Posts Tagged ‘Creative’
Icons is something that can spruce up the look of your website, but they can be really hard to draw. Luckily, there are sites who specialize in serving up 100’s of beautiful and colorful icons, and let you download them for free. Here is a list.
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Favicon is a little different from the rest of the sites on this list, because they let you design socalled favicons. A favicon is the icon you see next to the URL, when you type in the web-adress. A neat site, with a free service.
- Icones is a searchengibe that specialises in finding icons on other sites. Works pretty much like Google, but for icons.
- Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. You can search thousands of icons from outside websites. Loads really fast, and is very intuitive.
- Iconpot is another collection of icons. All are freely downloadable, according to the site.
- All Free vectors is an index of free vector files available on the World Wide Web. They link to free and public domain vector files, and allow people to upload their own vector files for free download.
- Vista Icons is a very professionol looking site with thousands of great looking icons. Some restrictions apply to the icons, but you will find lots and lots of icons avalable for download for personal and even commercial use.
Tags: colors, Creative, Graphics, HEX, icons, images
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There are some really nice sites out there, where you can create your own graphics, images etc., without paying a dime. They will let you edit and store them on the site. Using online editors from some of these sites, you can create really great looking images, even if you have no experience with working with images. Some of these sites are really amazing, and offer some pretty unique tools.
- Apollo seems to be a way to work together on images, diagrams etc. Would probably be good for someone who works with graphics, and needs a client to comment on the artwork. The client cannot save the image, only comment on it, thus keeping your artwork safe. Looks free.
- Brands of The World is a big library of brand logos in scalable vector format. You can search by country, company etc. BotW is also a great place for designers to upload their logo designs and professional details to get exposure, recognition and clients.
- Gliffy is online diagram software, you can create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more. Use tTheir online diagram editor to create various drawings. Gliffy is an online application that makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. There is a free version, or a USD 5 per month version.
- GR Sites is a very nice online tool for making graphics for your website. Make buttons, boxes, backgrounds and lots of other nice stuff using the editor. You can use the free version that has certain restrictions, or pay a mothly or yearly fee (USD 9 and 5.75 respectively, or make use of the daypass that can be activated at any time. Definitely a good site if you want to creat nice graphics, and store them, without prior knowledge of graphics editing.
- Live Banner Maker lets you create your own website banner for free. Use their templates, or start from scratch. They don’t brand your banner.You just selct the size, the colors, the text and effects, save it, and upload to your server. Can be used to create basic or intermediate banners.
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Tags: colors, Creative, editor, Graphics, HEX, images
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Using the right font is something that can spice up your graphic work, whether it’s a website you are working on, or banners, T-shirts, posters or whatever.
The great thing is that there a quite a lot a nice sites that offer fonts for download. All the links provided below have something to do with fonts, and some of them can do amazing things with fonts. Check them out!
- 1001 Fonts is a site with literally 1000’s of fonts avaliable for download. You can search for specific fonts, or just use their “Popular Fonts” button. Either way, you should be able to find something you like.
- Da Font is a huge database of free fonts that you can browse through, and download.
- Fontes Gratis is a site with lots of cool free fonts available for download. Search their extensive databse, and simply download the fonts you like.
- Font Jazz is a tiny typographic engine written in JavaScript, enabling webdesigners and developers to use any typeface on a website. FontJazz implements a simple type-rendering engine in JavaScript, which means that any headlines are rendered 100% client-side, without any kind of server-side dependencies or bandwidth overhead. FontJazz requires the user’s browser to fetch only a single image and a tiny JavaScript file, and only once for any number of headlines. Quite cool, and completely free!
- My Font Book is somewhat different from the other sites on this list, as it is a nifty tool for viewing your font collection from your web browser. The font viewer allows you to easily review and catalog all of your installed fonts. The font viewer window provides an overview of all your installed fonts. I personally really like it, as it works 100% online, has a nice clean design, and works fast. Free.
- Search Free Fonts say they have over 13.000 fonts, and it does look like a big site. Definitely looks like they have a font for pretty much any use.
- Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. Simply edit, enter or paste sample text in the textarea. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. Typetester will not work without JavaScript enabled. Free, and a cool site.
- Fonteo is another site with thousands of free fonts.
Tags: Creative, fonts, Graphics
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Video is a new and exciting option for websites. Some sites have even sprung up, where you can make your own videos online. Some are free, and some cost a little, and some are better than others. I have found quite a few sites, and they may not all work the same way, but they all have some kind of video-production or hosting.
- IgniteCast is a media sharing web service where users can create, upload, view and share structured video clips, interactive presentations, PowerPoint, software demonstrations, surveys etc. For anyone that wants to quickly create and broadcast media content (including courses) over the public internet or within a private intranet. Free.
- Jaycut will let your audience create movies and slideshows or remix existing content. All this and much more is made possible with the white labeled online video editor. No download or installation is needed. Solutions for netbooks and mobile devices are also available. Geared to handle both high quality and user generated content.
- VideoPress integrates seamlessly with your existing WordPress publishing flow. Upload new videos to your blog’s media library and they’ll take care of all the technical details including in post display, search engine optimization and social media integration. There’s also a plugin that let’s you use VideoPress with any WordPress.org blog.
Tags: Creative, images, video
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- Colorblender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design. Blends can be saved for future use, and will be available whenever you return to the site from the same workstation.
- Adobe Kuler lets you browse thousands of color themes created by the Kuler community. Search by tag word, title, creator, or hex color. Create themes with the tools in Kuler. Use the color wheel, etc. Create themes from an image. Free.
- 4096 Color Wheel is a color wheel that can quickly help you find good colors for your website. Easy to work with. Free
- Color Scheme Designer is a good-looking site that can help you find the right colors for your website. Easy to wotk with, helpful, and free.
- ColorCop is a multi-purpose downloadable color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier and other helpful stuff. Move your mouse over a color, and the program will tell you the color. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes.
Tags: colors, Creative, Graphics, HEX
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