ONLINE RESOURCES and anything that doesn't fit into other categories

Printing
Bonusprint - reliable so far for inexpensive proofs, phonepix & babysnaps.
Blurb - one of the best print-on-demand book services.
Free Photo Printing - updated links to promotional offers & giveaways.
Lulu - another one of the best print-on-demand book services.
MagCloud - print-on-demand magazines
Metroprint - high quality online service from top London lab.
Moo.com - favoured for photo cards, stickers, small run postcards.
Photobox - popular choice for prints, books and cards.
Snapfish - another printing service site people like.
theprintspace - online service from professional London lab.

Free Tools
Bighugelabs - Plenty of silly things to do to your pictures. Warholiser, Hockneyizer, ID cards etc.
Blockposters - Make huge banners of your images by printing out A4 sheets. Make better billboards.
Free lens hoods - they actually work! Say no to unwanted flare.
Free software solutions for photographers - courtesy of the DIY Photography website.
Gimp - popular free opensource image manipulation program.
Image Optimizer - online tool resizes, compresses and optimizes images for web & e-mail use.
Poladroid - software that turns your pristine digital images into weird old Polaroids.
Picasa - Google's free photo software. A useful tool for some, a migraine for others.
Picnik - popular online image adjustment & manipulation tools.
Photoshop Express - Adobe's free online image manipulation tools.
Rawker - free Mac RAW converter.
Seashore - open source image editor for Mac OS X.
Shape Collage - automatic photo collage maker.
Stolen Camera Finder - searches the web for pictures with your camera's serial number in the EXIF.
Tuxpi - 58 simple online photo editing tools & effects.

Recommended Shopping
7DayShop - competitive prices on photographic consumables from the Channel Islands.
Firstcall Photographic - digital, analogue & education suppliers.
Keyphoto - large supplier that gives student discounts.
Mr Cad - cavern of pre-owned delights in Croydon.
Nova Darkroom - hardware & consumables.
Photojojo - photonovelties & gadgets.
Polapremium - shopfront of The Impossible Project, saviours of instant film.
Process Supplies - supplying materials & equipment to photographers since 1928.
Retro Photographic - black and white specialist in Shropshire.
Robert White - good camera shop in Poole, efficient mail order.
Silverprint - leading source of monochrome darkroom materials. Also good for digital papers.
Speed Graphic - all manner of things.
Teamwork - large format & high end digital specialist.
UK Camera - database of UK shops, photographic manufacturers & importers, information on digital & classic cameras.
Warehouse Express - big range & competitive prices, film & digital. Student deals. Based in Norwich.

Camera Reviews and Information
Camera Manual Library - for extinct makes of camera. Free downloads & good links.
Classic camera profiles - are lovely old clockwork cameras just man jewellery?
digitalcamerainfo.com - reviews & specifications.
DP Review - digital camera reviews, database, forums, glossary, tutorials.
Imaging Resource - camera & lens reviews, forums, tutorials.

Photography Technique
50 Fantastic Open Lectures for Photographers - free videos compiled by OnlineSchools.org.
Advice for young photographers - tips from the top from Magnum Agency photographers.
ARecinto Photography - abandoned tutorials blog leaves behind some useful tips.
A tedious explanation of the f/stop - is the modest name of this very useful page.
About.com:photography - lively beginners guide.
Black and White Photography - good guide to the basics.
Depth of Field Simulator - gets better after a few drinks.
Freestyle - good stuff in the information section of LA photographic supplier's website.
HiViz.com - "your resource for DIY high-speed photography."
Improve Photography - "one-stop resource for daily photography tips."
In Depth - tutorials, tips & buying guides from busy NYC photographic shop B&H.
Ken Rockwell - technique, thinkpieces & good camera recommendations.
Lighting tips for photography - useful links page from a ceiling fan seller in Florida.
The Luminous Landscape - lots of tutorials and articles.
Photokaboom - "everything you need for your photo education" from Jim Beecher in New York.
Photonhead - good beginners guides & tips, and a 'simcam' to see what different camera settings do.

Photoshop & Digital Technique
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials - courtesy of the excellent Smashing Magazine.
Cambridge In Colour - "an online learning environment where photographers can come to improve their skills."
Design 215 Toolbox - some useful stuff explaining pixels & print sizes.
DPbestflow - very useful research project to determine best practice in digital photography.
DPchallenge - good 'learn' section.
Good-Tutorials - useful Photoshop and digital photography sections.
International Colour Consortium - so that's what ICC profile means. Good luck.
Photokaboom - great resource for Photoshop Elements.
Photometadata - excellent Library of Congress & Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project.
Photoshop beauty retouching - one of the less hideous portrait retouching tutorials courtesy of DP Review.
Photoshop Disasters - it can be reassuring to find people more stupid than you.
Photo Tampering Throughout History - old fangled Photoshop.
Pixel Groovy! - "a user controlled tutorial directory".
Russell Brown - tips & tutorials, even a Photoshop podcast.

