Resources for Your Journey

Below you will find links to useful websites with people and resources that I use in my digital art projects. If it is listed here, I've used the service or product and found it does what it is supposed to do, consistently and honestly.

The images shown on this page here began life in Lightroom and Photoshop and use some of the resources below. Also, this is an online gallery, folks. There has to be pictures! They are linked to bigger versions of themselves if you want to check them out.

Be My Friend - An Arabian gelding and his friend, learning together.
Mariasol - Santa Monica Pier - This restaraunt has pride of place at the ocean end of the Santa Monica Pier and was a must visit on our first day in Los...
Turf Kings - Thoroughbred racehorse are the kings of the race track.
100 days of Me - Selfies for 100 days

Photographers

Sharon Meyers Photography Sharon specialises in beautiful images of horses though she has travelled a bit and has amassed an amazing portfolio of images from exoctic places. Sharon is available for Photoshoots. Check out her site.
Sue Crockett Photography Sue's great love is the Arabian horse and her portfolio is testament to that. Sue's images from the sport of Endurance Riding are known throughout the world. Sue has been invited to photograph whereever Arabian horses and their owners gather.

Software

Adobe Photoshop CC The world's most favourite image editor and so much more.

Adobe Lightroom CC Super cataloguing tool, image enhancement, all round must have for anyone working with volumes of images.

Stock Images

Pixabay Free Images Providing free to use, royalty free images for any use. You can donate to the photographers. Bear in mind there is often no model or property release.

Faestock on Deviantart Faestock has the most splendid stock images featuring costumed models, including herself, which she generously allows use of for personal and commercial use with certain restrictions, including attribution.

The Old Design Shop Site owner, Julie, loves all things vintage and has turned her pasion into a business selling reproductions of fabulous vintage artworks now in the public domain. Her blog has heaps of freebies as well. High quality downloads that are so easy to incorporate into your own projects.

Stocksnap A regularly updated catalogue of images which are free to use for personal, editorial or commercial projects without attribution. Good, high quality images.

Unsplash A stock photography site with more than 30,000 free to use for any purpose, images contributed by more than 8,000 photographers. Beautiful, high quality images.

The Ultimate Guide to Stock Images For Students Though aimed at Student use this article contains great information for everyone on Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licenses, as well as listing sites for finding free to use images.

Photoshop Brushes, Actions, Textures, Templates

Wegraphics It's called the Ultimate Designer Toolbox and it is a great place to start when you are looking for textures and vectors. They also have some neat actions and fonts and a long list of how to articles. It is a subscription site though they have some freebies too which is where I started with them. Usually add something new every month.

Ashe Design A great site for templates, actions and ideas to upsell your Photos, if you are a photographer or do it yourself with your own photos. Heaps of beautiful templates that turn any photo into a work of art. My poster art started with one of their templates.

Obsidian Dawn Lovely high resolution textures, great brushes, patterns, gradients and tutorials. All are Free to use for personal stuff or a small fee for commercial use.

Envato Market Place Thousands of designers selling thousands of resources like Photoshop Actions, Textures, Brushes, Stock Photos, Music, Web Design Templates and more. Free to join and sell your own products.

Sevenstyles Beautiful, intricate actions that are completely editable. a great find on the Envato marketplace.

Deviant Art An online Artist community of hundresds of thousands of Artists. Here you will find stacks of resources for your Photoshop projects, many of which are free to use with attribution. A great resource for inspiration.

The Brush King Loads of free and premium high quality brush packs for Photoshop

PanosFX.com A great selection of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements actions, both free and commercial. Clean actions that work to provide clever presentations for your images. Check them out.

Old Hippie Art An artist on Deviant Art. Loads of Vintage art reproductions and Backgrounds abd Charachters created in Poser many of which are free to use for any purpose and some for a small fee. I love his fairy characters!

Freepik.com Graphic resources for everyone. Free vector art, illustrations, icons, PSD's, etc. Use to use for personal and commercial, with accreditation.

Fonts

Airing Typeface If manners maketh the man, Mans Greback's fonts maketh the image. Mans makes seriously beautiful fonts that make me drool whenever I use them. My signature is one of his fonts - Mardian Pro - and I've bought several of his fonts for my work. There are free to use versions for personal use.

DaFont A huge catalogue of thousands of fonts. If, like me, you are in to fonts, you can't find a better place to begin. Heaps of search parameters, by type, by price, by author, etc. Most of the fonts are free to use for personal use and there are links to the authors site or contact if you want to buy one to use commercially.

Royalty free Music

Incompetech Royalty Free music available under an attribute Creative Commons Liscence, authored by the site owner Kevin McLeod. Can be used for commercial projects. Great music, generous terms, recommended site.

Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Blog Fifty episodes of the Photoshop Playbook, our video tutorial series answering some of the most frequently asked questions on our social channels and in the forums.

Adobe Photoshop Help Files Filter Effects Reference

Useful Websites

Fotomerchant Photo Website Hosting JaniceO Digital Art is hosted by Fotomerchant and I love them. An Aussie company, providing beautiful web presences for photographers and artists, with an easy to use platform requiring little prior knowledge, at an affordable, competitve price. Fantastic, responsive support team. They are the total package.

Visit W3Schools! For everything coding. Honestly, a great resource for HTML, CSS and all the really hard stuff like Javascript, SQL, etc. And it is free!

The Print Bar A Brisbane based garment print company that produces Tee Shirts for JaniceO Digital Art. Quality shirts, quality print and quality service at a great price!

Time and Date dot com Brilliant site for all things date and time related for any timezone and country. Great make your own calendar tool.

Internet Archive Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Brilliant resaerch and resource tool.Home of the 'Wayback' machine.

H.P. Lovecraft Archives Into HP Lovecraft? Then this is the site for you. Read his writings and essays, find other online resources. Updated September 2016.

EZIGIF.COM A simple, fast online tool to make your own GIFs. Lots of options including video to GIF and optimiztion to reduce file size. Recommended.