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Top Best 50 Freeware For Design and Developing Finding freeware for design and programming can be a hard task. Here there are 50 of the best.By using these programs, your projects will have a superior quality. Some of them will save you a big amount of time.Maybe you never thought in using some of them. But they will surprise you so much, that you won't be able to avoid testing them. 2D Graphics The Gimp, is a complete tool for photo retouching, designing and creating images. DeepPaint, is an artistic painting program, similar to Corel Painter. Inkscape, a vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator. ArtRage, is a beginner's program for artistic painting. MegaPOV, Do you know POV? ScreenHunter 5 Free, is an useful screen capturer. JR Screen Ruler, although this seems a simple tool, this is hard to find. ColorCop, is a color selector. 3D Graphics Art of Illusion, despite the obvious difficulty of 3d modeling, this program is really intuitive and powerful. CBModelPro, is an organic modeling program. Texture Generators Video Sound

Stripe Generator Most used CSS tricks Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here’s the list of today’s most used CSS tricks – tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know 1. Rounded corners without images 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 80+ Free 2-Column Website Templates 2-Column website templates are easily the most popular, as well as the most common free templates available. Here are more than 80 of the best. You may also want to check out the following: 40+ Free One-Column Website Templates, 50 More Beautiful Blogger Templates, 20 Wordpress 4-Column Themes Blooming - Rounded corners and the flower header give this simple template a little extra class. Hyperglass - rounded corners and the abstract circles in the header make this very Web 2.0. Stylized - this is a nice, simple template, perfect for a blog. Landscape - I love the Grand Canyon header and rounded corners in this one. Stickybud - the header background image on this one is really nice. Travel Portal - this is a colorful nature-inspired template. The Island - The transparency in this template is very attractive. Fun Ride - the semi-retro feeling of this combined with the tabbed header is very classy. Affection - a Victorian-inspired design. Multiple - funky striped template.

6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics In the days of cold, hard newsprint, only people who could draw were successful comic strip authors. In some cases, this resulted in comic strips that had very nice pictures, but weren't all that funny (cough, Blondie). Thankfully, the Internet has taught us not to accept an inferior form of comic artistry, but a more flexible one. Comic strip enthusiasts who want funny but don't care about pretty drawing can have their strips, those who want artistry have theirs, and even those with very specific tastes can find something just right. The best part about these developments is that they allow you, regardless of any talent as an artist or comedian, to create your very own comic strip. 1. MakeBeliefsComix.com is easy enough for children to use, but there are enough options for adults to get a message across, too. One limiting factor is color. The pre-set options that make the site so easy to use can also be slightly limiting. 2. The site does have some rough patches. 3. 4. 5. 6.

CSS Design: Taming Lists As early as July of 1999 I was pontificating on email lists about the virtues of style sheets. Some things never change. Article Continues Below What has changed is how I think about CSS, and the underlying structure of (X)HTML to which it is applied. Of course the reason that we don’t mark them up in that way is that we don’t want a bullet in front of every link in our navigation area. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. Setting the stage#section2 For purposes of this article, I am using unordered lists. <ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li><li>Item 3</li><li>Item 4</li><li>Item 5 we'll make a bit longer so that it will wrap</li></ul> Each list is simply placed inside a different DIV, and the CSS is written so that the list’s behavior is determined by the DIV it is in. Without any additional styles applied, the list is rendered in this way in the base DIV: Item 1Item 2Item 3Item 4Item 5 we’ll make a bit longer so that it will wrap

99 Useful Resources for Graphic Designers at You the Designer - Graphic Design Blog Articles September 27, 2007 I have used every one of these resources as a graphic designer and website developer and have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness and overall quality. I hope you find these resources as useful as I do! Enjoy!Organizations 1. www.gag.org The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects its members and is committed to improving conditions for all graphic designers and the whole industry. 2. www.aiga.org AIGA, the professional association for design is dedicated to protecting and advancing design and its importance to society. Education 3. www.guidetoonlineschools.com Guide To Online Schools is an education directory that specializes in online degrees, online schools, and distance learning. 4. www.getdegrees.com Getdegrees features the nations best online degrees from over 300 colleges. 5. www.graphic-design-schools.org Graphic Design Schools is your unofficial guide to getting into a graphic design school. Generally Useful 9. Color & Charts

35 Free Graphics Programs There are a lot of excellent graphics programs on the market these days, but just because they come with a premium price tag doesn't mean they are the only option. Take a look at this list of our favorite, and free, alternatives to some of those pricey programs. Paint, Drawing and Graphics Programs Gimp – Very powerful image manipulation program, great for photo retouching and image creation. There are other downloads, GTK and runtime environment for this program to work properly. Ultimate Paint – Image creation and manipulation program for Windows systems. Skencil – An interactive vector drawing program for Unix and Linux operating systems built on the Python language. Pixia - Originally a Japanese only edition, Pixia is a very nice paint tool with full layers support and many other features. InkScape – If you have been looking the free answer to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, IncScape is a great alternative. Paint.net – A free image and photo editing software for Windows based PC's.

