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30+ Must have Portable Softwares for your USB drive

Michael — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:29:44 +0000

Portable software runs on your USB key drive or your iPod, or a memory stick, or any type of external drive you plug into a USB port. You don’t have to install anything on the computer’s hard drive. It’s like carrying your office around with you. Or… carrying your home to the office. Portable Window apps are becoming more and more popular as USB flash drives get cheaper and cheaper. If you ever do any work at more than one computer, then the other computer may not have the software you require. At that time , these Portable applications will definitely help you.

I have grouped these portable applications under categories based on their uses. This collection includes more than 30 portable windows applications available for free download.

Multimedia

These are the portable Multimedia players available for free download.

Media Player Classic

Excellent general purpose video and audio player. Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. It handles all the major codecs and plays DVD’s, CD’s VCD’s and all major video and audio formats. It’s small and superfast with a clean interface.

Free Portable Audio CD Ripper

You’re at your buddy Skeeter’s house, and you see he has the latest Gregorian Chants CD. What to do? Rip it to your memory stick with CDex, the best CD audio extractor around.

CDBurner XP

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Screamer

There is little reason to listen to commercial FM radio anymore, it is an old medium that provides little choice of music and is saturated with ads. For the last couple of years there has been an alternative, streaming internet radio. An alternative that has been somewhat complicated to use.

Faststone Capture

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.

VDownloader

VDownloader is the most feature-complete and easy-to-use video downloader on the web! We’re constantly working to improve the user experience by optimizing the performace as well as adding new features.

Irfanview

IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It supports virtually every image format you can think of, a fast and stable thumbnail viewer with many additional features.(multi-language support, slideshow, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, EXE/SCR creating) just to name a few.

VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, …) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

Document Handlers

Notepad++

Notepad++ Portable Edition is the Notepad++ source code editor and notepad replacement packaged with an OTBSoft Launcher as a portable app, so you can take it with you on a USB drive, iPod, etc and use it on any computer.

Portable OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org Portable is a complete office suite — including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database — packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

Abiword

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

EssentialPIM

PIM stands for Personal Information Manager, and it allows you to keep all your information in electronic form. All your appointments, tasks, to do lists, notes, contacts and email messages are stored in a graphical and easily accessible form. Fully Netbook compatible

Foxit PDF Reader

As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world. After keeping users waiting for almost two months, Foxit Reader 3.1 has been released and introduces many fascinating new features including internet search and favorite toolbar settings.

File Management

Total Commander

Total Commander 7.50a is now available for download. This version corrects errors which were found only after the release of Total Commander 7.50 final, mainly in the print function in Lister (for Unicode files), when unpacking certain encrypted zip files, and slow moving of directories within the same drive. We recommend that you install the update as soon as possible.

Portable Launcher

PStart

PStart is 100% freeware, which means you can use it without having to pay, without any advertisements, and without other disadvantages (no spyware, no hidden costs).

Maintenance and Support

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware PC optimization tool.It combines a system cleaner that removes unused and temporary files from your system and also a fully featured registry cleaner!
CCleaner allows Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space.

Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from “Windows Add or Remove Programs” control panel applet.

Nirsoft Apps

NirSoft is a Web site of one man. In NirSoft, there is no CTO or CEO, there is no secretary, there is no development team, and there are no rented offices. The entire Web site and all the utilities that you can find here were developed by me, and only by me. NirSoft is not a full-time job, but I use all my free time to maintain and develop this Web site.

Treesize Free

TreeSize Free tells you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize Free is working.

Teamviewer

TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 60 million users trust TeamViewer!

Peer-to-Peer

?Torrent

Yet another recurring frustration is not being able to find a torrent client on a PC when I need it. I run ?Torrent on all my PCs anyways, so it’s got a home on my flash drive as well.

Frostwire

FrostWire Portable is the Frostwire peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing application packaged as a Portable App, so you can take your filesharing with you. Frostwire is written in Java and includes gnutella, bittorrent, and similar capabilities. And, as with all PortableApps.com apps, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on.

Web and Internet

Operator

OperaTor is a portable software bundle which allows you to browse the web anonymously. It combines the power of the Opera Browser, Tor and Polipo.With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged your portable memory into.

Portable Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Pidgin

Pidgin Portable is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there’s nothing to install on the local PC. You can also easily add portable encryption plugins for secure, encrypted messaging.

FileZilla Portable

FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or on a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Portable Chat Software

Miranda IM Portable Chat Messenger

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

Portable RSS Reader

GreatNews

GreatNews is optimized for full page reading, so you can scan through rss articles quickly. Combined with functions like “Open Next Unread Channel”, you don’t need to waste any time to find where all the unread articles are.

Encryption

Truecrypt Portable

A multi-gig, easy-to-lose, unencrypted drive with your data on it is a terrible security risk. Truecrypt helps me keep all my private stuff locked down.

Free Portable Antivirus Software

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic

Yes, it’s quite possible that a machine you attach your key drive to could infect your personal files. Do not trust a strange computer. Run an antivirus program. These days, it is not an option. It’s a necessity.

CyberShredder

CyberShredder is a quick, safe and handy utility that lets you erase confidential files from your computer permanently. Normal file deletion will remove a file’s directory entry and allocation table information. The actual disk clusters that contained the file’s data remains intact on your hard disk and can be recovered later. CyberShredder overwrites the space occupied from a file with random data and erases the file, so an unerase utility will never be able to recover it.

I hope that you liked my collection of portable USB applications. If you know any good portable window applications , then do let me know via comments. I am happy to see your response and feedback.

35+ Creative Ads That Makes You Look Twice

Michael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:41:26 +0000

You might have seen plenty of advertisements on the road sides or when you have flipped over magazines. I hope that you might have just skipped most of them, but there are some cool creative advertisements which would make you look twice. To create Creative advertisements , the designer must be innovative enough to take away the attention of the audience. In this post , I have collected some of the best creative adverts which could make you think. These adverts are from various categories like technology , public services , travel , etc.

