References, Resources, Tutorials, and Help

Here for your resources; The Reference thread.

*If you have a question regarding graphics, go HERE

Here you can find tools to help you in your graphics endeavors. Feel free to contribute with your own links to tools/tutorials/stock sites.

• Tutorials
• Good Tutorials
• Tutorialized
• Absolute Cross
• PhotoShop Work Shop
• Photoshop Cafe
• Sketch Pad
• Photoshop 101
  
  Renders/PSDs
• Game Renders
• Official PSDs
  
  Stocks
• http://yotophoto.com
• http://www.everystockphoto.com
• http://morguefile.com
• http://www.openstockphotography.org
• http://www.freefoto.com
• http://pdphoto.org/index.php
• http://www.freeimages.co.uk
• http://www.barrysfreephotos.com
• http://www.free-photographs.net
• http://www.sxc.hu
• http://www.free-stockphotos.com/
• http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
• http://www.dreamstime.com/
  
  Fonts
• 1001 Fonts
• Da Font
• Fonts N Things
• Acid Fonts
• My Fonts
• Simply The Best
  
  
• Brushes
• Deviant Art
• Photoshop Brushes
• Free Photoshop
• Photoshop Brushes
• PhotoshopBrushes
• Brush Eezy
  
  

MY LIST

Other
- http://www.retouchpro.com/

Tutorials
- http://www.photoshopforce.com/
- http://www.good-tutorials.com/
- http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
- http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm
- http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/...Photoshop/All/
- http://www.chaosgfx.com
- http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/
- http://www.greycobra.com
- http://www.tutorialized.com
- http://www.shiver7.com
- http://www.heathrowe.com
- http://www.cbtcafe.com
- http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop.shtml
- http://www.phong.com/tutorials/
- http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/photoshop/
- http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
- http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/pho...rials-tips.html
- http://www.eyesondesign.net/
- http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop.htm
- http://www.photoshopcafe.com
- http://www.rtideas.com/ticks/
- http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
- http://www.arraich.com/ps_intro.htm
- http://www.distortion.co.uk/freebies/tutorial.html
- http://www.somethingleet.com/
- http://www.tutorialforums.com/
- http://www.newtutorials.com
- http://www.good-tutorials.com/
- http://www.biorust.com
- http://www.thewebmachine.com
- http://www.tutorialman.com
- http://www.n-sane.net/tutorials.php
- http://users.iafrica.com/c/cu/cubic/vers/
- http://www.zeroplace.com/
- http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/photoshop/
-How to Cool a Hot Photo
-Cartoonish Digital Painting Tutorial

Brushes/Renders
- http://www.xperimentation.com/vbrush...rch/index.html
- http://browse.deviantart.com/resourc...der=5&limit=24
- http://missm.paperlilies.com/
- http://www.gamerenders.com
- http://www.render-world.com
- http://d.turboupload.com/d/252703/br_by_GERZ.rar.html
- http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html
- http://www.planetrenders.net/

Game Trailers (For Video Sigs)
- http://www.gametrailers.com/

Fonts
- http://www.dafont.com
- http://www.1001fonts.com/
- http://www.highfonts.com/freetop.asp?f=0
- http://www.wantedfonts.com/
- http://04.jp.org/
- http://www.highfonts.com/freetop.asp?f=0
- http://www.graffitifonts.com/fonts.shtml


Post Whisperer's Recommended Artists - for inspiration
http://www.angryblue.com/
http://www.arthurmount.com/home.html
http://www.asterikstudio.com/
http://www.bertmonroy.com/index.htm
http://www.eyesuckink.com/
http://glennferon.com/index.html
http://www.johnschwegel.com/home.htm
http://www.messs.cc/
http://www.mexicanchocolatedesign.com/index.php?p=2
http://pamzylove.com/

Louie Loud's inspiration-
http://www.zenvironments.com/print.html


Thanks to philly, Ha Style, Mic, and ESQ.

ESQ:
Tip One: if your want your graphics work to look realistic make sure that it has a light source, this makes the art have a sence of depth and direction.

- A simple way to create a light source is to create a new layer (ctrl+shift+N if your using photoshop) then feather the selection tool (the one you use to draw a box when cutting... with ants crawling around it. set it to 100 or what ever fits your peice your working on.
http://i5.tinypic.com/4muzcsj.jpg
select a space on the peice of art and drag like you normally would, now that you've feathered the brush it should appear in a circle (set feather to zero to get it back to the normal square selection)
http://i6.tinypic.com/6bwkv8j.jpg
*there is a skill to getting a small ant circle with a high feather number this one is set on 100, to do it you have got to just click and drag fast and iunno but its a glitch.*

next select the Pencil/paintbrush tool set the color to white and the brush size to 50 or what ever fits and draw over the selected space, you should get a light white layer further away from the selection circle and darker as you get towards the center.



- another way (if the bg already has a light source EG sun in the picture or shadows <--- big give away if you have the wrong render in there) you gotta look at your render and decide where the light source is coming from because it would look stupid and fake to have the light source on one side and then shadows on that half of the renders face, basically you just got to match render to bg

heres an example of one of my drops i did not tha long ago my game tag "The Devil Within" or "Devil on earth" or something i didnt quite decided on a name for the peice.

http://www.hiphopgraphics.net/forum/...165/index.html
HHG is saying i did it 5 months ago i'll believe it (theres the process i went through to get the finished product in there, except that gay black shit and text (i was even worse at text haha)

http://i16.tinypic.com/34523pu.jpg

now see how i have made a light source up the top left because i created a shadow (of a devil for those who don't see haha) and that light is coming down onto his face and chest while his chin creates a shadow

i hope this tip helped some of you beginners out

-Louie Loud


ps i can link people to a good forum that has photoshop cs3 and all orher random comuter programs.

just hit me up on:
AIM: CelciusWins
MSN: Majestic_is_God@hotmail.com

http://youtube.com/profile?user=tutvid

good video tutorials^

http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm

free tut

http://www.zshare.net/download/65283615d78e5a7b/

Adobe Font Folio - Worth about $4k to buy

cool ish ... gonna post up some brushes i got later on

does anyone know any gd tutorials 2make ipod pics lyk my avatar?safe