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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 18, 2009
Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.
Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 30, 2009
One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!
Free For All: An Awesome Assortment
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009
Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!
Free For All: Textures
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 30, 2009
This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.
Free For All: Halloween Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009
Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.
Free For All: Just What You're Looking For
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 13, 2009
Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame textures and backgrounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy scheduled emails; and a service that displays a Web design in 90 different browsers.
Three Ways to Take Your Web Site Mobile
Features: Written by Gene Gable on August 3, 2009
Retooling your Web site for people who reach it via smart phones and other mobile devices is the hot new trend. Going mobile can range from applying simple design rules to complex programming and custom application development. But it doesn't have to be hard.
Free For All: Free for Web Designers
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 30, 2009
In this all-Web installment, you'll get a massive Photoshop Web elements kit; thousands of Twitter, RSS, and UI icons; CSS compression; Website spell checking; analytics; and uptime monitoring -- all free!
Free For All: Twice As Nice
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 22, 2009
Two servings of our freebies column in one month? Don't worry, there's no such thing as overindulgence when you're talking about free photos, textures, icons, cheatsheets, or Photoshop brushes. Dig in!
Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 15, 2009
Script fonts, modern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts -- what's your pleasure? We have them all, and they're all free!
iPhone Apps for Photographers
Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on April 20, 2009
Lots of iPhone apps center on the photos you take with your iPhone. But did you know that many others are useful when you shoot with your DSLR? From exposure calculators to GPS taggers, these apps will make the iPhone your best photo assistant ever.
Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 13, 2009
There's something for everyone this month: designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; business owners; and people who just want to compress the heck out of online images.
How to Choose Colors Everyone Likes
Features: Written by Igor Asselbergs on March 30, 2009
A time-tested formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you're choosing colors.
Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive
Features: Written on March 23, 2009
November 16, 2009 Recently discovered diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reveal a man obsessed not with the void, but with food. Read excerpts here. http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html November 10, 2009 Whoops! Someone's birthday is today and you forgot to send a card? Go to this site (created by Mat Honan), type your message after ".eu/" in the Web browser address field, and hit Return/Enter. Then send the resulting URL to the birthday boy/girl.
Free For All: I Can't Believe They Give This Away!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 18, 2009
Are you looking for a fast, free way to resize a bunch of images? How about free templates for CDs and DVDs? Or free vector art? Could you use a designer-friendly diagramming and flowcharting application? Then this, my friend, is the article for you.
Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 16, 2009
In this month's roundup of online bargains, we highlight Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!
Twenty Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers
Features: Written by David Sommers on January 22, 2009
Get inspired with this global roster of designers who go far, far beyond simple illustrations and three-color logos.
Free For All: And So It Begins
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on January 19, 2009
Take your pick of Photoshop brushes and fonts you'll love, t-shirt design templates, and a portable password manager. They're all free!
Designing for the Color-Blind
Features: Written by David Sommers on December 10, 2008
A little more than 7% of the United States population sees color differently -- sometimes very differently. Here's how to put yourself in their shoes.
Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 10, 2008
These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren't copyrighted, explore color, and more.