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Today’s Tried-And-True Top 10 Stock Photo Merchants
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Today’s Tried-And-True Top 10 Stock Photo Merchants

If your job involves the use of high-quality and royalty-free images, you need to know which of the stock photo agencies have the best market value. In order to help you achieve that understanding, I’ve made a top 10 with the best options of the industry as perceived nowadays. Fotolia Fotolia launched in 2004, and…

How To Create A Set Of Photoshop Brushes From A Single Texture Photo
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How To Create A Set Of Photoshop Brushes From A Single Texture Photo

Creating Photoshop brushes is rather easy. But, I often find that brush sets lack consistency and are often created form various textures or sources. I like consistency. I think a great set of brushes isn’t just a matter of throwing a bunch of brushes that kinda look similar together in a set, but rather create…

Freebie Friday: 8 Assorted Grunge Photoshop Brushes
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Freebie Friday: 8 Assorted Grunge Photoshop Brushes

Happy Friday everyone, today I’m releasing this very useful set of 8 different grunge brushes. The source of these was mostly distressed wood textures I had lying around. The preview images below don’t do these justice, they will add some great texture and touch to your work. Each one is the maximum resolution of 2500px….

Six Social Networks for Designers + Invites!
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Six Social Networks for Designers + Invites!

A couple of years ago I read an article that predicted we would soon see a surge in niche social networks crop up across the internet, targeted at specific groups whether they be for cat lovers, home brewers, or in our case designers. The thinking behind it was that one massive social network, Facebook, couldn’t…

Tapping Digg as a resource for Free Advice from Working Professionals

Tapping Digg as a resource for Free Advice from Working Professionals

In a previous post, I stressed on how you can find some very valuable information in comments, especially on big social media sites. Well, If you know what to look for, reading comments can give you free access to advice from actual working professionals. I consider this priceless information, don’t you? I’m going to use…