Archive for the ‘Graphics’ Category

Today’s high resolution digital cameras produce multi Megabyte photos. These are great for printing but cause a heavy burden when sending over the Internet. We all upload photos to blogs or social networks, email them to friends and family but unless we want to continually resize them appropriately for the screen and web most of us upload the original images and endure the painstaking wait and processing.

ShrinkPic relieves you of this task by automatically resizing the images in the background each time they’re sent over the web. The original image is never resized only the temporary copy that is to be sent. You have full control of the resize settings and the software comes in both x86 and x64 versions to account for 64 bit processors.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

http://icofx.ro/index.html

Project Dogwaffle 1.2  is a freeware version of the paint & animation  program Project Dogwaffle and PD Pro Digital Painter, developed by Dan Ritchie – version 1.2 is based on a subset of version 2.0

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/

The Multicolr Search Lab is a part of Idée Labs—Idée’s technology playground for visual search. With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images, and find ones that share the same colours. Choose up to 10 colours from a palette of 120 different shades.

Visual similarity is the degree to which images resemble each other in terms of their visual attributes. Images may have the same ‘look’ when they share characteristics such as colour, shape, texture, and luminosity (for example). Note that visual similarity does not necessarily mean similar subject matter. You may use keywords to further refine your visual search results.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

If you’re getting tired of the various striped backgrounds that are lovingly plastered across our webpages then why not add that Scottish Highland flavour to your website with a tartan background. Not convinced? Well we’ve had stripes, floral and flock backgrounds why not kilts? You have a variety of controls regarding tartan widths, colours and orientation.

http://www.tartanmaker.com/

A custom character/avatar generator that you can use for profile pictures on social networks, instant messenger icons, wallpapers, forum signatures and similar. Unique is written by Rasterboy in Flash and is great fun to play with. I have currently used this to generate a character for a logo I’ve designed I will find out if it can be used for such commercial purposes and let you know my response.

http://unique.rasterboy.com/

QuickRibbon is a completely free Web2.0 tool, a website ribbon generator which lets you create a custom ribbon, insert a link in it and place it in the top right corner of your website. It will take you less than 5 minutes to generate your own website ribbon with this trendy widget and add a stylish Web2.0 look to your page – it’s quick, easy and fun. We recommend using QuickRibbon tool to attract your site’s visitors attention to new features, announcements, sales, etc. Get rid of the boring banners and make your news stand out with a style.

http://www.quickribbon.com/

Since Windows 7 beta was released and now the final retail is available there have been a multitude of themes available to download from a number of dedicated artists and pc enthusiasts. Courtesy of Windows7Themes.net here are 50 carefully chosen themes to enjoy on your new operating system.

http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-themes