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Photoshop Lady aims to pick the best free photoshop tutorials around the world and deliver the latest selection tutorials to your hand. Photoshop Lady is updated daily. All of the high quality photoshop tutorials are categorized into 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design. You can also bookmark your favorite tutorials easily and allow you to make your tutorial collection in a single place.

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Source: Photoshop Lady - Best Free Photoshop Tutorials around the World

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PS Brushes has a cleaner look to minimize the usless content and give you direct access to almost all Photoshop Brushes around the internet. All the photoshop brushes are categorized into the following categories, Abstract, Animals, Around the House, Drawings, Fractals, Grunge, Hearts, Humans, Landscapes, Music, Oriental, Outer Space, Patterns, Photos & Frames, Plants, Religious, Scratches, Shapes, Street & Misc Signs, Structural, Text & Type and War Brushes.

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Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.psbrushes.net
License: License Free

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I should have posted this great photoshop tutorial site long time ago, but I do not know which category I should put this in. Now, I am going to share this great site no matter what. PSDtuts is a blog/photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. They publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.

Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, they hope that reading PSDtuts will help us learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that we might not have seen before and help us maximize their creative potential!

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You can see two of the amazing photoshop tutorials as above. All tutorials are really practical and helpful. The quality of every tutorial is really high. I high recommend this site to all web designers and developers.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://psdtuts.com/
License: License Free

It is time for some quality Photoshop Brushes again. Graphic designer JavierZhX from Mexico has designed a set of beautiful Photoshop brushes for us. Have a look at them, they are just gorgeous and useful.

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Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://javierzhx.deviantart.com/gallery/resources/?order=9
License: License Free

R0man.de released series of Abstract Photoshop Brushes. These awesome brushes are free to use on your projects. The only requirement is a copy of Photoshop 7.0+ to use them. What are you waiting for now?

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Requirements: Photoshop 7.0+
Demo: http://r0man.de/kostenlose_brushes_photoshop.htm
License: License Free

Adam Woodhouse released many sets of quality brushes including Web 2.0 Style Brushes with different shapes, and many dynamically generating gradients, Grunge Brushes and Retro Brushes. All of the brushes are free to use, free to use in your artwork, however they are subject to copyright and may not be distributed without written permission from Adam Woodhouse. Enjoy using these brushes, they are Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 + CS3.

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Requirements: Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 + CS3
Demo: http://www.adamwoodhouse.co.uk/?p=20
License: Creative Commons License

BittBox provides a lot of free and original source files of photoshop brushes. You are free to use Bittbox files in posters, website designs, cd covers, postcards, annuals, flyers, business cards, branding, . . . DESIGN. Here are some of his photoshop brushes.

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  1. Free Illustrator Brushes: Teardrop Foliage
  2. Free High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes
  3. Free High-Res Photoshop Brushes - Leaves
  4. Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II
  5. Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
  6. Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
  7. 30 Illustrator Pattern Brushes for Making Flowers and Circular Designs

Apart from these stunning brushes, there are a lot of free to download design elements and vectors. I am sure you will be amazed how useful they are.

Requirements: See License Agreement
Demo: http://www.bittbox.com/
License: Creative Commons License

Brusheezy is not the best name but has a hugh collection of top quality photoshop brushes and patterns. Users are free to download and vote for the best custom photoshop brushes and patterns.

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Requirements: Refer to Readme File of the Author
Demo: http://www.brusheezy.com
License: MIT License

Hawksmont Universe released over 30 sets of brushes including G.I.M.P and Photoshop brushes. They are free to use in non-commercial and commercial designs. These brushes have different themes, e.g. gun brushes, skyline brushes, finger prints brushes and splatters brushes,etc.

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Requirements: G.I.M.P or Photoshop
Demo: http://hawksmont.com/blog/
License: License Free

Designfruit gives us many amazing brushes for photoshop and png files for other editing softwares. These brushes are so beautiful and professional mainly about flowers and plants. You can use them on any personal websites or projects.

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Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.designfruit.com/jasongaylor/blog/
License: License Free