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18lighting.png While the US celebrates President's Day today, here in Ontario, we are celebrating "Family Day" - a totally made-up holiday just so we can have a 3-day weekend to try to cheer us up as winter drags on (and on). But, whatever you're celebrating (Monday?), here are some links that have caught my eye in the past couple of days ...

For the Photoshop brush collectors out there, a nice round-up of lighting effect brushes. 18 Photoshop Brush Sets for Creating Incredible Lighting Effects » (Web Design Ledger)

From noupe.com, 40 Useful and Handy Web Designer's Web Services and Tools », chock full of ... useful and handy stuff. (noupe.com)

I tweeted about this last week, but for the benefit of those that don't follow me on twitter, CSS Drive has a nice Colour Pallete generator that extracts colour palletes from any image and offers up a number of different palettes in different color tones. Nice tool, worth bookmarking. Image to Colors Palette Generator »

From NETTUTS, an interesting CSS article 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS » including the suggestion to alphabetizing the properties in your stylesheet. Not sure about that one, but might try it and see if it grows on me.

From Best Photoshop Tutorials, 50 Brilliant Typography Designs to Inspire You ». So go forth and be inspired!

Site Developer Snippets has a big round-up of over 60 Stunning Scriptaculous Applications. jQuery seems to be getting all the love these days but scriptaculous has some nice apps as well, worth browsing.

From Web Designer Depot, 10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know »

CSS-Reset.com provides you with a quick and easy way to include a css-reset stylesheet simply by linking to it in your html. Hosted on Google's App Engine, CSS Reset is fast and reliable. CSS Reset Stylesheets currently hosted include Eric Meyer's, YUI Interface Reset, Ed Eliot's Reset and the "Everything Reset". CSS-Reset.com »

And that's all for now.

February 16, 2009 in End of the Day Digests

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