Section 1: Graphics Programs

Fireworks - Macromedia

• Macromedia Fireworks
  Main Site. Download a free trial, purchase here. Free templates and tutorials, Fireworks 4 tips and tricks, extensions, updates.
  
  
• Macromedia Fireworks Downloads
  Download updates, extensions, help files, and more directly from Macromedia's site.
  
  
• Macromedia Fireworks Newsgroup.
  Active newsgroup and good for asking questions, finding good answers, sharing ideas.
  
  
• Fireworks Effects: Enhance Your Designs
  by Wendy Peck for WebReference.com. Excellent, thorough tutorial to help you choose and work with various effects in Fireworks.
  
  
• Fireworks in Layers
  by Wendy Peck for WebReference.com. Great tutorial to help you learn how to work with layers, or to give you some great tips as well.
  
  
• Lynda.com
  Visit noted Fireworks expert Lynda Weinman's Web site for tips, tutorials, downloads, courses, a Fireworks forum and more on Fireworks (older versions, too, not just the latest).
  
  
• Macromedia Fireworks Resources
  by Sue Chastain, About.com's Guide to Graphics Software. Very thorough annotated listing for learning Fireworks, tips and tutorials, and so much here! Great for newbies through advanced users.
  
  
• Macromedia Fireworks Resources
  Tom Franks, About.com's Fireworks Guide, provides a good variety of annotated link resources to tutorials, tips, info.
  
  
• Menus with Beauty and Brains: Fireworks Rollovers
  Wendy Peck for WebReference.com. Another of Wendy's outstanding tutorials will help you create rollovers easily with Fireworks.
  
  
• Playing with Fire
  Incredibly great tutorials for Fireworks, Flash and Freehand, Dreamweaver UltraDev, Bryce and Poser. Active online forum, too.
  
  

Painter - Corel

• Procreate Painter
  Painter product and information page.
  
  
• How to Use the Color Overlay Tool in Metacreations' Painter 6 To Colorize Black & White Clipart
  by the highly talented Jaguarwoman. Very well done tutorial that applies to so many graphics ideas. Tutorial for Painter 5 or 6, but can apply to other graphics programs, too.
  
  
• Jeremy Sutton's Painter 5 Tips
  Good tips and resources. Sutton also has a book out, mentioned at the website, too.
  
  

Paint Shop Pro - JASC

• JASC
  Paint Shop Pro website. Download a trial version, purchase or upgrade via the website, find out more details about Paint Shop Pro, see samples, more.
  
  
• 1 Pixel Bevel
  Well done, easy to understand tutorial on making a one-pixel bevel that's sharp and clean. By Craig A. Erskine, solardreamstudios.com. Very high quality imagery.
  
  
• Abstract Dimensions
  Very thorough site devoted to Paint Shop Pro tips and tutorials. In addition to the helpful tutorials, tips, for versions 4 through the latest version, you'll find links to plugins, a bulletin board, and even freebie graphics (buttons, horizontal rules, backgrounds, web sets).
  
  
• Animation Shop Tips
  by Richie Dumlao. Impressively high quality graphics work. Using JASC's Animation Shop included with PSP, learn how to make spinning text, a rotating disc, combining animations, mapping an image to a sphere, stargate, and more.
  
  
• Classy Glassy Buttons: Glass Buttons in Paint Shop Pro
  Another of Wendy's unsurpassed, well done tutorials that are easy to follow, have great explanations, illustrations, and resources. The glass button is gorgeous and so easy to make following these instructions. See also the Photoshop version below.
  
  
• Creating Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro 6
  An entire website devoted to tutorials and tips for Paint Shop Pro. The link here is for version 6, but tips and tutorials for previous versions are here as well. Very helpful website.
  
  
• Curved Text
  Abstract Dimensions provides a good tutorial on how to make curved text with Paint Shop Pro 6. This is just one of many tutorials for PaintShop Pro, from versions 4 through 7.
  
