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FREE Alternatives for the Software we can’t Afford..

// July 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Applications, Code, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Photoshop, Software, Useful, Videos, Windows, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here’s a list of Open Source/GNU alternatives to all those programs that us poor people just can’t afford to buy but that we desperatly need… If you know of better open source alternatives please let me know. Leave a comment below.

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Open Office – Microsoft Office Replacement

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. It is currently version: 2.3.1. The version 2.4 will be released in March 2008.
Download Here.

KompoZer – Dreamweaver alternative

KompoZer - Finally, a top-notch WYSIWYG web page program for the rest of us! Now there’s no need to pay a little fortune for a program to create and edit great-looking web pages, including powerful and easy to use CSS capabilities.

KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. Download Here.

NVU – Opensource Web Authoring Alternative

NVU is a complete Web Authoring System for people who are new to web design. FrontPage and Dreamweaver Alternative.
Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Linux, Windows and Mac OSX users. Download Here.

Inkscape -Illustrator alternative

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development. Download Here.

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Synfig – 2D Animation Alternative

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can. Download Here.

Blender – 3D Modeler Alternative

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU (General Public License). Download Here.

gMax – 3D Modeler Alternative

Ofcourse Blender is seen as world’s best free 3d modeler but it doesn’t even comes near to how 3ds max looks like. So if you want it to look like 3ds max you should try gmax, howhever it’s more for creating game models.

Virtual Dub – Video Editor Alternative

Open Source Video Editing Software

Virtual Dub A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent. Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP).  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 files.  Download Here.

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Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames. Download Here.

Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and do whatever you want… You can capture video by number of ways, including one-frame-per-minute (web camera) option, workaround annoying 2 Gb file size limit, send your videos to printer, heavy compress it and post to your webpage. You can change framerate, duration, frame size, color depth of your videos and other properties, even without recompression and without loss of video quality. AVIedit allows you to convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi, animated GIFs etc…. Download here.

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
Download Here.

Related Links:

• How to Edit YouTube Videos with free video editing programs.
• Open Source Alternatives Program List
• Free video editing software list for all platforms.

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Real Life Photo Shop

// July 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Applications, Design, For Geeks, Funny, Graphic Design, Graphics, Photoshop, Pictures, Software, art

I thought this was pretty cool. Real Life Photo Shop.

Made as an advertisement by Art Snob solutions. Check out the rest of the set to see how they made it.

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11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives

// June 21st, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Apple, Applications, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Photoshop, Software, Useful, Windows, art, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

I’ve been doing some research online tonight for a FREE alternative for Photoshop – my Photoshop installation recently became corrupt (no clue how but it might have something to do with the fact it was cracked..um yeh) Call me evil, I just call me poor.

Anyway, I can’t seem to completly uninstall Photoshop and so it won’t allow me to re-install it… and since Photoshop cost about USD $649 per copy... I’ll most likely be using an alternative until I can format my hard drive.

Anyway, I can not work with out some type of imaging software. Period. I’ll let you know which one I decide on.

11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives

Artweaver

Artweaver isn’t just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself. While Artweaver lacks the polish and advanced feature sets of Photoshop, the menus are laid out like they are in Photoshop and the tools function close enough that use is intuitive. The programs are so similar, in fact, that seasoned Photoshop users will find themselves wondering why a feature is suddenly missing from the menu. While it isn’t a true replacement for Photoshop, Artweaver’s feature set is robust; it includes layer management, image cloning, a history function, transparency, pen tablet support, and a host of the common filters in Photoshop. Artweaver is available as a full install or in a portable version. Artweaver is a free download for Windows only.

Fotographix Beta 3

Fotografix is an amazing example of what creative developers can accomplish in less than one meg. The 680Kb portable application is a very capable image editor and provides nearly all the same functionality I utilize in Photoshop on a daily basis. It was a no-brainer to include in my list of 40 apps you can download in two seconds. Mirrored on Freeware Files.

GIMP

GIMP stands for “GNU image manipulation program”, and it is one of the oldest and most well known alternatives to Photoshop in existence. Although it doesn’t quite have all of them, you’ll find most of the features included in Photoshop somewhere in GIMP. GIMP is cross platform and supported by a large community.

