MakeUseOf Directory » photoshop http://www.makeuseof.com/dir Directory 2.0 : Free Web Applications and Mobile Tools Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:35:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/shortcutworld-keyboard-shortcut-list/ http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/shortcutworld-keyboard-shortcut-list/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:42:16 +0000 abhijeet http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/?p=10197

ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps

]]> If you are someone who works at the computer for long hours, you would agree that using your mouse as less as possible is one of the most productive ways to work on the computer. Keyboard shortcuts are always great but the problem is different applications have different keyboard shortcuts and hence we find it difficult to remember. ShortcutWorld is a site which aims to address that problem by providing a keyboard shortcut lists for some of the most important tools we use everyday.

keyboard shortcut list

Currently, it provides keyboard shortcut lists for the following apps.

  • Firefox
  • Winamp
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Google Chrome
  • Photoshop
  • Windows XP
  • Fireworks
  • Outlook 2007

Certainly, a site worth bookmarking. You might also want to check KeyXL which is another similar tool profiled earlier. Or better go and download some MakeUseOf Cheat sheets.

Check out Shortcutworld @ www.shortcutworld.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)



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Tutzor: Top Notch Photoshop Tutorials Collection

]]> Photoshop is an amazing image editing software that lets you do unthinkable effects with images and photos. While there are many tutorials online that teach you how to use Photoshop, Tutzor lists collection of high quality photoshop tutorials that show how to achieve concrete effects with step-by-step illustrated instructions.

For instance, you can learn how to design your own war movie poster or how to get a Star Wars text effect, apply water effect on the image and more. Each tutorial includes high quality images with step-by-step illustrations. Browse tutorials by type (Design, Drawing, Text Effects, Interface etc) or search by keywords.

photoshop tutorial collection

Tutorial: Turning a horse into a robot

high quality photoshop tutorials

Additionally the site a lets you submit your own tutorial and get get cash (100$ per tutorial) if it is published.

Features:

  • Free high quality Photoshop tutorials with detailed examples.
  • Step by step illustration on how to achieve specific effects in Photoshop.
  • Browse tutorials by type (Design, Drawing, Text Effects, Interface etc).
  • Submit your own tutorial and get some cash. (100$ per tutorial)

Over the last few months MakeUseOf published about several sources for Photoshop tutorials. These are VunkySearch, Photoshop Lady, Good-Tutorials and few others in the round of the best websites to learn Photoshop online.

Check out Tutzor @ www.tutzor.com



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1001FreeFonts: Free Quality Fonts For Windows & Mac

]]> 1001FreeFonts is a font resource that lists free quality fonts for Windows and Mac. The site allows you to search and browse through a wide range of fonts, based on categories and alphabetical listing. There is also custom preview feature which lets you preview fonts before downloading.

free quality fonts

Features:

  • Search free quality text fonts for windows and mac.
  • Option to custom preview a font, before downloading it.
  • Similar sites: Fawnt, What The Font?! and Fonts 500.

Go to 1001FreeFonts @ www.1001freefonts.com (by Srikanth from Techonaut)



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VunkySearch: Lists Cool GIMP And Photoshop Tutorials

]]> VunkySearch is new web resource that aggregates and lists hand picked Photoshop and GIMP tutorials. The application is quick and provides you with visual way of browsing, it does not contain any actual tutorials, but functions as a jump-board towards websites where tutorials are hosted. It lets you search for tutorials and browse them by tags. There are currently around 300 tutorials and more being added

gimp and photoshop

photoshop and gimp

Features:

  • Aggregates and lists cool Photoshop and Gimp tutorials.
  • Currently lists around 300 tutorials and more being added.
  • Search and browse tutorials by tags.
  • Free. No sign-up needed.

For more such sites see recent MakeUseOf article, 10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja.

Check out VunkySearch @ www.vunkysearch.net (via wwwhatsnew.com)



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Logoinstant: Free Collection of Logo Designs

]]> LogoInstant is a website that provides you with a free collection of logo design. All logo designs are absolutely free to use, just find the one you like and download it to your computer. The site has a wide range of logos to choose from, you can browse logos by category like animals, automotive, business, communication, community, corporate… etc. You can also check out top logos, most downloaded logos, rate them and leave comments.

free logo collection

Features:

  • Free logo logo database.
  • Download and use logo designs in any way you like.
  • Browse logos by category i.e. animals, auto, business, communication, corporate etc.
  • Check out top rated and most downloaded section.
  • Rate and leave comments.
  • No registration or sign up needed.
  • More sites for logos: LogoBuilder, LogoEase, Cool Text, Creatr and CoolRGB.

Check out LogoInstant @ www.logoinstant.com



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Photoshop Lady: Cool Photoshop Tutorials

]]> Want to learn some Photoshop magic? Photoshop Lady is a website/directory that aggregates cool Photoshop tutorials from all over the web in one place. Whether you want to learn how to turn an image into a beautiful painting or a pencil sketch, Photoshop Lady got it.

cool photoshop tutorials

Search for tutorials, browse them by category (3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect etc.), leave comments, rate and so on. Registered users can further bookmark and store favorite tutrials in their account area.

