I found this little gem on Digg.com other day and, sadly enough, it’s only received 5 Diggs in 48hrs, so I felt obligated to inform. It’s always nice to find a cheat sheet, and even better when it includes both Mac and PC versions, But I was truly amazed to find Photoshop Shortcut Cheat Sheets for every version back to Photoshop 5! For Both Platforms (PDF). If you like to improve your workflow or just learn more in general about Photoshop, you should download the cheat sheet for your version, or at least bookmark the site. www.morris-photographics.com Thanks Morris! Designers are always looking to save time.

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Designfruit is a great little website with some very high quality (hi-res) Photoshop brushes and vector art available. The brushes are free and the vectors are 12.99 US. If you haven’t had the pleasure of stumbling upon this site before, It’s definitely worth a stopping by. You’ve probably seen some of these brushes before, and might not even know it yet.

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Photoshoppers, this little freebie can save you hours if you create buttons or bars for web layouts on a regular basis. Dezinerfolio.com has done all the hard work for us already. All you have to do is download and install the file, and start making Web 2.0 buttons in seconds using the layer styles in Photoshop.

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What is the “eezy” Trifecta? Three. Awesome. Resources. Bookmark gold for a most any designer. The sites are simple and it goes like this: Vecteezy.com is a free vector site, Brusheezy.com is a free Photoshop Brush site, and Fresheezy.com is a free Wordpress theme site. And these aren’t search engines or databases. All of the content has to be submitted by the owner, and is subject to “make the cut.” Only the good stuff makes it into the mix. You’ll see some of my vectors and Photoshop brushes as you snoop around.

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**This post marks the birth of a new BittBox category: Resources**

In case you might have missed this in the social-media scene, I wanted to make sure everyone knew about IconFinder.net, an essential bookmark for every web designer (in my opinion). Iconfinder is a simple, elegant icon search engine that’s easy to use, and has tons of icons in its database. All icons are licensed with either Creative Commons, GPL, or LGPL. Below is a quick screenshot tour, and If you are a Mac OS X user, they have a Dashboard Search Widget you can download as well.

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