If just having the feature set isn’t enough for you, there is an alternative based on GIMP known as GIMPShop. It’s the same as GIMP, except the layout has been structured as close to Photoshop as possible, so anyone making the transition should still feel right at home.

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Inkscape

Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.

Krita

Krita has been lauded for ease of use and won the Akademy Award for Best Application in 2006. Part of the Koffice suite for [Linux only] , Krita is slightly less powerful than both Photoshop and GIMP, but does contain some unique features. It has become very popular recently due to its ease of use. While it is not as feature-rich as the Photoshop, or even GIMP, it does contains the necessary tools to create/edit a professional image from scratch. In fact, the latest version contains some features that are not found in both GIMP and Photoshop.

ChocoFlop

ChocoFlop is a design application designed exclusively for [Mac only] , optimized for Mac architecture. It’s quick and fairly well featured. This program won’t always be free, but until a stable version is released (it’s currently in beta) they are allowing free use. The program works pretty well as is, and if you’re the type who doesn’t mind an occasional bug it’s certainly worth a look.

Picnik

Picnik is a web based photo editor that has recently taken off due to a partnership with Flickr. It has all the basic features plus a few advanced ones like layers and special effects. It is cross platform since you only need a browser.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe actually has a free web based photo editor of their own. Adobe Photoshop Express has all the basic functionality you’d expect as well as a few advanced features (sadly though, no layers), and interfaces well with a number of photo sharing websites. Again, completely cross platform.

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

CinePaint 0.23

CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools. One of the advantage that it has over GIMP is that it is able to support 32-bits image (GIMP only supports 8-bits image). Cinepaint is mainly used by developers in the flim industry for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching. The current version runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OSX. Stable version for Windows is not available at the moment.

PhotoPlus

PhotoPlus [Windows only] is the amazing photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance digital photos, create stunning bitmap graphics and even web animations.

Links

There’s also free web services that allows you to perform basic image editing online.
Here’s few examples:

• Picnik – Edit photo online
• Picnik – Add watermarks online
• Resize images online without Photoshop
• Fauxto – Free online Photoshop

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5 Social networking icons, brush sets and shapes!

// June 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Facebook, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Photoshop, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, free, icon sets

New social networking icon sets & even a few social networking icon brush sets and shapes!

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free Heart Social Networking Icon Set

Social Media Grungy Watercolor Brushes

Make your own grungy social networking icon set to
match your blog!

Free Social Networking Hand Drawn Photoshop Shapes

Free Set of Social Networking Coffee Stain Icons

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Designer Love – Cool WebSites for Designers

// January 4th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Flash, Fonts, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Photoshop, Rss Feed Icons, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here you’ll find a huge list of useful websites for web designers and bloggers..Enjoy! Add your own useful links in the comment section! Links and screenshots of some of coolest resource sites for designers and bloggers including Free fonts, Icons, Templates, CSS inspiration, Graphics, Hex color schemes, Vector graphics, Design blogs and Mags.

• ColourLover.com – http://www.colourlovers.com/

Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.

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Cute & Unique RSS Feed Icon Set – RSS Jeans Pocket

// November 8th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Blogging, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Photoshop, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, webdesign

Here’s a really cute and unique RSS Feed icon set by xyberneticos.com. I like it so much I might even use it myself.

RSS Feed Icons - Jeans

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Inspire me! – 3 Free Photoshop Styles & 1 action

// November 7th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, Photoshop, Useful, webdesign

We all at some point or another get stuck when it comes to design. I know I do. So, it’s nice if you can get a little push from your fellow designers online and there’s nothing better then finding free and awesome Photoshop styles to help out in those difficult times.

Styles by Dezinerfolio.com

Styles by Lirent.net

45 caramel styles by ~ Hvostoroga

Just download them and extract the files here:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Gradients\

Old Photo Action by ~shagagraf

For more nifty cool & free photoshop downloads check out Deviantart.com and for gradients try Brushesdownload.com!

Or…you can really cheat and use Mycoolbutton.com’s button generator to create nifty web 2.0 buttons for your site. <!– ckey=”012506F4″ –>

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How to Add Social Networking Icons to your Blog

// November 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Photoshop, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, webdesign, webmaster

If you want to add social bookmarking icons or links to the bottom of your posts here are a few different ways you can do it with out a plugin. You can of course use one of the many Wordpress plugins like Sharethis or Social Bookmarking RELOADED.

