Sometimes we find an icon, love its design but the colors don’t fit to the project.

With Icons DB, a free and growing set of flat icons, that is not possible as we can get all the items in any color we prefer.

The set includes 1800+ items in multiple formats (ICO, PNG, JPG, GIF) and 8 sizes from 16*16px to 512*512px.

There are many icons which can fit very well to web apps and almost each item has multiple variations that can satisfy each taste.

Only drawback is the inability to download the whole set as they are only offered one-by-one.

The increasing variety and usage of device/screen types (cell phone, smart phone, tablet, desktop..) urge the need for serving web content accordingly.

Adaptive Images is a solution for delivering browser-size-specific images for any device.. automatically.

It is JavaScript-PHP-powered where a lightweight JS file detects the browser size and the PHP file resizes the images on the web page. And, all this happens with the help of a .htaccess rule which redirects any requests for .JPG, .GIF or .PNG files to the PHP image processor file.

Adaptive Images is a plug 'n' play resource which can be easily integrated into any PHP website.

There is a built-in caching system for minimizing each image only once for each size.

Also, several options for customization exist including "array of browser-image sizes", .JPG quality and more.

Lost & Taken is a website, curated by Caleb Kimbrough, that is totally focused on creating and providing free textures to designers.

Currently, there are 750+ high resolution textures in the gallery which are very well categorized (grunge, water, clouds, etc.) that helps reaching the right resource easier.

Besides the gallery, the website/blog itself is a must-follow for texture fans as it features collections of them.

P.S. All textures are free to use in both personal and commercial projects.

Sometimes a design requires little touches for becoming awesome rather than standard. It can be colors, fonts or the objects like icons, images and textures.

This time, WRD is sharing a set of 12 exclusive, free and high-quality liquid textures to spice up your designs.

They are sized 2835*4252px and come in .JPG format (total download size is ~56mb).

Textures are free to be used in personal and commercial projects (no attribution required) but can not be resold or re-distributed.

The usage of brick textures are pretty popular as they are one of the major items of a grunge look.

Here are 10 detailed, high-quality (3543*2362px) and free brick textures in .JPG format that are created exclusively for WRD readers.

Info: The download package is a .zip file & sized 52.2mb.

P.S. The textures can not be distributed in any other media. Please refer to this page if you mention them on your website. Thanks very much for that.

Last week, CS Review, a service to get feedback easily for creative jobs by Adobe, was shared at WRD.

And, with that service, a giveaway of 10 Adobe gift bags and 2 months of Lynda.com subscriptions was announced. Today, winners are selected but, before that, let's remember:

What is CS Review

It is a part of Adobe CS Live (a series of services for designers and developers) which makes creative reviews so simple.

For any number of JPG, PNG, .F4V and .FLV files, a new review process can be started directly from CS5 softwares or online, and e-mailed to friends, colleagues to get feedback for them

They can write their comments for each file and you or other reviewers can reply to each other's comments.

After all, you have all the feedback organized and stored under your hands.

Just like any other CS Live services (including the Adobe BrowserLab), it is free for 1 year once you sign-up by April 30, 2011.

And, the winners:

Here are the winners of 10 Adobe gift bags and 2 months passes to Lynda.com tutorials:

• Djurre (comment #218155)
• Alex (comment #218264)
• Johan du Toit (comment #219843)
• Rob (comment #218212)
• Federico (comment #218148)
• Jeremy (comment #218693)
• Eko Priyanto (comment #218472)
• saurabh hkirwal (comment #218206)
• Rogier (comment #218163)
• Yogeshnb (comment #218552)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining.

After completing (or during) a design process, it is so common to ask friends, colleagues or the customer: "what they think about it?".

Adobe CS Review is an online service that helps you get an easy and organized answer for that.

It enables you to start a review online or directly from the CS5 series of Photoshop , InDesign , Illustrator or Premiere Pro.

You can add any number of JPG, PNG, .F4V and .FLV files, add your comments to each and share them with anyone via e-mail to get feedbacks.

It is even possible to let other reviewers invite others for a feedback with a bigger community.

Every invited user can reach the creatives by clicking a link in the e-mail and share their thoughts + reply to other's comments.

Within the application, it is possible to switch between creatives quickly and zoom in/out to them.

Adobe CS Review is a non-complicated service that is easy-to-use and gives you the feeling that "feedbacks are under control".

Just like any other CS Live services (including the Adobe BrowserLab), it is free for 1 year once you sign-up by April 30, 2011.

Giveaway of 10 Gift Bags By Adobe – How to Win Them?

Adobe is kind to giveaway 10 bags where each of them includes a $25 Best Buy gift card, laptop skin and a tumbler.

Also, Lynda.com, an online tutorial service that has detailed content on Adobe products too, is giving away two-months passes for their tutorials to all the winners.

All you have to do is to comment to this post with what you think of the Adobe CS Review service and winners will be selected randomly on 21October 2010 (1 week later) with the query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1890 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

Good luck to everyone.

TexturePalace is a website which shares 200+ premium-but-free textures that we can use to decorate our designs.

All textures are converted from camera RAW data where the picture size is 3400px*2400px (or more).

The textures are well categorized like ground, nature, grunge, metal, etc. & they are free to be used in both personal or commercial projects.

Bgrepeat is a website that shares 100+ free repeating backgrounds to beautify your designs.

Most of the backgrounds are minimalistic & various colors of each are presented.

You can easily sort bakgrounds according to their popularity, view larger versions & download them (.JPG format).

Upperx is a set of 100+ free grunge textures with a nice little story.

They are photographed from the old, oxidized, metallic & graffiti-painted doors at Barcelona's Poblenou, an old industrial neighborhood now in full transformation.

All images are in .JPG format, 850*637px size & 72 PPI resolution.