The Ultimate Photoshop Toolbox Sep 07 2010 For years now, whenever designers have been asked about their go-to program for image editing and creation, one of the top answers that comes back, is Adobe Photoshop. Its generations of evolution has centered around the growth of any number of digital imaging professionals and has made this software giant a staple in the graphic design community. Since so many of us find this tool in our design arsenals, we thought we would put together a post that would have you get the most out of this dynamic imaging program. Below is a collection of invaluable Photoshop resources from the online community that runs the proverbial gamut of available PS content. From toolkits full of templates, shapes, gradients, brushes, and so much more, to individual resource downloads of informative PDFs, usable PSDs, and other content galore, this post has everything you will need to amp up your Photoshop toolbox. Websites Web Designer’s Toolkit is a valuable resource for Photoshoppers indeed. Brushes
Free Tools, Webmaster 10 Useful Web Apps for Designers DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius. Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. Invoice Bubble Invoice Bubble is free invoice software that lets you create an invoice and send to your client in seconds. Gridulator Tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers. Browize Useful tool for resizing current browser window size to set or custom resolutions. Screenr Screenr is a web-based tool that lets you create screencasts without installing any software. Launchlist Kuler Favigen Easily generate favicon for your website. Fillerati Loads.in
100 Greatest Free Fonts Collection for 2012 Today we'd like to delight you with an extensive list of The Best Free Fonts for 2012. We've made a collection in which you can find Sans Serif, Slab Serif, Rounded, Modern, Display , Art Deco, Geometric, Urban, Futuristic and even abstract style types. An important part of typography is selecting the right typeface for a project. This is one these things that you might want to keep handy for your next designs. Download fromBehance Serif, Slab Serif, Semiserif Typefaces ... Script and Calligraphic Typefaces Sans Serif, Modern, Geometric Typefaces ... Display and Decorative Typefaces ...
70 Of The Best Photoshop Actions For Enhancing Photos - Creative Nerds The compilation consist of 70 of the best Photoshop actions collected from all around the web from photo effects to actions for even creating photo borders, An essential design resource for all designers weather your an expert or an beginner. Photoshop actions consist of a series of menu commands such as i.e. filters, image adjustments etc which can be recorded and played back this process is called a Photoshop action. Photoshop actions are perfect for novices to Photoshop simply because it allows you to apply multiple different photo effects to an image within a few seconds without having knowledge about the ins and outs of Photoshop. Photo Effect Actions 1) Double sketch effect action for Photoshop This action offers a “double” sketch effect, just like if you painted the sketch twice, once from left to right, and once from right to left. 2) Photoshop Action – Bright Eyes A Photoshop action to enhance the appearance of the eye but only works with blue eyes. 3) Pencil Draw Photoshop Action
PSD - Download PSD And Free PhotoShop Tools 10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications Every web designer and developer should have a good and reliable wireframe (mockup or prototype) tool at there disposal. The importance of such a tool differentiates amongst web designers and developers, some use them, some don’t. Personally, I use them. It is in this initial stage of development that makes web design enjoyable, the coming together of the clients needs and your own creative ideas onto a blank canvas, allowing you to plan effectively the visual arrangement of the sites content. The downside is that a good and reliable wireframe application can come at a heavy price, have you seen the cost of a good wireframe application? So, what options do you have? Please note that this post really old, so some of the below apps may not longer be free or available. Hot Gloo – The Online Wireframe App HotGloo is an easy to use and intuitive Flash built web-based wireframe app, that can create conceptual interactive prototypes of a website in the early development stages. Pencil Project
40+ Free Vector Graphics and Photoshop Brushes For Commercial Use | Qbrushes Blog One of the most common emails I receive from designers,hobbyist and other users is ” are these for commercial use?” most freebies on Qbrushes/QVectors are under “Creative Commons License” but a good amount of them do allow commercial use, so I decided to create a list of free vector’s and brushes from both Q sites and from around the web that allow commercial use. You can use these images for logos, advertising, promotional products, and much more! Colorful - By MyStockLogo.com Free logo templates from MyStockLogo.com for free high quality vector logo templates in any commercial or non-commercial works Enjoy it!Vector Swirls – By Designious.com & Smashingmagazine.com 10 high-quality vector illustrations, created with Adobe Illustrator and available as .eps source files. These illustrations were created by Designious.com and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.Vector Tribals – By SadMonkeyDesign.com Vector Tribal designs. It’s hi-tech vs vintage…and we all win.
