This may be the largest source of free Photoshop brushes, gradients, plug-ins, textures—practically everything! You must have this in your bookmarks.

[1] FreePhotoshop.com is a great resource for increasing your Photoshop functionality and your stock of image materials. A lot of the website is devoted to reviews of freeware and commercial plug-ins, complete with links to the various sources. All well and good, but the Free Downloads section is full of free items:

• Brushes
• Shapes
• Gradients
• Styles
• Plug-Ins
• Textures, Displacement Maps and Patterns
• Frames
• Photoshop files

I like the [2] Ripleyer filter, which creates lines across your image to make a television-screen effect, and the [3] Crescent Moon filters which have a variety of effects.

The downside to FreePhotoshop.com is its age: created in 2002 and last revised in December 2005, it still offers a PNG plug-in in order for Photoshop to “read or write PNG format images, PNG being said to be the next big graphical format”.

Be sure to also check out the [4] Miscellaneous Things page, which has some good actions, FAQs and even a page about [5] Photoshop Easter eggs which has some [6] my own does not.

It’s not the most spectacularly designed site in the world, but it’s a good resource and I recommend at least a visit and, if you’re like me, a bookmark as well.