Posts Tagged With: graphics
· August 7, 2008 at 5:16 am · Desktop
I have been playing a lot more with Paint.NET lately, trying to get back in tune with my more creative side. One thing I never realized was there are a lot of great tutorials out there for it, but it is hard to find the best ones. Here are the top ten best Paint.NET tutorials I have run across so far.
Scotch Tape - Create a transparent segment of scotch tape
Glossy/Glass Buttons - Create Web 2.0-like glassy buttons
Toy Car - Turn a real car into a toy car
Make a Chain - How to render individual links, then link them together to form a chain
How to make a Lightsaber - Use lighting and blur effects to render a Lightsaber in
Transparent Background - Make the background of an image transparent
Cutting out Images the Easy Way! v2 - Great method for cutting images out of pictures
LiteBrite(TM) Effect - Transform your pictures into coloured peg-board style images
Lets Make a Software Box - Transform flat images into 3D boxes
Drop Shadows - Add depth to your artwork with drop shadows
It is amazing how advanced Paint.NET has gotten over the years. Also, if your used to the graphic editor layout - it is really easy to pick up and use too. Know of any other great tutorials?
· July 14, 2008 at 4:51 am · Online Tools, Web Development
Need some tiled bliss to lay on the background of your own recent web creation? BgPatterns.com is the background generator that you want to use. Not only does it have dozens of designs to pick from, you can also set the color, size of the design, and also the level that it is rotated at.
I promise you, once you get started you will see this is just more fun to figure out if you play with it some… change your colors up, and try to get as creative as you can. Want to see an example of the end result? I used the first background I made on my Twitter profile.
Snazzy right? Check it out and make your own at BgPatterns.com.
· June 2, 2008 at 5:40 am · Online Tools
Why do it in Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro when you can do it Online for free? Here are the best (and not so best) of the Online photo or graphic editing tools I could find these days in no specific order.
- Online Photo Tool - great interface, not confusing at all and tons of tools!
- Splashup - all the image editing bells and whistles, including layers!
- Picnik - more aimed at making it “fun”, plus they offer a paid for service too!
- Snipshot - the bookmarklet importing kind of won me over here!
- Pixenate - all the tools right there for you, no registration needed!
- VicImager - needs some polishing, controls are kind of ugly!
- LookWow - basic image manipulation, not too much editing!
- Phixr.com - probably my favorite interface of them all!
- FotoFlexer - tons of things to play with here!
Personally, I wish there were a few more like RoundPic that didn’t do everything fairly well, but instead did one thing really well. Know of anymore resources worthy of being on the list? Drop in a comment and leave your thoughts!
· April 30, 2008 at 5:09 am · Web Development
Over at Icojoy, one of the best stock icon web sites out there today, I noticed they not only sell icons but they have a free section too. If your on a cheap budget and you need to pick up some great icons you may wish to give them a shot.
At the time of writing this they have seven great set to choose from and use for free. Feel free to use them on your blog and be sure to thank the Iconjoy team for releasing them out for all to use and enjoy.
· February 2, 2008 at 10:54 am · Free Hosting
UpPush.com is yet another of many free file hosting services out there that touts itself as being for “everybody”. They support .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff, and .bmp uploads too so that almost covers all of your basic image formats.
The only regulations mentioned is “no adult content” which is reasonable and they are also the sister site to FileBig.com - a web site reviewed here a few days ago. UpPush is definitely worth checking out if you need a free image hosting resource that is both quick and easy to use.
· December 19, 2007 at 3:19 pm · Free Hosting, Popular Posts
Looking for a for a free place to upload a few of your pictures? There is no shortage of places online, I can promise you that for sure. Over the past few weeks I’ve been gathering my own list up, checking it twice and have found for you 42 of the best photo or graphic hosts out there today.
I know that some people don’t like to register to get this type of service so the only requirement that I had for this list would be that you can upload without registering - with the exception of Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket and some of the known and trusted photo hosting resources.
Here is the list of free photo or graphic hosts:
- Flickr - 20 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
- Zooomr - 100 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
- Visadig - Max file size 1.6MB / unlimited bandwidth
- Photobucket - 1 GB disk space / 25 GB monthly bandwidth
- Image Vimage - Max file size 2 MB / bandwidth unknown
- TinyPic - Unlimited photo hosting and bandwidth
- PutPix - 2 GB of space / 10 GB bandwidth / 2 MB file size limits
- ImageShock.eu - no limits mentioned / cool bonus tools included
- IMGSpot - max file size 650 KB / bandwidth not mentioned
- ImageShack - max file size of 1.5 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- Supload - unlimited disk space and bandwidth
- PicHostOnline -max file size of 1.5 MB / hosted for 60 days
- UploadJPEG.com - max file size of 1.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
- ImageVenue - max file size of 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- Keep My File - max file size of 2.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
- ImageTitan - max file size 1536 KB / unlimited bandwidth
- ImageRush.com - max file size 50 MB / hosted 60 days
- Pikki - says unlimited file size and bandwidth
- PixHosting.info - max file size 10 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- ImagesFly.com - max file size 5 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- PostImage - max file size 4 Mb / unlimited bandwidth
- IMGBolt.com - max file size 1 MB / 1 GB bandwidth (1,000 max views)
- Slibe - unknown all around, very strange service
- Picshome - max file size 300 MB / bandwidth unknown
- ImagePile - max file size 5 MB / bandwidth unknown
- Uploadem - max file size 15 MB / bandwidth unknown
- ShareURPic.com -max file size 10 MB / hosted 90 days (or longer)
- YourUpload.com - max file size 50 MB / bandwidth unknown
- Upload and GO! - max file size 1 MB / bandwidth unknown
- Pictiger - max file size 1 MB / bandwidth unknown
- FreeImageHost -max file size 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- ImageBam - max file size 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- 2and2.net - max file size 3 MB /bandwidth unknown
- Picfu - no limits mentioned on web site
- Image Hosting Site - max file size 2 MB / bandwidth unknown
- Pic-Spot.com - no limits mentioned on web site
- 10pix.com - max file size 1.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
- Imagefilez.com -max file size 3 MB / bandwidth unknown
- DigitalUploader - max file size 256 KB / bandwidth unknown
- ImageCabin -max file size 25 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- WeImage - max file sie 2 MB / unlimited bandwidth
- xs.to - no real rules & limits defined on uploads
Have a perfect one for number 43? Don’t be shy! Drop in a comment or leave me an e-mail and let me know about it. Need more? Check out my other reviews of free web hosts.
