Instead of looking around for nice sites, and then asking if they're interested in a link exchange with you, just scout around and look at where other people are getting links from.

Visit a site that's similar in topic to your site. (I do this with many Photoshop sites.) Go to Google.com and type "link:www.nameofyoursite.com", or, on the Google Toolbar, click the i symbol, and select "Backward Links." (This will list all the pages that have links pointing to the current page.)
Click on every link, opening each one in a new window. Close all the pages with Page Rank less than 5. (They're not worth bothering with.)

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