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We’re always looking for some great tips and tricks to pass on to our freelance designers. Recently there was a post over at desizntech that I thought was excellent. It dealt with the use of white color in web design, from blogs to online portfolios and e-commerce. They listed a variety of websites that are worth checking out such as

Loveleft

Pasali Design Studio

CSS Globe

Jason Reynolds

There are many more you can check them out over at designtech

Here is one for all you photoshop lovers out there. Tutsplus has posted a huge list of 50 different photoshop tutorials for beginners. Now im not going to list them all, you can view all of them on their website. But I will pass along our 10 favourite Photoshop Tutorials

1.  6 Quick and Dirty Text Effects from Scratch

2. Miodern Art

3. Lighting Effects

4. Silhouettes and Gradients

5. Pencil it

6. Vintage it

7. How to make eyes pop

8. Watercolor Effect

9. How to Create a T-shirt from scratch

10. Wood Inlay text

Six Revisions had a great post today about 40 Useful Adobe Illustrator 3d Tutorials. I thought some of you freelancers would enjoy this, so im passing it along.

Im listing my top 10 favourite here, view the other 30 on Six Revisions

1. 3D Vector Calendar icon

2. Colorful 3d Text Explosion

3. Using Swift for 3d illustration

4. 3d Cool Logo

5. 3D Graphs

6. Create a 3d Push Pin and paper note

7. How to Map Artwork onto 3d objects with illustrator

8. Create a Business Report Cover

9. Create 3d Charts in adobe

10. 3D Effects in Illustrator

Doomi - easy application lets you manage tasks, enter them and hit return.. done! You can set reminders and due dates

Minitask - Close to Doomi lets you manage all your tasks, you can drag and drop tasks to reorder them etc. You can copy and paste tasks from mini into word and excel and your email

Remember the Milk - Use this with Remember the Tasks, It lets you know when you have a task due or overdue

KRONOLive - Helps people work in teams, works with Google Docs. Use box.net for all your file and people on your team, you can share tasks.

Designing websites or blogging, you will want to see what your site looks like in multiple browsers such as firefox, safari, i.e and so on.

Browsershots lets you see how your website will look in most browsers and operating systems for free. Here is how it works.

Go to the website and tap in your website url, browswershots.org will take screenshots in various browsers and show them to you.

It will do windows, linux, macosx, bsd and pretty much any browser out there. There are actually 100 different types of combinations of OS and Browswer. You can do it based o nno flash, java, javascript and see the color depths.

Im sure this will help you fellow web designers