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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

AN Jay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:42:15 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of January which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

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40+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Gadget Designs

How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen

51 Bangin’ Blender Tutorials

How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop

Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork

40 Imaginary Photoshop Tutorials & Techniques

35 Tutorials and Guides for Working With Wacom Tablets

Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

18 Outstanding Typography Photoshop Tutorials Of 2010

Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

35 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Design Layouts

Easy Digital Painting Illustration in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design

33 Astounding CG Environments

The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography

40 Beautiful Corporate Websites

62 Gorgeously Designed CG Characters

70 Fairly Creative Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends

45 Superb Examples of Warrior and Battle Art

30 Great Uses for 3D in Flash Websites

Amazing Grunge Artworks by Alex

50 Digital Fairy Tale Character Illustration Collections

Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Beautiful Digital Art by Miriam Moshinsky

35+ Fantastic Robot Art Illustration

40 Inspiring Single Page Websites

50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch

20 Stunning Typographic Designs

25 Absolutely Magical Fantasy Traditional Art Drawings

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

30 Clever And Creative Packaging Designs for Inspiration

Super Cool Pictures of Insects

“The Page Can’t Be Found” Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design

60 Sites with Attractive Typographical Introductions

Javascript and Ajax

20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries

45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI

Sexy Animated Tabs Using MooTools

30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation

90+ Useful jQuery Plugins for Designers and Developers

xHTML and CSS

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation

The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

Resources

The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art

20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

31 Rare Wordpress Themes

33 Absolutely Free E-Commerce Icon Sets

Massive Collection of Over 1,000 Floral Photoshop Brushes

10 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

70 Awesome Wooden Texture Packs from DeviantArt

4800 Mini Icons You Ever Need for your Apps

30+ Must Have Photoshop Actions For Photo Touch-Ups

40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds

A Roundup of 45 Industrial Free Fonts

35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons

50 Fabulous Flash Web Design Tools and Software

30+ Useful Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

25 New High Quality Free Fonts

20 Abstract Effects Photoshop Brushes

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications

25 Fresh, Clean and Unique Wordpress Themes

18 Useful Wordpress Contact Form Plugins

35 Stunning Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

Miscellaneous Articles

30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

The Evolution of a Design Blog

A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools

55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

16 useful Mac cheat Sheets

20 Must Have WordPress CMS Plugins

10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets

How to Create Creativity

10 Essential Tips You Should Know

Getting Inspiration from Admiration

The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter

14 Traits of Successful Blogs

How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6

13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier

Useful Tools for Testing Cross Browser Compatibility

11 Amazing Free Web Applications To Make Your Lives Easier

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70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

AN Jay — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:20:34 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop

65 Mold-Breaking 3ds Max Tutorials

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites

How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4

30+ Useful Logo Design Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator

72 Magnificent Maya Tutorials

22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop

The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

Visa Campaign does Amazing Arts on the Go

32 Superb Examples of Photo Manipulation

Logo Design A to Z

Stunning Mosaic Illustrations from Charis Tsevis

Data Tables In Modern Web Design

50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings

25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt

Changing Design Trends for Site Maps

Logo Design Inspiration: 70 Creative Fresh Designs

35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome

25 Beautiful and Creative Artworks Featuring Year 2010

The Best of 2009 in Flash Web Design

Talented Landscapes and Scenery Artist Ksenia

50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs

30+ Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography And How To

Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going

Go Bananas with 50+ Vector Illustrations that Monkey Around

30 Examples of Beautiful Portfolio Designs

28 Breathtaking Nature and Wildlife Photos

24 Typographic, Clean and Minimalist Motifs to Inspire

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography: Tutorials, Tips and Stunning Examples

Javascript and Ajax

15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials

Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems

18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project

20 Professional jQuery Image Gallery Plugins

7 jQuery Cheatsheets For Every Designer & Developer to Have

xHTML and CSS

33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles

Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

Fundamental CSS3 Resources for Designers

CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites

Resources

40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

25 Beautiful Free PSD Files to Download

50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts

Beautiful Fresh Free Fonts for Designers

30+ Free Online Multimedia (Photo, Audio, Video) Editors

50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

25 High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brush Sets to Touch Up Your Design

The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

10 Free Apps for Managing Your Fonts

Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics

30+ Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets

Great Free Denim Textures

30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs

Miscellaneous Articles

30 Powerhouse and Prospective Design Blogs

The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs

7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website

69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009

30+ Portable Window apps for your USB drive

35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks

How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert

20 Excellent Facebook Scripts and Resources

The Role of College for Web Designers Comments Feed

Useful Suggestions To Secure And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers

How Many Ideas Do You Show Your Clients?

