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40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts

2009-07-02T12:17:42Z

Unlike the serif font family, these hand drawn fonts looked less serious but they tend to give and convey strong human touch wherever they are applied. Hand-drawn fonts are hard to stand on it’s own, but they are utmost perfect for these following situations:

Hand drawn websites

If you are inspired to give your new web design a sketchy or hand-drawn look and feel, these fonts are without a doubt the perfect math to the layout. Click here for more examples of Hand-drawn style websites.

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Guides and instructions
Whether its a storyboard, an online guide & tutorial or merely an attempt to help user understand an illustration better, arrow, pointer and text guide gets the job done seamlessly. In terms of text, typography that mimics human writing tend to make reading and understanding things easier. Here’s a good example:

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Comic and dialogues
You don’t need Marvel to tell you Helvetica won’t fit for the text in drawing and illustrations.

Free Hand-drawn Fonts

Here are 40 high quality hand-drawn fonts you can download and apply on your design. Please check with the creator if you are intended to use it for commercial products.

Alpha Mack

Analgesics

Bubbly Frog

Christopher Hand

Dali

Fabulous 50s

Fail

FFF Tusj

Daniel

Note this

Pisan

Rabiohead

Glider Girls

Green Piloww

Grutch Shaded

Hand of Sean

HandVetica

Jamaistevie

James Fajardo

Estrya’s Handwriting

Jerry’s handwriting

Joe Hand 2

Journal

Just Me Again Down Here

Later On

Love Ya Like A Sister

Luna Bar

Mia’s Scribblings

Pappo’s Blues Band

Peixe Frito

Positiv-A

Rock Show Whiplash

Salamander

Sophie, Regular

The Quiet Scream

Thurston Erc

Two Turtle Doves

WC RoughTrad Bta

Windsong

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts to Increase Productivity

2009-07-02T12:25:25Z

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With all the less pleasant verdicts about Vista, Windows 7 is perhaps PC users’ next best news. Codenamed Blackcomb, this new Microsoft operating system is surely a successor over it’s predecessor Windows XP and definitely Vista. With Microsoft to end their support for Windows XP in 2014, we figured Windows 7 will be completely taking over things in the next year or so.

If you are a Windows users it’s probably time for a change, or at least tryout this new operating system. Here are some shortcut keys to help improve your productivity and user experience with Windows 7. Full list after jump.

General Windows 7 Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Win + UP Arrow	Maximize the current window
Win + Down Arrow	Restore down or minimize current windows
Win + Left Arrow	Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
Win + Right Arrrow	Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
Win + [number]	Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected
Win + Home	Minimize all but the current window
Win + Space	Makes all windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
Win + Pause/Break	Open System Properties
Win + Tab	Flip Aero 3D [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
Win + B	Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar)
Win + D	Show/Hide desktop
Win + E	Windows Explorer is launched
Win + F	Search
Win + G	Bring all gadgets on top and foreground
Win + L	Lock Computer
Win + M	Minimize all windows
Win + P	Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors)
Win + R	Run Command is launched.
Win + S	OneNote Screen Clipping Tool
Win + T	Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over
Win + X	Mobility Center
Win + #	Quicklaunch
Win + =	Magnifier
Win + [+/-]	Enables the magnifier and zooms in/out
Win + Shift + Up Arrow	Maximize vertical size
Win + Shift + Down Arrow	Restore vertical size
Win + Shift + Left Arrow	Jump to left monitor
Win + Shift + Right Arrow	Jump to right monitor
Win + Shift + M	Undo all window minimization
Win + Shift + T	Cycles backwards
Win + Ctrl + F	Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog
Ctrl + Right Arrow	Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word
Ctrl + Left Arrow	Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word
Ctrl + Up Arrow	Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph
Ctrl + Down Arrow	Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph
Ctrl + Click	A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open windows (e.g. IE)
Ctrl + Win + Tab	Persistent flip 3D
Ctrl + Shift with an arrow key	Select a block of text
Ctrl with any arrow key + Spacebar	Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop
Ctrl + Shift + Esc	Open Task Manager directly
Ctrl + Shift + N	Create new folder

Shortcuts for Ease of Access

Shortcut	Description
Right SHIFT for eight seconds	Turn Filter Keys on and off
Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (or PRTSCRN)	Turn High Contrast on or off
Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK	Turn Mouse Keys on or off
SHIFT five times	Turn Sticky Keys on or off
NUM LOCK for five seconds	Open the Ease of Access Center
Win + U	Cycle through all open windows

For: Windows Explorer

Shortcut	Description
Alt + Left Arrow	Go back
Alt + Right Arrow	Go forward
Alt + Up Arrow	Go up a directory
Alt + Enter	Open the Properties window of the current selection
Alt + Spacebar	Open the shortcut menu for the active window
Alt + F4	Close the active window
Alt + Tab	Switch to previous active window
Alt + Esc	Cycle through all open windows
Alt + D	Move focus to address bar
Alt + P	Show/hide the preview panel
Ctrl + N	Open a new window
Ctrl + Mousewheel	Change the view type (extra large, small, list view, detail, etc.)
Num Lock + Asterisk (*) on numeric keypad	Display all subfolders under the selected folder
Num Lock + Plus Sign (+) on numeric keypad	Display the contents of the selected folder
Num Lock + Minus Sign (+) on numeric keypad	Collapse the selected folder

For: Taskbar Modifiers

Shortcut	Description
Shift + Click on icon	Open a new instance
Middle click on icon	Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon	Open a new instance with Admin privileges

For: Dialog Box

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + Tab	Move forward through tabs
Ctrl + Shift + Tab	Move back through tabs
Shift + Tab	Move back through options
Tab	Move forward through options
Alt + underlined letter	Perform the command (or select the option) that goes with that letter
Enter	Replaces clicking the mouse for many selected commands
Spacebar	Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box
Arrow keys	Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons
Backspace	Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box

For: Photo Gallery

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + F	Open the Fix pane
Ctrl + P	Print the selected picture
Ctrl + I	Open or close the Details pane
Ctrl + Period (.)	Rotate the picture clockwise
Ctrl + Comma (,)	Rotate the picture counter-clockwise
Ctrl + Mouse scroll wheel	Change the size of the picture thumbnail
Ctrl + B	Best fit
Ctrl + E	Search for an item
Alt + Left Arrow	Go back
Alt + Right Arrow	Go forward
Plus Sign (+)	Zoom in or resize the picture thumbnail
Minus Sign (-)	Zoom out or resize the picture thumbnail
Shift + Delete	Permanently delete the selected item
Enter	View the selected picture at a larger size

Logging In And Out Windows 7

Shortcut	Description
Win + Right Arrow + Enter	Shutdown
Win + Right Arrow + Right Arrow + R	Restart
Win + Right Arrow + Right Arrow + S	Sleep
Win + Right Arrow + Right Arrow + W	Switch users

27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers

2009-07-02T12:41:10Z

Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets

So what’s in a starter kit? We think it varies – depending on what each designer routinely worked with. For GUI designers, keeping a copy of form elements (buttons, checkboxes, tab, drop down menus, etc) helps speed up the process of creating screens and layouts; on the other hand, browser (IE, Firefox Safari) templates with web safe area keep web designers reminded how/where they should prioritize their contents. Experienced designers will usually customize and keep a personal version of starter kit, some might have few too!

In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. You can download (for free) and use them right away, or customize your own copy that will come in handy in future, your choice. Full list after jump.

GUI, Form Elements and Web Components

From form elements like checkboxes, input fields, textareas to web design components like buttons, arrows, icons, badges and more.

Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit
Probably one of the most complete kit for designers. GUI elements include calendars, grids, menus, mobile (general and iphone), navigation and pagination, tabs, UI controls and more! Comes in several format: OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), PDF, PNG and SVG.

Web Form Elements
With all these tabs, buttons, dropdowns in one single PSD file, it’s sure going to give you a kick start in interface design. Courtesy of sniperyu.

Browser Form Elements PSD
Browser Form Elements PSD for Mac Firefox 3 and another for Vista IE7.

Flex Dark Skin
Sleek dark skin interface elements.

Famfamfam Icons
Whether you are designing for web or application, you should not miss these awesome little buttons by Famfamfam.
Shortcut to: Silk, Mini and Flag collections.