The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow. This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please! Graphic Design 1stwebdesigner Blog by Dainis Graveris in Latvia covering all things design and freelance. 2expertsdesign A blog filled with tips – whether it’s graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding or typography. 456 Berea Street Blog from Roger Johansson containing articles and tutorials on web standards, accessibility and usability. 72dpi Graphic design inspiration.
CSS Tinderbox: Free CSS-Based Templates WordPress Tinder A small collection of very simple WordPress template frames that can be easily customized and adpated to suit your needs. They’re built for WordPress 3.8 or later and set up to use widgets in multiple locations. CSST Simple Orange Another three column design but with the “heavy” column to the left and the other two narrow columns on the right. Screenshot / Download Zip CSST Simple Red To be totally honest, this one looks a hell of a lot like Simple Orange but with a cherry flavor though. Screenshot / Download Zip Installing A Template To install one of these WordPress templates: 1. 2. 3. As with any WordPress template, you’ll more than likely need to adjust the styles a bit to mesh with your current settings. (NOTE: Web geek tested and approved in Firefox 3.0 (Win), Firefox 2.0 (Mac), IE7 (Win), Opera 9.6 (Win), Safari 3.2 (Mac). Fixed-Width Templates Centered Box 1-Column 1-Column (2) 3-Over-4 Columns Do you want to display a fistfull of content all on the same page? 3-Column
25 Places to Get Free PSD Files for Designers As a professional designer or developer, it is vital to discover locations from where you can obtain useful resources for your client projects. One of the most necessary resources for a visual artist is PSD files. PSD (Photoshop Document) are files that are used to stores images with support for imaging options. In addition to graphic designers, web developers also need things like flags, custom forms, symbols and other custom-shapes to use in their web design projects. That is why I will let you know you about 25 great places from where you can download PSD files for free. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 365psd 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 24. 25. Henry James is a designer and blogger who runs Logo Contest Reviews.
Spritebox - Create CSS from Sprite Images 13 Website Background Design Resources We made a post about some website background pattern generator yesterday and I thought it would be only helpful if we also do a similar post about websites which are offering free background patterns. You can check them for inspiration or to use them in your own work while giving the link that it deserves. We are however sorry to offend all tor Triskaidekaphobic readers. Do share in comments if you know more similar online resources. Color Lover : This isn’t just a color selection site, but a community of members who all share the passion for colors. Pattern Cooler is a fine resource if you want some quality background patterns to use in blogs, MySpace profiles, Twitter, mobile phone wallpapers, and non-commercial web projects etc. Squidfingers is a place which will definitely interest you if you want some free patterns to download. Kaliber Pixel Patterns also happens to have a decent repository of pattern designs which you can download and use in non-commercial projects.
13 Really Useful Online CSS Tools to Streamline Development CSS is nearly used on every modern website design. However, having to write and structure CSS code from scratch every time you have a project is extremely time consuming. Below, we present you with 13 amazingly useful CSS tools for hacking on writing time consuming code. We tried to place emphasis on unknown tools that every developer should have a looksy at, however don’t be surprised if we included a few known sources. We encourage you to find use of these tools and find ways to improve your development process. CSS Cheat Sheets As simple tool as this may seem, the CSS Cheat Sheet can be very useful. Telerik Visual Style Builder Telerik Visual Style Builder is an online CSS customization tool that allows you to easily, point-and-click customization of skins for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This tool is ideal for ASP.NET developers. CSS Type Set CSS Type Set, a hands-on typography tool which allows the every day designer and developer fully test and learn how to style Web content.