I love bookmarks, and I love sharing bookmarks. So here are some of my go-to sites for design inspiration of all varieties. It’s the roundup of roundups—everything in one place for your browsing pleasure!
40+ Beautiful Hand Drawn Websites @ CSS Built. Handdrawn sites are pretty big right now. They’re not exactly going to be the face of every major corporation on the web, but for design types and other creatives, handdrawn effects are really fun.
50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design Sites by HongKiat
30 Outstanding Character Illustrations in Modern Web Design by Noupe
50 Best Female Web Designers Around the World at Indeziner. I don’t know about you, but it’s really nice to see that women designers do exist. Gotta represent, ya know?
45 Beautiful and Creative WordPress Designs @ Six Revisions. This post is almost a year old, but it’s still got some goodies, including a screenshot of Matt Mullenweg’s old blog design, which I just adore.
300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes at Design Reviver. There are some great Photoshop brushes and free hi-res texture images in this one.
Pretty in Pink: 15 Inspirational Pink Websites @ Web Design FM
25 Incredibly Artistic Websites is the first part of a roundup series Vandalay has put out featuring just plain great web design.
Showcase of Elegant and Original Blog Designs by the guys over at Smashing Magazine
Mark Boulton’s Five Simple Steps Series is a great resource for learning the basics of graphic design, typography, color management, and more.
16 Inspiring Typography Based Blog Designs by Design Reviver. Great inspiration.
18 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials by Design Shard. There are some pretty cool text effects in this one.
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10.16.09
… I also find myself torn between the coffee shop and my dual monitor setup
11.04.09
May I suggest ABR Viewer as an alternative to loading and trying each brush in Photoshop? It’s free, and I use it regularly. You may find this a great time-saving alternative!
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps!
11.04.09
Thanks for the referral, Cyndi! I’ll have to spend some time tonight trying it out.
02.11.10
I love you to pieces man!!
10.14.10
I wished and wished for a Mac, then was given one at work.
So I moved all my files over.
I HATE it. I’m a designer. I have about 50 folders for 50 different projects. I name the banner psd “banner.psd” for all of them. Try and search for them all, yeah the Mac finds them but then you have to do “get info” for each one (or change some such setting and still click on each to see where the dang thing is located. On windows. I glanced at the path to the folder and voila. Yeah changing permissions on Vista is a headache but it’s far better than the constant problems I have on the Mac. Photoshop is twitchy at best, the thing crashes, although my Roku, PS3, Wii, personal laptop all do fine with my wirless, the mac drops it all the time. I use multiple monitors. Oh my god what idiot thought of leaving the application menu on one screen when the application is on another? You can only choose one little sprout because Steve Jobs knows better than you how you should work.
can’t wait to ditch it.
sorry tirade over.
ps tons of free windows applications out there.
11.26.10
Um… how about not naming all of your files the same name? Sounds more like an organizational issue than an operating system issue, either way.
I might recommend using an identifier and THEN _banner.psd? I assume it’d be difficult to find photos as well if every picture on a drive had its own folder and was named “photo.jpg”.
Examples:
Projectname_size_banner.psd
Clientname_size_banner.psd
etc…
04.17.11
Ok, so… I’m a total newbie to photoshop. I have CS5 and a brickton of brushes. I have tried renaming them, but they do NOT show up in the list like I want them to. I’ve played around with it for like a half hour. Can anyone please help?