It looks like Masks have seen some nice improvement.

What it says. Thank goodness for this.

Tips on creating good web design source files. Bring this up in class for sure.

A place for designers to share PSDs of client-killed design elements. A good way to learn technique.

Gradients done right. Get rid of banding.

A clever use of the noise and blur filters.

A nice mid-century modern motif.

A PSD of cursors for displaying interaction states in Photoshop

Very clever Photoshop plugin for putting your artwork in a real life photo context (think billboards, etc).

Your guide to public-domain and free photos from all over the web. The Library of Congress, Life, etc.

So every photo, image or illustration NASA has ever created is in the public domain. This is a good place to get ahold of those images for design purposes.

Photoshop does tracking (letter-spacing) in 1/1000em.

This has only recently been added to Photoshop: shrink or expand an image's proportions in a given direction and the plugin removes or adds pixels in the least noticeable areas, effectively letting you change aspect ratio by adding and removing trivial image content.

A handy PSD that makes mocking sites up easier.

Helpful articles on the misunderstood basics of photoshop.

More photoshop texture fodder.

Free texture photos. Great for making Photoshop grunge brushes. Hat tip to Veerle for blogging about it.

A fancy, classy perspective shift technique.