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PSDTuts - Photoshop Tutorials

PSDTUTS is a blog/photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.

Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, we hope that reading PSDTUTS will help our readers learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that they might not have seen before and help them maximize their creative potential!

Some seriously cool photoshop tutorials.

Always on the lookout for nice images to use in Photoshop, came across this Digg article which mentions a few royalty free photo sites.

• http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
• http://www.sxc.hu/ (Looks quite good)
• http://www.morguefile.com/

As a regular visitor to the fab forgetfoo, I do sometimes like to follow the links of foO’s commentors (he does manage to attract a high quality visitor )

The other day I followed Kol’s link and ended up in a world of fantastic design and imagery.

I think he’s inspired me to step into the world of desktop skins and backdrops. So far i’ve always stuck to the classic windows look and no wallpaper to keep the memory footprint down. But hey i’ve got a Gig and a half of memory now so I assume I can at least get windows to display some wallpaper!!

Thanks KoL (and foO)

Rumble Box

Rumble Box is a fast paced 3D action beat-em-up with a unique premise:
all of the characters are made of simple objects which stay around
in the level even after the character is defeated. The objects pile up,
changing the gameplay landscape and altering your combat tactics.
The game takes place inside a giant box, and the ultimate goal
of the game is to pile up enough defeated enemies to get out of the box.

Always nice to see a game out there that likes to break the typical gaming mould. Sure games all look spiffy these days and you need a small cray to run them, but hey where’s the gameplay, where’s the quirky twists, the fun challenges?

So much so, i’ve gone back to playing my old amiga games. They might not be a visual feast for todays young’uns (well I think the gfx’s are fab) but Shadow of the Beast, or Another World, or Manic Miner just have a charm that you don’t find these days.