Image Tools

Three Useful Web Applications For Designers And Alike

Posted by AN Jay

at January 16, 2012

There are many tools out there for internet users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Three Useful Web Applications For Designers And Alike. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.

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BrandMyMail

BrandMyMail is a service that stands between you and your recipients: mails that you send pass through our servers, where your templates are applied, and are then sent along to their final destination. Currently, this is working with Gmail.

Web Colorizer

To recolor sites, templates, and generally any web-related stuff, you can use this web app. It does the job automatically in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days of manual work.

Makeuptor

Makeuptor is a new incredibly simple tool for adding custom graphics to your website as easy as possible.

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Coolest Apps From 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012

Posted by AN Jay

at January 4, 2012

9 Comments →

The year 2011 has ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2012. I hope designers, developers and programmers 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. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of Coolest Apps Of 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012. We have categorized them as Web Apps, Desktop Apps and Smartphone/Tablet PC Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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Web Apps

Screenfly

Screenfly allows you to view your website on a variety of device screens and resolutions. It makes testing your online content, mobile designs, and responsive layouts a cinch. Choose common browsers, screen resolutions, and even mimic mobile phone and tablet devices.

Really Simple System

It has all the features and functionality you need to keep track of your customers and prospects – their names, when to call them back, what you said to them last, what they bought, what they might buy. And as the name implies, Free Edition is a completely free CRM system. You can also upload documents such as letters, faxes, spreadsheets and keep them on the system. In CRM jargon, it is a complete Sales Force Automation system: Account Management, Contact Management and Opportunity Management with Sales Forecasting.

IdentyMe

IdentyMe is a service for making of virtual business cards. You can collect all your contacts in one place and create a portfolio. It will helps you share information with new people, find new friends and business partners.

LiveGO

LiveGO is an all-in-one solution enabling Internet users to stay connected to their social networks as Facebook and Twitter accounts, InstantMessengers as MSN Messenger, Yahoo and Gtalk, and email accounts as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo!.

Wix

You can create your own free website that looks and functions the way you want. Wix is an online editor with a drag and drop interface that lets you learn how to make a website without the need to bother with any code or web programming. To build your site, use the free design elements found inside the Wix website builder. Add pictures, text, contact forms, Google maps, social network icons and links, music, video files and more, in just a few simple clicks. You can also upload your own content, to add your own photos, animation files, text and more.

moneytrackin

moneytrackin‘ is a free online webapp that allows you to track all your expenses and incomes easily and without effort, thus allowing you to have a clear view of your financial situation. It intends to be a simple yet powerful online budget management tool.

Logotype Maker

This is a dead simple yet free logo maker web tool which can helps you create a logo in just few easy steps.

CrocoDoc

CrocoDoc is an excellent online tool to share and annotate PDF files. If your friends do not have PDF file reader, you can upload the file to CrocoDoc and it will become viewable in the site’s HTML5 interface. The PDF file can also be annotated. The original and annotated versions can be downloaded separately by visitors to the PDF’s URL.

Dialawg

The astonishingly simple way to share, track, protect, and control your files, messages…and relationships. Dialawg is a secure conversation, accessible from anywhere, where parties may exchange messages, share files and collaborate on documents.

vintageJS

vintageJS is a tool where you can upload your images and apply a custom retro, vintage look to them for free. Just try it out: upload your photo, apply the vintage effect and share the retro image it with your friends via twitter or different social networks.

TitanPad

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously. While working on this app, you may do infinite undo and everyone gets their own color.

TagCrowd

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud. It specializes in making word clouds easy to read, analyze and compare, for a variety of useful purposes.

Virustotal

Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines.

CSS Pivot

This is a great website that can allow you to add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link. You can also invite others to submit
improvements for your website.

AgileWrap

AgileWrap is a simple, elegant, agile lean product lifecycle management solution to enhance product development, and realize faster time to market. It helps organizations optimize the product development process by enabling effective planning, providing visibility in real-time, incorporating customers feedback sooner, and facilitating collaboration easily in distributed teams.

MeetMe

Business partners and friends want to meet with you. Show them when you’re busy and available and let them submit meeting requests to get on your calendar. MeetMe is your central hub for scheduling.

Webplanner

Webplanner is an online collaborative project management tool. You can use the power of the cloud to brainstorm project goals, phases, tasks, and multiple levels of subtasks with your team. Assign responsibility for tasks to team members, who will be notified automatically, and then work out task details through comments. Upload and share project-related files. Print reports. Schedule your project using a dynamic Gantt chart with dependencies and a critical path view. It will help you track the progress of your project using the Overscreen screen (at left), which includes a project status pie chart, a list of approaching tasks for the whole project and individual team members, a project activity feed,
and a team status list.