Get Them Off Your Dog (Frontline, Flea Spray)

Panasonic: Wide Angle

Your Contribution Can End Child Labour

Act Now to save the Planet

See Both sides of the story

Canon DiGi

RCA Music

Welt Kompakt

Orion Telescopes

Stranger Radio Station

Comcast : High-Speed Internet

Cemex – Fast Drying Concrete

Movistar Print Ad

AIDS Awareness – Ad campaign

Dealer Track – Tools for a competitive advantage

Find More Easily (Google)

Samsung Plasma TV Ads

Green Peace

Snickers

Nivea

Sony Widescreen TV Ads

Detal Creative Ad

WMF knives: Cutting board

Firefox

Sony Xacti Water proof camera

Panasonic: Intelligent Face Detector

Beware of the H1N1 flu

FujiFilm Nobody can resist in front of a Finepix

Symantec Antivirus

Samsung washing Machine

Canon Cyber Shot

Routine sucks (Terra Travel)

You can lose more than your patience

Driving Safe

Super Absorbent Kitchen Towels

Don’t Let Wood Get Old

Lays advertising 2009

If you know some good ones then do let me know via comments.

35+ Most Popular Hand Drawn Fonts for design aficionados

Michael — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:08 +0000

As we all know in internet , we will get reputation only for our genuine work. And as designers , we must try to add uniqueness in our work. In the field of typography , we have been using the same ordinary fonts for years and Now it’s time to change. Let’s welcome the latest trend in the web design field especially in terms of typography , the new Hand drawn fonts. As the name implies Hand drawn fonts are created using hand sketching techniques. To create hand drawn fonts the designer must have high creativity to make fonts that can make the designs stand out from others.

35+ Most Downloaded Free Hand Drawn Fonts

Though hand drawn fonts are getting popular these days, it’s a bit difficult to get them since only a few sites have them. So in this post I have collected 37 popular hand drawn fonts which are free to download.

You can download all the 37 HandWritten Fonts here.

Sketchy : hand Drawn Font

BillieBarred : Hand written font

Action Jackson – Hand Drawn Font

HandVetica – Free Hand Sketch Font

Urban Sketch – Free Hand Sketch Font

peach sundress – Free Cursive Font

Take Out The Garbage

SandroAl, Regular : hand Drawn Font

SketchBlock – Free Hand Drawn Font

Pointy – Free Hand Drawn Font

Village Idiot BB, Regular : hand Drawn Font

Grutch Shaded – Free Hand Drawn Font

FFF TUSJ- Free Hand Drawn Font

WC RoughTrad Bta : Hand Sketch font

Mia’s Scribblings- Free Hand Drawn Font

Fh Ink- Free Hand Drawn Font

McCoy – Hello Lori

Rock Show Whiplash : Hand Sketch font

Tiza : Sketchy font

Roughage : Hand Drawn font

Thurston Erc : Hand Drawn font

Peixe Frito: Hand Drawn font

karabine : Hand Drawn font

Waste Of Time – brankovic : Hand Drawn font

Arcanum : Hand Drawn font

Brody : Handwritten font

Calligula : Handwritten font

Cratch : curvie Handwritten font

vtks sábado de chuva, Regular

vtks Animal 2

Film Cryptic : hand Drawn Font

FATSTACK : hand Sketch Font

ESQUISTO : hand Drawn Font

Truffle Shuffle : hand Drawn Font

Hannah Added Some Flare : hand Drawn Font

Snickles : hand Drawn Font

Sketch Rockwell – Hand Drawn Font

I hope that you guys like my collection. All these fonts i have selected are the most downloaded hand drawn fonts. But you may have different ideas when compared to me. So here I am also giving you the resources for handwritten fonts. These sites have more than 1000 fonts , where you can select the fonts which you like the most.

40+ Useful Online web based Tools for web designers and developers

Michael — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:58:50 +0000

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Once to create or edit some images or codes we required powerful software. But now with this fast growing internet world everything is just became so easy. Hope you guys are aware of the online web tools. With this plethora of free web-based online applications you can make your work even easier than before. These web based applications are best alternatives to all costly software for sure. Instead of buying costly software , you can make use of these online tools to do your design work. I have written this post concentrating on the newbie designers who are not aware of the web-based tools. I hope that these web applications will be very useful in your design works.

40+ Useful Online Tools for web designers

In this post I have collected 40+ best Online tools available for web designers and developers. I hope that these tools will definitely help you on your design work for sure.

Aviary – The Photoshop Alternative

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser.

Image Editor
Image Markup
Effects Editor
Myna
Vector Editor
Swatch Editor

Adobe kuler

the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. Quickly create themes with the easy-to-use tools in Kuler. Use the color wheel, harmony rules, and color sliders for ultimate customization.

WhatTheFont

Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iPhone and snap a photo, and WhatTheFont will identify that font in seconds!

Snap a photo right within the app
Choose saved photos from the Photo Library
In-phone image processing optimizes upload for speed and accuracy
View font details within the app
Send e-mail summaries of search results, complete with font previews

BgPatterns

Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency. It’s just small useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.

Stripe Generator

Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency.

Adobe Browserlab

BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web. The thought of cross-browser testing will make many of you cringe. Adobe Browserlab makes this task faster, easier and much less painful. Several additional options are available as well, such as viewing multiple browsers side by side or even overlaid.
Test your website in all the major browsers from IE6+ to Firefox 2+ (Windows and OS X) and Safari 3+ (Windows and OS X).

Stripemania

Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

Genfavicon

A favicon (short for favorites icon), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the sites name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Browse to the files location on your computer to select the image and press Upload Image button to generate a favicon for your site.

IzzyMenu

Create professional looking CSS menus for your Website as easy as never before!
Build your cool menu online, without writing a single line of code!
What is IzzyMenu – it’s easy to use Menu Builder, which allows you to build your CSS & DHTML menu in minutes. Choose from dozens ready styles or create your own menu style. They are low in filesize, so won’t consume a lot of bandwidth from your hosting. IzzyMenu, online menu generator is the best solution for amateurs and professionals!

Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator

Ajaxload is another really basic web app that lets you generate a customized “loading” image commonly used with AJAX applications. It might be basic but it’s come in handy time and time again for many of my projects.

BrowserCam

See your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use our bank of testing machines remotely to test your website.

ViewLike.us – cross screen resolution checker

ViewLike.us is basic but quite useful. Input your web URL of choice and select a browser size to view it including iPhone, Wii and many of the most popular screen resolutions. Testing websites but your screen is too small for testing 1929×1200? No problem, just scroll the viewing window.

Splashup – image editing Tool

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

Photoshop.com – Online Image Editor

Photoshop.com is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. Upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer is an easy to use and effective utility to design color schemes for use in web sites. It displays colors on a color wheel and and offers 4 modes of harmonies. The program features a preview window that resembles the basic structure of a web page. You can simply drag and drop colors into the page elements and preview how they will look together. You can save your scheme configuration and also export it to HTML.

Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

FontStruct – create high quality TrueType fonts

FontStruct Live is a new super-feed that shows all recent activity in the FontStruct community — new and updated FontStructions, comments on FontStructions and on the blog, updates on Twitter, Top Picks — in one single place. Another new feature is the Tag Cloud, an alternate entry point to our collection of FontStructions. Having trouble finding that FontStruction? Try searching with tags!

CSS Sandbox – helpful tool for Learning CSS

CSS Sandbox is an interactive page to play with CSS properties on-the-fly. Just click and see the effect instantly. It’s fast and funny! This will definitely help all those newbie designers to create their own text effect and can preview them. Once done , you can even get the code to add in your own website.

templatr – Create Cool website layouts

Templatr is a handy web application for creating web page templates. It has a very simple user interface, making itself an excellent tool for quick-and-dirty mockups of web layouts.

favicon.cc – Generate your own Favicon

Favicon.cc is a favicon design tool. With the favicon.cc, you can either create favicons from scratch or upload and edit images from your computer.

Wufoo – create valid HTML/CSS forms

Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.Their HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

Produle – Create custom flash widgets and applications

Produle is an online tool for creating customized flash widgets and applications that can be embedded anywhere. Produle provides the platform for Marketing, Businesses and Media Agencies to quickly create flash content for their websites.

Mozilla Labs Bespin – extensible code editor

Bespin is an extensible code editor in the clouds. With it you can create, edit and share projects or even connect to other open-source projects and publicly accessible repositories. There’s a tremendous amount more that can be done with it, even theming it if you’d like.

PHPanywhere – PHP code editor

PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. We enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser. At PHPanywhere.net people keep up with their projects, edit their web sites and the like from anywhere ? without having to drag their computer along. Enjoy the freedom of traveling light and the security of knowing that if you need to, you can log on to PHPanywhere.net from any PC and get to work!

Google Code Playground – test, learn and build your codes

Google API’s are famous and every knows this, but most of us don’t know the existence of Google code Playground which helps one to practice and nurture the Google API’s including maps and even data visualization. The interface is very simple and helps people to modify the code and run it instantly showing the modifications right at that time. It even provides the HTML version of the code which makes life simpler for those who are familiar with Google API’s.

W3C Markup & CSS Validation Services

If you’re not already familiar with W3C’s validation services, now is a good time to do so. Validate your markup and CSS via URI, file upload or direct input. Specify additional options such as document type, clean up markup with HTML tidy and more.

Dummy Text Generator

This handy tool helps you create dummy text for all your layout needs.

Pixlr Photo Editing services

Pixlr feels a lot like a desktop application, complete with a workspace which you can rearrange and customize to your liking. It is a flash based online image editor without any upload limit for images.

Dabbleboard – web-based collaborative drawing tool

Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas.

Pingdom Tools – tools for testing page load time, ping and traceroute

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.
The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars. You can view the list of objects either in load order or as a hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to in for example a CSS file. Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.

Free Watermark. Add Custom Watermark with PicMarkr!

PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.
It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos.

Crazy Egg – build heatmaps and track clicks

CrazyEgg is used to track website click through. Crazy egg is for those people

Want more ad revenue
Care what visitors do
Need to make improvements
Like things that are easy

Encode / Decode HTML Entities

The simplest way to show the HTML codes in posts is to encode the XML/HMTL code first using encoder tools which are available online.

BrowserShots – check cross browser compatibility

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service . When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

PHP decoder

It’s a powerful PHP code decoder which can decode any encoded code. Even if the code is encoded using Zend Php manager , this online web app can decode it.

iPlotz – Wireframe your Ideas

iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. Create a project, add wireframe pages with design components and discuss your creations with others.

Domai.nr – domain search engine

There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all.

LaunchSplash

Using your own domain with LaunchSplash:
LaunchSplash allows you to host your launch page directly from your own domain. Just enter your full domain name when creating your Launch Page and we’ll configure things on our end.

BackupURL: Online Snapshot Taker

Using your own domain with LaunchSplash:
BackupURL is an online snapshot taker that allows you to create exact copy of any web page and store it online. The copy will be available even if the actual page is down or changed. This is useful if you want to take point-in-time snapshots of fast-changing webpages and keep them for reference.

formatpixel – online publishing tool

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.

PXtoEM.com – Convert PX to EM

With PXtoEM you can get a full set of EM conversions based on a specified body font size. If you’re only in need of one quick PX to EM conversion there’s also a calculator available to do the math for you.

I hope that these web applications will definitely be useful in your design works. If you any other useful online web tools then please let us know via comments , we are happy to include them in this list as well. It will be helpful to all novice web design aficionados for sure.

Ultimate List of Natural Photoshop Brushes for Designers

Michael — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:46:18 +0000

Hope you guys might have amazed to see some of the designers having beautiful Trees , leaves , lightning effects , etc in their design works. Never wonder how to add them to your own , because there are plenty of Photoshop Brushes available for creating special effects like Lightning effects , shadows , etc. For all the design aficionados , this week I would like to present the Natural Photoshop brushes which are free to use use in your design work.

In this post I have collected almost all the Natural Photoshop brushes available on net. It includes some of the most famous ones which you can use them for free on your design works. Before showcasing my collection , I would like to tell How to install Photoshop Brushes on your Adobe Photoshop Cs4. It will help some of the newbie designers out there for sure.

Installing Photoshop Brushes

Installing Photoshop Brushes on your PC is really very easy. Whatever version of Photoshop you may have , but the way of adding remains the same.

After downloading the Brushes from us , you will find *.abr files which you need to save them to some safe location.
Go to Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes

Where Adobe Photoshop X represents the version of Photoshop you are using.

For example : I am using Adobe Photoshop CS4 , so I will be having

C:\program files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Brushes

Place all the *.abr files you downloaded on that folder.
Now you can see the recently added brushes under brush tool

Hope this method is easier one to install Photoshop brushes.

Natural Photoshop Brushes Collection

This post contains almost 700+ Adobe Photoshop Brushes available for creating Natural effects on our design works. As the number implies , I have collected everything I found useful. This collection includes Trees , Leaves , Grass , Clouds , Mountains , Water ripples , Rain , etc .

Trees Photoshop Brushes (16 brushes)

6 Photoshop Tree Brushes (6 brushes)

Complete Tree Brush Pack (40 brushes)

Trees Photoshop Brushes (26 brushes)

Vector Foliage Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various vector shaped foliage and plants. It includes grasses, flowers, plants, branches, cherry blossoms, bamboo, leaves, vines, and much more! Sizes average about 1000 pixels.

