If you are tired of clicking on image thumbnails on sites to check what the image is all about, you will like this Chrome extension called Hover Zoom. As the name suggests, it lets you enlarge thumbnail on mouseover for better viewing. Images pop up in their full size right there on the same page. [...]
The Internet, in addition to being a massive knowledge resource, is also a huge collection of entertaining websites. If you find yourself in a ‘down’ mood, you can log onto one of many websites and get a good laugh. One such website is ‘MotiFake’. In case you are not aware of them, “demotivational posters” are [...]
Sharing an image is easy, but sharing an photo that is high resolution is not. ZoomIt is a tool that makes it easy by letting you create a zoomable image from an ordinary one. Simply enter the URL of any high-resolution image and ZoomIt will convert it. ZoomIt gives you a shortened URL so you [...]
Are you looking for free good quality pictures? If yes, then your search ends at “RGB Stock.” It is a free to use website where visitors can obtain free high quality images and photographers can submit their high quality images. You can search the site for pictures using keywords, much like in any search engine. [...]
If you regularly search for free high quality stock photos, Veezzle is worth checking out. It is a dead simple search engine that crawls multiple free stock photo resources so you can find and download them easily. Just enter the keywords you want to search for and Veezzle will display a number of results collected [...]
Flickr is the best photo hosting service and photography community today. However, searching for photos within Flickr can still be too clunky for power users. Flickr Thumbnail Search is a handy Google chrome extension that lets you search photos in Flickr from the browser toolbar. This saves times as it allows you to search and [...]
All digital cameras add a bunch of information to each photo that they save. This information is called the EXIF data that is used to store information about the camera used to take the photo, the camera settings used, resolution of the image and other details that might help in classifying the image later on. [...]
I don’t know about you but I find panoramas incredibly cool. Looking at a good panorama is like looking at nature through a widescreen monitor, only better. However, panoramas are quite difficult to take without the right equipment. The process of taking overlapping images and then joining them together on a computer using some complex [...]
Have you ever wondered how baby sees the world? Many people believe that babies see in black and white, while other people think that they do not see at all. Fortunately, TinyEyes is a simple online image manipulation tool that simulates what a baby sees during the different stages of their development. To use TinyEyes, [...]
Tweaking the borders around images can be quite tedious when done manually with CSS. With the manual method, you have to set the parameters of each side and the offset size of the bordered image. Border Image Generator is a web app that simplifies this process by letting you tweak your border image visually, letting [...]
The internet invents lots of silly things and one of them is Demotivational Posters. These posters are the complete opposite of motivational posters. They provide sarcasm and are made mostly for pure fun and stating the obvious. FakePosters is a neat website that allows you to create your own sarcastic motivational posters in seconds. You [...]
Web designers often need to use image place holders to make sense of their mock ups and drafts. There are a number of ways to create an image placeholder but Placehold is probably the easiest of them. Placehold is probably the simplest tool you’ll ever encounter. All you need to do is enter the size [...]
An HTML color code chart is a must-have for any web designer. However, most available charts on the net are very static, meaning that you have to find your way on a given set of colors. ColorPicker is a simple color picker web app that lets you find the hex code of the color that [...]
Have you ever wanted to create a poster on your little printer but never thought you could due to size issues? Well that is where Easy Poster Printer comes in. It lets you load up an image to printed as a poster and it will setup a grid with 8 1/2 x 11 pieces so [...]
Microsoft Paint is undoubtedly one of the most basic household drawing application for most people. However, it lacks the funny edge that online alternative painting tools have. Canvastic dot NET is a free online version of the freehand drawing tool Canvastic which functions almost exactly like MS Paint. This web application lets you draw using [...]
Ever wanted to make a 3D view for your product but thought it was too complicated? Here is a tool that will change your mind. 3D-BoxMaker lets you create a 3D view of your product within seconds. Just upload individual images of the cover, top, side and backside – the tool will then take them [...]
Sometimes we see photographs that make us think that they have been digitally manipulated. There is no easy way to do this unless you are an image manipulation expert or have a PhD in forensic image analysis. However, there is an image error level analysis tool that can give you some idea. Image Error Level [...]
When we want to setup a layout for our next website project, it is quite handy to have a tool that quickly generates placeholder images. DummyImage is a simple online dummy image generator that provides a quickest and easiest way. All you need to do is add desired width x height to the end of [...]
Stock photography websites are known offer different prices for the same photo and finding the lowest priced photo stock photo services can be very time-consuming. Fortunately, we have SpiderPic, a stock photography pricing comparison engine that compiles search results from multiple stock photo websites providers to help you find the best price quickly. To use [...]
Designers often need to use meaningless images as placeholders. Creating these images in Photoshop or Fireworks is not hard but still takes a few minutes. RandomImageGenerator is a free placeholder image generator that does this for you within seconds. Simply go to RandomImageGenerator and specify the number of random images you want in addition to [...]