60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers

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50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts

AN Jay — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:43:45 +0000

Here are useful free resources of 50 hand-drawing style icons, brushes, textures, backgrounds and fonts. We hope you will find this post helpful as it contains the best resources you may need to use these hand-drawing style stuffs for your next project.

You are welcome if you want to share more free hand drawn style resources which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

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60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In November

AN Jay — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:03:12 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of November which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

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23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

Creating a Detailed Master Plan Rendering in 3dsmax and Photoshop

Create a Leather-Textured, Realistic Briefcase Icon

Make a Sketchy Wallpaper for this Christmas

Ultimate Round-Up Of 60 Excellent Gimp Tutorials

Create a Photorealistic Car Render using 3DS Max and Vray

35+ Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop

99 Brain Blasting Cinema 4D Tutorials

30+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Space and Planets

30+ Realistic Gadget Design Photoshop Tutorials

30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love

47 Spectacular RealFlow Tuts

16 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Photographers

35 Incredible Digital Painting Tutorials

30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials

How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with Photoshop

GIMP Quick Tips: Abstract Background Effect

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

Website Design: Beautiful Vintage and Retro Inspired Designs

3D Portraits That Make You Say ‘Wow’

40 Inspiring Panoramic Photographs

Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World

95 Fresh Examples Of Single Page Website Designs

32 Beautiful Text Art Creations

Lovely Cartoon Illustrations by Anne Patzke

The Mesmerizing Art of Jordan S. Dill

60 Bizarre Examples of Grunge Photography

50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs

50+ Creative Sneakers Made with Quality Vector Craftsmanship

Street Fighter Characters: Beautiful Illustrations and Wallpapers

Inspirational Showcase Of Music-Related Logos

Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of

20 (Probably) the Most Beautiful Fractal Artworks You will Ever See

Showcase of Excerpts in Blog Design

Google Doodles from Different Countries You Haven’t Seen

45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

69 Sexy Portfolio Designs To Inspire You

Vector Artwork: 50+ Inspirational Creations

Javascript and Ajax

The Basics of Object-Oriented JavaScript

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

10 Useful jQuery Wordpress Plugins To Enhance Your Blog

Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources

Making an Interactive Picture with jQuery

20+ Easy to Use jQuery Text Effects and Animations

xHTML and CSS

Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques

CSS Box Model: The Foundation For Improving Your CSS

CSS References, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Conversion Tables and Short Codes

Resources

11 Free High Quality Dirty Wall Textures

Three Easiest Tools To Help You Create Stunning Slideshows

Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

250 Christmas Icons to Decorate Your Blog

Free Fonts: Excellent List of Resources

The Big Collection Of Free Design Textures

28 Free Wordpress Photo Gallery Themes

25+ Free Chrome Textures

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources

15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online

Miscellaneous Articles

Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices

The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development

Most Essential Free Softwares After Windows Installation

11 Smart Keyword Related Apps to Help You Simplify Your SEO Task

16 Intelligent Sites For Application Review

60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers

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21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier

AN Jay — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:43:39 +0000

This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

You are welcome to share more useful web apps that will be helpful for our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

CodeRun Studio

CodeRun Studio is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), designed for the cloud. It enables you to easily develop, debug and deploy web applications using your browser.

sikbox

The easiest way to have a fancy and useful live search on your blog. Just grab the code and place it anywhere on your site and you are good to go. The search works just like Google suggest and you have all the power to customize it the way you want.

websnapr

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator

HTML and CSS rounded corner button generator generates rounded button images with different color, different hover color and different radius.

Facelift Image Replacement

Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors.

Wordoff

Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code. Most of us have to cleanup the HTML code manually in our working life. This web tool defintely help all of us in that situation and you also find this worth bookmarking.

LOOP PDF

LOOP PDF is a free web-based service that allows you to convert and combine files to PDF. You do not need to install software or be working from your desktop computer. LOOP PDF allows you to convert, organize, and combine files to PDF. Your customer will appreciate an email with one organized, professional, and visually consistent secure PDF rather than a series of attached files that are confusing, out of order, and time consuming for the recipient to review.

Pixenate

Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.

CSSFly

CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.

Posterous

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. You can attach any type of file and they’ll post it along with the text of your email.

NeedASig

NeedASig is one of the best free signature generator. You can create beautiful and stylish email signatures and icons using NeedASig. It has more then 1500 different styles to choose from.