Features:

  • Free photoshop tutorials
  • Bookmarks and store favorite tutorials in your account (registration needed).
  • Check out Most Viewed and Highest Rated tutorials.
  • Tutotial categories: 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design.

Overall it’s a pretty good source if you’re looking for some step-by-step Photoshop HowTo guides. For more tutorials you can check out Good-Tutorials and Youtube (lots of video tutorials).

Check out Photoshop Lady @ www.photoshoplady.com



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Good-Tutorials: Flash, Photoshop, CSS, HTML … Tutorials

]]> Good-Tutorials is a comprehensive source for web design and photography tutorials. Thousands of step-by-step tutorials for Photoshop, CSS, Flash, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Java, JavaScript, Maya, Photography, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and 3ds Max.

Good-Tutorials - Flash, Photoshop, CSS and HTML Tutorials

Tutorials are well organized and apart from primary categories, the tutorials are divided further by relevant subcategories. For instance Photoshop category is sub-divided into:

    Animation
    Basics
    Buttons
    Color
    Designing
    Drawing
    Photo Effects
    Photo Retouch
    Scripting
    Text Effects
    Textures
    Web Graphics
    Web Layouts

So as you can see above, it’s very easy to find exactly what you need. Additionally you can sort tutorials by date, user rating, and comments. But if you want to share your opinion and rate tutorials then you will have to register.

Features:

  • Search for tutorials or browse by category.
  • Sort tutorials by date, rating, number of saves, comments etc.
  • Comprehensive tutorial database: Over 24.000 tutorials listed and more added daily.
  • Register with Good-Tutorial to rate and comment on tutorials.
  • Submit your own tutorial.

Go to Good-Tutorials @ www.good-tutorials.com



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PSD2CSS : Convert PSD Files (Photoshop Docs) to CSS

]]> Are you a Photoshop pro? Can you create amazing website designs using your Photoshop skills? If so here is something for you to check out. If you ever want to create a new look for your website in Photoshop, you might be interested in a new service PSD2CSS. It’s a free web-based service that can convert your Photoshop designs into a ready-to-use XHTML compliant CSS website. There are a number of other similar websites that offer similar service, but PSD2CC is the only one that does this for free.

Convert PSD to CSS Online

Here is how it works:

    (1) Create the new look in GIMP or PhotoShop. Make sure to check these guidelines before you get started.

    (2) Once the design is ready, upload the .psd file and wait until PSD2CSS is finished processing it. Download the files.

Here are a couple of simple tutorials to get you started

Check out PSD2CSS @ www.psd2cssonline.com



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PhotoshopExpress : Web-based Photoshop + Photo Sharing

]]> Photoshop Express is a long-awaited offering from Adobe. It’s not meant to be a web-based alternative to Adobe Photoshop but rather a service that offers a simple and quick way to fix and polish photos online. The service doesn’t require any technical knowhow, and if some feature isn’t clear just try iton your photos a couple of times and you should get a fairly good idea about what it does. Furthermore, Photoshop Express gives you a 2 GB of storage space and a gallery to organize and share your photo albums with others.

Photoshop Express - Web-based Photoshop + Photo Sharing

Features

  • Quickly resize, crop and rotate images online.
  • Upload photos from your PC or grab them from Facebook, Photobucker or Picasa Web Album account.
  • Auto correct: One click image auto-correct functionality.
  • Remove red eyes and change color saturation levels.
  • Apply effects: hue, black and white, pop color, tint, sketch and dsitort.
  • Tuning: highlight areas, fill light, sharpen, change focus etc.
  • Full screen : Edit photos in full screen mode.
  • View timeline of all changes to the picture and revert back to any state on the timeline.

Photo Sharing Features

  • Upload and store up to 2 GBs of photos online.
  • Organize your photos into albums and share them with others.
  • Add captions
  • Email photos to friends, embed onto your blog, and download from any PC.
  • Get your own MyGallery page for publicly sharing your albums (i.e. http://joesgallery.photoshop.com).
  • Browse publicly shared galleries from other users.

As you can see there are lots of cool features in Photoshop Express. If you’re not keen about registering yet but would like to give a test try go here. No registration required.

[video] Photoshop Express Demo

Chech out Photoshop Express @ www.photoshop.com/express/



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Picnik : Quick and Easy Photo Editor

]]> Picnik is a fast online photo editor with a number of easy to use yet powerful editing tools. No download or registration required, just upload your image and get creative with available effects, text fonts, shapes, and frames.

Picnic -

Picnic Features

  • One-click automatic photo fixing.
  • Crop, rotate, and resize images.
  • Upload images from local drive or get directly from Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Webshots.
  • Tons of special effects and image frames, object shapes from professional designers, and a number of really good text fonts (incl. type tool).
  • Advanced controls to fine-tune your results.
  • Instantly share edited photos with friends.
  • Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.

How to edit images online using Picnik

Check out Picnik @ www.picnik.com



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Dafont: Free Text Fonts

]]> Dafont is an ultimate destination for free text fonts. It lists hundreds of excellent text fonts which can be downloaded and used in your office documents or logos. No-registration required.

