Tools for Designers

Good and free web tools for Designers, and web designers.

Pixlr web-based image editor

pixlr is a web-based image editor with a Photoshop-like user interface; pixlr has similar features like layers, filters, and even a Clone Stamp tool.

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Pixlr Photo effects - Retro vintage effects

Turn you photos into cool looking effects like vintage and retro snaps! With this fun and simple darkroom you can apply filters, lightning and borders as easy as one two three., Nice web tools contains a free useful tools for you in one place, feel free to check all these online tools

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imm.io - one-click easy image sharer

imm.io is a one-click easy image sharer, perfect if you want to upload an image to show your friends or link from other sites. Just choose a file to upload and we give it a place to call home. You have to sign-up for an account to access Phoenix, but it only takes a few seconds and also gives you access to other Aviary tools and services such as Peacock ("Visual Laboratory") and Toucan (color and swatch tool).

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Splashup - online image editor

Splashup is feature-packed online image editor that integrates with popular photo sharing services like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook – allowing you to access your photos remotely. Some of the cool features that Splashup has are layers with blending modes, the ability to interface and capture images from your web cam, and a nice variety of filters and layer effects

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Aviary - Online Image Editor - Phoenix

Aviary - Phoenix is a powerful, layer based online image editor for free,Phoenix, a powerful web-based image editor by Aviary, rivals the capabilities of desktop image editing applications. Check out this list of tutorials to fully appreciate the potential of this excellent image editor.

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FotoFlexer - The world's most advanced online photo editor

FotoFlexer is a free, web-based photo editor that has tons of features but is still simple to use. Check out FotoFlexer’s demo page to see some of the useful capabilities of the application. FotoFlexer certainly does an excellent job for common photo-editing needs such as cropping, resizing, and rotating. It also integrates with popular web services such as Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, MySpace and more.

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kuler - create and share color themes

kuler is a web-based application by Adobe that helps you create and share color themes. You can peruse the user-submitted color themes or create your own color themes with the kuler Create web tool.

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Wellstyled Color Scheme Generator

Wellstyled - Color Scheme Generator is a simple web tool that helps designers produce color themes. It has an intuitive interface and the ability to bookmark generated color themes.

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FontStruct - Build, Share, Download Fonts

FontStruct is a web-based tool created by font retailer FontShop for creating, editing, and sharing fonts. The FontStructor tool is a simple and innovative font editor for designers who want to create beautiful type. You’ll need to sign up for a free user account to access the tool.

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Typetester - Online comparison of the fonts for the screen

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.
Typetester allows you to test, tweak, and compare screen typography. It has a variety of typefaces that include web-safe fonts like Arial and Verdana – but it can also use your personal fonts.

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Dummy Text Generator

The Dummy Text Generator is a versatile and useful web application for generating dummy text. Though branded as a "Lorem ipsum generator for web designers", it will also come in handy for designers working on print layouts.
A handy Lorem Ipsum Generator that helps to create dummy text for all layout needs.

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BgPatterns — Background Patterns Maker

BGPatterns is a web tool for generating tiled patterns. Its intuitive (yet robust) user interface will allow you to tweak, edit, and resize a wide range of patterns.

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Dabbleboard - Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration

Dabbleboard is a convenient web-based collaborative drawing tool that’s designer-friendly. Create web layouts, design user interfaces, or draw freehand with other fellow designers. For more web-based collaboration tools.

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PicMarkr - Image Watermark - Protect Your Photos

Free watermarking software. Add text watermark to any image or photo. Protect your copyright, add comments, timestamps, your logo to images. Prevent unauthorized use of images. Free online service with batch images processing and Flickr, Facbook, Picasa integration.

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favicon.cc - favicon.ico Generator

favicon.cc is a favicon design tool. With the favicon.cc, you can either create favicons from scratch or upload and edit images from your computer. For more favicon tools. favicon.cc is a tool to create or download favicon.ico icons, that get displayed in the address bar of every browser.