FreshGenerator

FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.

Edicy

Edicy is so easy to use you can build a site for your business or organization and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes. All the tools are available online with no additional software required, just pick one of our beautifully made designs, enter your text, add your images and then publish your site to your own custom web address, it’s that simple.

Krunchd

Krunchd makes it easier for you to share multiple URLs of any category in an easy and short URL. It’s especially great for putting the finished URL on your Facebook status, Twitter updates, Ping.fm notifications, websites, forums, emails and more.

Stripemania

Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

Are My Sites Up?

Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.

uSend.io

This is one of the simplest large file sending service that even does not need you to register. You will just need to upload and send you files and nothing else.

Resize Image

This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.

Convert PDF Document to Word

This website allows you to convert the pdf file to the word file.

Google Calendar

With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. With Google Calender, you can let your family and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. You can get event reminders via email or have text messages sent right to your mobile phone.

doTemplate

doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.

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23 Brilliant Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life

AN Jay — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:28 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 23 Brilliant Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

You are welcome to share more Useful web tools that will be helpful for web designers and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

Adobe BrowserLab

An easier and faster solution for cross-browser testing. You can preview and test your web pages on leading browser and operating systems. This will help you get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the internet.

Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperession.

PHPanywhere

PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. They enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser.

Carbonmade

With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or video at the forefront.

Posterous

iPlotz

With iPlotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.

Photoshop.com

This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems.

Pict

Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.

Font Burner

Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.

Iconza

A collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. If you are a happy site or blog owner, you will be able to pick icons that will fit right into your design.

Verb

Verb is a user focused task management and sharing application. If you have things that need to be done, then this is for you. Verb was built with individuals and small teams in mind. It is the perfect solution for freelance designers and coders who want to manage themselves and their collaborations.

CurdBee

CurdBee is a safe and secure web-based billing application. You can use it to send clients invoices and then collect payments via PayPal or Google Checkout, billing them easily in the currency you choose. It’s so simple, you won’t believe it till you see it.

EmailTheWeb

EmailTheWeb is the only web-based service that allows you to email any web page to any one. The entire web page is emailed in a flash and is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the same exact page as you.

MyFontbook

MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that helps save designers time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser.

247webmonitoring

Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. This will check your website every 15 minutes to know it is up. They will send you notification by email or SMS when it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy. This way you can relax and focus on your core business. In future, you will also find out how fast your site is from different location.

ViewLike.Us

This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.

Tracer

Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.

Picnik

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It’s fast, easy, and fun.

Go2Convert

Go2Convert is a set of free web based tools that allow you to convert, resize a picture without having to install any software on your computer. It is not meant to be a complete Image editing software package. It is meant to be an easy to use solution to convert, resize your pictures and digital photos without the need to learn a complex software package. Once you convert, resize an image, you can choose to copy image’s URL or download it directly to your computer – It doesn’t get easier than that.

ShowDocument

ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.

PXtoEM

This is an online calculator that can help you easily covert pixels, to EM, to percent or to points.

fivesecondtest

A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.

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65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

AN Jay — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:01:14 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of September which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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82 Earth-Shattering ZBrush Tutorials

56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials

45 Tutorials for Learning Pixelmator

27 Excellent Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation

10 Wonderful Letterpress Type Tutorials

6 Different Ways to Make Your Text and Images Glow [Tutorials]

11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects

How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing

50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn

20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials

15 Of The Best Character Illustration Tutorials Online

Photoshop Tutorials You Do Not Want to Miss

Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

Typographic Portraits That Are Absolutely Beautiful

100 Artworks from the Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa

23 Colorful And Smart Examples Of Beautiful Web Designs

70 Fresh and Inspirational Blog Designs

Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds

Best of Best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs

20 Amazing Examples of Vector Artwork

Website Design: Some of the most uniquely designed E-commerce websites

40 Gorgeous Fantasy Wallpapers to Spice Up your Laptop

40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques

13 Striking Digital illustrations of Horror Girls by Yoshitaka Kawakami

CSS: Design Out Of The Box

40 Excellent Examples of Interior Designs Rendered in 3D Max

25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together

33 Creative and Beautiful Logos

50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs

50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs

30 Powerful and Inspiring Street Fighter Characters Artworks

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50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April

AN Jay — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:46:11 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

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40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March

AN Jay — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:01:22 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

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43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects

AN Jay — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:15:29 +0000

Designers love all of those tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 43 Brilliant Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.

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