*** Resources, Tutorials, Tips, and Tricks for Designers ***

[ShabbyAbby]

This lady has wonderful resources (actions, tutorials, freebies and more) on her blog (all CU)!
http://sugarbuttdesigns.com/

[WDW Scrap Princess]

http://commercial-use-scraps.com/


http://www.commercial-use.com/shop/i...9a5921b748c60c


also SnappyScrappy.com

[3LilMonsters]

There are lots of good free CU resources here: http://www.deliciousscraps.com/

And a good little program to help you rename your files: Renamer

[MJAJmom]

Karen Diamond has some fabulous tutorials about quality control. Her topics include blurriness, missing pixels, gamut, stray pixels, smooth edges.

Check out her blog tutorials here: http://www.karendiamonddesigns.com/c...ality-control/

[MJAJmom]

For those of you that use Photoshop Elements, I just learned a very important tip.... when you are designing (or even creating layouts), always use a percent reduction of 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% when you are viewing your page. For some reason, if you are creating shapes, etc, you will get jagged edges if you are viewing your page at 23% (like I was doing to see the entire 12x12 layout on the screen), even if you try to smooth an element, it won't work as efficiently.

So now I'm always always viewing my layouts at 25% and then quality checking at 100%. Never knew this before, but it really makes a difference.