Category: Graphics



Easy Thumbnails

Posted on: Friday, Oct 29, 2010

Easy Thumbnails allows  you create accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats.  Its interface makes it easy to find your images and select them for processing individually, in groups, or in whole folders, using a simple file selector and built-in image viewer. You can use slider controls to rotate images [...]

Free Screen Recording Software

Posted on: Sunday, Sep 19, 2010

With Jing you can:

Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor.
Share it instantly via web, email, IM, Twitter or your blog.
Simple and free, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations.

Visit their website to download:
Jing

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Free Icon Editor

Posted on: Sunday, Sep 12, 2010

IcoFX is an extremely versatile icon editor.  Among its many features, is the ability to save in the .ico format, which you might find handy for all those favicons!  Check out their website for a complete list of its uses.
IcoFX

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GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Posted on: Saturday, Sep 11, 2010

This opensource software is a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop.  It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. 
GIMP

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Free Fonts

Posted on: Monday, Aug 9, 2010

There are many many sites out there with free fonts.  I chose this one because it  has sorted them into categories, making it so much easier to find what you are looking for in the shortest possible time.
Free Fonts

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Online Gradient Maker

Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010

Gradient images are a handy way of making plain backgrounds more interesting, be it the background on your website, your website buttons or for the more adventurous, creating shadings and shadows along with other interesting visual effects.  Dynamic Drive makes this easy.
Free Online Gradient Maker

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The Coolest Ever Web Buttons

Posted on: Monday, Aug 2, 2010

Below is a link to a set of web buttons that I fell in love with.  You just have to see them!
Free Web Buttons by Sage

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Web Snapshots

Posted on: Saturday, Jul 31, 2010

Although I have the snipping tool on my toolbar, I found a dinky little number that snaps an image of the web page you are viewing and better still, it’s completely free! 
Web Snapshots

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Free Images

Posted on: Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010

Dreamstime have a free section where you can download high resolution RF stock images.  You can also upload your own images to share or sell.
Dreamstime Free Images

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Clip Art

Posted on: Saturday, Jul 24, 2010

Online royalty free public domain clip art.
http://www.clker.com/

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