As a designer, you should ALWAYS have several staples in your design arsenal. Among these is definitely a nice assortment of textures.  Don't despair! You can find some really NICE and FREE high quality textures such as the one I've used for tonight's "Going Green" bookmark on a variety of sites. Download Today's bookmark here.

I'll share some of my favorite finds with you here:

Texturez
Smashing Magazine
Texture Lovers
Image After
Free Textures.org

 

Is your photoshop work lacking a little something? Could it be that you need a some new brushes to spice up your designs? Here's a list of some of my favorite resources for photoshop brushes. The one I use the most? Brusheezy! They  have great stuff! So I made them number 1!

Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!

Photoshop Brushes - Brusheezy is the a HUGE collection of Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns to download, or upload your own!

Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop brushes, patterns, custom shapes, tutorials, styles and gradients - all for free - just download and enjoy this great collection!

 

PS Brushes.net - Photoshop Brushes, Your Number one source for ...

We offer over 500 photoshop brushes all for free, with those kind of numbers why would you search for photoshop brushes anywhere else?

 

Free Photoshop Brushes - Grunge Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

Grunge Brushes, photoshop brushes, Free photoshop brushes.

 

 

Free Photoshop Brushes - Adobe Photoshop Brush DIRECTORY ...

Directory of free Photoshop brushes, with information on how to create and install Photoshop brushes.

 

Top 50 Free Photoshop Brushes Resource Sites : Speckyboy - Web ...

Free (cca 50) Photoshop Brushes sets that are even free for commercial use.

 

100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

A great contribution to all the Photoshop brushes starving hordes of designers and artists, including myself: 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.

 

Photoshop Brushes: 150+ High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes

Featuring the best Adobe Photoshop brushes on the net and their authors, free PS brush downloads.

 

Most designers couldn't exist without stock photos. So where's the best place to find them? If you're looking for pay as you go images or subscription services. Look no farther. I've assembled the best of the best in this post.

1. iStockPhoto
2. StockExpert
3. Photos.com
4. Getty Images
5. Veer.com
6. Comstock
7. Jupiter Images
8. Punchstock
9. Shutterstock
10. Snap Village
11. Foto Search
12. Big Stock Photo
13. Corbis
14. Dreamstime
15. Fotolia
16. Photo Spin

 

 

Fonts are the foundation of a good design. Depending on the budget of the project you may need one that's free or perhaps you can afford "the perfect" font for your piece. Either way, here are some great free and "perfect" fonts.

Top 10 Font Resources:

1. DaFont Great categories and searches.
2. Urban Fonts Select from free and for purchase fonts.
3. 1001 Fonts Excellent selections of categories and styles.
4. Font Diner Great retro fonts!
5. Veer.com Excellent original typefaces.
6. 1001FreeFonts Free. What more do you want?
7. I Love Typography Blog resource with great information on type and fonts.
8. Typography.com Original and breathtaking fonts.
9. Abstract Fonts Cool collections uploaded by users.
10. My Fonts News and font updates.