Aviary, makers of awesome web graphics applications which recently went free, have now started offering Google Apps integration, via the brand-new Google Apps Marketplace. This means you can create Aviary graphics from within Google Docs, and save your files there as well. This is aimed at Google Apps users (as is the whole marketplace, currently), [...]
MeasureIt is another one of the simple, single-purpose tools I like because they make it easy for newcomers to develop basic web design skills. It simply lets you measure screen elements in pixels — no more, no less.
Once you install it, you get a tiny icon on the left side of the status bar. [...]
Replacing the color scheme for a site using CSS can be an annoying task. The same color may be used for several elements across the file, and you need to search and replace for it. Color is represented by hex codes, which is not very visual. This is not a problem heavyweight web developers have [...]
Developed in a joint effort by Israeli and Chinese universities, a new piece of technology that algorithmically makes photos more aesthetic might soon find its way to desktop products like iPhoto or Photoshop.
The software works by applying ’standard’ rules of ‘good’ photography, such as the rule of thirds. By dividing the image into nine segments, [...]
Firefox recently celebrated its fifth birthday and decided to get a little creative in the process. A little while back, they challenged users to get artsy and create a design that reflected this milestone. There were almost no requirements for the design and people were asked to think outside the box and create a design [...]
Happy Firefox 3.6 release day! In honor of the official release of the latest and greatest version of Mozilla’s browser, I thought I’d highlight one new feature in particular: Personas. Firefox 3.6’s Personas support allows you to change the look of Firefox with a single click, no restart required. If you’ve used themes in Google [...]
For most people, it doesn’t mean anything. But for people writing the software that lets the rest of us see imaginary worlds, SIGGRAPH is an acronym for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive [...]
If you’re looking for an easy way to port some of your favorite Apple fonts over to Ubuntu, here it is! I’ve just started to get exposed to alternative OSes like Ubuntu and was really excited to find a way to easily get some of my favorite fonts over to it quickly and easily. TechSource [...]
The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It’s a plugin…for Paint.Net…(wait for it)…which lets you open files saved in Photoshop’s PSD format.
Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), and [...]
You’ve probably heard of Aviary, the web-based Photoshop alternative. You’re also probably well aware of the fact that Google Chrome v4 supports extensions. You may not, however, have known that Aviary has released an extension for Google Chrome.
Well, they have, and it’s incredibly handy if you need to perform in-browser screenshots of the pages [...]
