Daily Delicious Posts Dec 21th 2009

Today’s links are mostly Photoshop, GIMP tutorials and tools. But there a couple of links for new issues for the updated WordPress 2.9 issues that may have. The rest are links that I found important and needed to be shared.

Design a Gradient Inspired Web Design in Photoshop | Three Styles
(tags: photoshoptutorials)
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009
Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. When searching through all these tutorials, your time is wasted.
(tags: photoshoptutorials)
Sprixi – Free images to choose and use!
(tags: FreeImages)
PROTECT YOUR PASSWORDS FROM ONLINE SWINE FLU « Facebook « Sweet Home Based Businesses – Comments Page 1
People aren’t the only thing that can get swine flu, your passwords can become infected by hackers on social networks. If you are a member of Twitter or Facebook, then your passwords have already fallen victim to a high risk of being hacked and cracked. Let me share a little password protection knowledge with you…
(tags: PassWordGenerator)
Best assorted Twitter Widgets and Buttons for your blog
(tags: TwitterWidgets, TwitterButtons)
25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers
Photoshop actions are time savers. In this post we have collected 25 new and recent Photoshop actions that can be used enhance your images, image framing, color improvement and more.
In case you did not know, Photoshop actions are automated process that you can use to save time. A quick way install any actions is by double clicking on it or by moving it to your Photoshop Actions folder. All the action sets, in this posr are released in previous 5 to 6 months or so (except one). If you are a blogger checkout the transparent, rounded corner and magnifying actions. They can come in very handy for creating cool blog posting image. In total there are over 45 actions or so. Enjoy.
(tags: PhotoshopActions)
WordPress Stops Pinging – How To Fix It!
I updated to WordPress 2.9, don’t get me wrong the new update is fantastic and some of the new features are extremely useful to use, but, and this is a big but, after installing the update, every time I made a post or used a ping back or trackback my WordPress blog would not ping or send pingbacks to other sites!
(tags: WordPress, WordPressTips)
20 Most Stunning Light Effect Photoshop Tutorials
Humans have always had a strange fascination for light. Light can set a mood, paint a picture, tell a story, or explain an event. Light has a powerful way of conveying a message that words or pictures simply don’t posses. This is a roundup of the twenty most stunning light effect photoshop tutorials for your enjoyment.
(tags: photoshoptutorials)
Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop – Smashing Magazine
GIMP is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux (the two big reasons for its popularity). It has a wide array of features, as well as plug-ins, filters and brushes. Documentation is primarily available in online communities, as well as through extensive add-ons. GIMP was never designed to replace Photoshop, yet with every release, it comes a little closer to being able to do so. It can be used to author graphics, create logos and edit photos, as well as make short animations (using GAP). Despite these features, the open-source app is a foreign world for many users switching from Photoshop. Familiar tools are missing, menus are laid out differently and tasks must be accomplished in unknown ways.
In this article, we list eight tweaks to make GIMP a more serious Photoshop replacement option. Version 2.6 was used to test the following tweaks, but past versions of the app should work as well.
(tags: GIMPTweaks)