Peter’s DeivantART ID
Design ID cards made easy with this PSD template.

Deluxive Creative Pack
Distributed free by Deluxive, this creative pack PSD come inclusive of badges, grid frames, buttons, stickers and more.

Aero Avatar and SIG
Vista avatar and signature template in PSD.

Turquoise PSD
Vista elements.

Browser Screens Templates

If you are designing website in a Photoshop PSD file, it’s important to keep each browser and visible screen in consideration. These following PSD with different version of Firefox, IE and Safari web safe area will come in handy.

Browser Web Safe Area
Web safe area for Safari, IE and Firefox in different operating systems, all in downloadable PSD file.
Shortcut to: Mac OS X – Safari, Firefox. Windows Vista – IE, Firefox, Windows XP – IE, Firefox

960px Photoshop Grid Template
PSD grid template in 960px width to prevent yourself from composing with edges of the screen that may/may not actually be where you plan them to be.

(More) Browser Templates
If you are looking for even more browser templates (PSD), webdesignerstoolkit’s collection should be what you are looking for. These folks has templates for Opera, Camino and classic browsers like iCan, Netscape and Mozilla.

Web Browser Elements
Free standard HTML form elements or browser windows for Windows, and Mac OSX.
Shortcut to: Mac OS X – Safari, Firefox. Windows Vista – IE, Firefox, Windows XP – IE, Firefox

Browser Screens and Website Elements
Exclusive freebie Vector Pack from VectorTuts. It’s a useful set of vector website assets you can use to mock up your client projects, present your work, or get a quick visual while laying out websites.

Quommunication Starter Kit
If you are looking to kick of designing in PSD with a minial and basic PSD as guidance, Quommunication’s starter kit is probably what you are looking for. It comes with color templates, browser web safe area and basic form components all in one PSD.

Cursors

A typical screen capture (print screen) will not include the cursor in the output. If you depend on the cursor to help indicate and describe an image better, these following PSD packs might help.

Polished Graphite
2 sets of different mouse cursors by usedHONDA.

Photoshop Cursor Pack
Useful for those who create Photoshop Tutorials.

Product Design

iPhone GUI PSD 3.0
The image below gives you a clear idea what this PSD file consist. Utmost useful to mock any iPhone development interfaces. Created by teehanlax.

Here’s another one for the older version of iPhone.

iPhone PSD
High resolution iPhone interface.

Here’s for those who are looking for first gen iPhone interface.

Magazine PSD
If you are presenting something in magazine style, you will want to start with this PSD.

Paperbag

T-Shirt

DVD Plastic Case
Our collection of beautiful CD and DVD cases PSD templates.

Documents and Letters

More for Designers

Looking for more design-related downloads? Check out some of our previous posts:

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

2009-07-02T12:04:26Z

Most textures and patterns don’t look attractive in raw or when they are standalone, and these metallic ones are certainly no exceptional. However, with the right mixtures (and some creativity), these raw materials could output you some of the nicest metallic-themed design. If you are looking to create some realistic metallic design, here’s a collection of Metallic Textures, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorial that could come in handy.

Here are some related articles you might be interested:

Full list after jump.

Brushes and Patterns

Arc’s Rivets + Metal Brushes
by Arcy-is-distracted
138 Custom Photoshop Brushes, includes Rivets, Screw-heads, Bolt-heads, Metal seams, Metal seams w/ rivets, Complete Panels, Vents, Holes and more.

Barbed Wire brush
by Cat-in-the-Stock
Two barbed wire brushes.

Bullet Holes Brushes
by redheadstock
A set of brushes made up of various types of bullet holes.

Spiderman Pattern
by s0nkite

Metal Set
by for-certain
9 metal texture brush set.

Metal Mesh Brush
by SocioBunneh
High quality metal mesh brushes.

Idyllic’s -Metal- Brushes
by Chalob

Gears Vectors Brushes
by redheadstock
34 brushes for Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, GIMP 2.2.6+

Carbon Sheets
by idealhut

Cool Metal Texture
by skipgo

Textures

Black Metal Texture
by GrungeTextures
Closeup of pattern on surface of old black metal.

WireMesh
by stock.xchng

Foil 1
by Dori-Stock

ULV Metal plate
by enframed

Metallic Holes Texture
by LeMex

Metallic Grid Texture
by FantasyStock

Metal Pattern
by Thousandhands

Metal Texture
by wojtar-stock

Metal Stock
by CausticStock

Metal Floor
by loner654

Metal Grunge Set
by Dominick-AR
11 metal grunge brushes.

Metal
by GreenEyezz-stock

Metal Fence texture
by JayL-stock
This texture has been packed on a zip, the package contains diffuse.tga, opacity.tga and a diffuse.jpg.

Photoshop Tutorials

Create Carbon Fibre Pattern
by hongkiat

Texturing and Painting Metal
by Noise-Less
Painting a metal nut.

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop
by Wojciech Pijecki
This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop.

Creating a Cool Brushed Metal Surface in Photoshop
by Fabio
How to create the brushed aluminum texture similar to the Apple products.

21 Excellent Examples of Animal Web Mascots

2009-07-02T12:29:21Z

Everyday, an average internet user is bombarded by advertisements, images, news, etc. With the booming number of internet websites over the years, it is not surprising for any internet user to be overwhelmed by such information overload. Online companies are competing with each other to attract more visitors to their site, and equally important, retain them. To achieve this, marketers online have to constantly come up with unique ideas to captivate viewers so that they can remember their website.

Designing a captivating logo or symbol is one way to leave deeper impression for site visitors. However, text logos or symbol logos are way too common for the vast array of websites on the net, so some marketers are resorting to using cute, catchy and adorable animals as mascots for their website. Mozilla Firefox, an internet browser, is one good example. The trademarked orange fox mascot is so popular that it is usually the first thing that pops into mind when we hear of the browser.

For those who are interested in finding more about using Animals as Web Mascots , here are 21 fine examples for your reference.

Mailchimp

Site visitors are bound to be attracted by this well-designed delightful chimp that greets them on the very first page. Apart from that, this chimp mascot is illustrated in such a way that it roughly represents what the website is all about (i.e. email marketing). This is an essential component since the impression made to one will also provide information on the website service. People will then effortlessly remember what the website is about upon recognizing the mascot.

Elune Art

Sometimes, simplicity is the best design. This website features a brown owl mascot with a soothing light blue background. Such plain design is pretty straightforward and therefore conveniently remembered by visitors. So long as people have no problem identifying what the mascot character is (in this case, an owl), they will be able to apply that character to represent a particular website, thereby forming an impression that lasts.

Beefinance

This little bee logo is suitably used for this financing website because first of all, the golden-colored bee reminds all of us of the color of coins which in itself is a symbol for money or finance. Most importantly, the bee fits well into the tagline of the company: Taking the sting out of debt. In other words, this website has created a simple yet memorable mascot that customers could remember by relating to the ’sting’ of being in debt as well as the color of money.

Blogbuster

Everyone knows what an octopus is, but this eight-footed sea creature distinguishes itself from other animals in terms of its unique features. As such, a website that utilizes it as a representation will be able to catch visitors’ attention. Hence, a pink and adorable octopus like this should be able to build an impression that lasts well enough to enable visitors to call to mind the website and its content.

Bonifac

Cute designs and themes is a must for a website that deals with toys for kids. Even though the customers are parents themselves, it is still necessary for web designers to create the appropriate ambience to grab parents’ attention. These delightful monkeys and the accompanying color theme for this website are likely to encourage visitors to explore further and keep the website in mind.

Branded07

With their vibrantly colored beaks, toucan birds are one of a kind. Upon entering the web desing site, visitors are greeted by two aloof-looking toucan birds on the right of the page. Despite the unresponsive expressions, the two birds are still able to pull off as an adorable pair. Such contrasting nature of the mascot design can instill a sense of curiosity for anyone who stumble across the website.

Cow and Monkey

Witn a witty name and a comical mascot design, this website is able to create a unique branding that lasts. One couldn’t help but be amused to see the two cartoon characters peering out and looking straight at you as one travel from page to page. Both cow and monkey are well designed along with a beautiful background. Such design attracts visitors and inject a sense of professionalism. Humorous contents are also most easily remembered.