Palm Tree Brushes

Leaves Brushes MEGA PACK

Bamboo Brushes

Grassland Photoshop Brushes

Floral Swirl Photoshop Brushes

The Ultimate Grass Brush Set

15 African Tree Brushes PSCS3

Soft Clouds Photoshop Brushes

Cloud Photoshop Brushes

Lightning Photoshop Brushes

IceCracks Fractal Brushes

Sparkle Photoshop Brushes

Grass Photoshop Brushes

Hurricane Photoshop Brushes

Water II Photoshop Brushes

KeReN’s Grass Brushes for Photoshop

KeReN’s Leaves Brushes for Photoshop

Beautiful Clouds Brushes

Clouds II Photoshop Brushes

Clouds Mist Photoshop Brushes

Cloud Brushes

Free Cloud Photoshop Brushes Vol. 1

25 Cloud Brushes

Cloud Vector Brushes

It’s a unique pack of 17 Cloud Vector Brushes that I made for web design works. These brushes were created in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Cloud Vector Brushes

Mountain Brushes

Mountain Photoshop Brushes

Mountain brush set for PS CS

JavierZhX Vector Mountains Brush Set for Photoshop

wet – Fluid Brush Set

plunge – Ripple Brush Set

Water Photoshop Brushes

Rain Photoshop Brushes

Heavy rain brush

7 Water Brushes

Water Splash Brushes

Water bubbles Brushes

Lightning brush set

Shadows Brush Set

Shadows Abstract Brush Set

Shad0ws Brush Set

I hope that this collection of Natural Photoshop Brushes will definitely help on your design work for sure. If you know any other good Photoshop Brushes then please do let me know via comments. I am happy to include those brushes here as well.

30+ creative Abstract Desktop Wallpaper designs

Michael — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:58:35 +0000

Abstract wallpapers represents the depiction of imagery in arts. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be an abstract. Artwork which takes liberties, altering the instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be digital abstracts.

30+ Breathtaking Abstract Wallpapers

I have chosen Abstract wallpapers in this collection because most of the abstract wallpapers are just imaginations which will inspire you and will definitely improve your creativity.

Hope you will definitely love this collection. This wallpapers in your Desktop will inspire you for sure. Add it to your desktop and be creative.

25+ Useful Linux and Unix Cheat Sheets

Michael — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:30:18 +0000

Faster programming gives you more time for small business website design and other projects. This is my first post on Cheat sheets. Actually Cheat sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets will contain most of the shortcuts needed to program faster. And it is meant for newbie users who can’t remember the shortcuts or commands.

In this post , I have collected almost 27 Cheat sheets available for Linux users. These Cheat sheets will contain Linux command lines, Linux security, Linux administration, Gnome/KDE, sed/awk/vim, and distribution specific codes.

You may think that one cheat sheet is just enough for me , so why should I need to look at so many cheat sheets. According to me some cheat sheets may miss some points so its better to Look through all of them and then choose the top 5-10 you think will help you the most. After that you can Print them out and hang them on the wall around your desk for quick reference.

Unix/Linux Command Reference

THE ONE PAGE LINUX MANUAL

Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet

Linux Shortcuts and Commands

The humble Linux cheat sheet

The Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide

Evelyn’s LINUX Cheat Sheet

LINUX Cheat Sheet

Linux Security Quick Reference Guide

LINUX System Call Quick Reference

LINUX Admin Quick Reference

directory of Linux commands

Click on any of the 687 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Bookshelf.

Linux cheat sheet

Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet

Linux Quick Reference Guide

Linux Commands – Ultimate Practical guide

Linux Cheat Sheet

Using Linux the CLI way – Cheat Sheet

ubuntu Reference Cheat Sheet

Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card

Gnome / KDE Keyboard Shortcuts

Tired of using your mouse so much? Did you know that both KDE and Gnome have keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you can do with a mouse? Here’s a list of the various shortcuts on both platforms.

Solaris Cheat Sheet

NetCat Cheat Sheet for Linux and Unix users

Solaris Handy commands

Unix Toolbox

I hope that these cheat sheets will definitely help you to remember some difficult commands for sure. If you have came across any other Linux or Unix cheat sheets then do let me know.

20+ Small Yet Powerful Windows Application

Michael — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:01:28 +0000

Are you bored of using huge software which takes lots of disk space? Do you want to perform all your desired action but with less hard disk consumption ? If these are the questions going on in your mind then this would be the best post for you. Here is a list of smallest applications which are less than 1 MB , but they are more powerful and can perform all actions that Huge software would do. This tiniest software list is for all those old windows users who have very small hard disk. This software will be useful if you want to store more disk space as well.

20+ smallest windows applications

This is a list of smallest applications which are powerful enough to perform all the necessary actions that an huge software can do. Without making anymore fuzz i would like to disclose the list of software.

Process Lasso ( 610kb )

Process Lasso is a unique new technology that will, amongst other things, improve your PC’s responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without restraint — leading to freezes and hangs. Process Lasso’s ProBalance (Process Balance) technology intelligently adjusts the priority of running programs so that badly behaved or overly active processes won’t interfere with your ability to use the computer!

7ZIP (919Kb)

Let me start with my all time favorite software called 7zip. 7zip is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio. It’s a best alternative for winrar or winzip which will occupy around 5MB space in your hard drive. But 7zip will occupy only 1MB space , and its more powerful than winrar too. It can extract data from any type of file formats including .bin , .iso , etc

The main features of 7z format:

Open architecture
High compression ratio
Strong AES-256 encryption
Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method
Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB
Unicode file names
Solid compressing
Archive headers compressing

FastCopy (194Kb)

FastCopy is a free open source software which is very useful for copying large files to CD or pen drive. Because Reading/Writing are processed with no OS cache at all, other applications aren’t easy to become heavy. It can bring out Reading/Writing performance that is close to device limit. Include/Exclude Filter (UNIX Wildcard style) can be specified. It runs lightly, because MFC is not used. (made by Win32 API and C Runtime only). You can modify this software, because all source codes have been opened to the public in the BSD license.

Windows File Unlocker (252Kb)

While you were trying to delete some files its usual that you get any one of these below warnings from windows.

Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

FotoGrafix (370Kb)

Fotografix is an image editor that can be used for digital image enhancement, photo retouching and graphic design. As it is quite small and does not require installation, it can be run off a USB drive and hence can act as a substitute when other image editors are not readily available.

Everything (334Kb)

Are you tired of google desktop and microsoft’s indexing tools? This little tool called everything will literally index everything on your computer in under a minute. This tool is not indexing the text of files, it simply indexes the file names and folders. It is quick, free, and handles expressions like *.mp3 or the like. Give it a try.