Pinhole/Lo-tec/DIY
alternativephotography.com - has a great archive of articles about strange ways to make pictures.
cow.mooh.org - Bhautik Joshi's alarming camera & 'phonecam hacks.
Digital Holga - a lo-tec hack if you're fed up with digital sharpness.
Downloadable pinhole camera - one to cut out & keep.
The Frugal Photographer - American supplier site with some good articles - process in coffee & vitamin C.
High speed visual imaging - stop a bullet or freeze a milkdrop.
Holga instruction manual - courtesy of Freestyle Photographic in Los Angeles.
The Icarus Project - high altitude low tech photography in Yorkshire and beyond.
Jon Grepstad Pinhole Photography - from Norway, more info than you thought possible.
Justin Quinnell - remarkable pinhole pictures from Bristol.
Leica Pinhole - papercraft working 35mm pinhole camera kit download for £1.50 from Matthew Nicholson.
Lomography Society International - sublime madness with plastic cameras. And a shop of course.
Look no darkroom! - Andy Wilson shows how to develop your own colour neg film cheaply without a darkroom.
Matchbox pinhole - how to build a matchbox pinhole camera.
The Pinhole Gallery - loads and loads of pinhole stuff.
toycamera.com - from the same people who publish the excellent Light Leaks magazine.
Pinhole Solutions - pinhole cameras & various oddities handcrafted in Birmingham to suit most budgets.
The Scanner Photography Project - building homemade digital cameras from low-end flatbed scanners.
Slit-scan photography with large format cameras - mechanical distortion.
Solargraphy - Tarja Trygg´s project to map solar paths around the world using pinhole cameras.
World Pinhole Day - every April since 2001. 3387 lensless images from 67 countries in 2011.

Darkroom, Film & Print
Ctein - his mind boggling book on advanced techniques for print & film 'Post Exposure' is now a free pdf download.
Digitaltruth.com - despite the name, an American supplier with lots of good info about processing and printing.
Black and White World - darkroom resource centre.
Firstcall Photographic - will write digital images to monochrome film for a reasonable price.
Getting Started - downloadable beginners guides to the darkroom from Ilford (founded 1879).
How to process your first black and white film - 1984 leaflet from Ilford (pdf).
Kodak 1958 factory film - shows how film is made in a jolly Dutch way.
Massive Dev Chart - "The world's largest film development chart."
Rockland Colloid - liquid emulsions, tintype supplies, cyanotypes, toners & more
Photographers' Formulary - esoteric chemistry in Montana.
Silverprint - as well as being an excellent shop, there's a lot of information on their website.
Unblinking Eye - articles & links on alternative processes.

Photographers, Photographs, Theory & Culture
500 Photographers - ongoing project to compile a gallery of 500 active photographers. Rotterdam.
Art & Education - "distributes information about contemporary art exhibitions, publications & symposia".
Artcyclopedia - a huge list.
Art Daily - "the first art newspaper on the net" has a big photographers section of a-z links.
International Center of Photography - lectures, growing online picture archive and more.
Directory of photographic collections in the UK - from the Photography and the Archive Research Centre.
e-flux - "an international network which reaches more than 70,000 visual art professionals on a daily basis".
iTunesU - university lectures free. Autodidact heaven. Access via iTunes or app.
Photomonitor - diverse links site.
PhotoQuotes - loads of quotes of all kinds by well known photographers.
Photomontage Timeline - nu-real: fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007.
Smithsonian Photography Initiative - extensive resource from venerable American institution.
Top 50 Movies Photo Fans Need to See - list of films with photographers in them from the excellent Photojojo.

Photography & The Law
Designers & Artists Copyright Society - bit of a godsend really.
EPUK resources - downloadable articles on copyright & police guidelines.
I'm a Photographer, not a Terrorist - campaign to assist the police in not abusing complex terrorism legislation.
Ownit.org - intellectual property.
PhotoLegal - legal info & podcasts.
UK Photographers Rights Guide - 2 page pdf updated May 2009.
Urban75 - photographers' Rights & The Law In The UK. A brief guide for street photographers.

Business, Promotion, Directories
Artists Newsletter - public liability insurance, networking & info for artists in all media.
Docupedia - "International database for documentary photography". Amsterdam.
freelance:uk - "everything for the creative freelancer."
model & property releases - from Getty Images who will soon own everything.
NPPA Independent Photographer's Toolkit - American, but on the same planet, just. Lots of links.
NUJ Freelance fees guide - what the National Union of Journalists thinks you should charge.
NUJ rate for the job - database of what people actually got paid.
Photo Archive News - "daily industry news for picture editors, picture libraries and photo agencies".
PhotoShelter's 2009 What Buyers Want survey - free report on photography websites.

Organisations
Association of Photographers - representing professionals since 1968.
Editorial Photographers UK - news, resources & discussion.
fotonet - Winchester-based organisation promoting photography in the South East.
The Front Line Club - "championing independent journalism".
Royal Photographic Society - judgin' & hangin' since 1853.

Historical Information
East Sussex Libraries Historical Photos' photostream - fascinating archive starts to see the light of day on flickr.
Fred Judge, postcard pioneer, was based in Hastings. Judges are still there & still printing postcards.
Hastings & St Leonards Past Times - Flickr group with great pictures and text.
Hastings Museum - has a local studies room to access their archive.
History of photography in 40 photographs - from the National Media Museum.
Lost & Found - rediscovering early photographic processes in America.
Luminous Lint - "For Collectors & Connoisseurs". Includes a good list of historical techniques & timelines.
Photomuse - "a resource for scholarship in the history of photography."
Sussex Photo History - Victorian & Edwardian photographers in Sussex.
The Public Domain Review - contains delights such as Dr Julius Neubronner's miniature pigeon camera.