Cowurl

Once again, this simple webpage uses cow as a mascot. Although a cow does not seem to have any direct association with their URL shortening service, employing an lovable cartoon cow to represent the website beats using just words (e.g. www.tinyurl.com). Once someone becomes aware of this website, he or she will link it to the image of this cartoon cow, thereby facilitating recall.

Fernandolandi

For this particular web design site, the bird not only serves as logo for visitors to remember by, but also as an example of the site’s portfolios. In this case then, the mascot is appropriately used to represent what the website actually provides. This is a effective approach to motivate site visitors to explore further.

Mixturtle

A green turtle with a spiky mohawk hairstyle smoking a cigarette for a music search engine may not be appealing for some, but it is peculiar enough to raise eyebrows. Such odd or even bizarre mascot may perhaps be distinctive enough for visitors to bear in mind this site. Regardless of whether the design is pleasing to the eye, the mascot has fulfilled its purpose so long as people are able to remember the website through it.

Mozilla Firefox

Among the many Mozilla softwares, Mozilla Firefox probably has the most well-known mascot logo for its open source web browser. The trademark fox mascot circling the globe symbolizes the function of the browser to connect worldwide. The design for the fox itself is also very well-done with the color of its fur matching the color of the flames of a fire. An attractive logo like this for a software or a website is a superb strategy for effective branding and marketing

Octonauts

What better way to captivate visitors than to animate the mascot? By animating the cover page of the book that this website is selling, visitors are more likely to be drawn to the adorable characters and induced to find out more about them. Although the animation is minimal, it is sufficient enough to bring to life these characters and interest any potential customers.

Oldloft

This is yet another web design website with an amazing design that focuses on the whole package. The website is well-decorated with a greenish-yellow cloudy background along with a couple of lovely animal characters raising a flag labelled ‘www’. The illustration of animals raising the flag together is deliberately used to emphasize on their company’s tagline ‘let’s work together’. The nicely designed mascots with their symbolization of their mission will clearly form a deep impression on any site visitors.

Owltastic

A simple design of an owl mascot is used here, but the overall ambience brought about by applying light colors onto the site’s background as well as the owl is able to bring out a soothing experience. The owl serves as a symbol for the website for the masses to remember by. Simplistic designs like this can be effective as long as people are emotionally engaged into the whole package and recognize what the mascot is in order to associate it with the website.

Pojeta

What is striking about this website is the immense background covering the sky, sea and beneath the sea. On the same page, the monkey, toucan bird and the porcupine fish sits on top of the website’s title within the same page. Overall, the page is a humorous display of various mascots that is bound to tickle the first time visitors of the site. A lighthearted design like this will stand out from the sea of ordinary websites in the internet.

PSDgator

Clear-cut mascot design like this is easy for anyone to call to mind. This bespectacled alligator is seen here working on converting PSD (photoshop document) to CSS and HTML format, which is pretty the service that this website is offering. One advantage of such uncomplicated and straightforward design is that visitors know what to expect at first sight.

ReadWhale

Why choose a whale as a mascot for a community website for book lovers? Perhaps the website is making a metaphorical point in that the amount of written literature in the world is neverending like the sea which the whale lives in. In other words, the whale mascot is put in for avid readers to identify with, as if it is consuming the sea of books in its huge body. This is a design that took efforts to incorporate in a good representation for the website’s content.

Silverback

A large picture of a buffy ape in tight-fitting shirt holding on to an evaluation clipboard greets the visitor on the site’s main page. One can’t help but spend some time observing the delicate and pleasing illustration of the ape. The more time one examines the mascot, the more memorable it becomes. Mascot designers for website can best leave a deeper impression in visitors but arousing their curiosity.

Squared Eye

This is again another website that chose a whale as their mascot. According to the author, this blue whale, Levi, was designed to emphasize the company’s appetite for detail. We all know the blue whale is the largest living animal (and thus having the biggest appetite). In short, the designer brilliantly selected the blue whale to articulate what the company believes in- A Monstrous Appetite for the Tiniest Details.

Tweak!

A likely reason why this wide-eyed cartoon bird is used as a logo and symbol is because as one could see, the name of the site is "Tweak!". In this case, the website is a podcast site offering bits and pieces of advice on small improvements to life and business. However, one can use the same name to refer to the breaking sound of tree branches. The mascot bird seems to be petrified, as if it just heard a ‘tweaking’ sound, indicating that the branch it is grabbing on is about to break. This hilarious transfer of the site name to a mascot is a interesting way for people to associate for better recall.

Zootool

The zoo theme is chosen for this particular website tool because the word ‘zoo’ rhymes with ‘tool’, and naming it ‘zootool’ makes it easier for one to remember. Therefore, this website packaged itself into a zoo theme, such that users who signed up for their personal organizer service actually ’start their own zoo’. The Rhinoceros mascot is thus pictured on the right to create the make-believe to further solidify their site name. This website example shows how the appropriate choice of mascot can work hand-in-hand with the site’s name to bring out effective marketing.

Giveaway: Free Hosting Accounts

2009-07-02T13:03:10Z

If you are looking to buy a web hosting account to host your Wordpress blog, you might wanna hold that thought first; Also if you are hosting your blog on a free Blogger, or Wordpress.com, here’s an excuse to get yourself a self-host Wordpress blogging platform. This week in our giveaway contest, we are giving out 5+1 hosting accounts (1 year) for free and you don’t have to pay a single cent for it.

This giveaway is a courtesy of WPWebHost, only for Hongkiat.com readers. And if you’ve observed closed enough, we are too hosted with WPWebHost. Details on winning the Wordpress hosting account are as follows.

In short, here’s what on the table to be won:

5 WP Freedom Plan (50Gb/500Gb Bw/50 domains). More info.
1 WP Buddy Plan (100Gb/1TB Bw/100 domains). More info.

WPWebhost has Wordpress-savvy supports working behind both these plans, so if you come across any Wordpress technical problem, chances are, they already have a solution for you. WP Buddy Plan is specialized for Wordpress Multiuser (MU) hosting. If you are thinking of running a multi-user blog, you don’t want to miss this.

How to Win

Just comment in! If you are looking forward to win the WP Buddy Plan (for Wordpress MU) please specify in your comment.

Contest starts today, closes 24th Wednesday June. Exactly one week from now. Good luck guys :-)

Update: Thank you for all your participation. The contest will now close and we’ll announce the winners soon!

Update (30th June 2009): We have winners, and here they are:

~~Prasanth Chandra (awaiting response)~~dlv
Steven
Thefinalhome
Chardy
Jonathan Farley
Boris Rorsvort (Buddy Plan)

Once again, congratulations and thanks for participating guys! More contest coming up soon.

100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know

2009-07-02T12:26:40Z

Google is the most powerful search engine available, but when it comes to searching for something specific, Google may churn out general results for some. For instance, a search for a song in Google may return the singer, the lyrics and even fan sites – depending on the keywords you entered.

This is when niche-specific search engines comes into the picture. These search engines allows you to search for the things you’re looking for, and because they are more focused, their results tend to be more accurate.

E-books & PDF files, audio & music, videos, etc. are probably the most commonly searched items everyday and with this list, you’ll be able to locate them easily from now on. Enjoy!

E-Book & PDF Search Engine

PDF Searcher

Pdf Searcher is a pdf and ebook search engine. You can search and download every ebook or pdf for free!

PDFGeni

PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.

Data-Sheet

Data-Sheet is a pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine where you can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download.

PDFDatabase

PDF Database is a new search engine which uses a unique algorithm to search for pdf and doc files from all over the web quickly and efficiently.

PDF Search Engine

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files.

