(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Thought id post a little bit just to help any newcomers

Fonts.
Photoshop comes with some standard fonts which can be effective sometimes but you can download other fonts aswell. I Recommend:
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those are the best three in my opinion. All you have to do to install these fonts are
1: Unzip the font and the file will be a .ttf file.
2: Windows 7/Vista: Right-click on the font files > "Install"
Windows XP: Put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts
Mac OS X: Double-click the font file > "Install font" button. (copied from dafont.com)
3: Open Photoshop up and you will see it in the list when you use the Type Tool.

Brushes

Brushes are what you use most of the time on your render.
1: you need to find the brushes that suit what your doing. go to these sites below and download loads of cool looking brushes.

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those two will pretty much have everything that everyone else already has.

2: Download the brushes you like the look of and then unzipp them so that it gives you a .abr file.
3: Now move this file to Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS5 > Presets > Brushes
4: Now open Photoshop and click brush. and then select open the brushes up click the little arrow and click load brushes like the image below

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5: Just select the brushes you just downloaded and then they will be in ur brush pallet.

Tutorials

Here is a few tutorial websites which are really good.

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they are a few of what i usually use. also google but its harder to narrow your search .

Any more questions feel free to ask. Hope this helps you guys.

There's another section for this. It's called GFX resources.

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found a lot of nice brushes on those sites, thanks for the links man. Other than being in the wrong section, great post!