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favicon maker - Icon maker

Create your own favicons with multiple colours ,The favicon maker is an favicon designer that you can use to draw your own favicons. You can also upload an existing image as the basis of your design. While you’re drawing, there’s a live preview of how your favicon will look in its actual size.

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256 Pixels - Make a favicon for a website

256 Pixels - a daily favicon design challenge, 256 Pixels ran a daily favicon challenge where they provided you with a category/theme and you had to use the built-in favicon designer for your entry. As such, you’ll also find a collection of favicons constructed by their readers, sorted by category/theme.

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Favicon Editor - Favicon Generator

The Favion Editor is a no-frills favicon editor. You have the ability to upload local files as the base design and edit it if needed.

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Favicon/Icon Generator und Online-Editor

The Favicon/Icon Generator is a a German web-based application for creating favicons.

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Genfavicon, the free online favicon generator

Generator Favicon. A favicon (short for favorites icon), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the sites name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128. Browse to the files location on your computer to select the image and press Upload Image button to generate a favicon for your site

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ConvertIcon - Icon Creator

Converticon is a simple icon utility. It can import ICO, PNG, GIF, and JPEG formats and export to high-quality PNG or ICO files. There is no software to download and it's 100% free.

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FavIcon from Pics

Free and easy to use online tool that can create favicon (.ico) images for browser address bars, favorites and tabs, from pictures, logos and other graphics.

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Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator

Dynamic Drive’s FavIcon Generator creates favicons from the most popular image file types. It supports images with transparency. You can also use it to create Windows desktop icons.

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antifavicon - Favicon Generator

Favicon Generator requires no images. All you have to do is type the text in (you have two rows to work with), choose the colors you want, generate it, and you’re good to go. You can either use the color picker or type in hexadecimal values to customize colors.

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Favicon Collector - Julian Bez

The Favicon Collector grabs the favicon of a website remotely and saves it as a PNG. It’s also a gallery of the most popular and user-submitted icons, so it’s an excellent place to see tons of favicons for inspiration.

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fineicons Favicon Gallery

fineicons Favicon Gallery is a one-page showcase of some of the best-looking favicons online. There’s three categories: Symbol, Typographical, and Other.

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Morguefile.com free stock photos

morguefile contains user-submitted stock photographs contributed by many artists. morguefile has a terrific organization scheme and thumbnail preview for quicker searches. Also check out morguefile’s very active forums to find tutorials and to converse with artists that are members of the site.

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Stock.XCHNG - the leading FREE stock photo site

stock.xhchng (also known as SXC) is a very popular photo-sharing and stock photography site with over 380,000 stock photos. And if that wasn’t enough for you, they also have a tutorials section that covers photography/graphic design topics.

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CG Textures

CG Textures is an excellent texture site created by 3D artist Marcel Vijfwinkel. CG Textures is structured to help you quickly find types of textures such as Grunge and Nature textures, but if you’re looking for something/someone specific, use the Advanced Search for more specific searches.

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Squidfingers / Patterns

Squidfingers / Patterns is a collection of useful and intricate patterns that you can use as repeating CSS backgrounds or on print work. Squidfingers / Patterns is the work of graphic designer and programmer extraordinaire, Travis Beckham.

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TextureKing

TextureKing is a fast-growing, high-resolution texture repository maintained by creative agency, REH3design. There are currently over 300 stock textures – usually available at 1,600 x 1,200 pixels. TextureKing is currently working on giving users the ability to submit their own textures to share.

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Lost and Taken

Lost and Taken is a blog-style repository of copyright-free stock textures created and maintained by photographer and writer, Caleb Kimbrough. Lost and Taken takes requests and suggestions, so if you can’t find something – try to send in a suggestion

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Image * After

Free high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search, Also Image * After is a large collection of free photos and textures. The site provides images and textures that are available for personal, as well as commercial, purposes.

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COLOURlovers - create share colors palettes and patterns

COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love

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ficml - wheel of colors - create your own color

Hover over the wheel to view colors. Click to choose a web-smart color. Reload to clear.

