Link Love

Happy Wednesday! There is so many great resources available to us on the web. Here are a few (mostly software support/tutorial) links that help me time and time again.

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Photoshop:

FREE Adobe Photoshop Brushes
(FYI: the Nagel brushes are incredible!)
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshopbrushes/
Free_Adobe_Photoshop_Brushes_to_Download.htm

Rookie Designer podcast & blog
http://www.rookiedesigner.com/rookie/

National Association of Photoshop Professionals
http://www.photoshopuser.com/

Designorati
http://designorati.com/

Photoshop Support.com
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/

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Painter:

Jinny Brown's Pixel Alley
http://www.pixelalley.com/

Hot-rodding your brushes in Corel Painter (article)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?
t=55589&highlight=hot-rodding

Lynda.com's Getting Started with P X
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=124

Creating brushes in P 9 (David Nagel article)
http://animationartist.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=30736

Concept Art Painter Forums
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=23

Corel Tutorials on P X
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1170190221936

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General house-keeping:
Mozy offsite back-up storage
http://mozy.com/
(Take advantage of their great offer- 2 GB FREE offsite storage - no strings!! - plus extra space incentives to pass the word along to your friends )

If you would like to sign up for Mozy and would like an extra special "treat" :), please use my referral URL:
https://mozy.com/?code=BEYE87
If you use my referral URL to join, we will BOTH get an extra 256 MB extra space (free and clear, no strings attached). Pretty cool, huh?

Edited to add:
You Send It
Send large files to your clients via this replacement FTP server! I just learned about it. Cool!
http://www.yousendit.com/
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Learn about school visits:

These two artists have great information on their web sites regarding school visits. Helpful and well-written!! I find that School Visit information is not the easiest to come by, so it is GREAT that these artists are sharing this informaton with us!! Thank you, ladies!!

Grace Lin
http://www.gracelin.com/index.php
Go to the "Visits" page and there is a whole sub-section.

Elizabeth O. Dulemba
http://dulemba.com/index_visits.html
Go to the "Visits" page for School Visits info.
ALSO, visit Elizabeth's "Etc." page for lots of useful information!! It's a great site!!

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...and (last but not least!!!!)
A couple of sites, just for fun:

Candy Blog
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/

Etsy
(I know this is probably not a new one on anybody, but it is a wonderful site and it's name bears repeating, over and over and over and over...)
http://www.etsy.com/