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If you’re looking to buy some stock photo’s cheap, or to make a bit of extra money on the side - check out these links.

http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://eu.fotolia.com/
http://www.BigStockPhoto.com/
http://www.stockxpert.com/
http://www.shutterstock.com/

You can actually make a decent supplemental income, just in your spare time, and several talented artists have been known to quit their day jobs, and do stock photography/images for a living. So check it out and who knows, you might find out that this is where you can make some extra money with a minimal effort.

More good stuff from Smashing Magazine. They’ve made available, for FREE, a really cool - albeit a small one - retro icon set. That is just too good to pass up.

Smashing Retro Icon Set

Noupe has a list of 14 styles of website backgrounds that are the current trend today. They back each style up with a couple of tutorials to help make your own versions.

Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices

The blog - Design Your Way - has a new collection of…everything.  Photoshop and Illustrator Brushes, Textures, Patterns, Icons, PSD Files, Fonts, Wordpress Themes, and Wallpapers. Phew, that was a long list.

Here’s the link.

More free resources for designers to download

Seeing as today’s a slow news day, I’ve been digging through my bookmarks in order to find something good for you today. I found a good post on Noupe for you with loads of tutorials, brushes and much more.

80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources

Smashing Magazine has a list of some great looking, user-friendly and inspirational navigation menus.

Take the jump below to read more.

50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus

PSDTUTS has a new tutorial up. This time they’ll show you how to create a Magic Themed web site layout using stock photography, images, custom brushes and some cool lighting effects. Follow the below link to read the Photoshop tutorial.

Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design from Scratch in Photoshop

Web Design Ledger has an impressive list of free downloadable patterns for Photoshop. Whether you use them on your websites or in you digital art, there’s a lot to choose from with over 200 different colors / patterns.  Click the links to start downloading.

200+ Beautiful Seamless Patterns Perfect for Web Design

Six Revisions has a line-up of 40 tutorials showing you how to layout a website in Photoshop. Check it out by following the below link.

40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

PSDTUTS has a rundown of the best of the web for January. Tutorials, articles, brushes, icons,  and plenty of other resources. Lots of stuff to look through get some inspiration and some free stuff to use in your designs.

Best of the Web - January