240 Resources for Photoshop Artists |

June 11th, 2008

240 Resources for Photoshop Artists

Howdie,
Here’s a huge list of cool and totally FREE resources that could be useful to you as a photoshop artist. Use this list for all your needs to participate in photoshop contests, for webdesign purposes or basically for anything that has something to do with photoshop!

In this post you’ll find the best:

Free Photoshop tutorial publishers
Free Photoshop tutorial directories
Free icons
Free stock
Free brushes
Free textures and patterns
Free clipart
Free online tools

I’ve taken my personal favorites and listed them as “Recommended” (green background). The grey backgrounds are usually smaller, but still good and totally free sites. The text below each resource is the tagline of the website or a small description of what the resource has to offer. Note that some resources have a free and paid section, the links in this post all point to the free section only.

Enjoy!

Photoshop Tutorial Publishers

Recommendations:

psdtuts.com
Spoonfed Tutorials. (TIP!)

photoshopessentials.com
Learn Adobe Photoshop. (TIP!)

photoshoptalent.com
PST’s exclusive tutorials. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

tutorial9.net
Tutorial Bliss.

adobetutorialz.com
Graphics community with lots of free tutorials.

talk-mania.com
Forums with photoshop tutorials.

time2photoshop.com
Free Adobe photoshop tutorials.

tutorialsgarden.com
Your own tutorial server. Photoshop section.

yourphotoshopguide.com
Quick and easy tutorials.

Photoshop Tutorial Directories

Recommendations:

good-tutorials.com
Photoshop Section of Good-Tutorials (TIP!)

photoshoproadmap.com
Adobe photoshop tutorials indexed with thumbnails. (TIP!)

photoshoptalent.com
PST’s tutorial directory. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

pixel2life.com
Photoshop section of this popular learning community.

totaltutorials.com
Photoshop, 3D Studio Max and Cinema 4D Tutorial Database.

tutorialized.com
Huge tutorial index, for both 2D and 3D graphics.

tutorialkit.com
Tutorial Kit is a comprehensive resource of Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

tutorialman.com
Find the best free photoshop tutorials.

tutorialquest.com
New site, still small, but growing in popularity.

Free Icons

Recommendations:

wikimedia.org (crystal clear icons)
Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set. (TIP!)

iconfinder.net
Icon Search Engine. (TIP!)

iconlet.com
Another Icon Search Engine. (TIP!)

iconspedia.com
Huge source for free icons. (TIP!)

famfamfam.com
Free icons. (TIP!)

iconshock.com
Iconshock, the world icon design leader offers Royalty Free web icons with different styles ideal for you to integrate in your web applications, software, catalogs, games, printing media and much more. (TIP!)

iconarchive.com
The Icon Archive is a categorized collection of high quality desktop & web icon sets. Currently has over 18,200 icons in 656 sets from 155 icon authors. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

dryicons.com
Lots of fresh icon sets.

e-lusion.com
Free grayscale icons.

iconfactory.com
Many pages of different icon sets.

iconicon.net
More free icons.

Free Microsoft Windows Icons
Free Microsoft Windows Icons

prothemedesign.com
Circular is a free icon set containing 100+ free to use icons. (16×16)

somerandomdude.net
A mini-pixel icon set (16×16 pixels) containing 121 individual icons for various subjects.

strawbee.com
Cute, tiny icons.

sweetie.sublink.ca
Cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application.

aspneticons.com
Completely free professional icons designed exclusively for the ASP.NET community.

beauticons.com.ar
Free and custom icons.

designmood.com
Royalty free and custom icons design studio.

exploding-boy.com
Thirty-one free icons which can be used for application toolbars, content management systems, web applications, anything you like.

forrestwalter.com
A dozen free icon sets.

ganato.com
All free stuff area is completely free.

glyphlab.com
Over 620 icons.

icojoy.com
Blog with regular updated new icon sets.

iconbase.com
Here you´ll find the best icons from the best artists in the world. The icons here listed belong to the individual authors and companies.

iconbuffet.com
64 Stock Icons for Web Professionals.

iconbulk.com
More icons…

icondrawer.com
Here you can download free Mac OS X icons for your desktop or website.

