Texture Lovers : Free Textures, Inspiration and texture tutorials

Texture Lovers Its purpose is to archive some of the best free textures from around the web and better yet only archive the ones that are free to use in commercial and personal work without worrying about giving credit to the source (no attribution). On this site you will also find links to inspiration and tutorials all texture related.

The textures are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, usually you would have to give attribution to who created the textures but the kind people featured on the site have waived the need for attribution which enables you to optionally give credit to them if you use their textures.

The textures are free to use, but any inspiration or tutorials on this site are very much copyrighted material and should not be re-produced in any way, they are here to learn from and gain inspiration not copy from, please respect that.

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Fonts 500 : The top 500 free fonts from around the web

Fonts 500. The website has an incredibly large collection of free font downloads worthy of adding to your bookmark(s) collection. Font popularity is based on download activity from larger font resources found throughout the net. Previews are presented in a clean fashion with an option to input your own sample text. Incredibly easy to use, simple to navigate, and quite possibly the one site to visit for free fonts.

Top 500 is calculated based on download counts from some of the web’s biggest free font archives. The fonts presented on this page are their authors’ property, and are, to the best of our knowledge, either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. If anyone knows otherwise please notify us. All fonts have been collected from around the web, and are maintained with all files intact.

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SwatchSpot : Creates random color swatches to inspire you

SwatchSpot is a free web service which lets you generate random color swatches with different color schemes. It lets users to create and save palettes of different color combinations with the click of a button. This is very useful for designers who are looking for color schemes for their project or design.

SwatchSpot is a color swatch generator which creates a new swatch every time you click Reload palette. Each set of colors will contain a combination of 6 different colors which you can save to your computer as an image file.

The generated swatches also have the hexidemical code of those colors which you can use when designing with your image manipulation software or can even use it with your code. This is one of the easiest ways to get inspiration of color scheme combos.

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Photo505 : Fun Photo Editing

Photo505 offers high quality photo editing for free. See examples and comparisons to Deefunia, Photofunia, Jpgfun, Photomontager and more. With Photo505 you upload a picture and the picture can be retouched, modified using many effects and inserted into different settings where it looks to be part of the original image. Compared to most of the free image effect programs, Photo505 will allow images of up to 10 mg.

Each of those pictures has the same person’s face embedded into it. Photo505.com lets you upload an image and superimpose your face over the one that is actually in the photo. After selecting your template you will need a image to upload. Then select the orange browse button. By default Photo505 will make your finished image available to the world. If you shy, or perhaps you are using a photo of a friend, then UNCHECK the box to NOT make your image PUBLIC. If you are in doubt, then UNCHECK the box to be on the safe side of privacy.

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Rsizr : Lets you intelligently resize your images

Rsizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

When you first come to rsizr.com, you will see a large folder icon in the center of the window. Click on this icon and a file browser will pop up. Choose any JPG, PNG, or GIF image from your computer and open it. Due to restrictions in Flash, neither the image width or height can exceed 2880 pixels.

Seam carving is a brilliant image resizing technique pioneered by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. For their rockstar YouTube video and paper, click here.

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Seadragon : Share your images in full detail

Seadragon is designed to inspire and enable new scenarios for viewing information online. It combines several new technologies to progressively retrieve large amounts of data using a fast, seamless, zoom based interface. Seadragon works with all types of content, from wall-sized displays to cell phones, regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth of the network.

The usage is simple, you just type in the URL to the image and it will be converted for you. Next you can share the result on Delicious, Digg, Facebook or Twitter. Want to embed or just need the URL to the image, the embed code and URL is also given after completion of the conversion.

This is quite a simple solution that will allow a great quantity of people to place different procures on their sites so their visitors can take a look at them to see al their details. If you are a photographer or you just like to take Pictures and you are totally concerned about each single detail, this is an interesting solution you will be highly benefited at Seadragon.com

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Aviary’s Falcon : Image Markup Editor

Aviary’s Falcon allows lightning fast image markup and preparation. You can use Falcon to capture images and web pages from your browser and crop, resize and lets you mark up your images with arrows, text and outlines.

