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Photography often plays a major role in web design. So It’s no surprise that many web designers have an interest in it. However, there are so many aspects to photography such as lighting, composition, and equipment features that can make it difficult to master. In this article I’ve rounded up 10 of the best blogs that consistently produce valuable tips and resources to help you with your photography.

Digital Photography School

Digital Photography School is a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. It is maintained by Darren Rowse who you probably know from ProBlogger.net.

The Photo Argus

The Photo Argus is a resource for photographers novice to advanced. It’s aim is to deliver useful information, inspiration, technique, photographer showcases and more.

Epic Edits

Epic Edits is a resource and community for photography enthusiasts of all experience levels. It’s focus is to explore many aspects of photography through discussion, example, and participation in group projects.

PetaPixel

PetaPixel was born in May of 2009, and is a blog about photography geared towards tech-savvy digital photographers. Our goal is inform, educate, and inspire in all things related to photography.

Strobist

Strobist is about one thing: learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level.

Photojojo

The writers of Photojojo scour the internets, rip pages out of magazines, ransack our friends’ closets, and go through dumpsters to find the very best Photo tips, DIY projects, and Gear.

Joe McNally’s Blog

This is the blog of Joe McNally, a phototgrapher for National Geographic, Life, and Sports Illustrated. Joe’s blog is full of inspiration and tips that will help your photography.

Photocritic

The Photocritic is all about learning more about photography, from the incredibly insightful (rarely) to the dreadfully mundane (also, hopefully rarely) via just about everything in between.

DIY Photography

DIY Photography’s goal is to provide a place for photographers to share, and learn from each other, and to bring cheap studio equipment to those who can’t really buy all the expensive stuff out there.

Photodoto

Whether you shoot with an inexpensive digital compact or the latest digital SLR, Photodoto will help you get the most out of your digital camera.

Website footers have become more than just a place to put the copyright information and a few links. Now web designers are making full use of the footer as way to keep the visitor on the site longer. You will see from the examples below that this can be achieved by using clever placement of graphics and design elements along side links to additional content.

Story Pixel

The Photo Argus

RedVelvetart

Carsonified

Ecoki

Sprocket House

Media140 London

Edgepoint Church

Blog Amuki

Biola Undergrad

Brad Candullo

CSS Tricks

Branded07

Jason Santa Maria

Sam Rayner

Orman Clark

Revive Africa

Psdtuts

R.U.4 Children

If you are thinking of creating your next web design using a painted style, you have two options. You can purchase real painting materials and create your own Photoshop brushes, or you can use free brushes that have been created by someone else. Since most web designers have limited time and short deadlines, it is an easy choice. Here I’ve collected over 300 excellent Photoshop brushes to save you time in creating painted style designs.

WaterColor Reloaded – 83 brushes

Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop – 21 brushes

Watercolor Splatters – 9 brushes

Wet Paint Acrylic Photoshop Brushes – 16 brushes

Messy Spraypaint – 10 brushes

Brush Stroke – 20 brushes

Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes – 10 brushes

High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes – 9 brushes

Watercolour brushes set 2 – 20 brushes

Hi-Res Acrylic Texture Brushes Set 1 – 15 brushes

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes – 18 brushes

Destroyed watercolour PS brushes – 26 brushes

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II – 20 brushes

Watercolour Brushes Set 1 – 26 brushes