iconshoppe.com
Royalty-free, stock icon sets for the web, hand-crafted by SimpleBits.

intersmash.com
300 icons bundled from 1800 different sites.

marvilla.us
Custom Windows Vista icons and XP icons design for software developers and web designers.

mouserunner.com
Free Spheres Icons.

ndesign-studio.com
Mini Pixel icons. (Over 320)

pinvoke.com
Quality 10×10 and 16×16 pixel icons to designers. (The PI Diagona Pack is free)

pixelgirlpresents.com
Mac OS X Icons.

pixture.com
Icons created by hobbyist.

searchicon.net
Another search engine for icons.

studiotwentyeight.com
Icons for your computer.

stylegala.com
Bullet madness is a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons.

userinterfaceicons.com
Free GUI Icons.

vistaicons.com
Vista Icons.

websiteicons.com
Free section of this site… Icons for websites.

Free Stock Photography

Recommendations:

sxc.hu
The leading FREE stock photo site! (TIP!)

stockvault.net
Stock photo sharing website. (TIP!)

morguefile.com
This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. (TIP!)

imageafter.com
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

stockcache.com
Free stock photography.

aarinfreephoto.com
Free images for personal and commercial use. You may download and use our images on your web site, print ads, brochures or any end products.

animalpicturesarchive.com
Animal photo gallery and archives ANIMAL-RELATED images and photographs including pet animals.

arraich.com
Free photos by Jay Arraich.

freestockphotos.com
Free Photography for Personal or Commercial use.

hd.org
A collection of original stock photography.

gillesgonthier.com
Insect stock photography.

davidniblack.com
Free photos!

majesticimagery.com
Free Royalty Free Stock Photographs - for all your graphic needs.

maxwellrender.com
This site has been created as a meeting point for those who want to share their Maxwell materials with other users.

openphoto.net
Free stock in various categories.

diwiesign.com
Stockgallery with mostly dirt or industrial themes in a different manner.

amygdela.com
Free stockphotos, forums and weblog.

tofz.org
Growing collection of free stock.

artfavor.com
Pictures and images for designers, flash programmers and interested in creative web design.

bigfoto.com
The royalty free photo agency offering free download of all pictures.

burningwell.org
BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images.

freephotobank.org
FreePhotoBank is a free stock photo site…

freephotosbank.com
Free Stock Photos.

freephotosweb.com
More Free Stock Photos.

creativity103.com
Cr103 is a library of free abstract graphics and design ideas that you can cut and paste into your own work or use just for insipiration.

designpacks.com
Free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects.

dreamstime.com
Has a free and commercial section.

everystockphoto.com
Search engine for free photos.

fontplay.com (free photo section)
Free photos that may be used for any artistic endeavor, personal or commercial.

freefoto.com
FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet.

freeimages.co.uk
more than 2500 original stock photos - all for FREE!

freemediagoo.com
Free, Royalty Free, Really Free…

graphicsarena.com
Photostock gallery.

vintagepixels.com
Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images.

insectimages.org
The Source for Entomology Photos.

photogen.com
The source for quality, high-res FREE stock photos and images.

photorack.net
Stock photo forum.

woophy.com
Over 400.000 photos.

ironorchid.com
Designed specifically for office and web use, over three thousand images.

lightmatter.net
Photography by Aaron Logan.

microshots.org
Microscopic images of your everyday world.

oneodddude.net
Ever-growing collection of desktop backgrounds, nature and landscape photography and stock photos.

piotrpix.com
Image database providing free high-quality images.

pixelperfectdigital.com
Free Stock Photos.

freepixels.com
More Free Stock Photos.

freerangestock.com
All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects.

cepolina.com
Over 5000 free photos are available for download.

public-domain-photos.com
All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial.

trulyfreestock.com
All stock photos here are truly free.

unprofound.com
This collection of photos is for anyone to use in just about any way they’d like.

imagetemple.com
500+ free photos.