Combined with Aviary Firefox addon Talon it provides a simple and efficient way to take screenshots and add simple markup to those images. Talon is Aviary Firefox addon, once installed it allows you to take screenshots of web pages. It adds menu items to the mouse right click context menu, there are two menu items one is for editing the images directly from the web pages and the second one is for taking screenshots of the web pages.

• Blazing Fast / Instant On : Falcon is under 90k in size, resulting in an instantaneous load time. Anyone that has Aviary’s Firefox extension Talon installed can access and edit screen captured data without any server interaction (it all takes place right within the browser).
• Easy Color Extraction : Use the built-in color picker tool to extract web color values from images and screenshots. This is awesome and simple for web designers!
• Simple Editable Markup : Draw arrows, edit text, make shapes. Everything is selectable. Move, rotate and resize anything added to the screen. You can even recolor, add outlines and shadows.
• Built-in Sharing : Host your file online for easy sharing or download it right to your desktop. You can even easily post it to Twitter and other social sharing services.
• Image Preparation Features : Crop, Rotate and Resize your image quickly and easily to prepare it for the web.
• Aviary Application Integration : Need more design power? Port your image into 4 different Aviary tools (color editor, advanced image editor, effects editor and vector editor).
• Intuitive Interface : Designed for bloggers, the interface is intuitive, quick to use and responsive.
• Ideal for Netbook Use : The app resizes perfectly for use in netbooks with small screen resolutions.

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Stripe Generator: Web 2.0 Go Faster Stripes

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You can also choose from a variety of highly rated patterns created by other users in their “Your Stripes” section on the free stripe generator site. Once you create or find a stripe pattern you like simply copy and paste the code! Free Stripe Generator.

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We Love Icons: Mac, Windows and Linux PNG icons

We Love Icons is a project by designers Dan Wiersema and Nando Albuquerque. We started We Love Icons because, well… we love icons!. Our sole purpose is to provide you with ONE place to go to find links to the BEST freeware icons on earth. Be sure to read our How-To section for articles and apps that make working with icons easy and fun!.

The icon site for icon connoisseurs. Featuring only the highest quality freeware icons for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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Wet Floor: Creates the Wet floor effect in a image

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Wet floor effect is a graphic effects technique popular in conjunction Web 2.0 style pages, particularly in logos. The effect can be done manually or an auxiliary tool can be installed to create the effect automatically. Unlike a standard “reflection” (and the Java “water” effect popular in first-generation web graphics), the wet floor effect involves a gradient and often a slant in the reflection, so that the mirrored image appears to be hovering over or resting on a “wet floor”.

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Gorgeous Examples of Floral Typography

Floral typography is the technique that combines typography, calligraphy and lettering to create dynamic, “flourishing” designs. With the help of floral elements you can create very tempting and vivid artworks in which the typography seems to be shaped by plants and flowers. In this way you can convey your message in a very artistic way.

In fact, various floral ornaments – which are the essential component of floral typography – can make the design stand out and help the artist to create inspiring, refreshing and thought-provoking pieces of art.

Below you’ll find a beautiful collection of floral typography and also some outstanding tutorials that will help you to master the technique or at least get some understanding of how this technique can be used.

Repper : Images become patterns

Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It's the easiest way to create beautiful patterns for your desktop or social profile background.

You can use Repper to create unique background patterns for your social profiles or your personal webpage. Or use it for posters or business cards, to design textile patterns or whatever you can think of; your imagination is your only limit!

View many other marvelous designs in the gallery. All designs can be used publicly under the Creative Commons license for non-commercial use .

Step instuctions

• Load a random example image or upload your own image load random or own image
• Resize & drag the box to change the pattern bounding box
• Save your design. You can either link to it from your social profile or webpage, or download the pattern to your computer.

Closr.it : Zoom and Share your images for free

Closr.it is now open to the public by a few weeks. This open initiative enables users to freely store and share high-resolution images. Images are processed on the server and partitioned into tiles as much as Google Maps does for its aerial pictures.

The widgets also have some other useful functions, like a full-screen button, and another button that resets the photo to its starting size. There's minimal branding and excess junk attached to them, too, so they're not going to make your site look terrible when you embed them. If you have the particular problem of finding a way to display your large photos, Closr might be the solution.

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Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG

Online Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.

