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Now we’ve got the Photoshop basics which enable us to use any type of tutorial in the most friendly manner.
It’s time to pull out the creativity and realize our own creations. Where does inspiration come from?, Anywhere: a film, a videogame, a skateboard, a site… Having said that I will propose 10 amazing sites that will certainly provide good ideas where you can start from.
1) FFFFOUND!
It’s one of mine most preferred sources, FFFFound! is a web service that allows the users to post & share their favourite images found on the web.
2) COOL SHOWCASE
It’s the marriage of Sergio Milardovich (web programmer) & Leonardo Correa (designer) ideas. CoolShowcase is a cyberspace gallery for the work of freelance digital artists, graphic designers and photographers.
3) GRAPHIC-EXCHANGE
It’s a nice site where Fabien Barrall (graphic designer/photographer/art director) shows the works of his favourite graphic designers, photographers, artists and designers.
4) PSDTUTS FLICKR GROUP
Another talent den is Flickr. For my point of view PSDTUTS is the best photoshop blog focusing on photoshop, and its Flickr group is made of 4500+ members.
5) ALL CAPS PROJECT
Graffiti represents a fascinating creativity source and, on the following site, there are several really unique.
6) SKATEBOARDS
Skateboards.com is an unusual resource. It treats e-commerce of products that are examples of creativity and originality.
7) CLICK FOR ART
ClickForArt is an online store of art prints, printed boxed canvasses, art prints mounted in chunky contemporary frames or in our ornate stately frames.
8) STATION
It’s a videogames gallery. Videogames covers are graphic works as good as film covers.
9) CG SOCIETY
The CG SOCIETY is the most respected and accessible global organization for creative digital artists.
10) BEHANCE
It’s a network that provides visibility to the works of creative professionals. Behance is a free platform for the world’s leading creative professionals.
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When I’m looking for inspiration, the above mentioned sites are those I surf first. What are yours?
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Great list of inspirational sites. I also like to look through Deviant Art and the various CSS galleries
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Nice list indeed. I have wanted to use FFFFound forever now, but have never been able to track down and invite. Have any?
(You had to have known that one was coming ;-))
Great list, thanks for sharing…
hey, nice collection
maybe you can help me, i was looking for the some inspirational musicians sites, but only i liked was Green Day’s web page.. do you know something else ???
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@David
Sorry but I can’t help you ;-)
@Mushex
You can find inspirational musicians sites on bestwebgallery.com(and other css galleries)
Here is an example:
http://www.garynock.com/
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I know a few of those, but there are a few I didn’t. Nice links.
Here’s one for you:
Gig Posters
http://www.gigposters.com
You know, you ask people to post links, but… now I’m not sure if you realize this… but when people post links, your blog gives a really snarky page, scolding them for posting “link spam” and tells them to rewrite their post. If you’re going to ask people to post links, you might want to look into fixing that.
I had a nice long list of sites, but Gig Posters is the top of the list. Maybe your site will let me post that one without slapping my wrist.
Chris
@Mushex - I read an article a couple of months ago on abuzeedo for rock band web site inspiration http://www.abduzeedo.com/web-design-rock-bands-sites
@Chris - Hmm thanks for letting me know about the link spam page ill look in to removing it somehow. and then we can enjoy your list of sites :)
UPDATE: You can now post as many links as you want in the comments, the comment may get sent to the moderation que where i can approve it. wp-spamfree wordpressplugin was over riding the options, a big thanks to the kind people on twitter who helped solve it - http://twitter.com/leads , http://twitter.com/robinreekers , http://twitter.com/BinaryMoon
thanks, men, you really helped me :)
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p.s. look at paul mccartney official page .. hehe..
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Those are beautiful. Love this collection. Thanks for exposing them.
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do you have a list of social network designs?
Great list I forgot about behance.
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Great posting! Thanks for the links.
Thanks for sharing these! Sometimes finding the right inspiration is the hardest part of being a designer.
Pretty great collection, surprisingly several sites are new for me, however for me behance.com site is the best photoshop inspiration for a long time already, and yes, of course deviantart too.
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happy to be in the list, thanks…
Those are some awesome sites!
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Great URLs published on this page and I am sure they will help alot.
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Greate post. I especially found it interesting…
Wooo…. You are looking professional designer. I m just newbie. HaHa
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nice list man …
Cool, Thanks! N
thanks for the awesome list :)
Cool selection of sites, thanks for all the inspiration!
Nice work! Hopefully this will help me at work. -Slumberg
I like the torn paper navigation on the skateboarding.com website, there blog listing looks a bit boring though I think that could do with Jazzing up a bit. The work graphic exchange have produced is fantastic, I will defiantly take some inspiration from them.
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cool list, thanx for sharing