Interested in growing your web design skills? Here are a few choice recommendations.

Great resources for thinking about logo design.

Great resources for developing your skills in Adobe Illustrator.

Serving up some Photoshop fun: three recent tutorials.

For those of you eager to start styling your websites with great Photoshop effects, here are three choice tutorials: Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch A fantastic tutorial, with lots of carryover value. Design an entire site with elegance, simplicity, and beauty. Web 2.0 Design Kit How to create those little 2.0 touches: [...]

Whether you’re a color-geek or color-challenged (like me), there are a number of great tools out there to help you find and refine a color scheme. Here are a few of the best: Color Blender Dial in a color, and it generates a scheme of corresponding colors, complete with RGB and Hex values for plugging [...]

Ever need to edit a whole folder of photos in exactly the same way? Resize them for the Web, for example? Here is a helpful and easy-to-follow video tutorial on creating your own custom actions to repeat processes in Photoshop. There are roughly 50 bazillion other handy tools to help with such processes. About.com has [...]

If you like playing with Photoshop, you should consider playing with brushes. There are tons of places to get free brushes and some sweet brushes at that. Brusheezy is one of my favorites, but there are others as well. Free Brushes Brusheezy.com PSbrushes.net 100 Awesome High-Res Photoshop Brushes And should you ever feel the urge to create your [...]

Smashing Magazine has recently published a set of online tutorials for Adobe Illustrator. Making illustrations from a hand-drawn sketch, creating logos, vintage T-shirt designs, comic book style creations, and 3-D effects … If you are somewhat artistic, these tutorials are for you. Also, for the fun of it, here is another post, where they have [...]

I’m collecting a list of useful articles on the topic of portfolio building (including for beginning designers) and business startup tips. Here are direct links to those I’ve collected as of today: What Goes In Graphic Design Portfolios What Goes in a *Beginner’s* Design Portfolio The Benefits of a Graphic Design Blog Tips for a [...]

I just ran across a great tutorial for all you Photoshop nerds. This technique has been used for years, but still creates a dynamic illusion that makes a picture appear to be jumping out of its frame. These effects never cease to impress. Although they may look hard to create, by following this set of [...]