Resources

For picture to be perfect, sometimes it lacks some of the details. And then the questions arise. Where to look? What to look for? To speed up this photo editing process, people often choose the easy method of using resources. But the thing is – they are hard to find and costs you valuable time. Of course, most of us already know that a lot of things come from deviantART, but what will you do in the case you don’t find what you need?

I searched for a fairly long time, until finally gathered these resource sites and I hope that it will be useful not only for me but for you too.

1. deviantART

Here you can find almost everything and of course there are plenty of free PSD resources, icons, layouts, textures and much more available. You just need to take your time and do research and I am sure you’ll find what you looking for there.

2. Photoshop Candy

3. FreePSD

4. Official PSDs

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I’ve always been using Firefox browser, I mean already for 5–6 years and never thought I would want to choose something else. Firefox is great browser and what makes it so great is all those thousands of plugins you download freely. You can find now plugin for almost everything you could ever think of – there is only one big downside. Firefox is much slower than Chrome and actually eat’s more of computer’s CPU than other browsers.

I have a friend who suggested to try Chrome again and I thought I will give it a try – now I will check how much and how good extensions Chrome has and is it enough to transfer now?

This article will try to answer to question – can designer, web developer, social marketing, SEO person actually transfer to Chrome without any loss of extension features. Are there something similar to FireBug, WebDeveloper, Color Picker, SEO For Firefox, Alexa ranks, debugging tools, which can be replaced to be used daily?

Let’s put Chrome on test – shall we?

If you know a little about Google Chrome read our previous article about this browser features – Google Chrome Review.

Chrome Extensions For Daily Browsing

1. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screen capture of the visible portion of any web page and it will open in an editor where you can crop it, add text and arrow markup, get color information or move around areas. You can easily save it to your desktop or host it online. The extension also lets you quick launch any of Aviary’s web editor design apps. View extension screenshots by clicking on the thumbnail and using the arrow keys.

2. Xmarks Bookmarks Sync

Backup and sync your bookmarks across computers and browsers. Xmarks is also available for Firefox, Safari and IE.

Since I am working on one computer at work and laptop, I love this automatic tool syncing my bookmarks  and allowing me to worry about other things.

3. AdThwart

Block ads on websites. Supports EasyList and many other ad blocker filter lists.

4. Evernote Web Clipper

Evernote’s Web Clipper extension let you save interesting stuff you see on the web.
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Patterns can be extremely helpful for Illustrator users, and there are many good ones that you can download for free. In this post we’ll feature more than 225 repeating patterns that can be downloaded. We’ll start with pattern sets and then we’ll include some individual patterns at the end of the post. As always when you are working with freebies, be sure to check the terms of use or licensing set by the designer.

Pattern Sets:

Organic Patterns (3 patterns)

Mono Circles (3 patterns)

Seamless Plaid Patterns (20 patterns)

Vector Halftone Patterns (10 patterns)

Heart Patterns (10 patterns)
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If you are like me then, you definitely enjoy a good advertisment and also spread the word about that product or service. Even if is about cars, electronics or even condoms, a good advertisment can make your day better and it can also be a source of inspiration for your future projects. In this post I’ve selected some of the most hilarious and creative ads. Most of them were even awarded by top Advertising companies so I’m pretty sure that you will enjoy every one of them.

You can see bellow many famous products and surprisingly many more not that famous products and services that gain credibility and they actually have pretty good advertisments.

1. Volkswagen Touareg – Goat ad

2. Bose Noise – Waterfall

3. Pepsi Twist

4. Silan Wrestling

5. Spicy Pringles

6. Magic Scotch

7. Burger King

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Over the last year (2009) we’ve been collecting high-quality fonts created by talented designers and type foundries.

In this collection, I’d like to present an overview of 50 of the best Free, New and High-quality Modern, Handwritten, grunge, Cartoon style fonts for clean and professional designs in 2009.

Note:

Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts. Some of these fonts are for personal use only, make sure you always check the license before using the font.

Modern

– Museo Slab

– 7 days

– Circled Font

– Pronounce

– Technical Forest

– Fertigo Pro

– Star Avenue

– WalkWay

– Harabara

– Lane

– Ripe

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