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The Definitive Color Wheel

The Graphics — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:31:53 +0000

Selecting a color has not always been something that was achieved with just a few clicks. Color had to be collected from pigments of the earth and then dyed into fabric. You had to collect the berries to make the purple-ish/reds or dirt to get a brown. Color, binds the creative realm together be it graphic design, photography, interior design, textile design, transportation design etc. Of course you can take pictures in black & white or make a logo black with greys but the colors are where we can experience emotion. That emotion ties us to the image, art, design or product. The colors bring the brand, the curtains, the rug, the subject, the foreground or the background to life.

Powerful Color Tool For Firefox: ColorZilla

The Graphics — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:37:08 +0000

ColorZilla is an impressive Firefox plugin that assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks.

A built-in eyedopper can get the color of any pixel and a color-picker helps playing with colors instantly. Picked colors can be added to the plugin’s palette viewer/editor.

Also, generated or sampled colors can be auto-copied in CSS RGB, Hex and other formats which is handy to paste them into image editing apps.

One File MySQL & PostgreSQL Manager: DBKiss

The Graphics — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:13:11 +0000

There are many database editors with advanced features, but sometimes, a smaller and simpler tool is all we need.

DBKiss is a MySQL and PostgreSQL manager application that is only a single PHP file.

It has most of the features you can ask for including:

import/export of data
searching of the whole database or single tables
an advanced SQL editor
saving of templates
multi-query execution with pagination

Detect Nudity With JS & Canvas – nude.js

The Graphics — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:59:35 +0000

nude.js is a JavaScript library that uses HTML canvas for detecting if an image contains nudity or not.

5 New High-Quality Free Fonts

The Graphics — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:33:05 +0000

The Graphics is always trying to find new high-quality freebies. Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding free stuff and sharing it with you. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important.

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Knockout a JavaScript library to create user interfaces

The Graphics — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:42:52 +0000

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.

Freepik: The Search Engine for Free Photos and Vectors

The Graphics — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:54:53 +0000

Freepik is a new search engine which provides a method of searching for free resources, namely photographs and vectors drawings. For web or graphic designers working with a small (or zero) budget it appears to be a really great resource.

According to the creator’s web site “Freepik’s aim is to gather all free, high quality graphics on the Internet and make accessing them quick and easy so you don’t have to waste your time searching manually through hundreds of websites.”

How does it work?

The Freepik robots go out and visit new websites daily and browse for free photos and vectors. Images are assessed and listed in order of quality. When you use Freepik the search results provide a link back to the original location of the image. The owner of the photograph gets full credit and a link back to their site. …more

SQLiteManager – Web-Based Administration For SQLite Databases

The Graphics — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:17:04 +0000

SQLiteManager is an open source and web-based application for managing the popular server-less, zero-configuration SQLite databases.

It is built with PHP and can control multiple databases besides applying every action on tables or records.

Using the application, queries can be ran, MySQL queries can be converted to SQLite-compatible ones and triggers can be created/edited as well.

SQLiteManager has different skins and it is a multilingual resource with ready-to-use language files.

P.S. phpMyAdmin users will feel very comfortable as the interface is pretty similar.

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Photoshop-Like Guides In Firefox – foxGuide

The Graphics — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:53:54 +0000

foxGuide is a firefox extension that can display both horizontal and vertical guides on web pages.

The guides can be moved or removed just like the ones in Photoshop. Also, you can set the transparency and color of them for a perfect fit.

The extension has a memory which remembers the guides created per website. Even if the browser is closed or the URL is changed, the guide for that web page is stored.

foxGuide also works well for pages that have huge width/heights (supports up to 10,000px).

Website: http://meherranjan.com/foxguide/

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Open Source CMS For Displaying Portfolios – The Secretary

The Graphics — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:35:48 +0000

The Secretary is an open source CMS (PHP/MySQL) that is specially built for creative people who are in need of displaying their portfolios.

You can create projects, add items to each project (can be images, videos or sounds) and even group these items to present them in a custom way/look.

It is also possible to categorize them with sections and use tags for every item to reaching them faster.

The application has a simple and powerful backend that mostly works with drag’n drops and enables users to create any number of web pages besides creating a portfolio.

Requirements: PHP 5+, MySQL 5+, Linux/Apache server
Website: http://www.thesecretary.org/
Demo: http://www.thesecretary.org/demo
Download: http://www.thesecretary.org/download

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