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RGB to, does any color source transfer for you!

in color, frontend design, pantone, photoshop, web design - on 8/20/2014 09:57:00 PM - No comments

You have learned visual identity system, and you care about the color code usage in any of your client's project. You got trouble with the Pantone color source for web site designing, web color source for paintings, the monitor troubles, you image that if someone made a color database for all the color source transfer.

RGB.to just does this job, transferring any of color source to another color source, it just amazing!!

Link：RGB.to

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.

Fake image please, "Call" a fake image immediately!

in frontend design, javascript, photoshop, responsive, web design - on 11/26/2013 07:30:00 AM - No comments

But it's just a real image.

Sometimes we will need an image just for preview, but usually we will need to open photoshop for a right resolution. If you are someone like I said, the Fake image please brings you a new solution for it.

This guy is talent, the Fake image please is an online tool, what you will need to do is just "call" an address for the image, bg colour, text colour, text content...just like this official sample codes:

img src="http://fakeimg.pl/300/"
img src="http://fakeimg.pl/250x100/"
img src="http://fakeimg.pl/250x100/ff0000/"
img src="http://fakeimg.pl/350x200/ff0000/000"
img src="http://fakeimg.pl/350x200/?text=Hello"
img src="http://fakeimg.pl/350x200/?text=World&font=lobster"

Easy, isn't it?

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!

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

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.