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Mel southpark
Over the past three years I have been slowly collecting resources from the many wonderful people who design, create graphics, and offer tutorials to the public. Behind this lj cut, I will attempt to present to you if not everything--most of what I have found absolutely handy for a designer, a beginner, a graphics artist. From resources to tutorials I hope you find what you need. Thanks, and enjoy!

**06/23/06 -links added.
**06/23/06 -More brush links added +tutorials for digital & traditional medium artists.
**06/23/06 -Flash Tutorials/Tutorial links added.


These page links will help you find specific topics:

Livejournal Specific Tutorials/Resources
Resources: Stock, images, textures, actions, filters & More
Fonts
DHTML/JAVA
Misc Tutorials, graphics, flash, css, HTML & more

Tutorials/Resources: Adobe Photoshop 7/CS/CS2
For the Artists:Digital and Traditional medium tutorials.
Color: color specific tools, schemes, generators and resources.
Dummy text generators.




Live Journal Specific Tutorials/Resources
Layers, styles, overrides. Tutorials specific for live
journal customizations.


s1 & s2/Paid/Free/Layouts & Tutorials
[info]everything_lj
[info]layouts_for_lj
[info]freelayouts
[info]howto
[info]overridehelper
[info]overridehelp
[info]carrie63_stuff
[info]explainittome

s2/Paid/Free/Layouts & Tutorials

[info]s2howto
[info]s2docs
[info]s2practice
[info]s2layers
[info]s2styles
[info]s2bloggish
[info]s2component
[info]s2flexisquares
[info]s2haven
[info]s2nebula
[info]s2smoothsailing
[info]s2tranqulity
[info]s2tranquility2
[info]s2unearthed
[info]opal_help
[info]component_help
[info]boxer_help
[info]s2_for_dummies

Graphics/Icons/Resources/Misc
[info]miia_opia
[info]ewanism
[info]ljdesigners
[info]lj_nifty
LJ Directory.com


Resources.

Brilliant button maker by LucaZappa


Stock.

Stock Photos
Images that artists allow you to digitally alter, crop, re color and edit SO LONG AS YOU CREDIT/LINK BACK TO THEM.
Public domain images
Freeimages.co
Jademacalla -DeviantArt stock photographer who offers images to use in any way, off site or on.


Backgrounds
Pattern4u


Fonts
Swirly, crazy, artistic, webdings --here are websites that offer fonts for you to download. Handy for all sorts of things!

1001 free fonts.com
Abstract fonts.com
Fontfreak.com
Simplythebest.net/fonts/
Fonts.com


DHTML/JAVA
Free copy and paste scripts/scripts/codes/ for differing effects on web pages.

Javascript Source: Free Java Scripts & more-The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your Web pages. All for free!


Misc Tutorials, graphics, flash, css, HTML & more
How do I..?

Misc

Training Tools.com -Macromedia flash, dreamweaver, HTML, Java, Photoshop & many more tutorials.


Tutorials: Flash
Flash is a Macromedia product with a wide range of uses. From a simple animated button to entire web sites. Here are some very useful Flash tutorials.

Flashkit.com -Flash components, templates, animations and more.


Tutorials: HTML
a href, img src---WHAT? HTML tutorials, information and handy tips.

kali's web shoppe - Design tutorials, HTML, CSS, Site Tools, Downloads, Image tutorials and a buttload more.
Webmonkey.com/HTML cheatsheet.
Webmonkey.com/Special Characters refence sheet.
Image Mapping made easy-Image mapping tool
HTML transform-Transform your HTML so that it will display in posts/journals
Activejump.com-Variety of HTML tutorials
Dr.Watson-Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. You give it the URL of your page and Watson will get a copy of it directly from the web server. Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.
HTML colors (simplistic)
w3schools.com At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.



