I use Photoshop quite a lot and love it to bits, but I do find the price to be a bit rich, especially for the casual user. I’ve tried many of the alternatives out there (i.e. GIMP) but none of them quite match the Photoshop experience and ease of use (plus the array of [...]

I came across this great website wordle for generating word clouds.Not only is it fun to play around with during lunch, for designers it may be of use.I’m thinging about using it on a business card.
You can paste in a bunch of words or enter a url of a Atom or RSS feed

Wordle is a [...]

I’m always on the lookout for great tools that aid in the design of my page layouts.Today I came across a site that lets you design your layout online! Its called YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout).
The site describes it as: YAML is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is [...]

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online for free. Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). You can use it anywhere you like, I think it would be useful when you would like [...]

As promised, I’m now releasing the psd file (zipped up and available at the downloads link at the bottom of this entry) that allows you to create web 2.0 style buttons easily.
Download and unzip the file and open up the buttons.psd in photoshop.

To change the color of the icon, simply right click as indicated by [...]