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Smashing Magazine has put up a bunch of links to some great looking textures and patterns - free to download.  Head on over there and check it out.

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

Using Photoshop with Illustrator is like cookies and milk. As delicious as they are seperately - they’re even better when used together. Vandalay Design has a list of great tutorials using Illustrator and Photoshop to accomplish something extra-ordinary.

25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results

Here’s a fun tutorial that PSDTUTS has put up. Flex those pen muscles and get your vectors straight. The end result WILL be colorful.

Splattered Vector and Photography Mash Up

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

Valentine’s Day is coming up, and of course there’s a huge demand for brushes, backgrounds, tutorials etc. for the day of romance. Naldz Graphics has the rundown on the heartshaped goods.

Most Wanted Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials,Brushes & EPS for Valentines

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

Smashing Magazine has a batch of a 100 great looking, free textures for you this afternoon. Below is your link.

I hope everyone has a good weekend, and I’ll see if I can scrounge up some nice links for you during the weekend, even though the big sites take Saturday and Sunday off.

100 Beautiful Free Textures

Now that’s 50 SETS of brushes - some sets containing up to 70 or 80 brushes. Now that’s a whole lot of free Photoshop brushes. All of them you can find links to download over at Hongkiat.com.

Now, hit the link below.

50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

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

PSDTUTS has a new collection of 50 great free brushes for Photoshop.

There’s some really great, odd, fun and awesome brushes in there. So make sure you click on the link below and hean on over there to start downloading.

50 Insanely Weird but Awesome Photoshop Brushes