Moably

You can create your free mobile website in minutes with Moably. It works seamlessly on the iPhone, Android, BalckBerry, and the majority of other major mobile operating systems.

SnatchCode

SnatchCode is a one click website backup solution. They help webmaster’s get rid of complicated backup solutions by replacing with their robust service.

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.

LayerStyles

LayerStyles v 0.1 is just like your favorite graphics editor but in your browser. You can use it to create css code of the special effect you would like to give on your web design.

SlideBomb

This is absolutely not your typical slideshow. With SlideBomb, You can add Youtube videos, Google Maps, images, links to images, text, and more to your slides for sharing and embedding anywhere.

Twileshare

Twileshare assists you in uploading and sharing PNG, GIF, JPG, DOC or PDF files on Twitter.

Lubith

You can now drag, drop, a few clicks and you can have the WordPress theme you wanted with Lubith. It has very intuitive interface that helps you move and resize the theme elements just by dragging the two knobs.

Otipo

Otipo is a web-based application which provides a new and fun way for scheduling shifts. With Otipo, all the required information is in one place, and all the team members can access it from anywhere, anytime. It’s time to say goodbye to the pen and paper and let Otipo schedule like a pro.

Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator

The Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator is a free online tool which you can use to generate scripted preloaders (spinners or throbblers) for your HTML projects. The Creator is using the CanvasLoader UI Library.

Read More : 7 Excellent HTML5 Tools And Resources

Rapid Searchmetrics: Website Speed Test

The website speedtester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

Doocuments

Doocuments is about people exchanging VIP documents. Doocuments technology is perfect for sending VIP files through the Internet without being afraid of the final destination or usage of the VIP information. This is designed both for individual use or company-wide deployments, Doocuments is a Cloud Computing tool that integrates seamlessly into user and corporations workflows with a suite of plug-ins for the main office software suites.

YAML Builder

The Builder is designed for rapid development of CSS layouts, that are based on YAML.

FindFiles

FindFiles.net is a rapidly developing search engine for files of all types, operating its own crawler. FindFiles database currently contains links to 732,941,672 files. FindFiles supports all existing Mime Types (apart from standard html text-pages) like jpeg, gif, png and tiff images, Microsoft doc and Excel documents and exe executables, pdf and plain text documents, dwg AutoCAD and wrl virtual reality data files, archives like zip, gzip and jar, apps for smartphones like apk for Android and sis for Symbian etc.

Manifested

Manifested is a new utility for getting a jump start on converting your existing web site to work offline using HTML5′s cache manifest. Manifested scrapes a website for images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts that you may want to cache. Manifested then gives you a custom cache manifest file as a starting point for upgrading your website to support offline functionality.

Flowchart

You can collaborate with your colleagues in real-time. All collaborating parties can chat and design flow charts at the same time. Flowchart.com does not require any software download, it works with your favorite browser such as: Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Google Chrome.

PDF to Word Online Converter

You will find numerous Word-to-PDF converters online but something that does the reverse is not that abundant. This is why many people will find PDF to Word Online Converter valuable – because it converts PDF files into Word documents.

Read More : 10 Best Online Tools For Converting Documents

Free online file converter

This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. They support a lot of different source formats, just try. If you can’t find the conversion you need, you can contact them. They will try to help you.

PrivNote

PrivNote is a free online note taking applications which you can use to jot down ideas or for any other reason. The best thing about PrivNote is that it generates a specific link for the Notes you create so that you can share them with your friends and family. Once the recipient read the note, it will be deleted automatically. It even notifies you once the recipient has read the note.

CSS3 Generator

With this tool, you can choose CSS properties from the list and fill in your required parameters and get the code with a live preview.

QuickForget

Uploading and saving files online is commonplace today. However, most online storage services require lengthy signup procedures and configurations before you can actually save a file. If you are in need of a quick way to store files online temporarily, QuickForget is the place to go. It lets users to upload files quickly and set the limit (time or views) after which the file will be removed from storage. A great website to store those important files securely.

WorldCat

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WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat is one of the largest network of library content and services which students can use to complete their projects, essays and other school/university related work.

Join.me

Join.me is an impromptu meeting space that happens wherever, whenever. It’s getting a second or third pair of eyes on your presentation from across the hall or across the continent. It’s sharing your screen instantly with anyone or everyone to get stuff done, quickly.

GplusTo

GplusTo is a free to use web tool that lets you easily create a Google+ nickname. Based on your nickname it gives you a shortened URL that redirects to your original Google+ profile. Your shortened URL appears as a subdomain of GplusTo with your nickname added.