However, if you want to add something a little more unique to your posts to get people’s attention you can use the examples from Catwhocode.com and Hongkiat.com by creating an image map banner at the bottom of your posts using CSS and PHP. You can find out how by reading the tutorial by wphacks.com or one of the other tutorials listed below..whichever one works for you. I tested out the last one and it worked great for me and was easy as pie.

It’s a lot easier then you might think…examples below..

Read: How To: Add Social Bookmark Links to your Theme

There’s a couple other hacks I found based on the same concept.

Read How To: Build An Image Map with CSS

Read How to: Add Big, Eye-catching Social Bookmarking Icons Below Every Post on Your WordPress Blog Easily

Or you can use this one that I made for a darker background…it’s not a black background it’s a dark blue grey but it turned out pretty cute I think.

If you need help finding icons to use in your image map no fear there are plenty of them on this site so just check out one of my icon posts to find the perfect social networking icon for your blog. You might also try Icofree.com. Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions or need help, just leave a comment to this post…

Make the world a happier place and share this link.

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Design by Human T-shirts

// October 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Artists Shoutouts, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Graphic Design, I recommend, Photoshop, Shout Outs, art

This is such a cool site! You can submit your own designs and win mola!

Your design could win up to $3,500 plus residuals!

Win Shirt of the Day, Shirt of the Week & Shirt of the Month!

How it Works

Five new Shirt of the Day winners are chosen each week. Each wins $750 ($500 cash, $250 credit). One of these is chosen to receive an additional $1000 cash for Shirt of the Week. Each month one of the previous Shirt of the Week winners will be chosen as Shirt of the Month and win an additional $1750 ($1500 cash, $250 credit). And don’t forget about the Rockstar Awards Program.

Join the Community

Become a member of the Design By Hümans Community and meet fellow artists, t-shirt aficionados and friends. Have fun and please be courteous.

You’ll want to stop by often as new winners are announced every weekday, so there are always new designs available in the shop. Be sure to grab your favorites before they sell out!

Refer a friend to Design By Hümans and get 2 DBH Dollars added to your account if the referral results in a sale. Also, earn 1 DBH Dollar each time you upload a photo of yourself wearing a tee that you purchased here at Design By Hümans. Join to get your affiliate code.

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Free PSD “Paper Notes with Tape” Graphic Download

// September 29th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, For Geeks, Freeware, Graphic Design, Graphics, Photoshop, Useful, art

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12 PSD Web 2.0 Freebies – Stickers, Stamps, Sticky Notes, Buttons etc..

// September 28th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Photoshop, Useful, webdesign

I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”-Gandhi

Here is a list of 12 Free Adobe PSD graphic downloads that I found at Deviantart.com that I thought were worth downloading and sharing. I downloaded them all and they all rock.

Deviantart.com provides the best collection of free Adobe PSD files online.. actually I think Deviant art is the best website period when it comes to anything and everything art and design related and if you haven’t been there yet then you must, must check it out as soon as possible.
Also check out Speckyboy.com for his list of 14 amazing and free PSD resource sites. Thanx Speckyboy!

More Free PSD Resources for You @:
psdfreebee.com
Vecteezy.com

PSD Resource Pack One by *Deluxive on deviantART

Stamps Template – Aqua Style by ~Laletizia on deviantART

AHiL – Varied Glass by ^allhopeislost on deviantART

Free Post it Notes by *Bobbyperux on deviantART

Photoshop 3D Cube by ~thedevstudio on deviantART

Deluxive Creative Pack 001 by *Deluxive on deviantART

36 Random Styles by ~IZ-Person on deviantART

post-it by ~TLMedia on deviantART

Torn Paper Snapshot Border by *paralexLX on deviantART

“Vintage Rose” Scrap Kit by ~farrahscreations on deviantART

Tag PSD by ~Yuanshao101 on deviantART

Adhesive tapes by ~Felix1220 on deviantART

Torn Paper Snapshot Border by *paralexLX on deviantART

Download The Star Sticker PSD

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