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Roundup of roundups

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Instead of trying to resurrect the dieing of the lack of attention community submissions form, we decided to make a list of interesting roundups and useful community information for the past week.

1. 30 Must Have WebDesign Books In Your Christmas Wishlist

1stwebdesigner.com has created a nice list of good books that you can put on your wishlist this holiday season. No 1 from the list was also featured in our Fall reading List that covered the topic of Biology and Design.

2. 50 Amazing Realistic CG Portraits

If you love CG and are still checking out your Expose series from Ballistic Publishing, you will certainly like a compilation of 50 amazing portraits by Noupe.

3. 25 Matte Painting tutorials for Adobe Photoshop

Even if you don’t much care for painting with Photoshop yourself, check out this roundup by reADactor for your inspiration — some of the pieces that are collected for this roundup are truly amazing. And if you do care, each one of these comes with a tutorial that you can follow.

4. Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera’s Greatest Visionaries

“A pirate ship slices through space in concept art from the lost Dune movie of the 1970s. Artist Chris Foss crafted covers for some of science fiction’s greatest books, reshaping how we see spaceships and robots.” By io9.com.

5. 20 Super Creative Website Menus

You guessed it! It’s 20 Super Creative Website Menus compiled by PSDfan.

6. Find Your Photo Family: 20 Niche Photography Forums

If you are into photography and you don’t just click away producing cliche snapshots, you may be interested in looking at this list of non-standard photography niche sites compiled by ReadyPhotoSite.

7. 250+ Free Photoshop Spray Brushes

Go get your free spray paint brushsets for Photoshop compiled by good folks at BlueBlots.

8. Coding Clean and Semantic Templates

WebDesignerWall provides a list of things to remember when producing your web code to make your templates squeaky clean and streamlined. Very useful stuff, check it out.

9. Illustration in web design: 30 wonderful examples

30 great ways to use illustrations in your web design projects, compilation by Designer Daily.

10. 60+ Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design

If you want to learn to make iconsets, here are more than 60 ways to do it, compilation courtesy of WebDesignBooth.