AddAll – AddALL is a free service that searches for the best deal in books anywhere on-line.
BookFinder – A one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks. .
Boocu – Access thousands of eBooks and other digital products.
Brupt – Brupt.com is based on Google Custom Search Engine, it uses Filetype parameters offered by Google to filter the information and show the pages according.
CCEbook – A free ebook search engine, find rapidshare/mihd/ebooks by search.
ComicSeeker – Search the Internet’s most popular online comic book stores and auctions.
DocJax – DocJax.com is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free.
Docstoc – All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.
Ebook-Search-Engine – Ebook-Search-Engine.com was established to make finding an free ebook on the internet alot easier by providing visitors with the best quality free ebook sites and pages on the web.
Ebookee – Free download ebooks search engine.
Flazx – This is a well organized and searchable eBook Directory..
FeedBooks – A universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books.
Gigle.ws – A PDF search engine with 1 150 000+ items indexed.
Google Books – Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
Issuu – Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
LazyLibrary – LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts..
Myplick – Myplick is a free service that lets you share, embed and discover presentations and slide shows online.
Printfu – Search engine for free ebooks.
PDFster – PDFster.net is a meta search engine for PDF documents.
PDFSe – User can search for an ebook by entering a book title,author name or topic
PDF-Search.org – A book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf, word, power point files.
Scribd – Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
Search-PDF-Books – PDF search engine for free PDF books.
The-Manuals – Search engine for free manual online.
TooDoc – Through this search engine, you’ll be able to search the web for PDF files, and nothing else. .
Yudu – Explore the Library to find magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more. Over 1 million publications read each month..

Audio/Music Search Engine

BeeMp3

BeeMP3 is a music search engine for locating an mp3-audio files over the Internet. Today they have 800 000 mp3 files in our search database and approximately 10 000 files are added daily.

MP3Realm

Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album. Mp3Realm also index’s lyrics, so you can sing along to your favorite songs.

WuZam

WuZAM’s powerful engine allows users to search for free music downloads from all over the internet. Unlike P2P programs, you don’t have to wait for users to upload the file to you. Many of the free music downloads found on WuZAM are stored on high speed servers so your free mp3 downloads are quick and flawless.

SKreemR

SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. SkreemR currently indexes over 6 million mp3 files from over 100,000 web sites.

FindSounds

FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.

AirMP3 – AirMP3 is a music search engine. It searches for free mp3 downloads on several music sites, and lists all results on a single page.
CaptainCrawl – A very massive music blog search engine.
DesMP3 – Listens the music that you want all is in DesMp3! Search in 500 million results.
Dilandau – In Dilandau.com you can listen and download all your MP3 music.
Dorble – Dorble is another application that lets you search, listen and download music you like to your computer for free.
Gig-Listing – Gig Listing is an independent web search engine for live music events. You can look for music events, bands or venues by typing a few keywords in a text box.
HuntMyMusic – HuntMyMusic is primarily a music search engine that provides a convenient way for users to find, preview, and download songs.
Liveplasma – Liveplasma is a new way to broaden your cultural horizons according to your taste in music.
MP3Raid – Mp3Raid.com is dedicated to provide its visitors the best mp3 search engine on the net.
Mix Turtle – Web-based music search tool Mix Turtle creates playlists of songs you find online.
MP3-Search Engine – A comprehensive MP3 search engine.
Muscorch – Music Score Search Engine, searching for free music score in various formats.
MusicBiatch – MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating an audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
Musgle – To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ – you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results
Midomi – Midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice.
MP3Search.Mobi – Your free music search engine.
MP3Fountain – Download Hip-Hop mp3. Download Hip-Hop music.
MP3Series – The Ultimate Audio Search Engine
OOnly – Free MP3 search engine.
SharingMusics – Audio, mp3 and music search engine.
Songza – Songza lets you listen to any song or band. Search for it.
SeekMP3 – SeekMp3 is worth a try. SeekMp3 is an Mp3 search engine, pure and simple. Music is pulled from all over the web—blogs, music sites, personal websites, etc.
SeekASong – Mp3s and lyrics search engine.
Woonz – Woonz crawls the internet for audio tracks and then provides the information here for you to listen, download, or find out more about audio that you are interested in.

Video Search Engine

blinkx

blinkx is the world抯 largest and most advanced video search engine. blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, developing an engine based on technology.

VideoSurf

VideoSurf has created a better way for users to search, discover and watch online videos. VideoSurf抯 computer vision video search engine provides more relevant results and a better experience to let users find and discover the videos they really want to watch.

HelloMovies

HelloMovies helps you find a movie to watch. See what’s playing on Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, and more. Narrow your choices. Watch movies.

MetaTube

MetaTube is an easy way to browse 100 of the most popular video sharing sites around the world. The phenomenal benefit of MetaTube: You need to enter your search term just once for all 100 sites!

ClipBlast

ClipBlast! technology helps Viewers search, navigate, watch and personalize their experience with the Video Web, and helps Video Content Providers, Advertisers and Marketers monetize their investments.

Cleepr – Cleepr, the music video search engine.
ChizMax – A music video search engine.
Google Videos – Search and watch millions of videos. Includes forum and personalized recommendations.
IsInvideo – IsInVideo.com is a search engine that provides real-time results as links to videos, developed by Javier Guillen from Malaga.
myMovo – The myMovo server provides it with the addresses of the media matching your search.
Nanocrowd – Nanocrowd has magical search algorithms that interpret comments people like you have written about movies.
Pixsy – The Pixsy Index is a massive library of video and image content that can be integrated into approved premium websites and applications.
Podscope – Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.
SearchForVideo – Searchforvideo.com is a leading video search engine that indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources.
ScoopVid – Track down the most popular videos by the hour, day or even month. You can also search the web for video results.
Truveo – Truveo video search lets you search and find videos from across the Web.
Truveo – Search video across the Web.
VidSea – VidSea, short for Video Search is a vertical search engine specifically for searching Video clips on the Internet.
Vdoogle – This search engine will search for videos from popular video sharing websites like YouTube and Google Videos.

RapidShare Search Engine

Rapidshare-Search-Engine

Rapidshare-search-engine.com – Find any file on rapidshare.

RapidShare1

Rapidshare1.com is a Rapidshare search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for Rapidshare file links.

FilesPump

FilesPump.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites. FilesPump is a "multi-hoster" search engine, and currently lists 16 different popular file hosters. As a file sharing search engine FilesPump.com finds files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by their search spider.

FileCrop

Search RapidShare and Megaupload files easy and fast. Over 3 millions files stored in database.

RSFind

RSFind.com, a powerful free rapidshare search engine, and one of the best search engines for rapid share.

Front Address – Search softwares, ebooks, games, photos, documents, audio and videos etc located on RapidShare.
FilesTube – FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search files
in various file sharing and uploading sites,like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire.
FileOnFire – This site gives users the chance to get a rapid share and mega upload search engine that has more than 19,000,000 files.
MegaDownload – MegaDownload.net – megaupload.com and rapidshare.com search engine.
MegaRapidSearch – MegaRapidSearch helps you to find anything on RapidShare.
Rapidsharesearch – Search Rapidshare with their Fast Online Search Engine. All files are automatically checked to insure what you’re looking for is there
Rapid4Shared – Rapid4shared.com search engine that provides results from a hand-selected list of sites.
RSearch – Rapidshare search engine with simple interface.
RapidShareData – RapidshareData.com is a test files search project objected to rapidshare.com.
RapidShareSearcher – A massive RapidShare search engine! With thousands of links, theres nothing you won’t be able to find!
RapidAll – RapidAll Rapidshare Download Search is a website that search files on the website hosts which have been upload by Rapidshare members for sharing with their friends, family or at forum sites.
RapidSearch.In – Free Search Engine for Rapidshare, Badongo, Sendspace, MediaFire and 4Shared Files.
RapidZearch – RapidZearch.com is a search engine to search on sites, forums, message boards for shared file links.
Rapidshare-Provider – Rapidshare search engine.
RarDir – A powerful RapidShare search engine.
Rapid TvPHP – A Rapidshare library with 1069578 files in their database.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare, Megaupload and many other uploading sites and file hosting services.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare with an easy to use interface.
TotMe – World’s Best Rapidshare Search Engine! 1,256,339 Rapidshare Link Available To Search!

30 Fresh and High Quality Twitter Icon Sets

2009-07-02T12:09:56Z

Placing a Twitter “follow me” button on your website or blog is certainly one of the easiest way to convert visitors into Twitter followers. Designing a beautiful Twitter icon or badge can be challenging for those who know less about design, but the good news is – there are plenty of nice and high quality Twitter icons and badges available for free.

In this week’s post, we attempt to show you another 30 Sets of High Quality Twitter Icons associated with the blue bird.

If you are looking for more Twitter Icons, check out our previous post too.

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons
via wefunction
Title says it all, all in transparent .png format.