Tutorials: CSS
a:hover, background-image---WHAT? Css tutorials, information and handy tips.

css Zen Garden:The Beauty in css design.
stu nichols |CSS PLay |CSS menus
kali's web shoppe - Design tutorials, HTML, CSS, Site Tools, Downloads, Image tutorials and a buttload more.
CSS menu generator at webmastertoolkit.com-Tool which can generate css menus for you!
Css Validator-Does your css work? Have you made mistakes? Great tool for checking!
-At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.


Tutorials/Resources: Adobe Photoshop 7/CS/CS2
Tutorials/Resources for the program Adobe Photoshop.

Janee's Photoshop Tutorials
velvetelvis.com
Making a star feild in PS


Textures

Gradients


Patterns
Pattern4u


Brushes
vbrush.com
Azurehistock -Photoshop brushes that can be used outside of Deviant art.
Raptura-Deviant Art brushes, artist REQUIRES you to link back if used.
Merrym-YOU WILL HAVE TO REGISTER FOR DEVIANT ART. Artist REQUIRES a comment and link to what you have made.
Rhyme2k -Deviant artist offering brushes


All of the above
Oxoniensis-art.net
PhotoShop Massive List Of Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions & Gradients
Mrsspock-Deviant Art, artist REQUIRES you to link back if used.


For the Artists
Tutorials for Digital and Traditional medium artists.

Comic Book Fist Cheats 01
Comic Book Fist Cheats 002

Corel Painter special effects
3qt. view headshot tutorial
Tutorial - Ambient Lighting
Watermark Tutorial


Color
Color specific tools, schemes, generators and resources

Color Sheme Generator.-See what colors look like in mono, contrast, triad, tetrad, analogic, see what they look like default, pastel, dark pastel, light pastel, constrast or pale. OR enter your own favorite hex color and see all of that!
Colorlovers.com-a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes
Colorcombos.com-This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations.
Visibone Colorlab


Dummy text generators
Dummy text generators are a great way to fill a page/layout/journal you are working on with 'fake text' to see how everything aligns and spacing.

Pseudo-Czech Dummy Text Generator -Generator of filling nonsense text, i.e. for a web page design dummy text, simulating the look and feel of czech language. Each reload of the page generates new random paragraph of text.
Lorem Ipsum-Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.





Credit: Some of these resources were found using [info]starlingsby100 deliciously wonderful All Mighty List of Sparklies.
Wellstyled.com
Webmoneky.com
[info]everything_lj



Note: Please respect the Artists/Code creator's Terms of Service/Creative Commons Liscence and/or Terms of Use whenever possible.

If you have any tutorials, resources, links and anything else that you think ought to be offered here, please comment and I'll be happy to add it. :)

Comments

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ghosts hold no pain
[info]necromance wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 02:35 am (UTC)
This rocks so much. I'm gonna be adding it to my memories. :o You are awesome for putting it together.
MellyJellyBeans
[info]elf_fu wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 02:37 am (UTC)
This is only...aaah, about 1/3rd of it. So, weee!

Thanks too!
ghosts hold no pain
[info]necromance wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 02:39 am (UTC)
That rocks even more. Though, this in itself is awesome, because my coding needs some serious work.
MellyJellyBeans
[info]elf_fu wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 06:08 pm (UTC)
Me too, if it weren't for so many nice people putting up with me, I don't know how I'd ever make anything shiny.

Also: Can I include color tone in the resources here? As well, I seem to remember finding a few of your recent tutorials handy dandy. Did you want me to include those, or were they Friends locked? (Can't remember!)
everyone's mad
[info]lildafpunk wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 08:41 pm (UTC)
heyyy you wouldnt mind posting this in the community would you?? i was thinking about starting a memories tutorial section and this would be perfect.
MellyJellyBeans
[info]elf_fu wrote:
Jun. 23rd, 2006 09:38 pm (UTC)
Wouldn't mind at all, but it's not quite finished --I'll put it up as soon as I get somewhat close to finishing!

...I did not realize how much stuff I had!
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