure. There’s a little of everything, including photojournalism and nature, landscape, street, portrait and travel photography. We’ve also listed some of the best photoblogging solutions, articles and other resources at the bottom of the post.

Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere. The only problem is that the vast quantity of freebies can make it difficult to track down what you need. Hopefully this collection of excellent Photoshop patterns will help. The resources featured here are all available as downloads in PAT format, which can be placed in Photoshop. In addition to this format, there is also a number of quality resources online for creating or using patterns in other formats that can be used by any program, not just Photoshop. As with any type of freebie, always be sure to check the license or requirements set by the creator.

Finding the right piece of vector art for your project is never an easy task. Trying to find the right vector for free is an even harder one. Luckily for us, in this digital and open source age, there are quite a few resources floating around the web that make the search a little easier. There is an ever growing number of websites that focus on nothing but free vector graphics. Some of these sites are gold mines, while others aren’t worth visiting. Below is a collection of websites that are definitely worth checking out — sites that have high quality free vector files as well as showcases of other free vector resources.

Taobot is an internationally acclaimed studio that specializes in interactive and graphic design. They work with clients from all over the world on engaging and emotional experiences. The studio is lead by Danny Franzreb and Holger Grunwald, who both have many years of experience in the field of design.

These are probably the blog design benckmarks for 2009, they all have there own individual characteristic that defines them as inspiring. They also have one thing in common: They are Amazing. The first part of the compilation is our Top 10 Favourites, all the rest we never gave a ranking to. (To be honest, it was too hard). Hope you find these designs inspiring.

Glenn Jones aka Glennz, is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in the design industry for over 15 years concentrating on packaging and corporate identity. After some success designing tees on Threadless.com he decided to open up his own shop and the good stuff just keep coming.

Is there a man who can really get out of the beauty of a women’s eye? Don’t think so. :) The amazing beautiful eyes photography and a bit of graphic effects will really say heart it. Webbyarts had inspired with graphics design, photography and so on. But now this valentine day special inspiration and also to increase your heart beat - here we go with “30 Amazing Eye Photos & Graphic Designs”. Enjoy guys.

You will be amazed when you see all the work done by these artists, that's why I not only selected the artwork but the original photo to show you how insane a car graphic can be, for everyone who loves pimped out car it's a must see, enjoy! I was surfing thought deviantart when I found this section there and I have to say I was very impressed by the quality and the creativity put into these works, It feels like it's a whole community behind this type of art, a lot of great artists where found as you can see, don't hesitate to click on the images ans scope for more into their galleries, I really hope everyone likes it and all these cars, before and after got me thinking of a tutorial, what you think?

In the wake of Shepard Fairey’s debacle with the AP over the rights to the image he used as reference/inspiration for his wildy popular Obama poster, I wanted to share a list of Public Domain Licensed images, in this case, astronomy. Fairey’s situation should hit home with all pixel junkies out there and remind us that we have to pay close attention to the licenses associated with the images we use in our design work. I’ve compiled a list of beautiful, inspiring astronomy images that all have a Public Domain License.

I just bought some posters these guys designed, so I figured I would showcase them here today. These guys are some good ol boys with a good sense of design and some awesome artistic abilities. I hope to work with them in the future for some stuff on Outlaw Design Blog.

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Icons are essential in any graphical user interface. They are effective visual cues for performing tasks or navigating to a certain location. There are many resources online that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and - in this collection - we share some of the best tutorials on the topic. In this article, you’ll find a wide selection of tutorials and resources to help you learn about designing icons.