The Social Bird icon set
via inspiredm
Released by Inspired Magazine, consisted the work of Frank Chimero, Jeffrey Bowman, Mills, Dyna Moe, Alex Mathers, Divya Manian, Matt Joyce and more!

TwitterFun Icons
via graphicleftovers
Collection contains Twitter notebook, Twitter blimp, Twitter lightbulb and Twitter monitor.

Happy Birds
via webdesign.fm
4 happy go lucky birds. Comes in PSD and PNG formats.

2 Cute Twitter Icons
via jeeremie
The zip contains two transparent PNG icons available in resolutions of 128×128 pixels, 256×256 and 512×512. The sources are in AI files (Adobe Illustrator CS3), PSD files and EPS file.

High Res Dark Denim Social Media Icons
via webtreats
108 high resolution icons, and the Twitter are just small parts of it.

Fat Twitters icon pack
via jankoatwarpspeed
Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch). Both icons come in five sizes: 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32.

Twitter Bird Icon Set
via productivedreams
6 icons, all in high quality transparent PNG format.

Twitter Eggs
via graphicleftovers
Available in PNG format in two sizes: 256 x 256 px and 128 x 128 px.

Cute Tweeters Icon Set
via Smashing Magazine
Eight icons. Available in 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 in formats of eps, psd and ai

Twitter Icon
via Diwa Fernandez
High resolution Twitter icon in PNG format.

Elvis, hero, meditation and sufer
via ebiene.de
4 x 126 Pixel PNG, 4 x 256 Pixel PNG, 1 x Preview, 1 x Adobe Illustrator

Twitter stamp icon
via Marco Kuiper
All icons are available in three different sizes: 32×32, 64×64 and 128×128 px, and Twitter icons are just part of it.

Twitter icon
via antonist

Twitter icon
via aleandros
Not exactly blue, but fairly high resolution and can color can be tweaked easily.

Twitter Icon
via marek.sotak
Twitter lblue bird with big fluffy wings.

Twitter Block Icons
via Fast Icons
Package consist of: Blue Bird, Blue Bird Follow, Blue Whale, Orange Whale.

Twitter Birds
via InaliBlast
Twitter blue bird in high resolution PNG format.

Twitter bird vector icon set
via Mau Russo
Comes in ai svg and png.

Twitter bird logo icon illustration
via Matt Hamm

Twitter / fail bird illustration
via ohmgee
A freelance illustration about twitter going mainstream.

Tweetenstein
via biggreenape

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet
via thedesignsuperhero
desc

Free Twitter Birds
via Luc Latulippe
Twenty-four Twitter icons in six different style, each in 4 different colours.

Moby Twitter Bird
via Mau Russo
Available in .ai and png.

Lovely Twitter Icons
via Catmy

Tweetbird Free Twitter Icon
via sneh.roy
The icon comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixel sizes.

Tweeta Free Twitter Bird Icon Set
via littleboxofideas
Tweeta in her glamor queen avatar or in her cute and sexy twitter cheerleader avatar. Available in 64px, 128px, 256px and 512pix in png format.

Helvetwitca Vector Typographic Twitter
via Monika Halim
Helvetwitca is created using HelveticaNeue LT 45 Light for it’s body, HelveticaNeue for the foot and HelveticaNeue LT 95 Black for the smiling eye and mouth.

Tweeties
via Chris Wallace
Include four different .png image sets (32×32, 48×48, and 80×80) and original ai format.

60 Marvelous Superhero Wallpapers

2009-07-02T12:47:49Z

It’s no surprise we’re all pretty much into the fantasy world of superheroes. As kids growing up, most of us had the chance to read and collect superheroes comics and perhaps had one or two superheroes who we aspire to be. The movie industry is also coming up with new superheroes film every couple of months. Spiderman is going into its fourth film in 2011 and Dark Knight (Batman) was one the most successful superhero film of all time that actually managed to secure two Oscar awards.

So to celebrate our love for superheroes, we present you 60 Marvelous Superhero Wallpapers to beautify our otherwise dull-looking desktop. Full list after jump.

Wolverine

Wolverine: Origins #33
by Marvel (Registration required)

Wolverine
by InSoMnIaK604

Wolverine – Burnt Man
by Totalwallpapers

New Avengers #3
by Into2000

Wolverine
by Artwallpapers

Spiderman

The Web of Spiderman
by Into2000

Sensational Spiderman
by Gelosea

Spider Sling Dark Desktop
by ErikVonLehmann

Spiderman 3
by Wallpapers22

Spiderman 3
by Sony Pictures

Sensational Spider-man #38
by Marvel (Registration required)

Spiderman
by Wide-wallpaper

Punisher

Punisher #45
by Le-BD-Vore

Punisher
by Wallbizz

Punisher #22
by Into2000</p>

Captain America

Marvel Ultimate Alliance: Captain America
by Bestgamewallpapers

Captain America – R.I.P.
by Heroicwallpapers

Captain America
by darran-hight

Captain America Shoot!
by Comicwallpapers

Captain America #35
by Marvel (Registration required)

Captain America #4
by jhersey33

Iron Man

Iron Man #27
by Marvel (Registration required)

Iron Man
by BordomBeThyName

Iron Man Movie
by aka-sparviero

Batman

Batman Vengeance
by Gogoall

Batman
by Comicwallpapers

Batman

Batman
by Into2000

More Superheroes

Silver Surfer
by Info-life

Magneto
by Artifact911

Psylocke
by Cryolysis

Venom

Venom
by Anastasia-berry

Venom
by SteaM10

Venom
by Rhadamanthys87

Gambit
by Myfreewallpapers

Phoenix
by Wallbizz

Hulk

Superhero Storms

The Ultimates
by Gelosea

Civil War: Captain America, Spiderman and Iron Man
by Marvel (Registration required)

Spawn Light
by Comicwallpapers

Watchmen
by Lord-Corr

X-men vs Sentinels
by edbenes

60+ Creative and Clever Advertisements

2009-07-02T12:31:54Z

We are sucker for creative advertisements, particularly those that convey messages with sense of humor, or deliver ideas in ways we have never expected. Here’s something light to digest for the weekend surfers – 60+ creative and smart advertisements we’ve collected around the web. Some of these advertisements come in series, click on the #number to view more.

You might also be interested in these following articles:

Wonderbra – You have 918915 friend requests

Terra News – Be the second one to know
More: #1

Motorola – Ming8, Now with GPS, thankfully
More: #1

CareerBuilder.com – Don’t Jump

Chevrolet – A designated driver is Death’s worst nightmare
More: #1, #2

013 Netvision – Extremly fast internet

Axe Shower Gel – If you use a woman’s soap, you’ll smell like one
More: #1, #2

Berlitz Language School – Now you understand English
More: #1, #2

Apple iPod – Play your music

Brighton Language School – Fix your broken English
More: #1

Nikon S60 Camera – Detects up to 12 faces
More: #1

Mambocino Coffee Co – Cialdi, Extra Strong

Bootcamps Australia – Make fitness part of your life

Samsung MP3 Player
More: #1

Allianz Insurance – It is hard to protect yourself from hail. But easy to ensure
More: #1, #2

Nissan

WWF – When you leave the light on, you’re not the only one who pays
More: #1, #2, #3

WWF – How tough is one hour without light?
More: #1, #2

Volkswagen Crafter
More: #1

Sony Alpha900 DSLR – Capture the truth with a 24.6 megapixel Alpha90
More: #1, #2

Sanyo Xacti CA8 Digital Underwater Camera – See what’s under the sea
More: #1, #2

Polish Chamber of Tourism – We’ve already been in your place. It’s time for you to visit us. Make history – Visit Poland
More: #1

NIKE ACG – Heavy as a feather
More: #1, #2

Levi’s Low Rise
More: #1

Lenovo – The Lenovo IdeaPad comes with Face Recognition Security

Coop’s Paint – Life in full color

Oxygo Gym – Long time no see

Dash Courier – The Carolinas’ most reliable same day delivery service
More: #1, #2

DIRECTV Plus – Watch it when you want to
More: #1

Heineken – History is made in Rome

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design

2009-07-02T12:33:31Z

Most web designs starts off with a pen and paper before its taken over by Photoshop. However, we’ve noticed a new trend (probably not too new) where designers are bringing back sketches as a form of design. Without a doubt, hand-drawn art is one of the popular styles adopted into web designs. Nothing is better than using these sketchy designs to convey and reflect individual styles.

