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JPEGmini, the Best JPEG reduce weight solution

in advertising, Google, graphic design, Marketing, photoshop - on 12/03/2013 05:00:00 AM - No comments

It is painful when every time I design for Google image ad banner, I use to decrease the compression rate to fit Google's rule, and I got a poor quality. Now changed, The JPEGmini does a better job in JPEG file compression, it reduce your file size without decrease your quality, almost.

Site: JPEGmini.com

Yes, doing this for the images that will use in a flash ad banner will decrease the swf size as well.

Subtlepatterns, The world's best Free background image source

in graphic design, photoshop, theme, web design - on 11/19/2013 06:05:00 AM - No comments

Stop using ugly bg images

You don't need to build perfect one for your works now. The Subtlepatterns.com is offering tons of free and high quality background images, and all the images are under CC3.0 license.

Site: Subtlepatterns.com

And Photoshop plugin edition

Subtlepatterns.com also offers a Photoshop plugin which connect to the cloud library for you, it costs $11.99.

The images from Subtlepatterns.com are the best, most of designers from Themeforest get high sales by using it.

X-icon Editor, the online site icon create tool

in graphic design, icon, photoshop, web design - on 11/16/2013 03:53:00 AM - No comments

In the early Windows Vista age, I used to draw my icon work by using IconWorkShop(by Axialis). It's a perfect icon solution if you need to build a windows7, OS X or mobile device icons which includes different resolution sizes in an .ico file. The internet grows up quickly, a simple personal site is not enough, you will need many different visual identity elements for your personal branding, and a personal icon is a must, isn't it?

The X-icon Editor does the site favor icon well, you can build it with tons of drawing tools or even upload an image for your drawing base.

Site: X-icon Editor

You will get a favicon.ico file from X-icon Editor which for your site icon like ours blog.

The icon preview

Patternify, the best pattern generator

in css, graphic design, photoshop, web design - on 11/15/2013 11:32:00 AM - No comments

Whatever a photoshop pattern, or pattern background for web site, the Patternify does the best job for you. It generates you both png and Base64 code, and it's free!

Cropp.me, the online cropper!

in graphic design - on 11/12/2013 09:37:00 PM - No comments

Cropp.me offers a quick image cropping service, upload any image and crop it by choosing a resolution you want for.

Site: Cropp.me

There is a mistake, the Facebook cover dimension should be 851*315:)

Online gif animation builder

in advertising, animation, creative, gif, graphic design, web design - on 11/12/2013 05:32:00 AM - No comments

The gif animation is something losing in the world, Facebook even hate it(in my opinion). We can still see creative gif sometimes. Like to build one yourself? if you are not familiar with photoshop, the mothereffinganimatedgif.com is for you.

First, see this creative illustrator's work:

Now you can do this by using mothereffinganimatedgif.com without pain!

Brand Colors Collection

in advertising, color, creative, css, graphic design, VI, web design - on 11/12/2013 05:20:00 AM - No comments

You sometimes seeking for the brand colors? A talent guy is collecting the world brand colors for you.

Site: BrandColors

Pictaculous, analyses color from your image

in color, creative, graphic design, photoshop, web design - on 11/12/2013 02:21:00 AM - No comments

Sometimes you need collecting colors from an image, Pictaculous is doing just what you need. Also Pictaculous offers the related colors for you.

Site: Pictaculous

Color Hexa, the color relationships

in color, css, graphic design, photoshop, web design - on 11/12/2013 02:15:00 AM - No comments

Have you ever imagined how many relationships for a color? The Color Hexa answers it! Simply input a color code then you get all of it. The Color Hexa is your color experts.

Site: Color Hexa

Color Ramp Creator, make you a color plan

in color, css, graphic design, web design - on 11/12/2013 01:45:00 AM - No comments

I know I know, sometimes we are seeking a serials color plan for a graphic or site, it's inconvenient to check each of it and make a plan. To consider previewing in site is another pain, The Color Ramp Creator is doing this for you. You can try build colors with a color system and preview lively in a picture.

Site: Color Ramp Creator

Special tool isn't it? This is what I did

Piknik, the universal background color preview tool

in color, creative, css, graphic design, web design - on 11/12/2013 01:43:00 AM - No comments

Web designers are always looking for a better background, I understand.
The Piknik Color Picker is doing exactly this job, and is as easy as moving your mouse with wheel event while you are previewing all the RBG colors(true color). I guess there is nothing better for a background color previewer. (Alright, the Piknik Color Picker is not designed for background plan, but it is definitely the best one for background color choosing.)

Site: Piknik Color Picker

This may be a big gift for a web designer.

Kular, a color community for designers

in color, creative, frontend design, graphic design, photoshop, web design - on 11/12/2013 01:41:00 AM - No comments

Sometimes we are confused under the work pressure, we might not that trust our color plans. The Kuler is a community for color talks, just type a keyword and search for the best color plans that was planed by a designer and is voted by designers.

Site: Kuler

The Kuler is owned by Adobe, it free and is integrated with Photoshop, you can also open it from photoshop extension.

Each of the CSS color has a name

in color, css, frontend design, graphic design, html, web design - on 11/11/2013 11:36:00 AM - No comments

There is not only the pure color have a name, the 147colors.com colloected color names for you.

Site: http://www.147colors.com/grid/

It's cool hum? Now you are ready for picking up some colors in you case, and your boss will be amazing on you. :)