WinCD Emu (783Kb)

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports both Windows XP and Vista, is open-source and completely freeware.

uTorrent (270Kb)

µTorrent is the world’s most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Evil Player (537Kb)

Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows. Some of Evil Player´s key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular formats (MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA, Flac and MOD).

CCleaner ( 1MB )

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

UltraDefrag (374Kb)

UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT. It is very fast, because the defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver. They are three interfaces to them: graphical, console and native. The GUI is very useful, because it represents your filesystem visually as a color coded cluster map. The console is another option for those that prefer the command line.

TinyPDF – Acrobat Alternative (590kb)

TinyPDF is free for both personal and commercial use and works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Multimedia Center Edition, and Windows Vista. It’s a best acrobat reader alternative.

Tiny Spell (590kb)

Occasionally you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don’t want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application. TinySpell can watch your typing on the fly and alert you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard. TinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access.

Cinta Notes

CintaNotes is your essential assistant in the daily task of organizing information, such as your own thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, blog postings, quotes from famous people, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it.

ArsClip (986Kb)

ArsClip is a FREE (freeware) utility for the windows clipboard. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program. ArsClip used to be barebonez, but I think I can safely say that it has become a nicely featured program (due to user requests for changes). ArsClip remembers the last 15 (default) or more text entries entered into the Window’s clipboard and can be configured to monitor non-text items. Delphi 6 (Personal) source code is included – modify it freely for any non-profit use.

Green Shot (160Kb)

Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.

Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second.
Apply text and shapes to the screenshot.
Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot.
Supports several image formats.

i.Ftp (838Kb)

i.Ftp is a little graphical FTP/SFTP client, which does what I need in an FTP client without the size and fuss. i.Ftp is designed to work from portable media like USB keys as well. It doesn’t store anything in the registry and will find it’s resource files and options via relative paths. A full install is about 900kb so it doesn’t eat up much space on your portable storage. If you don’t need SFTP support then you can delete libssh.dll and libeay32.dll to make it even smaller!

Space Sniffer (863Kb)

SpaceSniffer is a freeWare (donations are welcome) and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. Treemap concept was invented by Prof. Ben Shneiderman, who kindly permitted the use of his concept into this tool.

GMail Notifier Plus (985Kb)

Get notified of all your emails coming to your gmail account. It’s a powerful application which am using to get notified instantly.

DiskCryptor (740Kb)

DiskCryptor – fully open solution to encrypt all partitions, including system. The program is a replacement for proprietary DriveCrypt Plus pack and PGP WDE.

VirtuaWin (385Kb)

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive work flow.

Hope you guys like my collection of softwares and you will agree with me that these software are really powerful enough to perform few necessary tasks. If you know any other good software then let me know.

200+ Must Know Adobe Fireworks Tutorials for Web designers

Michael — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:32:41 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is very famous among the web designers and web developers. But most of the web designers are not aware that Adobe Fireworks is better than photoshop when it comes to vector graphics and rapid prototyping. Hope you may be wondering whether Fireworks is better than Photoshop. If so the answer is ‘ Yes ‘ when it comes to web designing. Fireworks has enhanced toolset with which you can create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Photoshop and Illustrator files. Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character to text and symbols.

Key Features of Adobe Fireworks

These are some of the main features of adobe fireworks.

Cross-platform support
Optimization & scaling tools
Adobe PDF file export
Enhanced type handling
CSS export
Adobe AIR authoring
Superb design tools
RIA authoring support
Sophisticated prototyping

100+ Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

I have collected almost 130 Adobe Fireworks tutorials which are meant for web designers . This tutorials will help the designers to create special effects in the logos and in their design works.

Photo-Realistic adobe fireworks tutorial

Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen.

Create Glossy Logo seal with Adobe Fireworks

Whether it’s signifying merit or signalizing new content, a golden seal graphic often does the trick. Utilizing two of Adobe Fireworks‘ nifty features—Auto Shapes and Text On A Path—you’ll be stamping shiny seals in no time.

Interactive Prototypes in PDF

This tutorial will explain how to generate interactive prototypes directly from Fireworks in a PDF format. This kind of prototype can be very useful for layouts approval with clients or just to make the communication between the design development team easier.

Create Sticky Notes – Fireworks Tutorial

Sticky notes are little pieces of bright-colored paper with an adhesive strip on the back, allowing you to jot down reminders, checklists, or *gasp* passwords and post them onto a surface. This Adobe Fireworks tutorial will show you how to recreate them digitally, with a certain degree of realism, for your own design projects.

Gradients and masking – Fireworks Tutorial

Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe Fireworks. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need.

Create Icons in Fireworks – Tutorial

In this tutorial I will show you some basic techniques in creating simple yet pleasing icons in Fireworks. Start off by creating a new file, and using your elliptical marquee tool to make a circular selection. Fill your selection with a radial gradient, making sure that your inside color is lighter than your outside color. Position the start of your gradient in the top-left corner, and let it radiate downward and to the right. Your image should look similar to below.

Optimize Photos in Fireworks Tutorial

This tutorial will explain how to optimize photos in Macromedia Adobe fireworks CS4. In this tutorial you will learn how to set Hue , saturation , contrast and brightness to optimize the images.

Creating an “old paper” effect with Fireworks

You probably already know that you can create many different types of non-destructive Live Filter effects in Fireworks. But you might not be aware of one of the least-known Live Filter techniques, which allows you to convert a bitmap to transparency based upon the color variances in the bitmap. Using this technique, you can give an image the look of old paper.

Create website layout in Adobe fireworks

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple header effect in a few steps, and with some vector textures, try to create a little layout in Fireworks with 9rules.com as our reference. In part 2, we’re gonna do the HTML/CSS to show you how this layout reacts to the browser.

Night Vision Effect in Fireworks

This tutorial demonstrates how to give a night vision effect to an image in Fireworks MX 2004.

18 awesome Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Learn advanced Adobe Fireworks tutorials that can help you better understand how to make your site more visually appealing. These tutorials were written for users who have a very strong understanding of Fw.

34 Adobe fireworks tutorials for Web Designers

Fireworks Zone contains 34 Adobe Fireworks tutorials for web designers. This tutorials mainly concentrate on web designing to make website more appealing.

18 best fireworks Tutorials by Abduzeedo

Here is a list of Tutorials created by designers of Abduzeedo website. These tutorials are for advanced users and they mainly focus on web development.