  
• Digital Web Gold - Metallic Tutorials Resources
  A fabulous listing of dozens of tutorials on metallic graphics, for text, pipes, tubes, wire and cables, rivets and screws, interfaces, bevels and rings, and more. For gold, silver, steel, chrome, bronze, copper, and more, and for shiny, brushed, antique, rust, and more. For Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Illustrator, Painter, ULead Photo Impact, KPT.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro FAQ
  for the newsgroup comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro. Many questions answered here. Good resource.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Tips
  by Laurie McCanna. Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced tips.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
  JASC's listings for tutorials, some at the JASC site and some elsewhere. Very helpful resource.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
  by Craig A. Erskine, solardreamstudios.com. Excellent, easy to understand tutorials for PSP, including 1 pixel bevel, button masks, various lighting effects, the popular Mac style button, jewel or glossy (shiny) effects, advanced GIF tips with transparency, seamless background tile images, more. High quality imagery here.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
  by T. Michael Clark. Tutorials include: 3D-Button, Shadow Text, Making Selections for Special Effects, The Magic of Masks, Transparent GIF's, See Through Text, EZ Beveled Text, EZ Embossed Text, Gold Buttons and Bars with Alien Skin, Cool Chrome, Colored Spheres, Textured Spheres, Gold Text, Yahoo! style buttons, Page Curl, 3D brushed metal buttons, Steel Plate and Screws (A Must See Tutorial), PSP5 - transparent gifs, layers, masks. Also includes information on his new electronic book on CD-ROM, "PSP Professional Tips & Techniques."
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Lori's Web Graphics
  Author of the popular Paint Shop Pro 6 Power has a website with lots of tutorials for PSP 6, PSP , and a few third-party tutorials.
  
  
• Paint Shop Pro Users Group
  Visit their website, join the group. Tutorials, tips, resources. Good group, good site.
  
  
• Production Graphics, with Wendy Peck
  Wendy Peck's tutorials at WebReference.com are easy to understand and cover many basic and advanced skills for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and other graphics programs. Highly recommended.
  [by Wendy Peck, Graphics Expert for WebReference.com]
  
  
• PSP Interactive Zone
  Lots of tutorials here, for new users and more advanced users for both of PSP5 and PSP6.
  
  
• PSP Toybox
  An entire site devoted to Paint Shop Pro. You'll find tutorials, PSP tubes, PSP shapes, help for PSP 7 and 8, links to resources, more.
  
  
• PSP Tubes
  High quality tubes available here, links to resources for Paint Shop Pro and more. Via Jane's Place.
  
  
• PSP Tutorials
  by Richie Dumlao. Impressively high quality graphics. Learn how to create metals, pipes, screws, buttons, textures, orbs, curved pipes and various types of curved creations, much more.
  
  
• pspPower
  Sign up for the newsletter for helpful tips for Paint Shop Pro, put together by Lori Davis, author of Paint Shop Pro 6 Power (Muska & Lipman Publishing). Excellent newsletter.
  
  
• Victory with Vectors; or How to Create Curved Text with PSP7
  by Linda Cole for WDVL. Well done, clear tutorial using PSP7.
  
  
• The WDVL - Introduction to Paint Shop Pro 5
  (Web Developers Virtual Library) 45+ pages of tutorials, by Linda Cole.
  
  

Photoshop - Adobe

• Adobe Photoshop - official site
  Section at Adobe for information about Photoshop, purchase and download Photoshop, patches, find tutorials, resources, more.
  [adobe.com]
  
  
• 3D Dingbats: Bringing a Dingbat to Life
  by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns as guest columnist for WebReference.com's Graphics Experts section. Learn to use some of Photoshop 6's new features, how to use gradients, selecting tools, and more.
  [by Shirley Kaiser, Guest Expert for WebReference.com]
  
  
• Classy Glassy Button (Photoshop)
  by Wendy Peck, WebReference.com. Another of Wendy's unsurpassed, well done tutorials that are easy to follow, have great explanations, illustrations, and resources. The glass button is gorgeous and so easy to make following these instructions.
  [by Wendy Peck, Graphics Expert for WebReference.com]
  
  
• Creating Decorative Photographic Edges
  Check out this tutorial from Espresso Graphics to see how to make some very interesting edges on your photos. Many other tutorials at this site, too.
  