In this post, we’d like to show you 50 great examples of how hand drawing and web design can fit beautifully together. Full list after jump.

K4 Laboratory

Esteban Muñoz

Studio IMG

Espuma Restaurant

Agami Creative

Biola Undergrad

Kusoyama

XM Radio – Wild Ride

WeFail

Web Designer Wall

Dean Oakley Web Design

Fat Heads Creative Studio

Booma Web Design

Boompa

Casio Exilim Lab

Bootb

Richard Stelmach

Dax and Alice

We Are Not Freelancers

Von Dutch Originals

Toucouleur

Simon Reynolds

Teresa Walsh

Satsu Design

St. Francis is Happy in Greenville

Squidfingers

Flossy Yannik

Pointless Ramblings

Philippe Mignotte

QuakeQuizSF

Mplusz

New Art for a New Era

Christian Sparrow

Matt – Multi Account Twitter Tweeter

Mariska

Lucuma

Mikimottes

Mobious

Kutztown University

Kitty Attack

Look Designs

Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

Lionite Internet Ventures

Get ready to rox

Elan Snowboards

ARS Media

It Looks Good

Jesus Rodriguez Velasco

Kinetic Singapore

Bearskinrug

Tilt-Shift Photography – 80+ Beautiful Examples, Tutorials and More | Ultimate Guide

2009-07-02T12:35:04Z

via wikipedia

Tilt-shift photography is a method of photography that utilizes tilt-shift lenses to overcome the restrictions of depth of field and perspective that normal lenses provide. A tilt-shift lens allows for the rotation of lens against the image plane (tilt), as well as the movement of lens along the image plane (shift). By applying Scheimpflug principle, tilt-shift photography is able to obtain a very shallow depth of field using tilt and a large aperture.

Tilt-shift miniature faking is one of the most popular applications of tilt-shift photography. This is a process in which a photographer manipulates the angle of a tilt-shift lens to distort the focus of a scene to be captured by the camera, thereby creating an illusionary depth of field usually produced by macro lenses. This makes the particular scene appear smaller than it truly is.

Due to the popularity of tilt-shift miniature faking, it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with the tilt-shift photography method itself. In reality, there are other effects that can be achieved from this method. For instance, tilt-shifting is widely used to capture architectural scenes because of its unique ability to remove perspective in photos and manipulate the plane of focus.

We present here 60 cool examples of tilt-shift photography for your reference.

Tilt-Shift Photography

Nakayan’s tilt-shift Tokyo 箱庭日比谷線
by pinboke_planet

Eiffel Tilt-Shift II
by ArnarBi

Tikal Miniature
by roevin

Vatican Stairs
by Toshio

Oregon State Beavers Tilt-Shift Miniature
by wikipedia.com</p>

Mini-cars on a mini-street
by nahadef

Miniature living room
by countlazarus

Cleveland Clinic Miniature
by House Photography

Tilt-shift house
by pernillep

School Walk
by hello hayley

Dirt bikes race start
by wakeboy

New York City Miniature
by Daniele Pesaresi

Real world in miniature: Construction site
by Super tourist

Street in Downtown LA
by CFrancisco

Small Worlds at the Technisches Museum Vienna
by bre pettis

Tilt Loader
by entropy462

Real Macro
by deMiguel

Landschaft30
by Matthias Focks

Mini Traffic
by Studio Skitz (Steven Hsieh)

Toy train
by rolohauck

Two-Bump
by cityshrinker

Kid’s store
by Stevo Arnold

Clock tower
by Rolo Hauck

Houses on a slope
by mcsixth

Bigrig
by Hamish D. Grant

Canal Grande
by jjjohn

River boat on the Mississippi
by djnekokittie

Tilt Shift – Puente del Inca, Mendoza, Argentina
by Al Zuwaga

Vegas mini six
by californiabirdy

Tilt-shift ─ Jhongjhu Port
by Yueh-Hua 2009

old_city-hall_sheraton
by wvs

Peering into the Miniascape
by rawheadrex

The Corniche in Muscat Oman
by Eric Lafforgue

Southern Cross Station
by JamesDPhotography

Small houses
by Hờ Nim</p>

Small People
by ChristofferEngström

serralves 08
by ronyjux

Harvard Book Store – Tilt Shift
by Carmel Kozlov

Man in the woods
by Cheapshooter.com

More Tilt-Shift Photos

Can’t get enough of these amazing tilt-shift photographs? Here are more:

Tilt-shift lenses (D.I.Y)

Not surprisingly, tilt-shift lenses can be quite expensive, costing $1000 and above. Here are some alternative methods you can go for:

Tilt-Shift With Adobe Photoshop

If tilt-shift lens is not within your budget at this time, how about some Photoshopping to get your photo to look really tilt-shifted.

More Photography related

Here are more photography related articles you might be interested:

Giveaway: (40x) Vector, Brush & Font Packs! Comment/Tweet to Win.

2009-06-03T02:58:04Z

This week, we are giving away freebies that we thought should be pretty useful for graphic and web designers. You’ve probably have a rough idea from the title already, here’s a detail break down of what we are giving out at hongkiat.com, courtesy of Designious (also a sponsor of previous contest).

Included in this giveaway are:

15x Vector Packs,
15x Brush Packs, and
10x Font Packs.

Let’s skip directly to the chorus part.

Distribution

Here’s how the freebies will be distributed, with 12 winners in total.

Vector Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
Brush Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
Font Packs – 2 Winners with 5 packs/winner

How to Win

Winners get to choose packs of their choice. Two ways to participate in the giveaway:

Comment In, or

Tell us in comment, which do you like. Vector, brush or Font packs.
Re-Tweet

Decide which (among Vector, Brush and Font packs) you’d like to win, and Re-Tweet the following in Twitter:
- Vector Packs – Re-Tweet this,
- Brush Packs – Re-Tweet this, or
- Font Packs – Re-Tweet this.

Contest will close one week from now, 2nd June 2009. Winners will be announced on this page. Good luck :-)

Update

Closed: Contest will close now, we’ll be picking and notifying winners soon.

20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

2009-05-26T06:28:12Z

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.
How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
How to Schedule Facebook Messages

Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends

Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"
How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.
How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.
How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.
How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.
How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.
How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.

30+ Free Flash Photo Galleries and Tutorials

2009-07-02T12:44:45Z

(by Carlos)

In this web roundup, we have handpicked some of the best free Flash photo galleries on the Internet. From web based scripts, to Flash components ready to be integrated on your website. And on top of that, we’ve also included some cool tutorials that will help you to learn how to create your own 2D and 3D Flash Galleries and how to turn it in a Flash Component.

Full list after jump.

FlashFlickr PhotoGallery

A gallery from Sephiroth.it, based on Flex and Actionscript 3.0 that uses the famous Flickr API.

Flashmo 3d Grid

Flashmo is a well known free flash templates site, where you can find several cool interfaces like this 3D Grid gallery.

PhotoDiary 1.0

PhotoDiary is a Flash based gallery, cool for people that don’t have flash skills or would like to have an application where easily could manage the photos on a normal php back end.

Tony Photo Album

FlashMo Stack Photo Gallery

Another cool gallery from FlashMo.

3D Album

This 3D album component is based on the bellow "Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite" tutorial .

Slideroll Gallery AV

Another very easy to manage flash gallery, that allows you to insert caption on each image.

WS-Slideshow

Imagin Flash Photo Gallery

FlashMo Circle Gallery

Art Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery

Flash Mo Grid Gallery

AutoViewer

Cool gallery, with a very easy navigation and clean layout.

Flash Gallery

PostcardViewer

This gallery it causes a somewhat interactivity wit a cool zoom effect.

FlashMo Photo Gallery

InventMedia FlashGallery

dfGallery 2.0

A Dezinerfolio application, with lots of features ready to use. They have even included a cool video explaining how to install and customize this cool gallery.

Polaroid Gallery

This is an impressive image gallery that can load data either from a xml file or flickr rss. You can use it on a portfolio or something like that. This is an open-source application, so if you have some actionscript skills, you can add additional features to it.

Flash Image Gallery

Free Flash Gallery

Andrew Bergs Flash Photo Browser

A very cool interactive stack gallery.

flShow Carousel

A nice caroussel kind gallery.