PSDTuts - Just Great Photoshop Tutorials Emma Alvarez Site: Top Best 50 Free Apps For Designers And Webmasters Sometimes big companies have started making small and free applications, that with the support of their users have become big software projects. To support the new software designers and programmers means to better the market. But sometimes the great quality of free applications surprises you. 2D Graphics Paint.NET, Opensource graphics editor that is widely known for its quality. Active Pixels, A free image editor that has a similar feel to Photoshop. PosterForge, This graphics editor is for making "Dead or Alive" posters with the feeling of the Far West. PhotoFiltre, This images editor is specialized in filters. 3D Graphics MakeHuman, Models human figures and exports in obj and collada formats. 3D Canvas, 3D Modeler that exports in POV format. JPatch, 3d modeler for Pov or Renderman. UVMapper, applies textures to 3d shapes. PoseRay, Imports from formats like 3ds or vrml and exports in POV, plus many other interesting features that allow to manipulate the rendered scene. Natural Painting Coding

35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets | Graphics Advertisement When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download. The result: hundreds and hundreds of sets available almost everywhere, usually not that well executed and often duplicated from other sets. Below we present 35 incredible free icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop to spice up your posts with some nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons. You might want to take a look at the following articles we’ve presented earlier: Free Icons For Your Web Designs Bagg & Box Telecharger Icon Pack5 70 high-quality free icons released under a Creative Commons license. Apple Mail Icons14

40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download | Graphics Advertisement When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download. However, designing a high-quality icon set isn’t an easy task. In the overview below we present 40 excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. You can also scan through the icons-related articles we’ve published before: This time you’ll find quite many tasty snacks. Free Icons For Your Web Designs Office Space Icon Set6This set contains a coffee icon, chair icon, employee icon, coffee machine icon, computer display icon and information kiosk icon. Light Icons Set7A set of 22 light, clean and stylish icons created by Krzystof Kolatorski from Poland. Bright!

Top 80+ Images, Graphics, Icons etc Resources, you cannot miss ! | IT Discover Online Signature (Siggy) Maker ( 3483 ) Online Siggy Maker - An Easy Cool Online Signature Generator for Free .Free Icons ( 3053 ) The icons you see on this page are made by converting free stock photos from various sources into icons (PNG and Windows icons). These icons can be freely used, but the orginal copyright remains to their creator. Now get the icons and and beautify your projects with them :-)Sign Generator Widgets (Make Your Own Funny Pictures) ( 3035 ) Make thousands of free clipart images VIA online templates without having to install any software (web based applications)! You can make banners, buttons, forum avatars, desktop wallpapers, fake errors, smilie faces, comic strips, logos, blog pics, safety signs, email sigs, personal flags, vanity license plates, warning labels, book covers, e-cards, celebrity deface, brand name parody/satire, controversial pix, etc.

40+ Extremely Beautifull Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART May 26 2008 The web is rich with creative and amazing icon sets, and one of the most unusual source of amazing Icons Sets are those you can find on deviantART icons gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know! 1) Realistic Icons - 3 Icons in PNG + ICO format. 2) Onibari light - Formats are Png’s,Ico’s and Icns’s… 3) Leopar’d IconPackager - An IconPackage for Apple’s new Leopard theme. 4) Adobe CS 2.0 Grande Icon Set- This is the large set of Adobe Creative Suite Icons. 5) Glossy Member Icons - Glossy Member Icons…4 PNG Files…Easy to change colors… 6) Oxygen- Are as light and airy as their name suggests. 7) iPhone Pack- iPhone icon pack ( Phone, Text, Chat, iPod, Notes, System) 9) Helix icons 10) Prostor_icons 11) Shopping Basket Icons 3D 13) Paper Clip - icon size 512x512px in png

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