You are gonna love it, 960 Grid System.
We, designers all know designing with grid is essential. This amazing 960 Grid System is so helpful and save my time so much nowadays when I do mocking up. The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. So I would like to share it with you guys! If you do web layout design regularly, you can’t miss it!
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Great online vectorization tool, Vector Magic!
As we know, vector art is very useful and I love vector arts because we can scale it without making it blurry like pixel images. Some of my reader emailed me asking how to make original vectors, so I post this with a hope to help my readers.
Since Adobe Streamline in the early 1990’s we can auto-trace bitmap images into vector graphics with smart technologies. For example Adobe Illustrator live trace function, Coreldraw, Cocoaportrait..etc. Obviously they are not as good as doing it by hand, so ultimately hand tracing is the best way to make precise vector arts.
However excellent geeks at Stanford developed a fantastic online Flash-powerd tool designed to convert bitmaps to vectors, Vector Magic, and the quality is just amazing!
Nasty and shortcut fonts at misprintedtype.com. You cannot miss them!
Many of my readers may have already stumbled across the great site, misprintedtype.com V3 , but for readers who don’t know about it yet, I want to introduce the site.
From Brazil, Eduardo Recife has created many of grungy and nasty but wicked fonts and lets us download them for free!! These fonts are ones you shouldn’t miss! Check this out!
Great online generator - Stripe Generator 2.0
Although there are many useful online generator out there, especially this great site, Stripe Generator 2.0 saves time for me a lot. You can make any style of stripe how you want, also you can download and play around stripes that someone made before. It’s so useful!!
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Great free texture library site - Urban Dirty
I like the use of distressed elements in design sometime and when the design needs a grassroots or urban feel, especially distressed or rusted texture can save the day. Even distressed textured websites are not new but are still very popular.
Urban Dirty is a delarge project by Paul Burgess. It is a great free texture stock photography site and it allows us to download gritty and grimy images for free. You can combine these excellent textures and play around with the layer styles in Photoshop so that you can create grate textures!
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