The interface is quite simple as shown below; you can either load an image from your computer or directly using a URL link. The service is limited to original images under 300KB, but other than that it’s very quick and easy to use.

Once the image file has been selected, you can click on the optimize button, to get the results, if you wish to change the file format as well, use the drop-down menu to get the options as shown above, also you can use the checkbox in order to get all the results (this allows you to easily make the best choice, so that the optimized image you use doesn’t look very pixilated).

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ScrnShots: Share your screen inspiration

ScrnShots is the best way to take, find, and share screenshots of web and screen based design. ScrnShots is a community for designers to share screenshots. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog and discuss them with your contacts.

ScrnShots is a way to take and share screenshots of web and screen based design. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog, discuss them with your contacts and become a better designer!

It works pretty much like flickr. Take a screen shot and save it on your computer. Upload it, add a description and tags. Embed it using the provided html. They do ask that you link back to them which is the same thing flickr asks.

On the social side, I've found that people frequently comment on shots. It's fun to browse around and look at the shots other people are taking. I'm going to try to post at least one interesting shot per day and I'll try to comment on any interesting ones that I find.

Pixelformer : A bitmap editor

Pixelformer is a bitmap editor, specifically optimized for creating, modifying, and converting small and medium-sized images, such as icons, buttons, avatars, web graphics, game graphics, etc.

Pixelformer is faster, smaller, easier, more precise, and often more efficient than large bitmap editing tools; at the same time it is more powerful than any classic simple icon editor.

Pixelformer can be a complete solution for those who need to create, edit, resize, or convert icons or other small images. Even if you prefer to create graphics in some sophisticated high-end image editor, Pixelformer would be a useful tool for doing final tweaks, conversions, and optimizations.

The main features of Pixelformer are:

• no restrictive limits for image dimensions
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• lossless target color depth switching
• independent access to color and alpha channels
• support for multiresolution icons
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• multiple file format support
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ICONlook - Icon Search Engine

Iconlook is a search engine exclusively designed for icons. Icons play an important role in the web world and no one can afford to have lousy icons for his site. Imagine a webpage without any icon; it would be similar to imagining the world without colours. ICONLOOK allows you to search for hundreds of icons with just a single click.

Just go through the website, search for your desired icon(s) and get stunned by what you get to see. You can also have a look at the most popular icons. The service also allows you to stumble through random icons (something that we owe to Stumble Upon). Search can also be aided by the use of the tag cloud.

ICONLOOK has made its mark on me as the web design is not messed up at all. The site is simple, yet useful and will surely help people who are in search for Icons. ICONLOOK can also go on to allow web designers to market their icons and provide contact details besides those icons for people who are looking for a custom job.

Gickr lets you instantly create Animated GIF online and free,

Gickr lets you instantly create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Just upload pictures or grab them from your Flickr. Create funny flashy slideshows with you and your friends, cartoons, previews, banners, etc. Post them anywhere you can post pictures: MySpace, Bebo, HI5 etc. No need for flash. Show them to people in our Gallery.

This service is fun, easy to create, and takes a few minutes. Once your done, your GIF can be featured in the Gickr Gallery and other users will be able to admire your amazing artistry. Or, post it up on a Myspace bulletin, put it in a Facebook note, and let your friends enjoy.

You can either let Gickr pull images from a specific tag on your Flickr account, or you can individually upload images (maximum of 10) to Gickr that you want turned into your animated GIF. Gickr works with snappy AJAX-y goodness (but who doesn't these days), and really does provide a simple way to create an animated image (whether you're going for a time lapse or just slide show). This kind of tool may come in handy if you want to put together an animation/slideshow but you don't want to embed something that requires a little Flash

BeFunky : Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click

BeFunky makes it easy to get photos from your favorite web sites. Apply special photo effects and save back to your account. The experience starts with a photo or video, and BeFunky tools turn it to a masterpiece work of art and give back to you within seconds.

BeFunky Photo Effects allow everyday people to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge. These "one-click" photo effect options produce desired results effortlessly and each effect comes with the option to make simple adjustments.

BeFunky Labs recently innovated advanced tools interpreted into various artistic styles like oil painting, drafting, pen and ink-art, pop-art. And 100s more are in the pipeline that will be live within a couple months.