The Top 8 Free Online Image Editors Taking photos or making beautiful digital artwork is activities most people enjoy doing. Most people have heard of, and might be familiar with, Adobe Photoshop. It’s arguably the most popular image manipulation app around, especially for professionals. However, most people’s image editing needs would be met by apps available right in their browser. While you won’t have the extensive capabilities Photoshop has, this list of the top eight image editing web apps will likely offer more features than necessary for most people in most instances. 1. Photoshop.com Photoshop.com is the lightweight version of the behemoth desktop app, Photoshop. Requirements: Flash 10+Developer: Adobe 2. Splashup Splashup is quite similar to Photoshop in respect to its interface, while offering a strong selection of tools and a few more than basic image editing capabilities. Requirements: FlashDeveloper: Faux Labs 3. Aviary Aviary offers everything from image editing to vector and audio editing. 4. picnik Picnik flauntR
Adobe InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out - Smashing Magazine Advertisement I love Adobe InDesign. For multi-page documents, it’s the most flexible and complete application out there. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first time. Here are some tips I wish I had known when starting out, as well as some answers to questions that others often ask me. This is not intended to be a manual; some good ones are already out there (although I personally learned by doing). Margins And Bleeds If you are preparing a document for print, keep your margins and bleeds in mind from the beginning. Master Pages When you have a multiple-page document, such as a brochure or catalog, using master pages will save you time. To set them up, bring up the Pages palette and double-click on “A-Master.” Add all of the elements that are repeated throughout most of your document: guides, page numbers, a running text box, image frames, graphic elements, etc. Frames InDesign places your content in frames. Resizing Content in a Frame (al)
500+ Exceptionally Beautiful Photoshop Patterns For Classy Designs This time I am proposing 500+ patterns for Photoshop, (PAT) or separate image for your designs funds or CSS, is wood, designs crazy handrawing, skulls, points, slashes and much more are looking for designers, including floral and metal. Files. PAT can be loaded within Photoshop using the Load command when you are in something that requires adding a pattern as in the properties of a layer (blending options), I have also included for GIMP. Patterns are images or vectors symmetrically repeated horizontally or vertically, or combined to give a sense of continuity, we see clearly in carpets, in honeycomb cells and mutual funds website inclined lines in Photoshop can be used to recreate an image from small to be repeated several times, CSS is applied using the function repeat-x, repeat-y or repeat-x to avoid creating something big. Whatever you need you can create the same but today I come to present a collection of 500+ amazing patterns formats. Stripes grunge effect Black & White Patterns
41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.
Turn Any Font Into a Sketch Font in Illustrator This blog post was previously published on our blog in 2009, and since it was so popular with our readers, we wanted to be sure the instructions were up-to-date. So we’ve updated this tutorial to be current with the most recent versions of Illustrator. Hope you enjoy revisiting this helpful tutorial in Illustrator CS6 & CC style. Here are some popular sketch fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS6 – CCDifficulty: BeginnerTopics Covered: Appearance panel, Graphic StylesEstimated Completion Time: 10 minutes Final Image Below is an example of the sketch font we will be creating. Step 1 Create a new document and with the Text tool (T), type out some text with the font of your choosing. Step 2 With the text selected, take off any stroke and fill. Step 3 With the no fill and no stroke text selected, open the pop-up menu in the Appearance panel, and chose Add New Fill. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Experiment
Upgrade Your MacBook Pro's Hard Drive - The First Steps - How To by ExtremeTech It might seem incredible, but today Apple only sells a single MacBook Pro that still uses a hard drive. As of Apple’s update in October, all of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros — aside from the single non-Retina display model — have all moved over to solid-state storage. And that lone 13-inch MBP, with its 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive is clearly not long for this world. If you’re here you’re probably not in the market for a new MacBook Pro. Even if you wouldn’t think twice about cracking open a desktop to drop in a new video card, you might pass on doing anything with a laptop — their cramped interiors and specialized hardware are instant turn-offs. Don’t let that stand in your way. Since this story first ran in 2007(!) 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina: First released June 2012, model MacBookPro10,113-inch MacBook Pro with Retina: First released October 2012, model MacBookPro10,2 Upgrading the MacBook Pro’s hard drive Before you get started, you’ll want to back up your data.
25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme 25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme As a designer, color management should be an integral part of your workflow. A website’s color scheme helps shape its identity and therefore should not be carelessly thrown together. Here are 25 online, desktop and iPhone applications to help you live and breathe color management no matter where you are. Online Tools There are simply a ton of free color tools available on the web. Kuler Kuler is one of the best free online color scheme creation tools out there and my personal favorite. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer has a beautiful interface that helps you create beautiful color schemes in seconds. colorblind simulation is built in so you can ensure usability will be optimized for all users. Colour Lovers An online community where color aficionados can create, share and browse color schemes. Pictaculous The guys at MailChimp created this excellent free service. Color Spire Daily Color Scheme Instant Color Schemes Color Explorer Loupe
Photoshop Tutorials RoundUp #1 by iapdesign Here are the latest list of photoshop tutorials that i collected around the internet. I hope it may help you guys to improve your skills using photoshop and me as well.(hehe!) See below my Photoshop Tutorials RoundUp #1 by iapdesign Deserted Photoshop Tutorials RoundUp #1 by iapdesign Dynamic Liquid Splash Making a Color Wizard in Photoshop Paint a Surreal Scene Photoshop Tutorial Army Squirrel Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial Create a Flash Game Mockup Photoshop Tutorial How to Render a Professional Audi R8 Photoshop Tutorial How to create a Modern Heart Concept in Photoshop Create a Flowery Natural Peace and Harmony Composition How to create a Magnificent Rose Concept Design in Photoshop Advanced tutorial – Making of Hydra
Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. To do that we wil use a few stock photos, layer adjustments and the Displace filter in Photoshop CS5. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Move the brick wall layer so it will be in front of the girl layer. Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection. Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13
10 Excellent Open Source and Free Alternatives to Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a given in any designer’s wish list, and it comes with a host of features that allow for excellent and professional photo editing. The biggest obstacle to any designer who wants Photoshop is the price, which can be prohibitive. Fortunately there are a number of open source (and completely free) programs out there that do much of what Photoshop can, and sometimes more. In this collection, you will find 10 excellent examples of open source and free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop. This guest post for Six Revisions was written by Daniel Shain from LaptopLogic.com. GIMP stands for “GNU image manipulation program”, and it is one of the oldest and most well known alternatives to Photoshop in existence. If just having the feature set isn’t enough for you, there is an alternative based on GIMP known as GIMPShop. 2. Krita has been lauded for ease of use and won the Akademy Award for Best Application in 2006. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Your favorite open source/free image editor?