Resources for Artists, Designers, and Photographers
Saatchi Gallery -- The biggest dealer in fine art. Great site for artists to network and show off their skills.
Ads of the World -- Examples of some of the best advertising from around the world. Great place to find inspiration.
Color Palette Generator -- Site that creates color palettes from uploaded photos. Useful tool for designers.
101 Essential Freelancing Resources -- Comprehensive list of links. Bookmark this one!
Action Fx -- Free Photoshop actions, brushes, tutorials, and graphic elements. High quality.
The Plugin Site -- Comprehensive list of Photoshop plugins
Bittbox.com -- Tons of great tutorials and free graphic bits and pieces. This site is a huge help for Adobe Illustrator users!Complete Color Matching Guide -- Scroll to the bottom for a list of several different color pallette generators.
Chicago Artist's Resources -- Pretty self explanatory. Lots of useful ideas and information for Chicago artists.
TheCoolHunter.net -- Track the latest trends in art, design, music, etc.
MyFonts -- Find fonts, identify unkown fonts, and lots more good stuff.
PSLover -- Enormus collection of Photoshop tutorials.
DesignersToolbox.com -- Legal forms for designers, lots of other resources if you navigate back to their homepage.
The Photoshop Roadmap -- Photoshop tutorial site.
The 32 Best Photography Sites of 2007 -- Good collection of links.
Viewbook.com -- I use this site to create and host my image galleries. Very easy to use, and a nice clean interface.
PhotographyVoter.com -- Basically, its Digg for photographers.
Instructables -- Tutorials for all types of projects from cooking to potato launchers.
Posing 101 for models and Photographers
Traditional Portrait Photography Guides -- Tutorials for posing, lighting, and more.
Free software downloads!
Ubuntu.com -- The most user friendly free Linux OS out there. Break your Microsoft addiction today!
Ubuntu Studio -- Open source operating system, pre-loaded with amazing software for graphics, audio, and video.
www.Apophysis.org -- Make your own 3-d fractals.
Tierazon v.29 -- Make your own 2-d fractals.
Picasa -- Organize, catalog, and search your image collection. Also make slideshows, edit images (limited), and publish to web albums.
GIMP -- Free open-source photo editor. Almost as good as Photoshop.... Almost.
Inkscape -- Open-source vector art editor. Roughly equivalent to Adobe Illustrator.
Audacity -- Free open-source audio recording and editing suite.
Ardour -- Professional-level multitrack audio editing suite for Mac OS X and Linux. You guessed it.... it's free!
Blender -- Free open-source 3-D modeling and animation suite. Oh, and you will definitely need the tutorial for this one!
OpensourceWindows.org -- Good collection of free software links for Windows.
OpensourceMac.org -- Free software for Mac users.
Media Fire -- Free unlimited file hosting and online storage. File sizes up to 100mb.
Links to fellow artists!
www.soblythe.com -- Friend & fellow artist, Blythe Lopez -- Photography, Stationery Designs
www.sitekreator.com/meadphoto -- Friend & fellow artist, Bill Mead -- Wonderful photographs and manipulations
www.toddmeisler.com -- Todd Meisler of ZD Design -- Check it out! Good stuff!
www.CaitlynMcCabe.com -- My sister, Miss Illinois International 2007
Other cool sites! Fractal Universe -- In my artists statement, I wrote a line saying "The universe is a fractal." I meant that in a fanciful, metaphorical sense, but I later found out that there is apparently a scientific theory to this effect.
NOVA: The Elegant Universe -- Watch the entire 3 hour program online! Explains the nuts and bolts of our universe from the smallest to the largest scales. Its well worth the 3 hours, but uts broken up into episodes, so you dont have to watch it all at once. In fact, check out the rest of NOVA's site, it's loaded with good content. -- www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archive/
www.pandora.com - Amazing free streaming music site! Choose your favorite bands or songs, and Pandora will stream them to you, along with recommendations on similar music. Good sound quality.
Archive.org -- Huge database of live concert recordings, old film clips, texts, and archived web pages. I especially love the downloadable recordings of old Grateful Dead concerts. There are some very memorable shows in there. You can spend hours digging around on this site and not realize it.
g2p.org -- Find free mp3's, software, and e-books from all over the interwebs using a special Google search page.
