Graphic Design Resources
All sites have freely available material for noncommercial use (some also allow commercial use). Please follow the terms of use.
Pictures and graphics
- Big Photo This is a good site for free photographs for personal and educational use.
- Copyright Friendly Images
- Easy Stock Photos
- Famous Artwork Exhibition Some of these pages are just text, but others have pictures
- freedigitalphotos.net 640 X 480 res photos available for free
- Freefoto.com Freefoto is limited in scope, but has good quality photographs that are free for noncommercial use. (*)
- Freefoto.ca A limited collection of pictures that can be used for both commercial and noncommericial projects (Canadian focus) (*)
- FreeImages.co.uk
- Free Photos Bank
- Font Play: Free Photos over 10,000 photos
- Free Pixels over 3,000 images
- Free Stock Photography free and royalty free images
- Geek Philosopher Stock Photography and Desktop Backgrounds The photographs are smaller than on some sites, but there is a good variety.
- Image After Photographs and other resources are freely available for both personal and commercial use. Many sections include photographs of subjects rarely included on free stock photography sites (ie camels).
- Image Base good variety of pictures
- Kave Wall Stock Larger res images can be bought.
- Morgue File These freely available high resolution stock photographs may be used for both personal and commercial projects. This site has an excellent selection. (*)
- NSSDC Photo Gallery a gallery of NASA photographs that are in the public domain (credit should be given to NASA and the NSSDC)
- OpenPhoto.net a large archive
- PD Photo: Free Public Domain Photo Database a nice collection particularly focused on locations
- Perfect Digital Free Stock Photos These freely available high resolution stock photographs may be used for both personal and commercial projects.
- Photoclick: A Photography Directory
- Public-Domain-Photos.com 5000 Free Stock Photos
- Public Domain Pictures.net
- Photo Everywhere free travel potos
- Stock Vault
- Stock.xchng a huge collection of free stock photographs
- Turbo Photo These photographs in the public domain. Please note that this is part of a site with paid stock photography.
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources
Brushes
- 84 Percent
- Absolute Trouble Brushes
- Aquired Taste a nice collection of PSP 8 brushes
- Brusheezy a large collection of user submitted brushes (*)
- Brush Fed
- Brush King
- Chez Plumeau brushes'n brushes This site has a collection of over 530 brushes. There is also a French version.
- Get Brushes A large collection of user submitted brushes
- Jigsaw Puzzle a collection of brushes (PS, PSP, and stamps) and textures
- Lunaestas brushes and textures
- Magitek Design Brushes (*)
- Miss M's brushes 80 brushes (*)
- Obsidian Dawn a large collection of brushes, a few patterns, and tutorials (including making custom brushes)
- PS Brushes 500+ brushes by various brushmakers
- Studio Brushes
- Turpentine 2.0
- Vbrush over 160 brushes
Textures and Patterns
- Absolute Background Texture Archive This is a huge archive with over 5,000 textures.
- Alice Grafixx Patterns (site is in German)
- Amazing Textures
- Ave7patterns
- Background Maker
- Eos Clip Arts backgrounds
- Free Stock Textures
- Got 3D: Free Textures
- Grunge Textures Over 600 high resolution textures
- High Resolution Texture Library (Lughertextures)
- Stripe Generator
- Textura
- Texturewarehouse hundreds of user submitted free high resolution textures
Tutorials
- Absolute Cross These tutorials are particularly helpful for beginners.
- Adobe Tutorialz
- Good Tutorials This is one of the largest websites for Photoshop Tutorials (*)
- Photoshop Tutorials.us a large collection of quality tutorials
- Planet Photoshop This site includes a huge collection of Photoshop Tutorials
- PSD Vibe
- PSlover a large collection of user submitted Photoshop Tutorials (*)
- PSP Tutorials Links List some of the linked tutorials require a paid or free account
- RNEL.net Tutorials also includes flash, php, css, and javascript tutorials
- Robin Wood's Bryce Tutorials
- Tutorial Garden
- Tutorial Index a large tutorial index including Photoshop, GIMP, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, and several other popular programs
- Tutorialshere thousands of user submitted tutorials
- Total Tutorials A collection of user submitted tutorials
- Web Design Dev
Photoshop Plug-ins and Actions
- Cybia Digital Resource Studio(*)
- ActionFX(*)
- Flaming Pear(*)
- Mehdi Free Plug-ins for Photoshop(*)
- Neat Image(*)
- Optikervelabs(*)
- Photo Plug-ins(*)
- PluginsWorld(*)
- Red Paw Media(*)
- Xero Photoshop Compatible Plug-ins(*)
On Deviant Art
- Bombay101 a large collection of textures and brushes
- Draconis393 brushes, textures, photographs, art
- Ewanism textures and brushes
- Gaelicsoul brushes, stock photographs, and textures (*)
- Jubilli small textures, patterns, and brushes
General Resource Sites
- 3decouvertes This website has galleries, resources (including for Bryce), downloads, and links. The website is mostly in French (en francais), but can be navigated without knowing French.
- At0mica.net brushes, graphics, and word searches
- Aun existe amor brushes, tutorials, layouts, quotes
- Biorust Tutorials, a gallery, and resources. It also includes web programming tutorials.
- CDGbrushes brushes, textures, light textures, gradients
- Colour Lovers This is a good website for sharing color palettes.
- Erika's Mulipleverse Resource Site
- Fractured Sanitybrushes, textures, patterns, tutorials
- Hybrid-Genesis brushes, patterns, tutorials, and textures
- The Inspiration Gallery This website has a wonderful collection of unique borders and wallpapers.
- In obscuro This is a particularly well-done website with brushes, tutorials, textures, and original artwork.
- Jigsaw Puzzle a collection of very nice textures, patterns, brushes, and stock photographs
- Kloud Nine This site has some nice textures, patterns, and textures
- Photoshop Roadmap
- Smiley Helper This well-structured website has web graphics, easy to understand tutorials, makers (ie button maker), games, and other fun resources for web and graphic designers.
Font Websites
- DaFont(*)
- Fonts for Peas (*)
- Font Garden (*)
- Font Squirrel(*)
Resource Lists Links
- 2D Valley a large collection of 2D tutorials, brushes, textures, actions, and more. The site also has actions, brushes, PSP tubes, stock photographs, textures, and tutorials. (*)
- A Joyful Heart Designs a huge list of Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop brush sites (*)
- Design Galour While this list focuses on graphics some of the websites also have resources
- The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
- Photoshop Plus This site is in French, but since it is a list of links it can be useful even if you don't understand French.
Photo Hosting Sites
- Flickr
- ImageShack no account needed
- Photobucket
- Webblogimages
Key
- PS = Photoshop
- PSP= Paint Shop Pro
- GIMP= GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Stamps are graphics that can be used in any program
In some cases I made reference to the terms of service last time I checked. However, I do not control the linked websites and users are advised to check the sites for full details regarding acceptable use. Sometimes materials stop being freely available or additional restrictions are added. I will be continually updating this list.
Resources marked with an (*) are ones I use. The fact that I do not use a resource site is not a reflection of the site (there are numerous excellent ones I don't use), but because I prefer to use my own resources. If I linked to a site it means that I think it has excellent resources.