Simple Viewer

Another cool gallery, ready to use.

Veppa Photo Album

XML Photo Album

Tutorials

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

This tutorial explain how to create an awesome Flash 3D Album using the FIVe3D framework and TweenLite.

Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control

Another cool tutorial showing how to create a flash gallery controlled by a slider and using xml data.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D

A 3 part tutorial, creating from scratch a 3D application similar to the famous PicLens.

Flash Slideshow Image Gallery

Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

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60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots

2009-07-02T12:36:37Z

When the sun goes down and sky gradually turns dark doesn’t mean you’ll have to keep your camera in the bag. In fact, it is during the night where some of the most beautiful photos are snapped. No doubt shooting under low light is challenging, but by getting familiar with the shutter speed, exposures, lightning and taking advantages of surrounding objects often help compensate the light and create amazing output.

Here’s a collection of 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots, taken by avid and professional photographers who jumped into action when the sun sets.

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Cities

Poisonous Darts
by 13thWitness

94th Floor, Chicago, IL
by shutterBRI

Kuala Lumpur City Centre
by Christopher Chan

Hong-Kong night citiscape lights from Victoria Peak
by QT Luong

New York City, USA
by QT Luong

Toronto Skyline
by CarbonSilver

Eiffel Tower
by kayess2008

City of Lights
by paul (dex)

City Night View
by inoc

Metropolis
by VJ Spectra

Rush Hour
by Stuck in Customs

Escarpment
by VJ Spectra

Kowloon
by VJ Spectra

Merlion Night Scene
by fravenang

Rays From Above
by VJ Spectra

Wow Macau
by VJ Spectra

Reflections

A Night at The Bay Bridge
by MattGranz

Red Bull Illume
by CarbonSilver (gbenz)

Night Photography
by bob west

Night Waterfront Cityscape
by 32tsunami

Westmister Palace, London at night
by QT Luong

Sea Of Tranquility
by VJ Spectra

Night Sky
by VJ Spectra

City of Niagara Falls
by Jon Ramsey

Positron
by Kamuro

Night Life
by marcelgermain

Singapore
by Christopher Chan

Sydney Opera House
by shrillian

The Louvre at Night
by dealived

OAKA Main Entrance View
by NikGr

Ghent by night
by nonkelduvel

Florence Night scene
by choongcheehuei

Manarola
by VJ Spectra

Blue Hour
by веканд

Symphony
by VJ Spectra

Shoot that Bridge
by tomalu

Misc

Another late night Drive
by John A Ryan

The Glass House
by darklogan1

Candelária Nights
by Leonardo Paris

Pigeon Point Lighthouse
by Susanne Friedrich

Aurorus Reflectus Colosseo
by Stuck in Customs

Railway
by mara-mara

Night Walk
by Gerrit Wenz

Milan Train Station at Midnight
by Stuck in Customs

Capitol View
by Todd Klassy

Invisible Sun
by jrtce1

ExPort
by VJ Spectra

Night at Loch Lomond
by guillaume-dauphin

Fireworks

If you are fan of firework photography, check out this entry we’ve previously written: 100 Most Breathtaking Fireworks in The World

Liftoff
by VJ Spectra

Engage
by VJ Spectra

Australia Day
by VJ Spectra

Light Trails and Star Trails

Berlin at Night
by d5e

Quantum Photonic
by VJ Spectra

Poteet Strawberry Festival 2007
by bceichman02

Interstellar Overdrive
by VJ Spectra

Intersection
by VJ Spectra

Curves
by VJ Spectra

Human Pendulum
by Kirpernicus

Star Trails
by bob west

100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars

2009-07-02T12:38:08Z

At the size of 48×48, Twitter avatars definitely have more rooms for creativity compared to a 16×16 website favicon. Having a nicely designed Twitter avatar is fairly important, especially when it comes to profile branding and attracting new followers.

If a nice Twitter avatar is what you are looking for, we’d like to take a bit of your time to show you some of the really nice Twitter avatars we’ve come across before you start creating one. Here are 100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars from the twittersphere, ranging for cartoon and faces, icons, symbols and typography.

Cartoon and faces

Icons

Symbols and Typography

45 Free Useful Thumb Drive Applications

2009-07-02T12:23:55Z

Thumb drives were once used to store files and make data portable, but due to the rapid increase in storage capacity over the pass few years these gadgets now have a bigger role. Some even run the entire operating system on a thumb drive.

The more we rely on thumb drives, the more demands we have in terms of tools and applications to facilitate the transfer and security of files. If your thumb drive plays an important role in your daily job, here are some you might be interested.

Synchronization And Backup

Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager – Backup and Restore USB Thumb Drive Data

Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager allows you to backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. Use USB Flash Drives to store personal data, to keep your network configuration and to share information with your friends. Microsoft USB Flash Drive .

xPortClone – Backup Removable Devices

xPortClone is a simple but effective tool that allows you to backup files from a removable device to your hard drive. It can be used with iPods, USB drives or even CDs or DVDs.

Toucan – Sync, Backup & Secure

Toucan is a small utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want.

SyncToy – Synchronizing Files and Folders

SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity.

Recovery Tools

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier – Recovers Files from Disks

Unstoppable Copier is useful to copy files from any damaged media sources, like portable thumb drive as it recovers files from disks with physical damage. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together.

Undelete Plus – Data Recovery

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files. It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin, permanently deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete, and files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt.

Recuva – File Recovery

Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or thumb drive. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

SoftPerfect File Recovery – Recover Accidentally Deleted Files

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a tool to recover accidentally deleted files from hard disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media.

Portable Platforms

PortableApps.com Suite and Platform

The PortableApps.com Suite and Platform lets you carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind. As soon as you connect your thumb drive into a computer, Portable Apps will open up automatically.

U3 Smart Drive – Store Data & Carry Software Applications

U3 smart drive allows you to carry your software on the same flash drive that carries your files. You can plug it into any PC and work, play a game, message friends, send email, edit photos and more. When you unplug it, it leaves no personal data behind.

PStart

PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks.

CodySafe – A Simple Data Carrier

CodySafe is a software tool that turns any portable drive from a simple data carrier to a computer-on-stick. Carry your computer programs with you, manage them, launch them on any PC, and leave no footprint behind. The management of your portable documents, multimedia files and pictures has never being that easy.

Mojopac – Turn USB Thumb Drive into A Portable Computing Environment

MojoPac, a friendly technology that allows you to take you entire PC on any storage device. MojoPac turns any USB 2.0 storage device, such as iPods, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, USB-enabled cell phones, and USB-enabled digital cameras, into a portable computing environment.

XAMPP – Portable Web Server

XAMPP is a Web Server package that contains Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP enables it’s user to host a Website, Blog, CMS or try out PHP code and test MySQL database structures all from a testing or production environment.

Security Tools

Dr.Web CureIt

Dr.Web CureIt is a standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware scanner that scans your PC for viruses, trojans, adware, spyware, hack tools, rootkits, and other malware. The program does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive.

Portable Antivirus

Portable Antivirus is a FREE portable antivirus application that is capable to remove certain variants of virus, Trojans, ad-ware and spy ware from your computer.

ClamWin Portable – Antivirus

ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go.

PC Repair System – Assemble a PC repair kit

PC Repair System provides a variety of free and/or open-source tools for file recovery, anti-virus, anti-spyware, system info and system maint. There are 37 applications in total.

Eraser Portable – Scurely Erase Data

Eraser Portable is a secure data removal tool that runs directly from your iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media.

TrueCrypt – USB Encrytion Tool

TrueCrypt encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.

FreeOTFE – USB Thumb Drive Encryption Tool

FreeOTFE is a free, open source, “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption program for USB thumb drive and PC. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted.

KeePass – Secure USB Thumb Drive Data

KeePass Portable is the popular KeePass Password Safe packaged as a portable app, so you can securely carry your email, internet and other passwords with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Crypto Anywhere – Encryptor

Crypto Anywhere is small enough to fit on a single floppy or USB key chain drive and is very easy to use. If you run Crypto Anywhere from a floppy disk or USB drive, you can encrypt your email without even installing software on your workstation.

