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Take a look at these creative templates for brochures, flyers, newsletters, stationery, postcards, ads, menus and posters for a variety of businesses. If you're faced with time limitations, budget constraints or simply need new creative ideas, let these designs do the work.
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Advanced GIF Compressor (Free to Try, $28 to Buy, Windows)- Powerful gif images optimizer. File size reductions of up to 50 percent or often much more are possible
Advanced GIF Optimizer (Free to Try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Full-featured utility designed to easily optimize GIF graphics for your Website. Savings of up to 70% or more in file size are possible, which can considerably decrease web page download times, save on disk space and reduce bandwidth charges.
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Ashampoo SeeYa! (Free to Try, $10 to Buy, Windows)- Ashampoo SeeYa! allows you to compress images and voice to create a compact, one-file, talking slideshow.
CompressIt (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - can help you to select the most effective compression format for storing your image files! This utility will allow you to free a disk space of your computer by reducing a file size of stored images even if the images have been already compressed.
GIFCruncher Desktop (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - gives you all the power of GIFCruncher on your own Windows or Macintosh machine. Crunch as much as you want to without having to be online.
ImagesASaP!™ v2 (Free to Try, $699 to Buy, Windows) - ASP Image Compression and Manipulation Object The ImagesASaP! ASP object provides a high-level interface into advanced image manipulation and recompression technologies.
Image Broadway ® (Free to Try, $69.95 to Buy - Windows)- A World-class Image Editor, Very Easy to Use and Affordable!
Image Compression Toolbox (Free - Windows) - is a collection of routines commonly used in image compression. I've managed to put them into a single package, using which images can be compressed and decompressed.
Image Optimization SDK (Free to Try, $300 to Buy, Windows) - can be effectively used in your applications, multimedia databases, as a powerful image optimization engine for image compression, color palette tunes ups, thumbnail generation, image format conversions, export, batch processing and other functions.
ImageVice (Free to Try, $135 to Buy, Mac) - color reduction provides you the power and flexibility to produce the highest quality, most compressible indexed images. It is valuable to all Web and multimedia designers who work with GIF, PNG, BMP, and PICT formats.
Interactive Jpeg Optimizer (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - allows you to work on batches of images, visually showing you the results of compression and allowing you to tweak brightness, color and contrast.
JPEG 2000 Compressor (Free - Windows) - Using JPEG 2000 Compressor you can easily convert pictures of JPEG and BMP format to JPEG 2000 format with the quality and color characteristics specified by you. Besides you can change the picture order. The results can be saved on your computer. Try this innovative freeware to ease your work with different formats.
JPEG Compressor (Free - Windows) - Program to convert Pictures with different file types and with a different compression factor into the JPEG-format.
JPEG Cruncher (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - JCPRO desktop gives you all the power and speed you need to squeeze photos, auction images, product shots, logos, and most other images into great looking, streamlined JPEG's that speed download times by up to 90%.
The JPEG Wizard™ v2 (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - World's Most Advanced JPEG Tool Webmasters and Digital Photo Enthusiasts… create smaller, faster downloading images without compromising quality!
ProJPEG (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - ProJPEG has been the ultimate JPEG tool for Web graphics professionals for over five years, providing ease, power, control, superior image quality, and the most file size savings to improve the speed and effectiveness of Web sites.
ReaCompressor (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - Optimize
your images for the web with your own JPG, GIF, PNG settings
and see the changes in real time.
SuperGIF (Free to Try, $30 to Buy,Mac / Windows) -
is our newest application for Macintosh and Windows and
a very different kind of tool. It is the very first of
its kind, and such a simple, easy tool to use that it
is difficult to write about.
Web Image Guru (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) - Superior web graphics optimizing package that brings advanced capabilities to your favorite image editing tool. The product was developed specifically for you the Web Designer!!!
Part 2 of a 2 Part series on Adobe Indesign Plugins. Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.
Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.
Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and [...]
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Graphic Design Projects By Lois Knight Feminine, masculine, serif, san serif, Script, Block, or one of the many custom type sets out there! It is enough to drive the sanest of graphic designers bonkers! Where do you look and how do you choose from the multitude of [...]
Designing A Catalog From Conception To Completion By Elle Phillips, Elle Phillips Design We are very excited to have Elle Phillips guest write for us this week. Please visit her fabulous portfolio to see more of her wonderful work. You will find that this catalog design article is very well written, informative, and extremely helpful. [...]
We are very excited to have Angela Ferraro-Fanning guest write for us this week. Please visit her fabulous portfolio to see more of her amazing work. Many of you will find that she is a graphic designer that is very talented and experienced. She wrote this article to guide you through her own [...]
What Are The Different Types Of Printing? Not all printing companies are created equal. There are those that are able to give you full color printing for your marketing collaterals. Still there are printing houses that offer excellent offset printing to provide you a cost effective print job, hence, bigger savings. Whatever kind of printer [...]
By Lois Knight This is at the very heart of every good design, but what is it, and why do we need to remember it? As the rule suggests, this rule comes in 2 parts. What makes up the concept and who is going to see it? I can see that was clear as [...]
How to Create an Effective Print Ad ? The Unconventional Wisdom of an Ad Maverick Before writing this article, I perused the web looking to see what ?experts? had to say about the subject of print ad design. The general consensus is to play it safe. Pshaw, I say! True [...]
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Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Feb 27Hot in Graphic Design - Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer?
Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer? As a graphic designer, you might be in need of a new computer these days. If so, and you are interested in buying a Mac, which Mac should you buy? This is a question that is consistently posted on every design form across the net. [...]
Feb 27Hot in Graphic Design - Find Freelance Work While You are Still a Graphic Design Student in School
Find Freelance Work While You are Still a Graphic Design Student in School Are you a Graphic Design student in need of some extra cash? Don't count yourself out of the freelance market, as a Graphic Design student, you have the skills and talent to successfully provide graphic design services. This article will give to you [...]
Website Redesign for Fiber Optics Sales
Design Type: Ecommerce/Shopping Number of Products: all I have a website I need redesigned. I want it to be attractive - funky - user friendly as below example: People will not get bored browsing? Client is in Selangor, Selangor
Website Redesign for T-Shirt Shop
I prefer to work with designers located: South Carolina Number of pages (approx):10 My Industry: screenprinting t-shirts ? Client is in Columbia, SC
Graphic Design for Skincare
Local only please, I must see the work in person before I approve. My Industry: skincare For my logo design I would like a drop of water with rippling around it. I will need business cards and a tri? Client is in Placentia, CA
Logo Design for Power Washing Business
I prefer to work with designers located:Indianapolis I want to talk to them face. My Industry:Power washing Something with a guy pressure washing, but not to cliparty looking or just a neat font or ? Client is in Greenwood, IN
Logo Design for Vending Business
I prefer to work with designers located: anywhere in Miam, FL, I believe that this will minimize any problems. My Industry:Vending I need a logo. I want some customized text for my business name, a? Client is in Miami, FL
Graphic Design: Flyer Catalog Style
Number of pages (approx): 2 full pages My Industry: Home Decor Distributor The text and all photos are available, it's a simple flyer that I need to create, we used to do it in house just that the ? Client is in Los Angeles, CA