10 Inspiring sites to gain Photoshop inspiration

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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?

Author of this post: Sebastiano

Sebastiano is 22-year-old Italian student of economic with a great passion for webdesign, particularly for photoshop. See all posts by: Sebastiano

42 Comments (Leave a Comment)

Oak Stevens

May 11, 2009

Cool selection of sites, thanks for all the inspiration!
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SJL Web Design

April 28, 2009

thanks for the awesome list :)
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Nicky

March 17, 2009

Cool, Thanks! N
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saurabh shah

March 13, 2009

nice list man …
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Diego

March 11, 2009

Recommended site: http://www.artistsofphotoshop.com
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certblog

March 5, 2009

Wooo…. You are looking professional designer. I m just newbie. HaHa

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Bhanu

February 26, 2009

Greate post. I especially found it interesting…
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thinkflick

February 25, 2009

Great URLs published on this page and I am sure they will help alot.

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John MacMenamin

February 9, 2009

Those are some awesome sites!

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Fabien barral

January 30, 2009

happy to be in the list, thanks…
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Dainis Graveris

January 18, 2009

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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Kayla

January 17, 2009

Thanks for sharing these! Sometimes finding the right inspiration is the hardest part of being a designer.
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Dave

January 16, 2009

Great posting! Thanks for the links.
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John MacMenamin

January 14, 2009

Great list I forgot about behance.

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Social Network Desig

January 12, 2009

do you have a list of social network designs?
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Godserv

January 8, 2009

Those are beautiful. Love this collection. Thanks for exposing them.

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Mushex Antaranian

January 6, 2009

p.s. look at paul mccartney official page .. hehe..

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Mushex Antaranian

January 6, 2009

thanks, men, you really helped me :)

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Design Shard

January 6, 2009

@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
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ChrisG- Art Director

January 6, 2009

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
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Sebastiano Guerriero

January 6, 2009

@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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Mushex Antaranian

January 6, 2009

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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Jumping Dog Design

January 5, 2009

Great list, thanks for sharing…
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David

January 5, 2009

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 ;-))
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Angie Bowen

January 5, 2009

Great list of inspirational sites. I also like to look through Deviant Art and the various CSS galleries

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