Eightbit.Me

Do you remember the Atari days when the graphics came in eight bit? well Eightbit.Me is a website on which you will be able to create an eight bit avatar of yourself. You just need to sign-in with your twitter account and visit the website on your iPhone and the website will walk you through easy steps to make a cool eight bit avatar of your choice. It’s for FREE.

QuickMaps

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With QuickMaps, users can easily create a map of places they are planning to visits and put different markers on specific places, draw lines, mention details and work they are going for and much more. After creating the map, users can easily post it on their websites or save it so that they can carry it while travelling.

flickrSLiDR

FlickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options.

Chop

Chop is a quick and easy way to let the offending engineer know the error of their ways. Just copy and paste the lines in question, add your notes and share
them with a unique URL.

Billable

Billable is much like the first entry on this list. This web app lets you create an invoice by editing the fields on a template loaded up when you visit the site. Your finished invoice can be downloaded as a PDF file.

X-Icon Editor

X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9. With X-Icon Editor you can quickly get your site ready with a large icon which will be available for pinned sites and the new tab page.

About.com Find By Error Message

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A service provided by the popular website About.com, this Find By Error Message page lets users browse common error messages seen on PCs. The list is pretty huge and if you face a problem while using your PC, there is a very likely chance that you can find the error details on this webpage.

Read More : 7 Tools To Find What Error Codes Mean

Meetin.gs

Meetin.gs can organize meetings easily without participants having to remember passwords or fill out registration forms.

FotoFuze

FotoFuze lets you make professional product photography out of ordinary photographs from ordinary cameras at absolutely no cost.

Cacoo

Cocoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge.

HideMyAss

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With HidemyAss, you can surf the web anonymously, hide your IP address, secure your internet connection, hide your internet history, and protect your online identity. All you have to do is paste the URL of the website you want to visit and click on HideMyAss button.

Read More : 10 Privacy Tools To Browse The Web Anonymously

Enloop

Enloop lets you autowrite your business plans in which Enloop helps you easily develop a bank and investor ready business plan, complete with all text and financial forecasts, for free. Then you can measure the success of your business (on a scale of 0-1,000) before or after you start the business. You also get automated financial forecasts with this service that is based on your input. The service automatically generates a 3-year bank and investor ready financial forecast for sales, profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet forecasts and financial ratios. The forecasts are bank and investor ready to help loan underwriters evaluate your business for risk. This amazing service does all the technical stuff for you.

i2type

This website gives you access to a virtual keyboard that can adapt into 67 different languages. So if you are looking to type in a different language this is the best solution for you. It also lets you directly use famous search engines and websites to put your text in. You can also save your file in a word document.

tempalias

tempalias helps you out by providing temporary, anonymous email addresses, also called “aliases”. Any message sent to the tempalias address will be forwarded anonymously to your real email address. You can set a maximum number of days or messages for which the tempalias will be valid. When either limit has been reached, your temporary address will automatically be deleted.

Page Speed from Google Labs

This new experimental tool from Google Labs examines your website or personal blog and then gives you a deep insight into what can be done to improve the loading performance of your page. It is a very useful tool for all web masters as it gives users actions to perform based on a priority list. A must try free tool for use for all who want to improve their website performance.

Sketchpad

Another robust example of html5 based application where you can paint any color in any shade or opacity. You can even play with patterns and “Spirographs,”.

Read More : Eight Absolutely Interesting HTML5-based Apps

Desktop Apps

Instant WordPress

Instant WordPress is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It turns any Windows machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key.

Remind Me Later

Remind Me Later adds events to iCal in two clicks. Type “Buy groceries at 4pm tomorrow”, and it will add “Buy groceries” to iCal at 4pm tomorrow.

Recovery Toolbox File Undelete Free

Recovery Toolbox File Undelete Free is an efficient recovery tool for the NTFS file system. The program can be used free of charge, but it’s not limited in any way – it provides all the recovery features usually found in popular commercial products. The software has a very clear, straightforward and easy to use wizard-based interface that turns the entire recovery process into a chain of interconnected steps. In fact, the program is so easy to understand that anyone can use it, even if they have no recovery experience and possess a bare minimum of computer skills. All you need to do to get from point A to point B is to follow on-screen instructions and make your choices.

Advanced SystemCare Free

Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. This free PC repair software is a “must-have” tool for your computer.

SiteSucker

SiteSucker is an Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. SiteSucker can be used to make local copies of Web sites. It can download files unmodified or “localize” the files it downloads, allowing you to browse a site offline.

ScreenSh00ter

ScreenSh00ter creates a screenshot of what is visible on the entire screen, inside ScreenSh00ters frame or a rectangular area you draw on your screen by clicking and dragging your mouse.

VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

iConify

Are tired of exporting different sizes for different iOS devices? Fear not, iConify is a quick and easy app to generate assets for your iOS app. With iConify, you can generate all these images straight from your PSD files.

Disk Defrag

Disk Defrag will speed up your computer by optimizing file system. It can defragment files, consolidate free space and move system files to the faster part of the disk. With AML Free Disk Defrag you’ll get the maximum out of your hard drive performance. It is supplied with a powerful engine and smart algorithms which allow Disk Defrag to run much faster than similar tools.

Safecopy

Safecopy is another file recovery tool that is best suited to extracting data from external sources such as floppies, CDs, etc. The app “includes a low level IO layer to read CDROM disks in raw mode.”

Zip2Fix

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Zip2Fix is a free portable tool to extract undamaged data from damaged Zip archive. The undamaged files are extracted into a new zip file.

File Repair

File Repair software is a powerful tool to repair your corrupted files. It scans the damaged file and extracts maximum data from it to a new usable file. You can repair word documents, excel spreadsheets, zip, rar, selected video formats, pdf, etc.

FocusWriter

FocusWriter is a desktop application that comes in different versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This desktop app lets you setup a black background and green text combination much like Darkcopy. Additionally it can set a transparent writing screen with a custom background. You can start using whichever writing canvas you prefer.

Apture Highlights

Apture Highlights is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. It’s fast, powerful, and fun to use.

ZenKEY

ZenKEY allows you to control all aspects of your computer via keystrokes. Using the configuration utility of the ZenKEY Wizard, you can create menus, each containing items which perform “actions”.

Synalyze It

Synalyze It! is a free and simple to use Mac OS X app which lets you easily edit and analyze binary files of any size. Synalyze It! features enhanced support for many character encodings and it will allow you to interactively define grammars for various file formats.

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer

It will help you automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.

Image Tricks Lite

Image Tricks Lite is a freeware photo editing application that utilizes Mac OS X Core Image filters and Quartz Compositions to transform your favorite photos. Image Tricks Lite also contains a powerful image generator for creating unique images at random.

Smartphone And Tablet PC Apps

Salesforce Mobile

Salesforce Mobile gives you instant access to your Salesforce information on your iPhone.

HTMLeditor

A simple HTML,ASP,JS and CSS editor for your coding on the road, use menu to >”save and view file” to preview.

Ice Cream Maker

Ice cream Maker is here! where you can whip up any kind of Ice Cream for any occasion.

Maverick

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Maverick is an off road GPS navigation application with offline maps support, compass and track recording. With Maverick app, users can automatically use Bing, Google and many other Maps, and they are cached so that they can be used offline, share your current position, navigate to different places easily and much more.

Read More : 10 Android Apps Every Traveler Should Use

DocScan

DocScan lets you instantly scan multi-pages document and send out when there is no scanner nearby. By having it, you can scan not only documents in sight, but also whiteboards, receipts, business cards, posters, coupons, books …etc.

Free Data Vault

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Free Data Vault is an excellent free android app which can help users hide any data type including photos and other media files. This application is different from other applications which allow users to set a password on different folders as it allow users to hide one photo in another and store the fake image on the sd card.

USB Disk

USB Disk lets you store and view documents on your iPhone and iPod. It has an amazing built in document viewer and is very easy to use, with a simple and intuitive interface, yet it contains many powerful features. Drag and drop files in iTunes to transfer them to your iPhone / iPod, then view them anywhere.

Dolphin Browser HD

Dolphin Browser HD, most popular and powerful browser on Android Market, is built on Android 2.0+ platform. Beside some basic features, like gesture commands, multi-touch zooming, bookmarking (that syncs to Google bookmarks), Dolphin HD supports more powerful features such as versatile add-ons, better HTML5 support, customizable bookmarks sorting, innovative UI, Download Directory changing, and etc.

Fuze Messenger

Fuze Messengers supports messaging across various networks with added feature of SSL encryption to secure your conversations.

Planets

A 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers. You can discover when you can see your favorite planet, and where to look in the sky in relation to the stars and so much more.

Dictionary & Thesaurus

The free Dictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. No internet internet connection is needed to search words. The app includes nearly 2,000,000 words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog.

Memory Trainer

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. No matter how many books you study, if you don’t have a sharp memory its as good as its in drain. Memory Trainer is an app to exercise your nerve muscles and train them to remember intense amount of data. It works out your spatial and working memory, focus, chunking and concentration skills.

Mirror in your pocket

We all need to check our hair or makeup sometimes and this application is here to help. Just tilt the mirror properly so that you can get a good light from behind, you will then be able to perfectly see your reflection in the black background of the mirror.