  
• Creating Web Graphics Using Layers and Opacity
  by Kyle Cassidy for InformIT. Helpful tutorial on how to work with layers and opacity in Photoshop for creative, professional impact. Easy to understand.
  [04/05/2002 by Kyle Cassidy for InformIT]
  
  
• Custom Brushes in Photoshop
  Learn how to create your own custom brushes. Well done, easy to understand tutorial.
  [by Laurie McCannas, mcannas.com]
  
  
• Using Custom Brushes for More Painterly Effects
  Short tutorial showing how to do some interesting painting-like effects with brushes. Brushes included for download.
  [by Laurie McCannas, mcannas.com]
  
  
• Cut-out Text
  Great tutorial by Deepspaceweb. [Websitetips note: This cut-out technique with layers could also be used for textured text from a photo, image, texture, or whatever your imagination wishes to do.]
  
  
• Digital Web Gold - Metallic Tutorials Resources
  A fabulous listing of dozens of tutorials on metallic graphics, for text, pipes, tubes, wire and cables, rivets and screws, interfaces, bevels and rings, and more. For gold, silver, steel, chrome, bronze, copper, and more, and for shiny, brushed, antique, rust, and more. For Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Illustrator, Painter, ULead Photo Impact, KPT.
  
  
• Fun With Filters
  Tutorials and tips for Photoshop 4, 5, 6, by Anders Qvicker.
  
  
• How to Remove Red Eye in Photoshop (version 4 and Up)
  by Sue Chastain, About.com. Very clear, easy directions to remove the red eye effect in photographs.
  [by Sue Chastain, About.com Graphics Guide]
  
  
• Levels Adjustment
  Concise, easy to understand tutorial on using Levels to adjust a photograph (or other image). Includes image samples to show steps along the way. Well done.
  [by April Siegfried, Bungalow 104]
  
  
• Making A Border Background with Photoshop 5.5
  by SKDesigns. Learn layers, the new Web-Safe Color Palette and other features with Photoshop's latest release while making a background graphic for the web.
  [by Shirley Kaiser, for WebsiteTips.com]
  
  
• Making Outlined Shapes with Photoshop 5.5
  by SKDesigns. Learn a couple of different ways of easily making outlined shapes (squares, circles, rectangles, more) with Photoshop 5.5.
  [by Shirley Kaiser, for WebsiteTips.com]
  
  
• Photoshop 6 Review: What it Means for Web Work
  Wendy Peck's (WebReference.com) terrific detailed review, insight, screenshots and samples about the new Photoshop 6. Check out her article to learn about this new version's amazing features.
  [by Wendy Peck, Graphics Expert for WebReference.com]
  
  
• Photoshop 6 Review
  New article at Digital Video Editing, by Tim Wilson, Producer, Digital Media Net. Discusses the added new features of Photoshop 6, including vector graphics capabilities, added preset shapes, improved printing for type, major changes in text management (no more text box!), expanded PDF capabilities, toolbar changes and additions, workflow changes, unlimited layers now, more preset brushes.
  [by Tim Wilson for Digitalvideoediting.com]
  
  
• Photoshop Resource Tutorials
  Quite a few helpful tutorials for Photoshop at this all-Photoshop site.
  [photoshopresource.com]
  
  
• Photoshop Techniques
  by the Pixel Foundry. Tutorials include: special photo edges, neon objects, realistic shadow for PostScript artwork, how to use PostScript art as a stencil, create an embossed object, create, weathered, rough graphics, more....
  [pixelfoundry.com]
  
  
• Photoshop Tips
  by Laurie McCanna. Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced tips.
  [by Laurie McCanna, mccannas.com]
  
  
• Plastic Button
  by Robouk Designs. Buttons are high quality and look great. Better if you're more familiar with Photoshop, although it's easy to follow. Helpful resource. See also Wendy Peck's tutorial on Glass buttons above.
  
  
• Production Graphics, with Wendy Peck
  Wendy Peck's tutorials at WebReference.com are easy to understand and cover many basic and advanced skills for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and other graphics programs. Highly recommended.
  [by Wendy Peck, Graphics Expert for WebReference.com]
  
  
• Scanlines
  by Jared Beckerman, x-tremefx.net. Very high quality graphics here. Easy tutorial to follow for those popular scanlines, TV scanlines look.
  Note: Follow this tutorial with other graphics programs, too, not just Photoshop. (While you're there, check out the other tutorials, too - lots of good ones.)
  