File & Folder Unlocker – Lock Your Thumbdrive

File & Folder Unlocker is a powerful yet easy-to-use system utility that gives you complete control over the locked files and folders on your computer.

Blue Micro USB Flash Drive – PC Logon Admin

Blue Micro USB Flash Drive turns your existing pendrive or flash drive into a key to logon to your pc. This makes it easier for users to manage their computer account passwords. This software creates a encrypted code on your pendrive, only understood by this software. This software can be installed on windows xp or 2000 only.

Operating Systems

Damn Small Linux

DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside an USB thumb drive. DSL has a nearly complete desktop, and a tiny core of command line tools. All applications are chosen with the best balance of functionality, size and speed.

Puppy Linux

With Puupy Linux you’re able to install and run the OS off of a USB flash drive. Applications such as SeaMonkey, AbiWord, Gnumeric, and Gxine/xine are included.

Slax – Your Pocket Operating System

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

Crunchbang Linux

CrunchBang Linux is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution has been built and customised from a minimal Ubuntu install.

Mac-on-Stick

Mac-on-Stick is a project that explains how to load Mac OS Classic 7.0.1 onto a portable device using the minivmac emulator. It takes a few steps and is more appropriate for the technically-minded, but is quite an interesting experiment.

Office Tools

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Portable is a complete office suite — including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database.

Tiny USB Office

Tiny USB Office lets you to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files.

Darik’s Boot And Nuke

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (”DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Mazzick – Mouse Gestures on Your Thumb Drive

Mazzick is a simple mouse gesture utility that you can carry on your USB thumb drive. Using Mazzick is simple: just invoke it using one of the default shortcuts (like holding Shift, for example), then draw the gesture you want.

VLC Media Player Portable

VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go.

TiddlyWiki – Non-linear Personal Web Notebook

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s very portable – you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

More Tools

USB AutoRunner

With USB AutoRunner you can have applications or documents autorun when you insert your USB device. When you insert your USB device into a computer, your chosen application or file will automatically open.

DCoT Menu System – Create USB Shortcuts Folder

A system to create a shortcuts folder at the root of my USB drive.

Flash Drive Reminder – Never Forget Your Thumb Drive

Flash Drive Reminder is an utility that pops up a reminder if you try and log off Windows without removing your flash drive. This program adds an entry to the AutoPlay dialog that pops up when you insert a flash drive into a computer.

USBDeview – Lists All USB Devices

USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that are currently connected to your PC or have been connected to it in the past. Along with the device name and description, it displays the the serial number (if available), date the device was added and last connected, VendorID and other information.

Help! I’m Lost! Autorun Script

A program called “Help! I’m Lost!” on the drive, that a finder just can’t get around opening. The program opens a message box with your personal “I’m lost” message.

EjectUSB

EjectUSB is designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified.

USB Disk Ejector

USB Disk Ejector allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program.

Disable USB Drive

Disable USB Drive keeps people from walking up to a PC and copying data off with a USB key, but allows you to keep your scanner, keyboard, and mouse working.

BootIt – Flip Removable Bit

BootIt flip the flashdrive removable media bit so flashdrive can be detected by Windows as a fixed disk.

Evolution of Photoshop: 1988 – 2009

2009-07-02T12:22:32Z

Adobe Photoshop has always been one of the greatest (if not the best) software when it comes to manipulating and editing image. It all started off in 1987 with a Mac application call Display, created by Thomas Knoll. With almost two decades worth of changes and improvements, you almost can’t imagine how the first version of Photoshop would look like by looking at the Photoshop you have on your desktop.

In this post, we attempt to bring you back in time to look at how the very first Photoshop look like, then we scan through each evolution of Photoshop to the latest Adobe Photoshop CS4 in market today.

Application Icon

	Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988)
	Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989)
	Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)
	Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993)
	Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)
	Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)
	Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996)
	Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)
	Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)
	Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)
	Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)
	Creative Suite 1 (2003)
	Creative Suite 2 (2005)
	Creative Suite 3 (2007)
	Creative Suite 4 (2009)

Welcome Splash / About Screen

Adobe Photoshop .07 (1988)

Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988)

Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989)

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)

Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993)

Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)

Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)

Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996)

Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)

Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)

Creative Suite 1 (2003)

Creative Suite 2 (2005)

Creative Suite 3 (2007)

Creative Suite 4 (2009)

Toolbars

Adobe Photoshop .63 (1988)	Adobe Photoshop .87 (1989)	Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)	Adobe Photoshop 2.0 (1993)	Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)
Adobe Photoshop 3.0(1995)	Adobe Photoshop 4.0(1998)	Adobe Photoshop 5.0(1998)	Adobe Photoshop 5.5(1998)	Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0(2002)	Creative Suite 1(2003)	Creative Suite 2(2005)	Creative Suite 3(2007)	Creative Suite 4 (2009)

Workspace

Adobe Photoshop 0.63 (1988)

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (1990)

Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (1993)

Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1995)

Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (1996)

Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (1998)

Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998)

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (2000)

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (2002)

Creative Suite 1 (2003)

Creative Suite 2 (2005)

Creative Suite 3 (2007)

Creative Suite 4 (2009)

Content gathered via about Photoshop (Wikipedia), Photoshop release history (Wikipedia), Photoshop News,
Guidebook Gallery, and a lot of researching and Googling.

60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements

2009-07-02T12:05:41Z

Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing.

Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works. In this post, we want to show you a list of 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements.

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Color Balance, Hue/Saturation

Photoshop Action 2
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Cross-Processing ATN
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50 Photoshop Postwork Actions
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Portrait Actions I
by ver00nika

Portrait Actions II
by ver00nika

Action Pack I
by EmberGFX

Actions Clyck
by muffim-clyck

Caitlins actions
by mumbojumbo89

Color actions
by freaky665

Color Enhancing Actions
by Princess-of-Shadows

Colors Actions
by anaRasha-stock

Cool photo effect action
by Numizmat

Dazzle Effects
by dazzle-textures

Enhancing skin color
by mermes

Eye Color
by Jean31

GuteCharlotte Color o2
by guteCharlotte

Kalifbanane – Cross Coloring
by KalifBanane

Lovely Action
by orangetopatos

NoiseLess RetroFit Actions
by Noise-Less

Pack Actions 01
by darviana

Photo Coloring 11
by iconmaker91

Photo Coloring 11.2
by iconmaker91

Photoshop Action Set o1
by lustdrunk

Photoshop Action Set o3
by lustdrunk

Photoshop Action: Diabolic
by davidnanchin

Photoshop Action: Dim and Jade
by davidnanchin

Photoshop Actions Packs
by night-fate

Professional Photoshop Actions
by maanistudios

Rather Large Set of Actions
by rocketlaunch

Sa-cool Actions
by sa-cool

Skin Smoothing
by Jean31

Soft Touch Action
by chulii-stock

Wedding Enhancers Kit
by Karl

Split toning
by paranoidstock

Photoshop Actions – 76
by night-fate

Retro-Vintage
by rocketlaunch

PS Actions Dark Sepia
by euphoricdesire-stock

Black & White

5 Black and White PS actions
by cat-woman-amy

Black and White PS Actions
by maanistudios

Black white sepia PS action
by rosalindharrison

Aging Photos, Borders

Handcolored vintage photo
by Jenny W

Action includes: Ageing; Colour; Cracks; Bending and as a bonus Old Paper Style.

TackIt! Mini
by finessefx

This handy little effect has plenty of customization options, including the width of the picture border, the amount of shadow for both the photo and tack, and the color of the tack.

HolgaRoid Generator BW
by rawimage

Old Parchment
by finessefx

Photoshop action that gives paper with tears, yellowed edges and other artifacts.

Page Curl
by pstutorialsblog

Vintage Photo
by mutato-nomine

Photo Aging
by mutato-nomine

Photographers Toolkit 1
by WallStorm

Polaroid Generator
by rawimage

Panofx’s Photoshop Actions

Here is a list of useful Photoshop actions that will come in handy while manipulating photos, all by Panofx.

B & Big picture

Other Effects

Cinematic Effect
by orangeycow

Comics Photoshop action
by mutato-nomine

Double sketch effect action for Photoshop
by Emanuele Feronato

More Photoshop Actions

Image Enhancement Downloads – Atncentral’s great list of Photoshop actions for Image enhancements.
Deviant Art’s – DA’s collection of Photoshop Actions.

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