Best Adobe Fireworks Video Tutorials

I always feel that Video tutorials are always better when compared to simple articles. So i have collected about 60 video tutorials available in youtube and other video sites.

30 best Fireworks tutorials from Entheosweb

These are 30 Free Fireworks Tutorial provided by entheosweb. Here you will learn some cool Fireworks effects and will also provide useful Fireworks tips & tricks.

10 Adobe Fireworks Tutorials by ITM Design

ITM is also a design based site who have 18 tutorials for Adobe Fireworks. These tutorials will help you to learn the baisc of Adibe Fireworks.

35+ Adobe Fireworks Tutorials Collection

DesignMAg has collected 35+ adobe fireworks tutorials already. You can get them at their own site.

Hope this list of tutorials will definitely help you in your web design works. Though few of these tutorials not related to web design but they will help us to know about the tools of adobe fireworks which we can implement in our web design work. If you know any other good tutorials for Fireworks let me know.

180+ Free Photoshop Plugins

Michael — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Photoshop is a powerful image editing software which is very useful for web designers and photographers to create desired effects in the images. But sometimes it’s difficult to perform certain tasks manually in photoshop. Once there was a belief that only designers who have mastered photoshop can create special effects on photographs or images. But now with the help of Photoshop Plug-in anyone can create desired effects on their images.

Photoshop Plugins are actually add-ons to the main program which helps to attain additional image effects or performing tasks that are impossible or hard to fulfill using Adobe Photoshop alone. And they make the complicated task much easier and help users in creating amazing effects, designing faster & better.

180+ FREE PHOTOSHOP PLUGINS

In this post , I would like to share more than 180 photoshop plugins which are available for free. Hope it will help all photoshop newbies to create their desired image effects with much ease.

Water Ripples creator – photoshop plugin

Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. The highly realistic water ripples effect designer has numerous options as well as an impressive 3D quality. The random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces.

Jama 3D photoshop plugin

Jama 3D is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It’s the simplest way to create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images. You can easily make various bricks and herring bone textures. Sequenced filtering produces bizarre unreal deformations of the original picture, crumpled paper effect, etc. Using different 2D shapes on a transparent layer produces complicated 3D border effects. The edge antialiasing option improves the dithering. The filter is extremely compact and accessible.

Lattice Composer – Photoshop Plugin

Lattice Composer is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It effectively designs grids and nettings. It produces a variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations.

Luce Photoshop plugin

This plugin helps to control the light exposure and lets designers to create stunning effects with their images.

ScreenWorks – Simple Pattern Generation

Screenworks is a free Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 30 options for creating screen/mesh patterns. It provides you with a quick way to add small detailed and repetitive texture overlay effects to areas of your image in one easy step. The single slider setting gives you the option to add the chosen pattern on top of your image, or make the layer background white.

AlphaWorks – Transparency Effects

AlphaWorks is a free Photoshop-compatible plug-in filter which is very useful for removing black or white values and making the region transparent. There are 6 different options for you to choose from, depending on the type of image you are working on (colour photo, mono photo, lineart).

ColourWorks – Colour Modification

Free Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 20 effects for modifying image colour values in different ways. You can use them for subtle correction of your digital photos or experiment with the more dramatic transformations that are available.

Local Contrast Enhancement – Photoshop Plugin

This is accomplished by increasing the contrast between a pixel’s value and the mean value of the adjacent pixels in a local area of the photo.You can control the amount of the increase of contrast, the size of the local area and the amount of blending with the original photo.

Smart Refinment Filter plug-in for Adobe Photoshop

Smart Refinement Filter is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for photographic images enhancement. This plug-in allows: sharpness and depth-of-field (DOF) enhancement, and noise (dust) reduction.

SuperPNG photoshop plugin

SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files. It is faster than Adobe’s own PNG plug-in and saves considerably smaller PNGs. PNG is an open source file format that supports tight lossless compression. It can be read on any platform by most graphics applications and is fully supported by all modern web browsers.

High Pass Sharpening

This plugin sharpens photos with the classic high pass method. The user can adjust the high pass filter radius, and control the blending with the original image. A high pass output preview is also available to help the user adjust the filter radius up to the point the edges to be sharpened show up.

Photoshop black-white conversion plugin

This is a powerful plugin which is very useful to Black and White conversion.It takes total control over the tonal response of Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Magenta, and the intermediate hues. The user can boost each color’s tonal response all the way up to white or limit it down to black, without affecting the other colors at all . The plugin offers presets that accurately simulate the tonal response of the most popular b/w films. The plugin can introduce a grain effect of controllable intensity and density.

EdgeWorks – Cool Artistic Styles

It’s a free photoshop plug-in with 20 effects for creating dramatic edge and colour modifications. They are best used when experimenting with intense photo transformations for a highly stylized look. They are also handy when creating interesting texture effects.

SwapShop – Colour Exchange

A single Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 15 effects for switching the colour values in your images. Useful for experimenting with interesting combinations and creating surreal results.

Maximum Colour Toning Adobe Plugin

A single Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 20 effects for “blasting” intense colour into your images. Ideal for when you need to add dramatic impact to your photos or work.

Fur 2 – free photoshop plugin

The plugin Fur 2, disperse a simple figure (line or circle, configurable dimensions/thickness) over the whole image. Solid: The figure is filled with a single color (determinated by the figure’s center).180 deg: Image source content is kept; but rotation of 180 degrees around the figure’s center is performed.

Artistic Grain and mezzo style generator

This plugin is used for creating a selection of simple grain and mezzo styles. Give your photos a new look with these various effects.

Selective Saturation – Photoshop Plug-in

Quite often some parts of a photo require a saturation adjustment while others do not. If we increase the saturation globally, the most saturated parts get over saturated and if we decrease it, the less saturated parts get under saturated. So this Free photoshop plugin will definetly help designers to create saturation effect only in specific areas.

Soft Focus – Free Photoshop Plug-in

This plugins applies a soft focus effect, which is often usefull in portraits or fashion photography. There are controls to adjust the focus softness, the overall strength of the effect and the blending mode of the overlayed blured image.

Contrast Mask – Free Photoshop Plugin

This plugin uses a contrast mask to reduce the overall contrast of the image, simultaneously bringing out more detail in both highlights and shadows.A b/w negative of the image is blured (with a radius controlled by the “Smoothing” slider) to avoid hard edges and then overlayed with the original, darkening the highlights and lightening the shadows.

Gradient Blur- Free Photoshop Plugin

This plugin apllies a gradient blur that can help us draw the viewes attention to the photograph’s main subject.There are sliders to control the position where the blur starts and it’s strength.