Tic Tac Toe Free

Now you can play Tic Tac Toe on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free. Tic Tac Toe Free is the first full-featured, free Tic-Tac-Toe game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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40 Useful Photoshop Free Plugins And Filters

Posted by maquil

at November 21, 2011

6 Comments →

Traditionally plugins are an amateurish photographer’s best friend who used to take photographs, fired up Photoshop, and applied some preset filters in order to have a realistically professional image. Skilled photographers have been acknowledged to bring plugins into play as a base and after that tweak and include effects to accomplish there own special proficient touch.

Plugins are essentially an essential tool that does not get the attention they are worthy of. The Photoshop community is chock-full of several free resources, tutorials, instructions and techniques, .psd files and even Actions.

In this post of some free Photoshop plugins and filters, you will discover a handful plugins that are (more or less) as old as time itself but they will work flawlessly on all versions of Photoshop and the effect they create are just as valuable now as they were then.

VirtualPhotographer

virtualPhotographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images with just one click. Adjust film grain, color, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many other effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing. Get great results in seconds.

BleachBypass

BleachBypass Professional is an advanced Photoshop-compatible plug-in designed to digitally simulate the traditional film “bleach bypass” technique.

Filter Forge Freepack 2 – Photo Effects

Freepacks are free Photoshop plugins based on the Filter Forge technology. Each freepack is centered around a different theme. Freepacks are distributed free of charge and don’t have any time limitations. All filters included in the freepacks are also available from the Filter Library, so users of commercial Filter Forge can benefit from them as well.

Wire Worm

This little plugin will help you remove wires and other unwanted objects from your images. There are, of course, other tools to achieve this goal, e.g. the good old clone stamp or the healing brush, besides a number of dedicated plugins and applications.

Craquelure 3D

This filter creates a wide range of well known craquelure (krakloor) effects. The filter is useful in designing various abstract patterns, decorative surfaces and construction materials. Two independent craquelure layers can be controlled to achieve an amazing variety of texture effects, from etched metal and silk plaster to melted glass and water ripples.

SuperPNG

SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files. It has more comprehensive support for the format than Photoshop’s included plug-in and provides control over alpha channel handling.

j2k

j2k is a free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in set for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG. Also known as JP2, JPEG 2000 uses wavelet compression as opposed to the DCT compression used in standard JPEG. The end result is better image quality in a smaller file. JP2 also includes mandatory metadata such as information about an image’s color space.

Curves

The plugin Curves proposes eight predetermined, interesting curves. Interface shows several miniatures of curves; select one and observe impact on the image.

Absolute Color

Absolute Color is based on a hue wheel subdivised into 6 sectors of 60 degrees. Choose a sector to restrict the tints of the image to this one.

Color MegaMix

Color MegaMix modifies the colors of any image. It is based on two rows of colors: 8 source colors and 8 target colors. According to these data, the plugin reconstructs completely the color space.

Local Contrast Enhancement

This plugin’s main purpose is to bring out detail. This is accomplished by increasing the contrast between a pixel’s value and the mean value of the adjacent pixels in a local area of the photo. You can control the amount of the increase of contrast, the size of the local area and the amount of blending with the original photo.

Photomatic

Fotomatic 1.4 : A collection of 8 plug-in filters for use with Adobe Photoshop or compatible host applications. They offer a series of effects based on traditional photography equipment and techniques. They are not meant to be complex or exact matches, merely a quick and easy method to achieve results that are similar to what can be produced via conventional non-digital formats.

Hot Pixel

HotPixel is an Adobe Photoshop© compatible filter/plugin designed to remove “hot pixel” noise from digital images.

ProcessFX2

Digitally simulate traditional film cross-processing techniques, creating skewed color effects that range from the subtle to the extreme.

Fog

RPM Fog is a plugin for Photoshop (and compatible hosts such as Paint Shop Pro) that digitally adds blended graduated fog filter effects to your photographs.

Technicolor

Quickly and easily simulate the old 2-color Technicolor process in Photoshop to produce an old-style film image.

Beautifier

Produce outstanding images that really pop. Create flattering soft-focus, high-key and infra-red simulation effects… and do it all for FREE! This plug-in softens and enriches photographs in a way that brings them to life.

Ulead ArtTexture Plugin

Ready-made library of 21 pattern templates and 61 color palettes for any 32-bit Photoshop compatible program. Ulead ArtTexture.Plugin is ideal for use with PhotoImpact!

Auto Photo Mosaic

Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.

Auto FX Dreamy Photo

Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. This is a superb effect for enhancing stock photography, digital camera photos and any image you want to add a warm feel to.

