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The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps. Create an eBook using free software. Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. By Blackboard. Want to Build a New App? There's an App for That, Too. Competition in Apple’s App Store is so tough that even strong concepts must be planned to perfection before any development should start.

Want to Build a New App? There's an App for That, Too

So enter App Cooker: A hot new iPad app that makes sure other apps have the right ingredients in place before any development begins. App Cooker ($19.99) from Sophia-Antipolis, France-based Hot Apps Factory helps aspiring designers organize, plan and get app projects ready for production. 30-year-old Xavier Veyrat — the designer of App Cooker — spoke to Mashable about the development of the platform and the steps that go into creating a masterpiece app recipe. Have you always been into design? Always. What type of design inspires you? Companies such as Apple, Dyson and Braun are some of the main sources of my inspiration because they care about usefulness and beauty at the same time. How did the concept for App Cooker come about? Two years ago, I started to work on a gaming app with my partner Johann. What is Data Visualization? The Anatomy of a perfect Website [Infographic]

The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps. Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration – Online and Off. Seamless patterns - Patterrific. Ava7 patterns /// 1684 free seamless background patterns. 40 Wonderfully Creative iPad Apps. We all have the capacity to be creative, it’s in our very nature.

40 Wonderfully Creative iPad Apps

The iPad is a wonderful tool for creation is almost every sphere you can imagine, from expressing poetry to capturing artistic ideas, from exploring musical invention to manipulating captured light. Whether you consider yourself a creative professional, or are simply a person who loves to dream and imagine, there are hundreds of awesome iPad apps to help you do just that. Exercise your mind, make something new today! Artistic Apps Procreate Procreate touts itself as possibly the most exciting digital painting app on a mobile device, I think it lives up to that claim. It features a great deal of functionality that’s packaged in an effortlessly intuitive interface, it can’t fail to appeal to the artistic among you! Zen Brush Zen Brush is a beautiful way to get involved and make your own art! Rather than being a fully fledged painting app like Procreate or Brushes, the beauty of Zen Brush lies in the simplicity of the concept.

Djay. Awesome Collection of Image Editing Tools for FREE. By: ArtWave | Tuesday July 19, 2011 | no comments “A picture speaks a thousand words” as the saying goes… I’d like to think……a picture speaks beyond words.

Awesome Collection of Image Editing Tools for FREE

So, today we are featuring an awesome collection of image editing tools that may just inspire you to share photos the way you really want to. Hope you find one, two, or all of these fabulous FREE tools suit your creative needs and polish that excellent shot you took the other day. Click on images below to get to site…& as always, Share the Love ❤ Picnik – Photo Editing Made Fun Picnik Picmeleo – Online Photo Editor with Embed Options. Beauty in Everything - Photography. Freebies. A Christmas Gif. Random funny pictures. Your Palettes · Colorpal. Collaborative storytelling. PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software. Photos Public Domain - Free photographs, pictures, clipart & images for any use - Royalty Free Stock Photos.

Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. CoolArchive - Free clip art, fonts, icons, and much more! Color theory. Vision and color are at the heart of painting.

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Here is the most comprehensive discussion for artists of color perception, color psychology, "color theory" and color mixing available online, and one of the most comprehensive available anywhere in any format. modern color theory (concepts) talking about color • misconceptions in tradtional color theory • additive & subtractive color mixing • visual color relationships modern color theory (applications) material color relationships • talking about paints • many painters' palettes • principles of color contrast • color symbolism • summary learning color through paints three guiding principles • 27 color study topics tonal value the dominance of value • the value scale • hue, lightness and saturation • the artist's value wheel • grayscales & gamut mapping • painting values. the artist's value wheel (HTML • PDF)

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