http://www.adobe.com

An Adobe tutorial on creating drop shadows with Photoshop, and more.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~pitharat/photoshop/filters/filters.free.html

Get Alien Skin’s shareware drop shadow filter and many other free/shareware filters/plug-ins on this page. It lets you set offset, blur “width” and color of shadow. Very easy to use.

http://www.metatools.com/

Alien Skin is great set of plug-ins... but the original is always the best - go with Kai Krause’s baby, Kai’s Power Tools (KPT) and the other products that MetaTools puts out. Their best stuff ranges from $199 to $399 but well worth it if you can swing it...it’s an investment that works with all of your graphics packages. sry, Phoenix Rising

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~pitharat/photoshop/filters.html

Here’s where to find a lot of filters, free and commercial, and plug-ins. Both Mac and Windows. I love this site. Liz Maher

http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/photoshop/

Adobe: You know with Photoshop version 4.0, you get Gallery Effects free! Judy Kiel

http://www.vmedia.com/vvc/onlcomp/phshpfx/resource.htm

A general Photoshop resource. Judy Kiel

http://www.mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm

Tips ’n trix plus some basic stuff and some real nuggets. Judy Kiel

http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/

“Kai’s Power Tips and Tricks.” This is the Big Kahuna of tip sites. Judy Kiel

http://www.hsv.tis.net/~puon/photoshop/buttonMaker.html

“The Button Maker” site (ahh, for those clients who insist on it!). Judy Kiel

http://www.cnu.edu/~ffactory/

“The Filter Factory” folks (for the propeller-heads among us). Judy Kiel

http://www.afh.com/web/pshop/free.html

AFH free Photoshop plug-in filters. Mark Warrick

http://www.boxtopsoft.com

PhotoGIF and ProJPEG. Two Mac Photoshop plug-ins that produce superb results with GIF and JPEG images. (Free save-disabled demos) Joe Gillespie