Xpose – Photoshop plugin to adjust exposure

Xpose is an exposure adjustment plugin. It was written to offer quick adjustment of highlights and shadows with a rapid preview feedback and a simple, intuitive interface. With just a few sliders you can attain better exposure of your digital photos

DepthDither provides color dither for Photoshop

Graphest DepthDither is a free filter plug-in for Photoshop, it mainly concerns on generating color dither in Photoshop. When you wants to use the image on LCD screen, such as mobile phone, the color depth is not 24 bit, and mostly it’s 16 bit. If the image fills with gradient colors, the screen will display color steps, not continuous color.If you use the DepthDither to process the image, the result on PC and on mobile phone will be the same. DepthDither uses 3 ways to make the image seems to be continuous when the color is below 24 bit. It’s just like Photoshop, provides diffusion, pattern and noise as the dither modes.

Lens Correction – Free Photoshop Plug-in

This plugin corrects barrel and pincushion distortions that many zoom camera lenses.produce.Just move the sliders to the left to correct barrel distortion, and to the right to correct pincushion .

Virtual Photographer – Photoshop Plugin

Save hours of time by instantly applying photographic effects to
digital images with just one click. It has more than 200 onclick preset effects. Easily applies layered effects with “Blend” mode

AAA BLENDER Photoshop plugin

This filter allows you to open a mask, texture, grunge, or paint layer and blend it with your image in any of 30 blend modes. You can even use it to simulate layers by blending it with the original or a modified version of the image you are editing. It’s quick and easy!

AAA Gaussian Blur – Photoshop Plugin

This filter offers some Gaussian blur filter options. Color Blur will blur the colors without changing luminosity (lightness) values. You may also invert and blur the colors without inverting the luminosity.

Filter Forge Freepack 1 – Metals

A set of seven photorealistic metal textures and effects. Metallizing effects, alien-looking or industrial metallic surfaces, rust or aluminum foil, and more – all filters are fully adjustable and support seamless tiling.

Photo Effects Photoshop Plugin

A set of seven photo enhancing effects. Give your photos a sunny style, apply grunge look or color tints, age the image, and more – all filters are fully adjustable and resolution-independent.

Frame Maker – Free photoshop Plugin

A set of seven filters that create frames for your photos. Apply a realistic painted wooden frame or a vignette, give your photos a classic elegant feel or a ragged harsh look, and more.

Distortions – photoshop plug-in

A set of seven filters that can reshape, distort and deform the source image in various creative ways. The filters can break the image into abstract fragments, generate bubbly effects, apply waves or ripples, and more.

Camouflage photoshop plugin

Use the Camouflage plug-in to make army, fashion and animal camo. You can even make patterns not found anywhere else.You can control up to eight color layers. We’ve included a big set of examples, which you can select from within the plug-in. Amongst them are real army colors, both old and new. Many common fashion colors are also included as well as a few animal colors.

Night-Vision photoshop Plugin

The NightVision plug-in can make any image like the ones from night vision goggles. By using the effects in this plug-in, you can make images look like they are from a black & white security camera or CCTV system. It’s also possible to make them look like infra-red photos. Or you can just use the interlace to make an image look like a TV picture. You can even use it to enhance real night images!

Snowflakes photoshop plugin

With the Snowflakes™ plug-in, you can make it snow any time of the year, any place you want.You can control all aspects of a snow; both the minimal and maximal size of the snowflakes, whether it’ll be soft snowflakes or hail, the amount of snowflakes falling down and even the color of the snowflakes.

Snowscape – cover any landscape with snow

With the SnowScape™ plug-in you can add layers of snow to images simply by letting the snow fall down. You decide which areas the snow should fall down on by making the rest of the image transparent, you then start the plug-in, configure how much and where the snow should fall, and SnowScape does the rest.You can also use SnowScape to do similar effects; make the snow less sticky, and you can create hills of sand. Apply it up-side down with high stickiness, and the ooze will be dripping down from your image.

Harmonix – Make waves!

With the Harmonix Photoshop plug-in, you can mix harmonic frequencies into complex waves. Harmonix renders a single, horizontal line on the image, but this is no ordinary line. It is the result of superimposing up to ten separate harmonic frequencies, scaled to the screen. You can change the up to ten harmonic frequencies in both amplitude (volume/height) and phase (offset/shift) and have precise control over the base frequency.

UnPlugged-X – Over 100 effects in one plug-in

UnPlugged X is a collection of over 100 different filter effects wrapped into a single plug-in. Combining all those effects into a single plug-in allows you to use them in ways not possible with separate effects. With UnPlugged-X, the whole is larger than the sum of the parts.

FilterOptix – free photoshop plugin

Filters are an essential part of your photographic equipment. They help you to correct or embellish the colors of a scene, put people or objects in the center of attention, bring out the beautiful contrast in a stormy sky or make that wedding picture extra romantic. In short; no photographer either professional or amateur can do without lens filters.

ImageSkill Outliner photoshop plugin

Outliner is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work as with commercial software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Digital Image Suite as free like software IrfanView, XnView.

Background Remover – Photoshop Plugin

With this free photoshop plugin you can easily remove the background images from your photos.Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Macromedia Fireworks etc. The main purpose of the Background Remover is to extract some part of an image i.e. ‘the object’ and remove part that which is unwanted.

Auto FX – Dreamy Photo Photoshop Plug-in

Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. This is a superb effect for enhancing stock photography, digital camera photos and any image you want to add a warm feel to. After you have downloaded the software, enter in your e-mail address in the download page to receive serial number to activate the plugin.

Turn your images into Mosaic photoshop plug-in

Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.

Iridescent photoshop plug-in

The Digital Artshop’s Iridescent filter will apply a pearl like effect to your image. The effect is fully controlable with sliders for the amount of reflections, colour strength, smoothing and a detail enhancer.

Stereogram Lab Filter photoshop plug-in

Stereogram Lab Filter allows to generate Hidden Image Stereograms right in your Photoshop, which is quite convenient. This filter is free and you can use it both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, however, distributing the filter itself is not allowed.

Mosaic Toolkit & Illumination Fix Toolkit

Mosaic Toolkit applies mosaic effects to photos and other images. It provides several mosaic styles, e.g. Squares, Rings, Balls, Gears, Square Rings, Stars, Daisy and All Styles. You can vary cell size and contrast, color tweak cells, ball glow and brightness and blend the effect with the original photo. There are gradient, radial gradient, color inversion and a row shift brickwork effects.