Free Textures and Patterns

Recommendations:

cgtextures.com
Large texture collection. (TIP!)

k10k.net
Resource for deliciously pixellated patterns. (TIP!)

tickie.net
Lots of tiled backgrounds. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

typepad.com
Nice tiling backgrounds.

free3dstextures.com
Free online resource for high quality, large resolution textures.

printpattern.blogspot.com
Blog that celebrates the world of surface pattern design.

appendixsquared.com
Collection of tiled patterns.

dinpattern.com
Free patterns.

amazingtextures.com
Hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps.

grungetextures.com
Growing collection of quality images ready for you to download.

freetexturemaps.com
Reference images, stock photography for design projects, source textures.

donbarnett.com
Seamless Tiles.

textureking.com
Repository of high quality texture photos that are free for personal and professional use.

hugemagazine.com
Custom tiles for Macintosh or Windows computers.

texturez.com
Discover the wonderful colors and textures of the world!

portfelia.com
Simply Patterns.

squidfingers.com
Over 150 patterns.

urbandirty.com
Free texture stock photography for your artwork, designs and desktops.

headfirstdm.com
Royalty-free textures for computer graphics, illustration, game design and everything else.

theinspirationgallery.com
Wallpaper Patterns.

Online Color Tools

Recommendations:

colorblender.com
Free online tool for color matching and palette design! (TIP!)

colourlovers.com
Color + Design community for Creative Inspiration. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

chir.ag
Little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.

colormixers.com
RGB Color Mixer.

easyrgb.com
Information and services related to color technology.

ficml.org
4096 Color Wheel.

colr.org
Play with colors and color schemes.

defencemechanism.com
ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker.

jrm.cc
Generate a color palette based on an image.

slayeroffice.com
Color palette creator.

wellstyled.com
Color scheme generator.

colorcombos.com
This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations.

colorhunter.com
Create and find color palettes made from images.

colorschemer.com
Enter an RGB or Hex value and create a color palette.

dailycolorscheme.com
Daily-Fresh color schemes.

colorsontheweb.com
This site is dedicated to the use of colors in design, and especially in web design.

iamcal.com
This tool helps you simulate the appearance of our site’s colors for people with different color visions.

krazydad.com
Color Fields Experimental Colr Pickr.

sessions.edu
HTML, RGB, CMYK color wheel chart.

Free Vectors and Clipart

Recommendations:

vectorportal.com
Everything vector, everything free. (TIP!)

vectorsworkshop.com
Vector art. (TIP!)

webchantier.com
Image portal with lots of vector art.(TIP!)

openclipart.org
User contributed clip art that can be freely used.(TIP!)

More good stuff:

createsk8.com
Cool blog with lots of free stuff, mostly for Illustrator.

vektordb.lafkon.net
Over 300 free downloadable clip-arts.

af.mil
Air force clip-art.

aiga.org
Symbols and signs.

all-the-flags-of-the-world.c.la
All the flags of the world for free.

briarpress.org
Ornaments and initials from old specimen books, converted into vector line art.

clipart-design.com
Professional resource for graphic professionals from almost all graphic areas.

designerstoolbox.com
Designers Toolbox.

art-builders.com
Clipart illustrations, icons, logos and mascots.

artbitz.com
Affordable royalty free stock illustration, design elements and designers’ stock art.

artfavor.com
Collection of vector and flash clipart, sounds, fonts, photos, pictures and images for designers.

nasa.gov (graphics)
Dryden Aircraft Graphics Collection.

digital-designware.com
Professional images for individual and customized designs, (photo)realistic and perfect presentations.

havanastreet.com
Whether you need a robot, a baby, an airplane or an alarm clock, you’ll probably find it here.

lalogotheque.com
Logos and vectorial resources.

lenshanger.co.uk
Clipart Collections.

localarcade.com
An arcade art resource for the hobbyist, collector and ethusiast.

nanoda.com
Lots of cool vector art.

ndesign-studio.com
Free Vector Cliparts.

onemileup.com
Some military Seals clipart.

vectorart.com
Highest quality electronic artworkd for the sign industry.

public-domain-photos.com
Over 5000 free photos for personal and commercial use.

vecteezy.com
Index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world.

freevectors.net
Online gallery of free vector graphics.

goldenstudios.com
Collection of Panels and Ornaments.

vector-redraw.co.uk
A sample collection featuring vector art and vector stencils available as free downloads.

