5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (10/10/08 Edition)
October 10th, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips
by: Matthew Griffin
Over the years I've run into this situation time and again: A client needs to be able to edit/resize photos on their own but they don't have any image editing software. In the old days, I usually ended up doing the work for them and billing them by the hour. Honestly, though, what web designer wants to spend all their time resizing photos? We want to think, create, design. Fortunately, now days we have slew of free online image editors to point our Photoshop deficient clients to. A wonderful list of online image editors has been provided by Six Revisions this week, and I suggest you bookmark it and use it to your benefit. Here are this week's 5 for Friday:
6 Exceptional Web-Based Image Editors - Six Revisions
25 Ways to be More Productive as a Designer - You the Designer
Retro and Vintage in Modern Web Design - Smashing Magazine
400+ Floral Brushes for Photoshop - DesignM.ag
45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes - Vandelay Design
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Posted By: Edgar on 10/10/08
I'm still looking for an easy & free way to create website banners and buttons. I just tried http://www.pixlr.com/app/ and looks good. I'm able to let go of the text control and come back and edit it. Unfotunately, there's no way to create color and palettes... I guess the assumption is that you're working with pictures and not from scratch.
Posted By: Matthew Grffin on 10/10/08
Yeah, Edgar, you might try downloading some photos/illustrations from a website like istockphoto.com and pulling them into the image editing program to produce more professional looking banners and button.
Posted By: Steven Snell on 10/11/08
Thanks for the links Matthew. Have a good weekend.