Kaleidoscope photoshop plugin

Kaleidoscope 2.1 is a plugin which proceeds to multiple symmetries to obtain beautiful patterns.

Sorting Tiles photoshop plugin

Sorting Tiles imitates vaguely painting. Fundamentally, the filter cuts image in several blocks, makes a sorting of colours, and redistributes these ones following more or less complicated patterns.

Chalkaholic photoshop plugin

Chalkaholic renders chalk and charcoal type effects with artistic panache and flair. Providing uniquely effective artistic rendering options, Chalkaholic is the essential addition to any digital artist’s effects collection.

Weaver photoshop plugin

Weaver is an effect which imitates weave.

JuliJulia ‘s curves photoshop plugin

JuliJulia ‘s curves are a family of mathematical curves (fractals) renowned for their beauties. This plugin is extremely simple : to track down an interesting curve, use the Julia control or press the Random button (that’s all !). Besides, it allows endless zooming, to customize colours, and to save settings.a ‘s curves photoshop plug-in

3D Shadow : Adobe Photoshop plug-in

This handy tool easily creates various types of 3D shadows from objects such as letters, numbers, shapes and so on. All settings are present in a single window – transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others. Even the seasoned designers are surprised by the simplicity of the plug-in and excellent results it generates. The text, processed with this tool immediately grabs the attention of the viewers.

Sinedots photoshop plugin

With sinedots plugin you can create sine wave patterns in your design works.

Shear photoshop plugin

This is a conversion of the AfterFx Shear Effect to my new Photoshop framework. A new feature is that a possible (feathered) Selection is now used to alter the strength Parameter locally. This results in some interesting distortions. Compatibility issues are the same as for SinedotsII.

Retro Dots – free photoshop plugin

It generates dot grids which can be based on selections. It’s will help beginners to create colorful dot patterns easily with one click.

Blots free photoshop plugin

With 3 modes: normal, camouflage & gradient, this plug-in is very ideal to create textures using blots.

Color MegaMix free photoshop plug-ins

Color MegaMix modifies the colors of any image. It is based on two rows of colors: 8 source colors and 8 target colors. According to these data, the plugin reconstructs completely the color space.

Eraser Genuine – erase certain parts of images

Eraser Genuine modifies image transparency according to two criteria: a colour you wish to erase and a colour you wish to protect. So, this plugin is particulary suitable for images where two colours oppose clearly.

Fine Threshold free photoshop plugins

Unlike the traditional threshold command of Photoshop, the plugin Fine Threshold allows to get quickly, anti-aliased and sharp shapes.

Flat Median photoshop plugin

Flat Median is a median-like effect which have some advantages over the “regular” median filter.

Icon Plugin for Photoshop

Icon Plugin for Photoshop enhances Adobe Photoshop with an ability to export and import Windows icons (.ico). Thanks to this ability, users can create compelling icons directly in Adobe Photoshop, using its large arsenal of creative tools and a convenient and familiar design environment.

Photo Freebies – 10 best photoshop plugins

PhotoFreebies is a collection of free plugins for performing useful photo manipulations and effects e.g. sepia effects, saturation gradients, b/w conversion, color space transformations and many more. Some of them have a dialog with adjustable controls whereas others are applied instantly without displaying a dialog.

B/W
Sepia
Luma Negative
Chroma Negative
RGB2YCC and YCC2RGB
RGB2HSL and HSL2RGB
Desaturation Gradient
Histo Fix
Remove Transparency

DeNoise – Noise Reduction

This plug-in provides 4 noise reduction algorithms, including low-pass, bilateral, adaptive bilateral and low frequency. These methods, used separately or in combination, provide an excellent tool for the serious photographer who runs up against electronic noise.

Greyscaler photoshop plugin

This plugin can be useful in bringing out hidden detail in the picture or isolating individual channels. In additon there are the more usual controls for Contrast, Brightness and a Depth (pseudo gamma) control.

xMeta photoshop plugin

xMeta is a simple set of three plug-ins for exporting metadata from Photoshop in raw binary form. ICC Profiles are of particular interest, as they can be added to the ColorSync profiles folder or opened by applications such as Übercolor.

Melt photoshop plugin

This plugin allows to deform image, by waves. Size, intensity, and aspect ratio of waves are customizable.

Projection photoshop plugin

The plugin Projection provides a collection of interactive perspective effects: ability to tile image in infinite space (copy or mirror mode), or to repeat edges.

Posterizer photoshop plugin

Posterizer is a plugin which offers the possibility to posterize the luminosity and the hue.

Autointerlace Create interlace effects

Autointerlace is a nifty little plugin which automatically creates interlaced effects on an image. Interlacing (sometimes known as scanline graphics) is an effect similar to what you see on a television screen, and is used in modern print media design and graphics to give a “techno” style.

j2k – the future of image compression

j2k is a free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in set for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG.Also known as JP2, JPEG 2000 uses wavelet compression as opposed to the DCT compression used in standard JPEG. The end result is better image quality in a smaller file. JP2 also includes mandatory metadata such as information about an image’s color space.

20 free photoshop plugins from Flaming Pear

This is a collection of 20 free photoshop plugins developed by Flaming pears. It includes :

SuperBladePro
Melancholytron
Flood
Flexify 2
Designer Sextet
Mr. Contrast
Polymerge
LunarCell
India Ink
Hue and Cry
Glitterato
SolarCell
Photography Pack
Patterns
Free Plugins

24 Free Photoshop Plug-ins By Richard Rosenman

Free photoshop plugins developed by Richard Rosenman.

3D Sphere Generator
3D Sphere Generator
Channel Modifier
Color Bar Generator
Diffuse
Evaluate
Grain Generator
Grid Generator
Lens Distortion Corrector

42 photoshop plugins by Xero Graphics

These are all freeware, and were built using Filtermeister, with Paint Shop Pro 8.10 as the host program – they should work without problems with any Windows graphics program that supports the Adobe Photoshop plugin architecture.

Abstractor
Alien Mist
Artgrain
Artifax
Artworx
Bad Dream
Caravaggio
Clarity
Cubism
Duochrome
Emphasis
Fritillary
Fuzzifier
Greyscaler
Greytinter
Illustrator
Improver
Iridium
LineArt
Lithograph
Make-a-Flake
Mistifier
MoodLight
Moonlight

Hope This collection of free photoshop plugins will definitely help all beginners out there to create their desired effects in images easily. If you have came across any plugin collections then do let me know. I will add that link to this list with a link to your blog.