Extending Photoshop with Brushes and Styles...

Brush resources

Qbrushes.com is a Photoshop resource site showcasing quality Photoshop brushes from different talented designers.

GetBrushes.com – At GetBrushes.com we will strive to offer you an organized and easy way to the best brushes and other Adobe Photoshop resources on the net. Check out Jenn B’s Hair Brushes while you’re there.

PST Tuts – 50 Insanely weirdbut awesome but awesome photoshop brushes

of 3d Programs, Video stream captures, and Swift3d...

Zbrush by Pixologic

ZBrush 3 has grown into a much easier to work 3d environment. The learning curve is not as steep as before and coupled with a fairly recent computer – its fast and enjoyable.

Swift3d by ElectricRain

Sometimes you just do not have the luxury of time but the boss wants something done in 3d. In comes Swift3d, already in its 5th iteration. The program has grown to be more stable and feature centric – yet fast and quite easily integrates Photoshop. Check out Swift3d PS a photoshop plugin.

Nirsoft – Freeware: VideoCacheReview (a video stream catcher), Password Recovery Tools, Network Monitoring, NIRCMD, and SiteShoter

Kudos to this great fella. He makes really useful tools that work as they are advertised. Check out the programs he developed and send him some thanks you if not donations for his worthy cause.

Web Design Resources and Inspiration...

Tutorial9 – 101 Best Absolutely Breathtaking Infrared Photographs

http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/101-absolutely-breathtaking-infrared-photographs/

Tutorial9 made a collection of beautiful IR shots from all overthe web. I’m inspired to mod my 20D for IR photography. All the more reason then to get a 50D. 

webdesignerdepot.com – 10 Tips to Design Usable Shopping Carts

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/10-tips-to-design-usable-shopping-carts/

Being the designer and usability person of a semi-large e-commerce site, one must constantly be in touch as to what strategies work the best and most popular on the net. There has been too many times when i’ve pulled my hair in frustration trying to get a misbehaving div to move 1 pixel to the left | right | top | bottom. Here is a set of e-commerce related usability topics and design ideas.

Vandelaydesign.com: 20+ tutorials for working with photoshop tools

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshops-tools-tutorials/

All around resource for getting the most out of your CS4 purchase.

Tutorial9.net: Chidrens Book Illustration Showcase

http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/children-book-illustrations-showcase/

Children’ book illustrations are on the forefront of creative design. A great illustration must be able to capture and motivate a child’s wandering inquisitive mind.

webdesignerledger: Resource for webdesign and inspiration

http://webdesignledger.com/