Free Photoshop Brushes

Recommendations:

chezplumeau.com
Lots and lots of brushes!(TIP!)

photoshopbrushes.com
Free Photoshop Brushes (TIP!)

More good stuff:

blinding-light.com
Free PS Brushes made using Adobe Photoshop 6.

500ml.org
A Photoshop brush/Stock Photography site containing more than 60 brush sets and a growing selection of free Stock photos.

celestial-star.net
Original brushes you can use for Photoshop 7.0 and up, Paint Shop Pro 8.0 and up and Stamps to be used with other programs.

design.rainharbour.net
All brushes work with Photoshop 7.0 and higher. All sets are also available for GIMP, except for 2 effects sets.

designfruit.com
Brush sets.

dubtastic.com
Cool blog with a bunch of free brush sets.

fractured-sanity.org
Wide range of brushes, textures, patterns and more.

hawksmont.com
Brush section of Hawksmont.

inobscuro.com
These brushes were created in Adobe Photoshop 7 by the site owner.

aethereality.net
39 Brushes.

nymphaea.org
Brushes for Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.

aquired-taste.net
Brushes blog.

melsbrushes.wordpress.com
Some more brush sets.

memento.im-pulse.org
New brush sets are always in the making.

tomledin.com
Adobe Photoshop brush sets. (41 sets)

missm.paperlilies.com
Handmade photoshop brushes.

moments.misplaced.co.uk
All brushes were made in Photoshop 7, so they will work in that or any newer version.

panicked.nuclearcentury.com
Graphical blog with brush section

pootato.org
More brushes.

7-days.net
Great brushes made by the site owner.

23outlet.com
18 brush sets for personal use.

2dvalley.com
The brushes here are created originally by 2Dvalley.com and are free for personal and commercial use.

appendixsquared.com
Brushes and textures.

brusheezy.com
A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! (TIP!)

brushes.obsidiandawn.com
Photoshop Brushes by Stephanie Shimerdla.

kissmypixels.com
Offers brushes for Photoshop versions 6 and up plus brushes for Paint Shop Pro 7

dannesdjur.com
Brushes and icons.

ex-posed.com
About 20 free brush sets.

jeffsdigital.com
5 Sets.

kloud-nine.com
A resource domain created to bring you my latest brushes, patterns, and textures.

Free Fonts

Recommendations:

dafont.com
The biggest and best free font site on the web.(TIP!)

1001fonts.com
Download free fonts for both Windows and Mac.(TIP!)

abstractfonts.com
Over 11.000 abstract fonts.(TIP!)

blambot.com
Comic fonts and lettering.(TIP!)

fontface.com
Now has more than 1000 free fonts and the archive grows literally everyday. (TIP!)

More good stuff:

babel.uoregon.edu
Designed to assist users who wish to display or type non-English fonts on their computers.

smackbomb.com
Famous Fonts is the first font archive on the web to collect ONLY fonts used in TV shows, movies, publications, and other media and products.

flat-it.com
Freeware fonts.

fonthead.com
Free fonts made by some dude named Larabie.

larabiefonts.com
Free fonts made by some dude named Larabie.

nerfect.com
Fonts in the free section are free to download and use.

simplythebest.net
Aphabetical list of free fonts.

tom7.com
Collection of TrueType fonts.

nawtythings.com
Some kinky fonts.

aenigmafonts.com
Font archive.

typenow.net
Over 6000 free fonts.

astigmatic.com
The typefaces on this page have been designed for you to use and enjoy free of charge. Use them in your Personal and Commercial projects and designs.

bvfonts.com
Typography, clip-art and more.

chank.com
World-class collection of fun original freefonts by different designers from all over the world.

dingbatdepot.com
The largest source of free dingbat fonts on the internet today.

dingbats-uk.org.uk
Over 400 dingbats are available for immediate preview and download.

fontdiner.com
Quality retro fonts.

fontspace.com
FontSpace is a community of font designers and font addicts. Over 8.000 fonts.

graffitifonts.net
Cool graffiti fonts.

highfonts.com
Check out the free section.

typeindex.org
A searchable database gathering in one place all fonts from all foundries, from all the world!

And that concludes our list! If you like this post, please digg it!
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