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Creative Graphic Design Templates
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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THUMBNAIL, ICONS & BUTTONS GRAPHICS SHAREWARE : FREEWARE : SOFTWARE
Picmaster (Top Pick)(Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - The multi-talented PicMaster promises you quick and easy image editing.
ButtonGadget™ (Top Pick) (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) is the easiest to use PROFESSIONAL button generator available. It builds buttons for websites, applications, and multimedia apps, with only a few mouse clicks. Files can be exported as JPG's with javascript or 32-bit PNG's with alpha channels ready for compositing.
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2ThumbsUp (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows)- 2 Thumbs Up! will help you to create thumbnails of all your pictures fast and easy.
3DButtonSuite (Free to Try, $259 to Buy, Windows)- This "three
in one" product suite, intended for the Professional
and Enterprise developer, contains the following products
full versions:
3D Active Button Magic: the ultimate 3D Button ActiveX
control.
3D Button API: the ultimate 3D Button Software Development
Kit (SDK).
3D Button Visual Editor: the ultimate WYSIWYG (What You
See Is What You Get) 3D button editor.
Button Magic (Free to Try, $16 to Buy, Windows) - Using Button Magic you can create buttons for your website in minutes. It will also generate the complete html and JavaScript code for you..
DigiThumb (Free - Windows) is a little program which will assist you in automatic creation of html tables of images.
Easy Extract (Free to Try, $12 to Buy, Windows) - What is a most fabulous feature of EEI? It can extract icons from any file!
Easy ICON Maker (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - is a small and easy-to-use icon editing program.
EasyPeg (Free to Try, $10 to Buy, Windows) - - JPEG, PNG and bitmap editor, plus thumbnail creator.
Easy Thumbnails (Free - Windows) - is a popular freeware utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats.
Easy Web Buttons (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Create flat, raise, glass and plastic buttons in minutes. Also helps you to use mouseover images and corresponding JavaScript to jazz up your site.
EZ Thumbnail Builder (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - is a powerful and easy-to-use tools to quickly create photo albums and thumbnail galleries, and publish them on the Web.
HappyIcon (Free to Try, $22 to Buy, Windows) - creates icons and/or cursors with your photos, your graphic files PCD, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD...) or your scannered documents.
IconCool Editor (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - can create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel. Now, you can easily create wonderful, semi-transparent XP icons.
IconEdit2 (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Truecolor icon editing / screen snapshot utility
IconForge (Free to Try, $38 to Buy, Windows) - Create icons and cursors for your desktop and other projects, add bookmark and favorites icons for your web pages, stitch together panels of icons, add icons to scripts and documents, and more... This graphics suite contains everything you need for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, mouse pointers/cursors, animated icons, and other images.
Icon Grabber (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - searches entry selected folders/files for files and extract icons from them. It can extract icons from exe,dll,cpl, scr,icl,ocx,nil,ico files.
ICON Maker (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows)is a small and easy-to-use icon editing program. It allows you editing a transparent or opaque icon.
IconMaker
2002 Deluxe (Free
to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - This is a new version
of IconMaker which has many new things. There are more
picture formats supported, now you can select your own
transparent color and set a tolerance for it. Also extraction
of icons out of exe and dll files is something totally
new
Image
Thumbnailer and Converter (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - Complete image viewer,
thumbnail creator, and image converter. Creates thumbnails
or converts images an entire folder at a time.
Iseult (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - You need to make thumbnails from your last camera shots, or to resize a large number of images ? This is a batch tool that processes your images and saves them as JPEGs.
Just Buttons 3 (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Need to create buttons for your web site or some other project? Don't want to learn those complicated paint programs for a simple button? Check out Just Buttons then!
Liatro Button Maker (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) -The new generation web tool delivers the best-of-class features for powerful web button editing, special effects in a single package.
Magical Mouse-over Button Generator (Free to Try, $24 to Buy, Windows) - is a web page design wizard that automatically creates PNG and JPG image files for captioned buttons; along with sample HTML; and optional javascript code to pop up different images as your mouse passes over each button.
MediaResizer (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - This powerful and flexible, yet easy to use utility will help you to resize thousands of your pictures.
MyThumbnails (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - utility for viewing and generating thumbnails and HTML pages
Paraben's Icon Builder (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - makes creating icons simple. You can create icons from scratch or use an existing image and convert it to an icon in a jiffy.
PicMaster (Top Pick)(Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - The multi-talented PicMaster promises you quick and easy image editing.
ReaThumbnails (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Easy to use wizard-style utility to create thumbnail gallery. It converts images & creates thumbnails...
STGThumb (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Need to make an HTML Album with high-quality thumbnails? Want smaller photo files? Using STGThumb it's fast and easy to do this and much more.
ThumbNailer (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - lets you quickly create folders full of image thumbnails and the web pages to go with them. Allows watermarking, DPI adjustments, and much more. It supports JPG, BMP, PNG, WBMP, PCX, TGA, Photoshop, GIF, AVI frame-extraction, PhotoCD, TIFF, Metafiles, True Type fonts and more. It can be run from Windows or from a DOS prompt.
