Coolest Gifts for Photoshop Users or Web Designers

Coolest Gifts for Photoshop Users or Web Designers

On 07.06.09, In Computer Careers, Computer Hobbies, Creative Careers, Creative Hobbies, Gifts by Career, Gifts by Hobby, by admin

Are you looking for a unique gift for your Photoshop User friend or family member? Are you looking for something that he / she will really love? If you want to get your gift recipient to jump out of his seat and weep tears of joy, then take a look at our top choices of cool Adobe Photoshop gifts.

Coolest Gifts for Photoshop Users, Graphic Designers or Web Designers

Gift Idea #1 for Photoshop Users: The Wacom Cintiq

As a friend or loved one of a Photoshop User (perhaps a Photoshop Addict) or perhaps a web designer or graphic designer, you can’t lose with this gift. This is my favorite item in my life and I don’t know what I would do without it now that I have one. Before buying one of these Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets I always hated digital graphics tablets because I am really good at drawing and painting on paper, but I always really stunk at drawing on digital graphics tablets? Why? Because I can’t see what I am drawing directly on the graphics tablet, instead I have to draw on the graphics tablet and look up at the screen to see how it is turning out. To me this is as hard as trying to draw upside down. My brain doesn’t connect the two together, so when I saw that Wacom had finally come out with a digital graphics tablet that was basically a monitor that you can draw directly on, I was blown away and knew that this was for me. Unfortunately, the price range is from the $990 to $2000 range so for most people this won’t be an appropriate gift unless you are really, really, really, really close to the gift recipient AND have a lot of extra money to spend.

wacom cintiq 12wx 12 inch pen display tablet

Wacom Cintiq 12WX 12-Inch Pen Display (Price is $948.55)

Cintiq 21wx digital tablet monitor

Wacom Techno Cintiq 21UX 21-Inch Interactive Pen Display PC Tablet With Pen and Software (Price is $1,999)

Gift Idea #2 for Photoshop Users: OnOneSoftware Plug-In Suite 4

If your friend or loved one is a serious Photoshop user or graphic designer, then this plugin package is a MUST and he / she will love you forever for purchasing it for them. With this one Photoshop plugin package, your Photoshop using friend will solve 6 common Adobe Photoshop problems. With this Photoshop Plugin Suite, they will be able to now easily produce high-quality enlargement, add professional photographic effects, quickly and easily correct colors, add custom frames and adornments, mask with ease, and the ability to add selective focus and vignettes. Now this might not sound that great to you, in fact you might not know what the heck you just read, but believe me, your Photoshop phanatic will thank you over and over again when they get your thoughtful Photoshop present. Visit OnOne Software’s website to find out more about the plugin suite that they sell. You might be interested in just buying one part of the suite to save some money. It is all up to you and what you would like to spend. The Full Plugin Suite runs for approximately $499, but if you want to spend less, each individual plugin runs for about $150 – $250.

Gift Idea #3 for Photoshop Users: SiteGrinder 2

SiteGrinder 2 turns Adobe Photoshop into an easy-to-use and powerful website design and production tool. A SiteGrinder 2-equipped designer with no HTML expertise needs only their Photoshop skills to go from design concept to full deployment of a professional, standards-compliant website in just minutes with no programming whatsoever … and they do it all from within Photoshop. Best of all, pages created with SiteGrinder 2 retain the exact look and layout of the parent Photoshop file from which they were created. So if your Photoshop Guru friend or Graphic Designer friend wants to start building websites but is afraid to do it or doesn’t know how to do it, then buying SiteGrinder 2 for them will make you an instant hero. SiteGrinder 2 runs for $349.

Gift Idea #4 for Photoshop Users: Photoshop T-Shirt

Do you need some cheaper Photoshop gift ideas that are still thoughtful enough for your friend or loved one? You can’t go wrong with a Photoshop T-Shirt, that is, unless you get the wrong sized Photoshop T-Shirt.

The above T-Shirt is about $19 and found at a site called Zazzle.com.

Or if you want to go the funny route, this is an ‘Invisible’ t-shirt design for Photoshop lovers. You might not understand it if you haven’t used Photoshop, but anyone who has used Photosthop will know that the checkerboard is the invisible / transparent background of Photoshop, so that is why it is an invisible t-shirt design. You can find this t-shirt at RedBubble.com for about $24.

Gift Idea #5 for Photoshop Users: Photoshop Road Sign

Not everyone would like this gift, but if you think that your Photoshop Guru gift recipient would like this Photoshop Street Sign, then it would make a cool bedroom, office, or outside sitting area decoration. This aluminum sign is made to last for years outdoors the sign is nice enough to display indoors. Plus, a bonus is that this Photoshop Street Sign can be purchased for only $12 or so.

Gift Idea #6 for Photoshop Users: Membership to Lynda.com

A Photoshop Guru always wants to soak up more information about doing things more efficiently and effectively in Photoshop. I LOVE Lynda.com for studying up on new design and graphics applications. And there are more Adobe Photoshop courses than any other software application. The best thing about Lynda.com courses is that all of the professors are experts in their field and KNOW what they are talking about. Each course is made up of lots of videos that display everything that the trainer is doing as he / she is talking. You can either spend a low amount here or a high amount as you can buy subscriptions to different time allotted amounts. For example, You can buy your friend a one month subscription for only $25 or you can buy a one year subscription for $375. Go to Lynda.com and find out more.