Links to creative resources
You can never have enough links…
Here is an ever-growing set of useful links for any Photoshop user or creative.
Design Inspiration
- The Advertising Archives
A reasonable searchable ad archive resource
- Arrows TV advertising archive
Amazing TV advertising archive
- Ads Of The World
Got creative block? Look through some great advertising campaigns right here – very well organised!
Photoshop Downloads
- Graphic Xtras Photoshop sample downloads
Nice collection of sample freebies from the company formally known as Sapphire Innovations.
- Bitt Box
Lots of free brushes and textures.
Stock Photography/vector images
- NASA
For royalty free images of space and related subjects.
- NOAA
Pictures of skys, atmosphere, water and weather.
- For Designer
A large collection of image and vector resources – FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE (all user uploads).
- Lost and Taken textures
A really lovely site that has a whole bunch of high resolution textures to download
- Stock Vault
Nice collection of free stock photography.
- Stock Exchange
Very good (mostly) free stock photography site with free sign-up.
Textures
- Mayang Free Textures
A library with over 3800 free to download, high-resolution images of various textures.
Typography Resources
- Identifont
Answer a simple set of questions to help identify a typeface – great when you only have an image as reference!
- Typographica
See some excellent examples of high-quality (mostly commercial) typefaces. Good, in-depth reviews and commentary – great for designers tired of using the same old typefaces! Slick design and a recent WordPress convert (you will like it… good choice!)
- Type Now themed fonts
Great resource of free themed fonts – films, bands and brands… all very useful at some stage or another!
Vector Logo Resources
- Brands Of The World
Another large vector logo archive – great when you need that vector artwork!
- Logotypes
Another bank of useful vector graphic logos.
- Seek Logo
Another vector logo resource – good search feature, lots of UK brands.
- Web Chantier vector portal
A large vector logo archive.