Free Text Fonts Directory

Features Overview

  • Search, preview and download text fonts for free.
  • Use fonts in office (Word, Powerpoint, etc.) or image editing (i.e. Photoshop) tools.
  • Browse fonts by alphabet, category (Gothic, Basic, Holiday, Bitmap, etc.) and popularity.
  • Also check out fonts by ‘newly added’, ‘top 100′ and ‘font authors’.
  • Submit your own fonts.
  • Fonts can be installed both on Windows and Mac computers.

Video Introduction

Check out Dafont @ www.dafont.com



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Phixr : Feature-Rich Photo Editor

]]> Yet another online photo editing service with tons of features. Resize images, apply different effects, mix multiple images, and more.

Online Photo Editor

Phixr Overview

  • Upload photos from from PC, grab from URL, or from Flickr, Fotopic, Picasa, Photobucket, Smumug, Webshots accounts.
  • Crop, Resize, Zoom, and Rotate your images.
  • Change brightness, contrast, color saturation, negate colors and hue.
  • Remove noise, sharpen/blur images, make pics black & white, remove red eyes.
  • Round corners and add borders/frames.
  • Apply various effects: oil-painting, charcoal drawing, dot matrix print-out, shading, embossing, etc.
  • Add speech bubbles and text to photos.
  • Mix two photos into each other.
  • Overlay: mix preset patterns into your photos, such as snowflakes, raindrops, flowers.
  • Options to Undo/Redo effects.
  • Download and Save photos as JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, or OCR (text).
  • Store images directly to Flickr, PhotoBucket and other photo sharing websites.

Check out Phixr @ www.phixr.com



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FotoFlexer: Online Photoshop Replacement

]]> FotoFlexer is a powerful, simple-to-use, highly-automated and feature-rich online photo editing and enhancement tool. Probably the best web-based Photoshop alternative out there.

    FotoFlexer.com: FotoFlexer is the most powerful online digital photo editor in existence.

web-based image editing tool

FotoFlexer Overview

  • Rotate, resize, or crop images
  • flip, draw, erase, fill, and more.
  • Enhance image color and lighting. Add Different color effects.
  • Re-color hair or skin with only three clicks.
  • Fix red eye, fix blemishes, smooth wrinkles
  • Animate: add text, speech bubbles, bug-eyes, pointy ears, devil horns, and more.
  • Twirl, bulge, pinch, stretch, squish: Bulge muscles, trim waist-size, turn a frown into a smile, and more.
  • Cut out various pieces of a photo.
  • Easily cut people/objects out without having to trace their outline.
  • Add as many image layers as you want.
  • Export/Import your pitures from Flickr, MySpace, Picasa, and Facebook.
  • Save photos and create albums. (account registration required)

FotoFlexer Demo – Image Morphing

FotoFlexer Demo – Smart Image Resizing

Check out FotoFlexer @ http://fotoflexer.com



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Wiredness

]]> Wiredness – feature-rich and easy-to-use image editing and manipulation service. In case you need a quick image fix or precise resizing tool give it a try.

Feature Overview

  • Get image from URL (PNG, JPEG and BMP) or upload it from PC (PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP)
  • Flickr Integration: (1)Get one of recent Flickr photos, (2)Flickr search, (3)Access your account.
  • Save edited image as PNG, JPG, or GIF
  • Host edited images online (ImageShack.us, Glowfoto.com)
  • Print photos or send by email
  • multi-lingual (English, Deutch, French, Portuguese, Turkish)

Editing Options

  • Apply effects: Rotates, Flip, Colorize, Brightness, Greyscale, Blur, etc.
  • Tools: Image overlay tool, Image zoom, Tex tool, Sharpen tools
  • Red eye removal, polariod effect, rounde effect, light under/over exposure, watercolor effect
  • Resize/ Crop images

Try Wiredness (http://www.wiredness.com/)



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Picresize : Quick Web-based Photo Editor

]]> Quick and user-friendly online image resizer and editing tool with lots of features. Need a quick tool with basic Photoshop functionalities? Give it a try, it doesn’t ask for registration anyways.

Picresize - Online Photo Editor

Feature List

  • Crop, resize and rotate images.
  • In-built image manipulating functions: Greyscale, Gaussian Blur, Equalize, Sharpen, Contrast, Brightness, Polaroid etc.
  • Batch resize: Option to resize multiple images simultaneously (i.e. make all images 25, 50 or 75 percent smaller).
  • Save resized images as JPG, GIF or PNG and select desired quality level.
  • PicResize Fetch: Allows webmasters to integrate Picresize into their websites and provide visitors with 1-click access for launching any image in PicResize editor.
  • Also provides free API.
  • What’s missing? Option to get images from URL.
  • To see Picresize in action check out demo video here (opens in new window).

Go to Picresize @ www.picresize.com



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Fauxto

]]> Simple and feature-rich web alternative to Photoshop. Provides all necessary features an average user may need, starting from basic things i.e. crop, blur and resize to a number of image filters.

Extra Features:

  • Supports jpeg, png, gif, bmp, and tiff images
  • Save, organize and share pictures online

Visit: Fauxto.com



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