Redfield Water Ripples

Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. The highly realistic water ripples effect designer has numerous options as well as an impressive 3D quality. The random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces.

Redfield Lattice 3D

Lattice Composer is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It effectively designs grids and nettings. It produces a variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations. The 3D text effects are extraordinary.

Redfield Jama 3D

Jama 3D is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It’s the simplest way to create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images. You can easily make various bricks and herring bone textures. Sequenced filtering produces bizarre unreal deformations of the original picture, crumpled paper effect, etc.

Plug-In Switch

Plug-In Switch 1.3 : With hundreds of plug-in filters now available for expanding your host applications, it becomes essential to have an easy way of organising all the installed files.

AlphaWorks – Transparency Effects

AlphaWorks quickly removes black or white values and making the region transparent. There are 6 different options, depending on the type of image you are working on (colour photo, mono photo, lineart).

Selective Saturation

Quite often some parts of a photo require a saturation adjustment while others do not. If we increase the saturation globally, the most saturated parts get oversaturated and if we decrease it, the less saturated parts get undersaturated. We need a Saturation Mask based on the individual pixel saturation in order to adjust it just where it is needed. So this plugn, Selective Saturation, lets the user define a Saturation Zone by setting it’s center and range with two sliders

Color MegaMix

Color MegaMix modifies the colors of any image. It is based on two rows of colors: 8 source colors and 8 target colors. According to these data, the plugin reconstructs completely the color space.

Icon Plug-in

Icon Plugin for Photoshop enhances Adobe Photoshop with an ability to export and import Windows icons (.ico).

Face Control

Face Control plug-in allows you to change facial expressions of people in the digital photos. It is very easy-to-use freeware program. Human, animal, alien, or any other faces are welcomed.

AAA Options

This filter allows you to open a mask, texture, grunge, or paint layer and blend it with your image in any of 30 blend modes. You can even use it to simulate layers by blending it with the original or a modified version of the image you are editing.

Camouflage

Now you can, with the Camouflage™ plug-in! Use the Camouflage plug-in to make army, fashion and animal camo. You can even make patterns not found anywhere else.

Stereogram Lab Filter

Stereogram Lab Filter is a stereogram maker plug-in, which allows to generate Hidden Image Stereograms right in your Photoshop, which is quite convenient. This filter is free and you can use it both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, however, distributing the filter itself is not allowed.

Mosaic Toolkit

Smart Refinement Filter

Smart Refinement Filter is an Adobe Photoshop® plug-in for photographic images enhancement. This plug-in allows: sharpness and depth-of-field (DOF) enhancement, and noise (dust) reduction.

Fur 2

The plugin Fur 2, disperse a simple figure (line or circle, configurable dimensions/thickness) over the whole image.

Kaleidoscope 2.1

Kaleidoscope 2.1 is a plugin which proceeds to multiple symmetries to obtain beautiful patterns.

Sinedots 2

This plug-in helps creating amazing wavy effects. And you will be surprised with the random results what you get.

Night Vision

The NightVision plug-in can make any image like the ones from night vision goggles. By using the effects in this plug-in, you can make images look like they are from a black & white security camera or CCTV system. It’s also possible to make them look like infra-red photos. Or you can just use the interlace to make an image look like a TV picture. You can even use it to enhance real night images!

Circle to Square

This photoshop plugin changes circle shapes into squares.

Noise Shampoo

Noise Shampoo is an edge-preserving smoothing filter. It can help to reduce noise on some pictures.

Fine Threshold

Unlike the traditional threshold command of Photoshop, the plugin Fine Threshold allows to get quickly, anti-aliased and sharp shapes.

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5 Online Tools That Are Worth Checking Out

Posted by AN Jay

at October 12, 2011

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There are many online tools out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 5 Online Tools That Are Worth Checking Out. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.

You are welcome if you want to share more online tools that 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 follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

LiveGO

Proto.io

With Proto.io, you can build high-fidelity fully interactive mobile app prototypes in minutes. These prototypes can be viewed on browser or device giving a real experience to the user how the app will look like and behave. There are multiple devices like smart phones and tablets/pads are supported including iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows mobile, and more…

KickoffLabs

Kickofflabs helps businesses get customers with viral landing pages, newsletters, and useful customer insights you can build yourself.

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.

PhotoPeach

With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. This way you can easily share your slideshows via email, IM, Facebook.

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7 Cool Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should)

Posted by AN Jay

at October 7, 2011

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There are many websites and web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 7 Cool Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should). Read each entry in the list and see which web application suits your needs best.

