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The same technology behind Google Earth is now being used to view famous paintings. Google’s technology which allows users to zoom from space into a person’s back yard, now will also allow users to zoom into every brush stroke of some of the world’s greatest paintings. To make sure every detail is viewable, images of the paintings will be taken at 14 trillion pixels. It will be great to see all parts of the painting at a level most people can’t see even in person because they don’t let you get that close. I also think this technology will be used in many art colleges to teach about the painters.

Source: PCMag

I found these 110 designer rss feeds and I am still going through these but I have found some nice sites. Now in no way are all these going to be useful for each person. But I am sure there are some that might be new and useful to someone.

Source: Digg

Mashable has posted an article on 20 tools and resources for working with color.

Mashable has done it again and created a super list of Photoshop resources. The list offers areas such as:

• Photoshop Plugins, Filters and Brushes
• Photoshop Tutorials and Learning Resources
• Magazines, Associations and other Resources
• Photoshop Contests

Lifehack discusses designing with C.R.A.P.. Or otherwise using Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity to improve designs and lesson mistakes. The ideas he talks about are talked about are discussed fully in The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams.

Commenters seem to agree that design is less about making something look good and more about the ease of use which is the root of C.R.A.P.

tlbox.com is a site which is kinda like a digg for designer tools. It lists the top color, css, fonts, html, icons, images, inspiration, tutorials, and widgets as voted on by users.

Smashingmagazine.com asked 35 top designers five designs questions. They received over 80 tips, design ideas, fonts, books, and over all suggestions. The five questions are as follows:

• 1 aspect of design you give the highest priority to.
• 1 most useful CSS-technique you use very often.
• 1 font you use in your projects very often.
• 1 design-related book you highly recommend to read.
• 1 design magazine you read on a daily/weekly basis (online or offline).

There is a lot of great information in this article. Some of my favorites is the priority some artist give to different aspects of design. I am always fascinated to learn how other artists work. It is always good to learn and practice different work flows even if at the end you prefer another way. Many times you can adapt different aspects which work good into your previous work flow. Of course as we have learned from this article, the internet is becoming one of the greatest sources for a designer.

My friend passed along a great site showing the great illustrations from Capcom. These are useful as either reference or inspiration.

drawing-workshop.com (**careful** models are without clothing) offers 360 degree views for life drawing. This is great reference for figure study or life drawing. Life drawing is one of the most useful techniques an artist can learn from. Its teachings can be applied to everything from cartoons to 3d modeling.