Awesome Photoshop Tutorial Websites

Adobe has done a great job in bringing us applications that are amazing for both print, video and web. One of those applications is Photoshop. I have used this program since the first version came out, and it just keeps getting better and better. Here is a great little collection of tutorial websites that will show you just what this baby can do.

Adobe TV
Adobe Design Center
PSD-TUTS+
Good Tutorials
Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorialized
Photoshopstar
t-tutorials
Graphic Reporter

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Interesting Sites of the Week

Here is a little collection of interesting websites that I have come across in my journeys this week:

TweetParty - tweetparty lets you organize your twitter friends into parties and send direct messages to them.

EveryCall - A free service which allows you to track down telemarketers and find out who's behind that strange number.

Diddit - This service lets you create a "to-do list for your life". You can build a list of things that you've always wanted to do and share experiences you've had.

GrooveShark - This website combines social networking, personal playlists and a library with thousands of songs for the ultimate music experience.

UrgeMe - This is a new service still in beta, that takes your e-mail address, something you want to remember, and the date you want to be reminded, and will ping you by e-mail until you've completed the task.

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More Cool Resources for Web Designers

These are a couple of cool websites that have helped me in my web design projects. I am constantly looking around for good resources to make my creative life easier.

CSS Layouts - Great collection of CSS layouts. The layouts are designed to work in all browsers and use pure CSS without tables.

Color Pallette Generator - A clickable pallette generator, which makes a website color pallette based on the primary colors of the image you supply.

Website Launch Checklist - A nice list of items that should be checked against before any website is launched.

PDF Magazines - Free resource of hundreds of PDF magazines on a number of topics, including design.

1001 Free Fonts - Awesome website for all things font related.

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Online Resources for Web Designers

Here are a couple of online resources for all you web designers out there. These are all free to use and have become quite useful in my day to day weaving ;)

Adobe Connect - Adobe ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. Best of all it's totally free!

Taggify - Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding visual tags to any site's images.

PDFescape - PDFescape is your free, online PDF reader, editor, form filler, & form designer.

Blue Vertigo - Huge design resource that includes stock images, fonts, textures, icons, etc.

CSS Mania - Tons of links, references and educational content on CSS.

Typetester - The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

Web Developer/Design Project Estimator - The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

Preloaders - An awesome collection of preloaders for all your development projects.

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