You are welcome if you want to share more unique search engine that 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 follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

Flowtorch

FlowTorch is a free to use, simple and powerful financial management tool for personal, freelance and small business use.

Moably

You can create your free mobile website in minutes with Moably. It works seamlessly on the iPhone, Android, BalckBerry, and the majority of other major mobile operating systems.

MiMedia

MiMedia will back up and protect your files in a secure online storage account. Beyond online backup, MiMedia also provides instant on demand access to your files from anywhere. With MiMedia, you can view any of your photo galleries, access your other files all in one user friendly location etc.

Countdown Timer

This online countdown timer is meant to be as easy to use as a regular kitchen timer. It is equally simple: all that you have to do to set it is to rotate the dial and point the red arrow at the desired number.

Picfull

This is a very basic free one click photo editing online application. This is really good for those who want little effects to implement on their photos.

LiveMinutes

LiveMinutes allows you to do free web conferencing to share and work on the document at the same time with your colleagues, friends etc

JobSpice

JobSpice is a resume builder that can help you quickly design and share a professional resume.

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Photo Collage Maker For Mac OS X & Windows

Posted by AN Jay

at October 1, 2011

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Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Photo Collage Maker For Mac OS X & Windows were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them CollageIt.

Winners of Photo Collage Maker For Mac OS X & Windows

Wiwa
Yovan
Duarte Nunes
Sumon @ Sumon Seleem’s Blog
Windy Phillips
Floyd Johnson
Nathaniel
Cean
Ann
Asigurari Locuinte

CollageIt is an easy-to-use and automatic photo collage maker for Mac OS X & Windows, which makes photo collage automatically. There are only three steps to make your stunning collage: add photo, set parameters and generate collage preview, save collage as image format.

CollageIt will create photo collage automatically according to the added photos and parameters without any manual adjustment. It support creating collage with few photos to 100 photos. The “Auto rotation mode” and “Sparse mode” make the collage more varied. Ulitmately, you can save the collage in common image formats such as bmp, jpeg, png, tga, tif etc to share with your friends and family.

Thanks to CollageIt for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.

If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.

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Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively

Posted by AN Jay

at September 23, 2011

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There are many websites and search engines out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively. Read each entry in the list and see which search engine suits your needs best.

FindFiles

SearchPSD

Here you can search more than 1.500 psd files order by categories that are all free for you.

SaveItt

Saveitt is a Free books, pdfs and Documents Search Engine. Here, You can read online documents, books, pdfs and free download documents, books, pdfs.

Dooblet

Dooblet is a search-engine to find the alternatives to a broad range of subjects. You have something you are not happy with? Feed its name to Dooblet and see what the search-engine can propose you as an alternative. It doesn’t really matter whether you need the alternatives for software, cars, medical treatments, trademarks, movies, artists or even philosophy terms. Dooblet is expected to find some alternative for you.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations.com is the world’s largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily.

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Photo Collage Maker For Mac OS X & Windows Giveaway

Posted by AN Jay

at September 13, 2011

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CollageIt is running a contest, where 10 winners will get the Photo Collage Maker For Mac OS X & Windows. Well, you guys know what is CollageIt? Lets say it once again for n00bs.

This contest will run from September 13, 2011 to September 18, 2011 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before September 25, 2011 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win Docany PDF to Text Converter, All you have to do is :

1. Just leave a comment.

2. Use valid email ID in the email box.

3. Make sure that you are following @SmashingApps on twitter and subscribe our rss feed to track this contest and for future updates.

4. And that’s it!

So, what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!

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50 Extremely Useful And Time Saving Free Photoshop Action Sets

Posted by maquil

at September 6, 2011

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Among the most commonly used designing software is the Adobe Photoshop that not only automates designers work but also improves their workflow. This is such a wonderful tool that allows you to automate your repetitive tasks saving you valuable time. You can use Photoshop actions to quickly perform monotonous tasks with a simple click.

In this session, we have come up with the collection of more than 50 high-quality Photoshop actions that help you expedite your work. You can download them for free so that you can also perform some awfully complex techniques with just a push of a button. Enjoy!

