The Best of the Web selected by PV.M Garage. Every month I take a look around and select some of the most interesting readings and resources published on great websites.

August was a very strange month. Beach, holidays, beer, travels… but the design community can’t stop, so in this roundup you’ll find very cool and juicy things. By the way, I apologize for the delay, but August it also was an hard month for the web workers…
I hope you’ll find useful these bookmarks. Enjoy it!

Amazing Tutorials for Web and Graphic Designers

PsdVault.com | Create an Abstract Style, Vibrant Jumping Man Scene in Photoshop

DigitalArtsOnLine.co.uk | Photoshop Tutorial: Create scorching effects

Psd.TutsPlus.com | Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

Blog.SpoonGraphics.co.uk | Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad in Photoshop

DesignM.ag | Design a Stylish Blue Blog Theme in Photoshop

WebDesignerDepot.com | How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers

Line25.com | How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery

SpyreStudios.com | How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3

Queness.com | Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

Woork.Blogspot.com | Elegant ScrollPanes with jQuery and CSS3

Articles and Interviews

WeAreNotfreelancers.co.za | 5 ways to market your Facebook fan page

BrianYerkes.com | 5 Things Clients Say And What They Really Mean

John.Onolan.org | Starting A Business – 6th Month Review

Noupe.com | The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Designers Make

scarletBits.com | Interview with Huseyin OZKAN

InspiredM.com | Inspired Interview: Derek Herman – The Man Who Built The Envato Websites

DesignersCouch.org | Interview with Ryan Ford, Creative Director at deviantART

Freebies and Resources

9lessons.Blogspot.com | jQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-3

GeekSucks.com | 36 Free Photoshop Tree Brushes

ArtFans.info | Free Wordpress Theme Browndong with 6 color schemes

Net.TutsPlus.com | Beautiful eCommerce Icons

WpBulk.Blogspot.com | 25+ Free Twitter Bird Icon Packs [Download]

WebDesignerDepot.com | Free Photoshop Brushes: Sparkling Light Effects

InDeziner.com | Happy print shop free CSS template

speckyBoy.com | 50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

Showcases and Inspiration

WowCss.com | Cut and Paste styled websites for inspiration

WowCss.com | 18 Creative websites with self photographs on it!

InstantShift.com | 60+ Amazing Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs With Overview

InspectElement.com | 42 Very Colourful Websites

WebDesignLedger.com | A Showcase of Fantastic Footer Designs

LittleBoxOfIdeas.com | 53 Insanely Dark And Macabre Photo Manips To Scare Your Pants Off

LittleBoxOfIdeas.com | 40 Groovilicious Retro Logos

BlogOf.FrancescoMugnai.com | 23 new business cards – Best of august 2009

Illustrations and Digital Painting

A-Hour.DeviantArt.com | A-Hour – Russian kitsch

Sandara.DeviantArt.com | Sandara – Dawn Patrol

Dark-Spider.DeviantArt.com | Dark Spider – The Witching Hour

Dmitry Ligay on Behance.net | Dmitry Ligay – Collage

Dmitry Ligay on Behance.net | Dmitry Ligay – Water colour illustration

Bechira Sorin on Behance.net | Bechira Sorin – slashTHREE – Déjà Vu ArtPack XI

Kristy Anne Ligones on Behance.net | Kristy Anne Ligones – New Shirt Designs

WebSite of The Month – LuckyStarsTattoo.com

Lucky Stars Tattoo Studio in San Jose

Must-Follow, Men of The Month on Twitter

Chetan

Antonio Lupetti

Sean Hodge

Must-Read, Blogs/Magazines of The Month

TripwireMagazine.com

LittleBoxOfIdeas.com

SohTanaka.com Web Design Blog

Don’t Forget, Good Stuff on PV.M Garage

Web Design Blog World Cup 2009, Following The Community Heroes

When The Photography Makes Wonderful A Website, 30 Amazing Examples

Web Design Updates – The Best Web Design Links