MyFonts is a very handy service to find fonts, identify unknown fonts and to buy fonts. There is choice of more than 56,000 fonts.
If you need to use certain font seen in publications or ad campaigns, but you didn’t know its name, you can identify unknown font with MyFonts recognition system. You can also submit image of your font to Forum where experienced font enthusiasts will help you out. (more…)
How to make GIF banner quickly in Photoshop CS3 I’ll show you in this tutorial. Probably this banner will be not as eye catching as those made with special software for making banner ads such as Adobe Flash or Koolmoves but it will be light and attractive. Though ImageReady is abandoned in CS3, all its features are now available in Photoshop. In Photoshop CS3 Extended besides traditional Frame animation workflow there is also Timeline view. (more…)
The online tool for precision vectorization VectorMagic impresses very much with its results. This great service is the result of a Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda. In comparison with Adobe Live Trace (Illustrator CS2) and Corel PowerTRACE (CorelDRAW X3) online VectorMagic look like much more precise tool both in shapes and colors. (more…)
When you sleep less, you seriously boost your creativity for that particular day. I discovered this amazing thing from my own experience. We all know how important is to sleep well and long enough but if you had insomnia last night you can turn it to advantage instead of worrying about sleeping. I can’t say certainly why this happens, but in my opinion it is related to a bit weaker control of your conscious over your thoughts. I really don’t recommend to use this advice often as to fulfill your ideas efficiently you have to be in good form. Nevertheless it happens with me of itself. Now I know that when I slept last night 6 hours instead of usual 8, it is a good idea to generate something creative this day.
Retrievr is an experimental image search engine which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr photos by drawing a rough sketch (using 4 brushes of different size and color palette) or uploading image to find similar photos. Testing Retrievr I tried a very roughly smile, a firtree and a cup and got a bundle of photos similar to my drawings. The results were fairly fine, sometimes even surprising. Surely it’s only prototype and you can’t demand much of it. But how does it actually work? (more…)
If you have no idea which color to choose for this particular project or looking for inspiration and something original or just like to have fun with colors, there are some valuable resources for graphic designers, web designers and illustrators. (more…)
Quick, feature rich and easy to use multi-platform image viewer XnView replaced on my PC sluggish, awkward and non free ACDSee a long time ago. Firstly I use XnView just for viewing and cataloguing images but soon I was amazed how much wonderful functions XnView has. In addition, XnView supports a lot of image file formats (read more than 400, write 75) has customizable interface and layout in Browser mode and much more useful features not mentioned in this list. (more…)