  
• Text around a circle with Photoshop
  from Designs By Mark - Photoshop Tips and Tutorials. Good tutorial, straightforward approach, good diagrams, easy to understand and follow. Many other good tutorials and tips at his site, too.
  
  
• The Ultimate Guide to Photoshop 7
  Ben Willmore's multi-page guide to the new features in Photoshop 7. Includes the new Healing Brush, painting tools, new brush options, the new File Browser, spell checking, and more. Screenshots, samples, insightful info. Thorough review and great information.
  [by Ben Willmore, benwillmore.com]
  
  

Sites Devoted to Photoshop

• Designs by Mark - Photoshop Tips
  Fabulous tutorials here, including quite a few text effects, pop-up buttons, interfaces, gold, metal, wood, text in a circle, how to make screws, making rounded corners, much more. Also has some basics - making a circle, square, triangle. They're straightforward, uncluttered, have good diagrams, helpful hints and tips. He's got quite a few tutorials. Well worth a visit.
  
  
• Photoshop Tips & Tricks for Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced
  Shangara Singh, Certified Photoshop Expert, has at least 28 tips and tricks available at his site. Reduce red eye, draw filled circles or rectangles with rounded corners, import custom swatches and brushes, work with layers, create a snow scene, work with shadows, correct color cast, create water drops, more. Excellent resource.
  [by Shangara Singh, photoshopace.co.uk]
  
  
• Photoshop Tutorials
  by T. Michael Clark. Basics -- Transparent GIFs, Shapes and Drop Shadows, Using Layer Masks, 3D Textured Text, EZ Chrome Text, Soft Beveled Text with Alien Skin, Raised Text (Label Gun Text), EZ Gold Text, Runny Text, Metal Textures, Wood Textures, Textured Spheres, Quick Mask Photo Effects, Metal Plate with Screws, Flag in the Wind, Page curl, Text in a Circle (Photoshop 5), Color Replacer, more.
  [by T. Michael Clark, grafx-design.com]
  
  
• ScreamDesign Photoshop Tips
  Fantastic tutorials and tips from Photoshop versions 3-6, and for beginning through highly advanced techniques. Well written with accompanying graphics and diagrams to easily understand and follow along. Also offers a CD-Rom. (membership required for access to tips)
  
  
• The WDVL Introduction to Webdesign with Photoshop
  by Selena Sol and Kenji Tachibana. Photoshop Basics, Basic and Advanced Image Manipulation.
  
  

Photoshop Actions

• Action XChange
  Major repository for Photoshop actions. Well over 2,200 Photoshop actions available. Arranged in categories, (including New and Most Popular) or you can browse, or use the site search for what you need. Also has links to more sites with actions, a discussion forum. Upload your own actions here, download what's at the site. Very popular site, and many great, helpful actions.
  
  
• ActionAddiction
  Free custom Photoshop actions, tutorials, forum, and more for Photoshop 4 through the present version. Well organized, easy to use site that has actions, tutorials, reviews, and more related to Photoshop.
  [by Graham Jupp, actionaddiction.com]
  
  
• Actions
  Tutorials on how to make actions and why, actions categorized (textures actions, fonts actions, buttons and bars actions, more).
  
  
• Actions by the Den
  Gold, Black Hills Gold, Chrome, bullet holes, crushed rock, many textures, water, gradients (this is especially handy!), brushed metal, screws, wire frames, gemstones, more. At least 30-40+ Photoshop actions here.
  
  
• Deepspaceweb Photoshop Actions
  Hundreds of Photoshop actions here. Search site, also categorized by type (text, textures, photo effects, time-savers, misc., top 25 downloads, new additions. Tutorial for how to install and use actions. Great site.
  
  
• phong - Photoshop Time Saving Actions
  Time-saving actions here designed for daily, practical needs.
  
