I don’t recall where I found this, but Logo Instant looks pretty cool.

I remember when EVE in its entirety was only 30 kilobytes, but regardless of the fact it has more than quadrupled in size (still under 200 kilobytes) it remains the absolute biggest “bang” for the “buck.”

Unique vectors… at least to me.

Children vector

This has proven helpful while learning to paint my Blender projects. That and the video tutorials available from Greybeard.  Check out the LSCM UV Mapping video for sure and see similar content at Blender.

Paint on 3D models (Photoshop Extended) — you can also grab a PDF copy of the manual here.

All 3 of these struck me as being very interesting, perhaps useful but most of all quite easy.

Dripping Text

Photoshop Seminar – The Water Effect

Photoshop Facelift – Creating blood soaked eyes tutorial.

Olieng.net recommended these brushes from Celestial Star during one of his tutorials.

Coghillustration is probably the first and last place you will sea a gorilla holding a movie camera.

Brad Fitzpatrick has more than just an awesome Flash demo reel.

You The Designer has a varied array of wonderful vector art.

Wow, Aviary appears to be awesome.  I’m still convinced that stuff like this is entirely up the artist’s limitations.

Scribus — Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Inkscape — An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

Mozilla SVG Project — this one is for the geeks.

I didn’t really like the majority of these Photoshop tutorials but Eyes on Design definitely knocked it out of the park with Emilie.

“A Gradient Tutorial” on the 9rules site actually explains some finer points of gradients and it struck a chord with me.  I cannot tell you how many times I’ve made drastically contrasted gradients and been sorely disappointed with them — this article fills the gaps.

Here’s a site I’ve never found before and an absolute gem of a tutorial.