1- Copaso – Colour Lovers

2- Color Scheme Designer

3- Color Jack

4-  Color Schemer (Also comes with a downloadable Desktop App *For windows and Mac)

5- Color Rotate

6- Aviary Color Editor

7- Color Database

8- Hex Color Scheme Generator

9- Absolute Color Picker (Desktop App, something I use on regular basis)

10- Daily Color Scheme

These are (in my opinion) one of the best tools for a designer for creating color schemes or picking up colors of their likings, I hope you like these.

Choose the one that you like and click on it. It will on the spot show you whose the designer, the license information, size and if there’s an full set for it. Simple but useful service for all Icon hunters.

The steps involved in the process are basic and simple:

1. Select banner size or create custom size banner
2. Select background color, style or upload you own image
3. Add text and style
4. Add banner effect upload logo
5. Save or Download your custom banner

Before one proceeds to make a banner, a free signup is required.

After you set up a free account and login using that account, the first step towards banner making is to choose the banner size:

As can be seen above, the user can either set a custom size or choose from a list of predefined sizes. The second step requires adding a background to the banner:

Of course without adding any special effects to your banner, the result would not stand out from the crowd; hence the fourths step lets the user add certain effects to the banner being created:

The fifth and final step is where the user gets to download/save his/her banner.

With its easy to understand interface, Live Banner Maker is one of the most user-friendly ways to create your own banners. Visit the homepage here and take Live Banner Maker out for a test drive.

Custom icons are another great way to make using computers fun. Having a mini T-Rex where the Recycle Bin should be is one example of custom icons. For people who use custom icons and change from one set of icons to the next rather frequently, 365icon is surely a mouthwatering delight. They provide some of the highest quality free icons available on the internet.

The homepage for the website is craftily laid out, expressing all the different themes for icons one could possibly ask for. Right now, as is evident from the screenshot, the featured icon theme is Star Wars. Under it, more themes can be viewed. Categories of icons can be viewed by taking the mouse over to ‘Icon Styles’ at the top, which will result in a drop-down menu like this:

From here, one can jump over to the relevant page of interest and find the related icons. Along with hosting icons, 365icons also has a ‘How To’ (accessible by hovering the mouse over ‘Blog’ in the top left) guide which includes some interesting tips and tricks for icons-enthusiasts.

Another great feature of 365icons is that sometimes they host contests of different natures. The ongoing contest awards a free PSD-to-HTML worth $ 299 page to two lucky visitors.

You can upload your pictures, music and videos and then edit them in their online Studio. There are lots of pre-given effects, music files, skins and even videos which you can use to either experiment or use them in your stuff. The Timeline is also very easy to use (see screenshot below):

The first one is the Skins bar where you can add skins like a LCD TV, Marquee lights or even a breaking news scene. After that, add a effect, like Rain, stars or whatever you prefer. It also gives you the ability to add text. So do check it out if you’re looking to edit your home videos in a professional way.

With features like Editing directly from the browser, J-query powered smart code, saving data using local hub etc, designers can benefit greatly.

• IFR Implementation
• Footer Always At Bottom
• Relative Font Sizes
• Load Speed Optimization
• Dynamic Rollovers
• Drop Down Menus
• Liquid Layout
• Favicon Included

And compatibility with browsers etc. You’ll notice whenever you check an option, it updates the page automatically with the list of companies (including where they’re from and a quote) live. Slicejobs is basically focused on web designers, programmers or even entrepreneurs who are looking to either get the work done or list their companies to get some good work.

If you are someone who provide slicing services then you can enter your profile and rates all for free. Do check it out.

1- You can either download a texture for free but it will be of Medium quality, suitalbe for websites, blogs and low resolution print designs, with dimensions as 600×400 (px) and the following print Size:

• @72DPI = 8.33in x 5.56in
• @150DPI = 4in x 2.67in
• @300DPI = 2in x 1.33in

2- The high quality which will cost you $2 per image, suitable for website backgrounds, print designs etc, Dimensions: 1800×1200 (px), print size:

• @72DPI = 25in x 16.67in
• @150DPI = 12in x 8in
• @300DPI = 6in x 4in

3- And the maximum quality, costing you $4 per image, suitable for high resolution print designs, posters etc Dimensions: 3072 x 2048 (px) and print size:

• @72DPI = 42.67in x 28.44in
• @150DPI = 20.48in x 13.65in
• @300DPI = 10.24in x 6.83in

There are lot of categories and keywords to choose from and I’m sure you can find one for your needs. Check it out at Texture Vault.

Another cool thing about this service is that it also comes with a firefox addon, simply right click any image on a webpage and choose ‘Extract Image Colors’ from the menu to go straight to the ColorSuckr website with the image.

Check it out here.

I know, we can’t match everyone’s taste (for the moment) – We basically try to focus more on your recommended topics, softwares, tutorials etc but in the end, there’s “always” something that a group don’t appreciate. So, I would very much like “You” guys to recommend us stuff that you want to see, your suggestions play a big part in whatever we are doing.

Feel free to email me at MoinAnjum [@] gmail [dot] com for your suggestions and how we can improve everything we’re already doing.

Regards,
MoiN