  
• ScreamDesign Photoshop Actions
  (Previously Andy's Art Attack). Dozens of text effects, texture effects, effects for buttons (there's an action for the famous Apple website plastic buttons, too), interfaces, and more. Glass, plastic, metal, LCD screen, planets, inner and outer bevels, fire, full website interfaces (yes, as an action!). Excellent resource. (now has membership fee)
  
  
• Screenz.de - Photoshop Actions Live!
  Categories: text effects, photo effects, textures, misc., Top Ten downloads, Latest additions, more. Hundreds of Photoshop actions here, forum, resources.
  
  

Photoshop Brushes

• comp.graphics.apps.photoshop: Photoshop Brushes
  Stars, textures, copyright and registered symbols, more. Small collection but well done.
  [by comp.graphics.apps.photoshop]
  
  
• Custom Brushes in Photoshop
  Learn how to create your own custom brushes. Well done, easy to understand tutorial.
  [by Laurie McCannas, mcannas.com]
  
  
• DeepSpaceWeb
  More than a dozen brushes contributed here. Beautifully done, rated, good examples. Textures, shapes, stars, twirls, bubbles, rain, sparkles, buttons, more.
  [by DeepSpaceWeb.com]
  
  
• Free Photoshop Brushes from Your Guide
  Very nice collection of brushes, including a variety of shapes, textures, designs, leaves, flowers, hearts, balloons, fish, seashell, pawprints, more. From About.com's Graphics Software Guide. See also the table of contents for dozens of links to more! Great resource!
  [by Sue Chastain, About.com's Graphics Software Guide]
  
  
• Photoshop Brushes
  High quality Grunge brushes. Definitely unique and interesting.
  [by Misprinted Type]
  
  
• Photoshop Brushes
  Variety of brushes offered here, including stars, snowflakes, animals, textures, hearts, zodiac signs, puppy prints, various designs and shapes, bubbles, drop shadows, spheres, Earth, leaves, more.
  [reksoft.ru]
  
  
• Photoshop Brushes by Sage
  Dozens of high quality free brushes, and well over 350 brushes for sale divided into 12 sets, each containing 30 exclusive brushes which can easily be used to make attractive borders or frames and matching buttons or icons. High quality and well done.
  [by Sage Winyard]
  
  
• Using Custom Brushes for More Painterly Effects
  Short tutorial showing how to do some interesting painting-like effects with brushes. Brushes included for download.
  [by Laurie McCannas, mcannas.com]
  
  

Section 2: Filters and Plug-Ins

• AFH Beveler Plugin Filters
  Easily create chiseled, beveled edges for photos, buttons, other images. Free plug-in for PCs.
  
  
• Alien Skin
  Makers of Eye Candy, Xenofex graphics programs plug-ins with powerful abilities. Well worth every penny. WebsiteTips.com wholeheartedly recommends Alien Skin products.
  
  
  • Alien Skin Filters used with Photoshop
    by Laurie McCanna. Good tips here.
    
    
• Auto F/X Studio Bundle Pro 2.0
  Via EyeWire. Bundle with lots of great effects.
  
  
• Edge and Frame Galaxy
  Previously found via i/us (bought out by Eyewire 12-2000), back by popular demand, this plugin has over 1500 filters and effects. Fun to play with and lots of very useful and practical effects for professional or hobby work with your graphics program.
  
  
• The Filter Factory Galleries and Plugins and Andrew's Filter Collections
  Fabulous filters and plugins that are also all free (dozens and dozens of interesting effects and hours of fun and experimenting). They've been around quite awhile and are well-known for being great plugins and filters. Download individually or entire collections.
  
  
• FlamingPear
  Home of the highly popular BladePro and SuperBladePro plugins, Flaming Pear offers a variety of fabulous and inexpensive plugins, such as Flood, LunarCell, Melancholytron, Hue and Cry, and more for your graphics programs.
  
  
• KPT, by Corel
  Fabulous plug-in, originally created by Kai Krause and previously sold by MetaCreations. Included are 10 plug-ins: KPT® Goo, KPT® Equalizer, KPT® Projector, KPT® Gel, KPT® LensFlare, KPT® Turbulence, KPT® Materializer, KPT® Reaction, KPT® SceneBuilder, KPT® SkyEffects. The possibilities are endless. WebsiteTips.com wholeheartedly recommends KPT6.
  
