About or help with creativity
Eric Maisel Creativity Central , Eric Maisel and guest blog correspondents from around the world on creativity, creativity coaching, and the creative life.
The Artistan’s Shout, to promote the artwork and people who work in the creative field.
RedBubblers who maintain blogs
morgueFile Classroom
watercolors
Photography lessons by Petteri’s Pontifications
Blue Monster: Where thinking ends and over-thinking begins
A category of its own
Web Markup and Web Standards
Web Standards Group, The Web Standards Group is for web designers and developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).
Listamatic
Little Boxes, Owen Briggs’ Little Boxes – a range of CSS layouts.
Three-column layout, Position is everything three column layout – showing all columns the same length.
A list Apart, a special issue on version targeting and forward compatibility.
Depiction, a webmaster resource site
CSS tutorials from the Web Standards Group
CSS and centering
arachnophilia — web page development tool
Tomorrow’s CSS Today, an article that outlines which browsers to guide your decisions about CSS
Taming lists with CSS
MediaWiki, is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia.
Photography
Nature Scapes
zone system, developed by Ansel Adams
New York Institute of Photography
Technical recommendations
Basic “rules”
Digital Photography School
Words are Pictures
Capture NX2 software and Curves
Capture NX and brightening
The Luminous Landscape, landscape, nature, and documentary photography – many tutorials
leading lines
About IR photography
Critiquing your own photography
Water droplets tutorial
Orton effect tutorial
Photo Naturalist, tips and tutorials for photographers
Photography colleges, 50 free open courses online
photographic lighting equipment
Critiquing your own photos
Passion for Pixels
Double Exposure
- Street Photography:
- 5 Tips for Great Street Photography
- 10 Tips For Photojournalists
- Street Photography and Photojournalism
- Analogue Photojournalism & Street Photography
- 1:1 with the News
- Kairos – The Decisive Moment
- All Street Portraiture
- Candid Photography
Websites for Photography
SimplePhoto
PageScene
PhotoShelter
Photoshop sites
Textures and Patterns in Photoshop
Photoshop training
Total Training, DVD-based and online video training.
Lynda.com, online training via QuickTime videos.
Creating grunge brushes
Grunge Style Illustration Tutorial
Grunge background
Create a grunge border
Photoshop Tower, Photoshop tutorials
Layers Magazine
PS Fanatic, for Photoshop fans
Vignette, how to create a vignette or soft fade in Photoshop.
Photoshop tutorials, some free videos.
Photoshop disasters
Digeretus – PS articles and tutorials
non-classic dodging and burning, Russell Brown tutorial
10 free brushes
Russell Brown tutorials
Photography textures
Free 3D textures
zen textures
CG textures
Texture Warehouse
Typography and Fonts
The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst’s classic book now in development for the web
ilovetypography
Web Style Guide (type)
Typofonderie
Our type: fine type from Europe
My fonts
Exljbris: free font library
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing
Photoshop tutorials on just about everything
wordie to generate word clouds
WordPress
Codex
Development
WordPress Planet
Design
UnBeige
Design Matters podcasts
Ideas on ideas
Death by Kerning
Editing and Grammar
Apostrophe Abuse
Typo hunt across America
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! , (Hardcover at amazon.com) illustrated by Bonnie Timmons (with Lynne Truss).
The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes!”,(Hardcover at amazon.com), illustrated by Bonnie Timmons (with Lynne Truss).
Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!, (Hardcover released on August 21, 2008), illustrated by Bonnie Timmons (with Lynne Truss).
Writing
Salt Marsh Diary
Marginalia
Word Collage
Wordsmithing
Podictionary – for word lovers
Oxford English Dictionary word site
Word Lab, with naming generators and a forum for brainstorming.
Folk etymology
Collective nouns
Newspapers online
- New York Times
- WSJ Deal Journal
- Anchorage Daily News
- The Times Picayune, Everything New Orleans
- Seattle Times
- Denver Post
- Washington Post
- Baltimore Sun
- San Francisco
- Dan Bernstein, columnist with the Press Enterprise
Cartoonist online
Color Planning
Color schemes generator 2
Eric Meyer’s color-blend tool
Color Scheme Chooser, color combination aid.
Special Effects
Highslide Highslide JS used on this site (image, above right) is open source JavaScript software that enables popup
windows.
Lightbox, Lightbox is another script used to overlay images on the current page.
Bonnie Timmons — my sibling
Bonnie Timmons
Hold Your Horses: Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses…No Matter What, now in paperback. Written and illustrated by the inimitable Bonnie Timmons.
You are talented!