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Color Schemer

online free Build dazzling color schemes with software from ColorSchemer

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Web 2.0 Color Palette

Web 2.0 is about finding new ways to interact on the internet and collaboration, at least to a certain extent. Those of us in the know realise what Web2.0 is really all about – putting things on super shiney tables and painting them with gradients and candy colours and shiny silver and stuff. Here's a list of Web2.0-friendly colours.

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ColorJack

free online colors, create online colors for your design

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Color Harmony

100 Random Colors 2.0 - Your probable source of random colors, designer colors, palettes, motifs and color combinations

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ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox

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ColorBlender is developed by Kim Jensen and can best be described as a "version 2.0" of my ColorMatch 5K tool developed for the Danish 5 KB webdesign competition in 2001. The tool is completely free to use, however, I highly appreciate even the smallest donation, as this help me finance website hosting and continous development of this tool and others.

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ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

Generate matching color schemes like never before!, just Enter an RGB or HEX value, or click on the Color Palette below

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colordb - the color database

free online colordb - the color database,Find easily any color.

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Accessibility Color Wheel

Accessibility Color Wheel - choose color combinations to improve the readability of your pages

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Color Hunter

create and find color palettes made from images, Color palettes made from images

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GenoPal - Harmonious Color Schemes

Create harmonious colour schemes with Genopal, Harmonious Color Schemes with Genopal

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Pics2colors - Convert pictures to color palettes

Pics2colors is a powerful color palette generator. You can generate color palettes from images and download as Adobe Photoshop color swatches (.aco) or .css files., Generate color palettes from photos, images

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10,000s Cool FREE Seamless Patterns for Blogger and Twitter Backgrounds

Add your own colors to 100s of cool FREE pattern designs, or browse from 10,000s of pre-colored patterns using the new seamless pattern background editor. All artworks on this site can be used freely for Blogger and Twitter backgrounds, web and graphic design projects, PhotoShop texture tiles and fills, mobile phone wallpapers and personal artwork, blogs and websites. - If you use the PatternCooler resource for digital commercial projects, then please consider making an appropriate donation. For printed commercial products, please contact me outlining your proposed usage - many thX Harvey Rayner.

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Stripemania - Striped background generator

Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

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Fresh Generator - Web 2.0 boxes made easy Pages

FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites. You may use it to create boxes of different styles and colors. In order to make changes on your image later, store the link listed below the image. To save the file you've just created, right click on the image and select "Save image as".

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WhatTheFont - MyFonts

Welcome to MyFonts, the #1 place to download great @font-face webfonts and desktop fonts: classics (Helvetica, Gill Sans, Garamond) alongside hot new fonts (Samantha Script, Gelato Script, Appetite).

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resizeimage.org - resize images easily

resizeimage.org lets you resize images or crop your images quickly. Our staff of untrained monkeys use only the finest computing devices.

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Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor

SUMO Paint is an online image editor. This is an easy to use professional tool for creating and editing images within browser.

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CSS Layout Generator | CSS Creator

The CSS Layout Generator was first released by Tony Aslett in October 2003, since then over 871,000 layouts have been generated. Updated in November 2010, HTML5 doctype can now be selected and a simple HTML5 template with appropriate tags will be created. Other HTML and XHTML doctypes are still available. The generator helps you create the structure of your website template using valid HTML and CSS. You can create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages. The generator requires a modern DOM capable browser with JavaScript enabled.

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Free Website Builder | Create a Free Flash Website at Wix.com

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

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net2ftp - a web based FTP client

net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories -- without installing any software

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Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Colors on the Web

The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected,The color wizard is a web-based application that automatically generates matching color schemes to any color enter.

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Free Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

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Firebug - Nice web tools

A MUST HAVE plugin for Firefox for every web developer. I can’t even imagine my work without it. It allows you to quickly monitor, and debug CSS, HTML, and JavaScript code. If you don’t have it yet go ahead and dowlonad it as soon as possible.

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