  
• NVR BorderMania^(tm)
  Need a fast, easy way to make buttons? There are at least 16 variations with this free plug-in.
  
  
• The Plugin Site
  Formerly part of the i/us site that was bought by Eyewire, the Plugin Site has familiar freeware and shareware products - the Edge and Frame Galaxy (1500+ filters and effects), Harry Filters (50 free filters), Plugin Commander (manage all your filters), Plugin Galaxy (150 filters), HTML Shrinker, and more.
  
  

BladePro, SuperBladePro - Flaming Pear Software

• Flaming Pear
  Main Website for BladePro and SuperBladePro. BladePro and SuperBladePro are great plug-ins for Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, and other graphics programs. They offer other plug-ins as well. Inexpensive, and trial downloads are available through their website.
  
  
• Blade Pro Tutorial
  by Web Graphics on a Budget.
  
  
• Dizteq's All You Ever Wanted to Know About BladePro
  Great instructions, lots of information.
  
  

BladePro, SuperBladePro Presets:

• SuperBladePro Presets
  by LinkwareGraphics.com, sponsored by SKDesigns. One of the first sites to offer presets for the new SuperBladePro (released September 2000).
  
  Over 100 presets in shiny metal and glass (shiny gold sample shown here), textures, pastels and muted tones, dark and rich colors and more at this unique, rapidly growing, and diverse collection.
  
  
• Blade Pro Presets
  by Bejewelled. Especially nice metals and glass.
  
  
• BladePro Presets
  by Meditating Lizard. Well done, lots here.
  
  
• Creative Madness BladePro Presets
  Gorgeous presets available here! Dozens of high quality presets. Well worth a visit.
  
  
• Dami's Demesne BladePro Presets
  More gorgeous presets here. Huge collection, well displayed.
  
  
• ShadowyMist's BladePro Presets
  Presets at this site, and links to lots more.
  
  
• BladePro WebRing
  Check out all the sites with BladePro presets, information, tips, tutorials. Or join the BladePro Ring
  
  

Section 3: 3D Graphics Programs

Bryce - Corel

• Corel Bryce
  Product and information page at Corel.
  
  
• Bryce Gallery
  Sign up for the Bryce newsletter, also find tutorials, free downloads, more.
  
  
• Bryce Portals Around the World
  Visit this site to view some of the high quality creations made with Bryce 3D by artists throughout the world, or join this webring, too.
  
  
• BSolutions - Tips and Tricks for Bryce 3D
  Good How To's.
  
  
• Deep Textures
  Tutorials for modeling and deep textures (very well done), a gallery, more info.
  
  
• Hilltop Design's Free Weekly Bryce Materials
  Download free materials, also find links to tutorials, tips, other Bryce info sites.
  
  
• Tutorial: A Simple Waterfall
  by Peter Sharpe. Good tutorial. More at his site.
  
  

Section 4: Multimedia, Motion Programs

Flash - Macromedia

• Macromedia Flash
  Main site.
  
  
• Are You Designing For Your Eyes Only?
  by Chris MacGregor, Flash expert. Flazoom.com. Great article about readability, usable type and font size issues, contrast issues, content issues. Excellent. Then again, everything I've read by Chris MacGregor is outstanding. Check out the rest of this site, also by Chris MacGregor. It's entirely devoted to Flash.
  [link via Digital-Web What's New]
  
  
• Browserdetection
  Tutorial on how to make this a smooth process and to get the Flash plug-in if needed.
  
  
• Evaluating Flash 5
  C|Net's David J. Emberton's article about Flash 5. Links to Flash tutorials, resources, books, more.
  
  
• Flash Tutorials
  from WEBGFXcenter -- motion, fade, morphing, movements, more.
  
  
• Flasher
  Home for the very popular Flasher e-mail discussion list. Archives, links, book recommendations at the site.
  
  
• Flashgamer.com
  by Netron. A site devoted to games made with Flash, by Macromedia. Also has tutorials (sliding menus, buttons, preloading, actionscript), resources, Flash info.
  
  
• FlashKit Flash Tutorials
  All levels of tutorials here from beginners through advanced and rated by visitors. Terrific resource.
  