Cute Actions

Photoshop Color Actions 2

Landscape Action

Enhancing skin color

Powerful Colors 3.2

Classic 3.8

Cross-Processing ATN

Photoshop Action Set 1

Photoshop actions 4

Forest Action

Action contagious

Melon Actions

Toasted Photoshop Actions

Oldmatic Photoshop Action

photoshop actions Set 11

Bright Eyes

Blue action

Sacool action 2.02 Retro

Thinking of you action

Photoshop Actions Set 28

Photoshop Action Coffee

Action set 07

Black And White

Summer Heat Action

Photoshop Actions Set 2

Fairytale actions

24 Photoshop Actions

HDR Tools

LT’s Marshmallow Action

Wedding Theme Action

Lights action

Photoshop Dream Blur Action

Black and White ps actions

Skin Smoothing

Cinematic Effect

Photo Improvement v1

Bella action

Darker effect 5.1

Burnt Sharpness Action

Action 01

Photoshop Actions 11

Action 03

Photoshop action no.7 HIGH KEY

Focus Action

Nature Actions 2

Enchanted Action

Retro Vintage

Set 136 Vintage

Set 10 Color Contrast

Photoshop Action – Misc 003

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21 Excellent Google Chrome Applications Worth Checking Out

Posted by AN Jay

at August 14, 2011

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There are many applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 21 Excellent Google Chrome Applications Worth Checking Out. Read each entry in the list and see which web application suits your needs best.

You are welcome if you want to share more Google Chrome Applications that 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 follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

JustEdit

JustEdit is a browser-based editor application where you can write JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and execute the code right away. JustEdit is backed up by jsdo.it’s platform.

Aviary Image Editor

An incredibly useful and fun web-based image editor that can be utilized by anyone looking to retouch and manipulate a photo. From basic image editing to manipulating complex effects, Aviary’s Advanced Image Editor delivers essential key features available in powerful desktop clients right through your browser. Aviary provides its users with an easy-to-use and accessible application that will spawn creativity and sharing with every use.

LucidChart – Collaborative Diagramming

LucidChart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Also work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously — great for team collaboration and working with clients.

Weebly – Website Builder

Weebly is the easiest way to create a free website, blog, or online store. Using a simple drag & drop interface, build your website in minutes and choose from hundreds of professional designs. Absolutely no technical skills are required for using it, and your site and domain are hosted for free on it’s world class infrastructure.

ShiftEdit

ShiftEdit is an online PHP, Ruby, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript editor with built-in (S)FTP. Ideal for web development.

Logo Maker

Logo Maker is a web application that helps you create/edit logos and images. You can add/edit images, text, symbols and download logos as PNG images. The main feature of Logo Maker is that it supports Load/Save project locally (on your computer) so you can easily save your work and resume/open project later.

Minus

Minus helps you create and share online. You can drag your pictures and files onto this page, and it’ll do the rest.

Page Creator

Pagefin is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. You can create rich web pages easily, point, click, drag and drop and share with your favorite social sites.

SnapPages

If you need a simple but professional quality website that you can completely update and maintain with no hassle, then this is the app for you. SnapPages makes web design so easy, anyone can do it.

ScreenSh00ter

ScreenSh00ter creates a screenshot of what is visible on the entire screen, inside ScreenSh00ters frame or a rectangular area you draw on your screen by clicking and dragging your mouse.

PHPanywhere

PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP, HTML and CSS, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop web sites and applications online.

BeFunky Photo Editor

BeFunky Photo Editor allows everyday people to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge.

deviantART muro

Providing superior function, speed, and flexibility compared to other Web-based drawing applications, deviantART muro is offered free to everyone. With full-blown layer capabilities, pressure sensitivity, and over 20 uniquely programmed brushes, deviantART muro is advanced enough for expert artists, yet simple enough for novices and everyday doodlers.

Vector Paint

This application uses vector graphics, which provide a clear image whatever the magnification. You can use it for posters, web graphics or printing.

SlideRocket

This is simply the best online presentation software available today. You can add SlideRocket to your Chrome tab and get start making great presentations today.

Cloud9

Cloud9 IDE is a full development environment in Chrome. It is lightweight and very fast. You can edit, run, debug your code and collaborate with others on your projects. Cloud9 has full NodeJS debugging and live JavaScript syntax checking. Syntax Highlighters are available for all popular languages and there’s TextMate theming support.

picplz

picplz is a photo sharing app, website and community that makes it easy for you to share your mobile pictures on the Web with just a few clicks. It also makes it simple to add a caption, tag your location and check-in.

Visual History

Visual History provides information about your browsing behaviour through an interactive graph. You can display your history for the last hour to months and choose to see one URL per node or group them for a domain.

Pixlr Editor

If you are used to working with Gimp, Paint shop pro or even Photoshop you will feel right at home with this online image editor. It contains lots of the features that you normally see in desktop applications but just one click away. Jump in and start using this tool, no registration required and loads in matter of seconds. Pixlr editor is the most popular advanced photo editor online.

jsFiddle

jsFiddle is a playground for web developers, a tool which may be used in many ways. You can use it as an online editor for snippets build from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Lovely Charts

With Lovely Charts’s extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’re able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes or arrows, and you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use. Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more, for free.

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