Thumbnail Maker (Free - Mac) - is a rather simple but very useful graphics utility for creating thumbnailed indices of images for posting onto binary picture internet newsgroups.
ThumbNail Refinery LE (Free - Windows) : It does batch image resizing, format conversion, and watermarking.
ThumbNail Refinery MM (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) : does batch image resizing, framing, watermarking, printing, composite page generation, and format conversion including image list to MPEG 2 movie.
ThumbNail Refinery IMG (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) does everything ThumbNail MM (above) does except it has no MPEG 2 support.
ThumbsPlus (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - is a highly customizable image database / thumbnails / graphics editor application that makes it easy to catalog and locate, as well as, maintain and modify all your graphics and multimedia files.
ZeboPhoto (Free to Try, $5, Mac) - is a utility for viewing and editing images. Images are displayed without borders or enclosing windows, so as to give them a clean look on the screen.
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.
I have found a load of design related podcasts that I am sure will peak your interests. Just think of it as radio shows geared towards you and your love of design. You will even find Podcasts on Photoshop, Illustrator, Typography, Freelancing, as well as Web Design and Graphic Design.
I love Vector Magic, a free online vectorization tool. It is a really cool browser-based tool that can be used to turn a photograph into an illustration. It doesn't always succeed in getting that look that you might be looking for, but it does a pretty good job. I usually just use it to play around with photos to see what Vector Magic can do with it, but it also can be very useful if you want to convert a photo into an illustration. I started to wonder how many other vectorization tools and software packages there were out there and I was surprised to find out that there are a ton o them. Basically, most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.
I am in love with vector shapes right now. I think they are so handy to have around when you are building a site. The way that you can stretch vectors without creating jaggy edges, makes them incredibly useful. Most of the time I just land up breaking them apart to use a curve that I like. I also love using them for as badges or buttons on web sites. I have collected a huge selection of free custom Photoshop shapes. If you download every single one of these, there are probably close to 15,000 free Adobe Photoshop shapes. There are more to come in Part II. Enjoy.
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Whether you?re right out of high school, a Mom looking for a career she can do from home, recently out of the Military or simply someone who feels they have a knack for design and is ready for a career change, consider that you have a few options on how to gain the skills you will need to pursue your dream job. But first, ask yourself some questions
As Graphic Designers, we are all creative individuals. I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas. Some of these tools can also be used as design collaboration tools to use with your co-workers, clients, friends, teachers, and family. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me links to online drawing tools that I might have missed.
Green Graphic Design: Why And How to be More Eco-Friendly by Angela Ferraro-Fanning of 13thirtyone Design Why Green Design? ?According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate. The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000. It is estimated that [...]
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Colligiate Font
Should I ask for more? I need good pay but I also don't want
looking for a graphic designer
Changing my name and...everything *sigh*
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illustrator's job & graphic designer's job
Fat Biker
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Creating border in InDesign
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Web Background
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
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. [...]
Flash Programming: Interactive Online De
Flash Programmer needed to create Interactive Flash online design tool for printshop. Online Designer must allow users to create your artwork quickly and easily with standard designer features that l? Client is in Studio City, CA
Web Design for Healthcare Leasing
Number of pages (approx):5 My Industry: Healthcare Leasing facility I will provide the design feel. We won't be needing any functionality at this time. Informational only. We would like some flash ? Client is in Sarasota, FL
Website Design for Services
I prefer to work with designers located: prefer local, but anywhere. Number of pages (approx):10 My Industry: service industry We provide a service with a business model similar to zipar, except th? Client is in Boston, MA
Website and Logo Design for Home Theater
would like to work with a designer from Denver or surrounding areas. Number of pages (approx):1-6 My Industry: Audio/Video We will be ready to start tomorrow. I want to incorporate a crest logo i? Client is in Aurora, CO
Convert Adobe In Design Template File to
Hi, I have an .indd file that I need converted to Microsoft Word. The .indd file is professional quality. I would like for somebody to give me an identical template in Microsoft Word. I am much more ? Client is in Leawood, KS
Graphic Designs for Helium Balloons for
Number of pages (approx): My Industry: we are a helium balloon manufacturer, and now ranked no. 1 in terms of the production capability in china. we are after 30 to 40 design for every six months. t? Client is in Shanghai,
Graphic Design for Christian T-Shirt
trying to create a Christian line of tees the first would be a bible on a plat with knife and fork around it ? Client is in Brooklyn, NY
Logo and Packaging Design for Hair Color
My Industry:HAIR COLOR The product is hair color for body hair, particularly pubic hair. A logo will be needed, something cute, catchy , clean, sexy, but not too sexy, and it MUST HAVE THE RIGHT FONT? Client is in Fresno, CO
Website Design with Medieval Theme
Number of pages (approx): 12 I need a template for: something like this but a little more medieval http://www.templates.com/preview/flash-templates/ft-2231.html I have a large pic of a medieval to? Client is in Lav Vegas, NV
Graphic Designs for Childrens Clothing
We are a new children`s clothing line that specializes in tattoo type designs for children`s clothing. We are looking for designs for our fall line that have a tattoo type feel, but suitable for child? Client is in Scottsdale, AZ