  
• Flashmagazine.com
  An entire site dedicated to Flash. Latest news, articles, conferences, newsletter, resources, reviews and books, more.
  
  
• FlashZone
  Another site devoted to Flash. Lots of information and resources here.
  
  
• Flash Tips
  By Lynda.com (Lynda Weinman). Tips, including some available in Quicktime format.
  
  
• FLASH Web Design
  Hillman Curtis's website for the book. Interested in reading a book by the world's foremost Flash authority? This is it. Combined with other foremost Flash developers, this is packed full of direction and inspiration. Or you can buy it here via Amazon.com.
  
  
• Flazoom.com
  An entire site devoted to Flash, by Chris MacGregor.
  
  
• Hillman Curtis
  Want some creative inspiration by the top Flash authority? Check out Hillman Curtis's Flash portfolio!
  
  
• Macromedia Flash Resources
  from About.com (Sue Chastain). Learn about the new Flash 5 features, general info on Flash, sections for newbies through experienced Flash developers, Flash clipart and sound loops, tutorials, source files, add-ons and utilities, third party software, support and training.
  
  
• Ten Sound Tips for Flash Users
  "David Emberton walks you through the process of bringing music and sound effects into Flash, from preparation to compression and delivery." Helpful tutorial for sound and Flash.
  [02/22/2002 by Dave Emberton for InformIT]
  
  
• Webmonkey
  offers a variety of tutorials for beginning to advanced users of Flash. Here's a link to an introductory tutorial: Intro to Flash 4. Many more at the site.
  
  

Section 5: Other Graphics Programs

• The Gimp
  A freely distributed GNU image manipulation program for Unix and X, Windows, and Mac. Has lots of devoted users and has a good reputation.
  
  
• Trellian Button Factory
  Quickly create stunning website graphics. This inexpensive program will help you create buttons, menus, logos and icons with or without previous graphics experience. Easy to use.
  
  
• Xara Webstyle
  A vector graphics template based program that allows you to create navigation bars with rollover effects and DHTML menus, animated banner ads, headings and many other graphic types - or even do basic photo processing, all with the click of a button.
  
  

Section 6: Graphics Tablets

Wacom Tablet

• Wacom Tablet Website
  
  
• Tip of the Week
  at the Wacom Site
  
  

Section 7: Photography

Tutorials, Articles

• Basic Photography Skills for Web Developers
  by Genevieve Shiffrar, College of Letters & Science web developer, UCBerkeley. Notes and examples for composition, lighting, taking photos for the Web, and more. Well done, informative.
  
  
• Jasc Photography Center
  Dozens of tutorials on digital photography and manipulating, correcting images. By Jasc, makers of Paint Shop Pro and other graphics-related programs.
  
  
• Photography Tips for Web Developers
  by Genevieve Shiffrar, College of Letters & Science with Seth Novogrodsky, L&S Computer Resources, UCBerkeley. Informative tutorial on composition, lighting, taking photos for the Web (and in general), links to more resources.
  
  
• Planet Photoshop Photography Tutorials 
  Quite a few tutorials that cover a wide range of topics for digital photography and Photoshop.
  
  

Sites Devoted to Photography

• Digital Photography, Instant Gratification
  Photography tips, tutorials by the Internet Brothers. Tutorials and tips from beginning to advanced. Differences between digital and print photography, techniques for good digital photos, advice on digital cameras, touch up tips, Quick Time Virtual Reality panoramas, digital photo storage, samples.
  
  
• Photography Tips and Techniques
  PhotoLinks has dozens of tutorials and tips covering beginners through advanced, and special areas, too, including nature photography, portrait photography, darkroom techniques, more. Great resource here.
  
  
• Photo.net
  Another site devoted to photo tips, tutorials, resources, products, reviews, more.
  
  

Section 8: Computer Requirements for Graphics Programs

• RAM Requirements for Graphics
  by WebReference's Giordan on Graphics. What's RAM, VRAM, DRAM, EDO and more? Great explanations of all this, what it is, why it matters, and recommendations for what's needed for all our graphics programs to keep our computers running fast (and not crashing all the time!)