And one day, we need a layer or effect that only exists in only one of these files, search for it which can become complicated (what we're looking can be invisible as well).

ComparePSD is a free Windows software that helps finding the differences between 2 PSD files in such situations to save you time.

The software enables you to select the files to be compared from Windows Explorer.

When it is started, the files are compared layer-by-layer including layers styles (effects), styles attributes, layers visibility flags and highlights the differences.

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It has an intuitive user interface where all the controls can be selected easily.

The software works with layers & offers multi-layer/group editing support.

Some features of StylePix are:

• various selection types (auto-range, color-range & rectangular, circular, polygonal, lasso area selection)
• batch processing
• 30 different filters
• thumbnail, histogram & waveform view for current image
• & more..

StylePix works on Windows OS & consumes very few system resources, even the installer is ~800kb, which makes it an ideal solution for less-powerful computers or running from portable devices (a portable version exists).

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They generally offer a similar interface with the popular image editing softwares which lowers the learning curve so much.

Almost all of them are Flash-based (no extra installations -like plugins- are required) & load/work very fast.

Why To Use Them?

You may be asking yourself why to use a web-based one when there is a powerful image editing software installed on your computer like Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, etc.?

Portability

There is no need to have a software other than a browser to run such applications. Also designs created with them can be saved instantly online.

This function is specially handy for anyone working at different locations/computers.

The Price Factor

Most popular image editing softwares, except GIMP, are generally not cheap & every new version requires a new license.

Online image editing platforms are free or come with cheap subscription plans.

Lower System Resources

As such applications would run on browsers & files are remotely hosted, they will be consuming much less system resources.

This makes them a good fit for older & non-strong (like netbooks) computers.

Backup

Every designer/developer, generally, experiences data losses because of hardware failures & no backups.

All the content created can be saved in these platforms which are mostly hosted in the cloud with daily backups. So, this is taken care of.

They have cons too:

As expected, they are not perfect:

• you may not add your custom fonts, brushes, shapes, etc.
• not being able to export designs to formats of popular applications (generally, only PNG, JPG, GIF & TIFF)
• lack of some features
• some of them don't have keyboard shortcuts

Here are 5 amazing applications which offer a similar functionality with your favorite image editing software & have support for creating new images (not editing-only):

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is an amazing application which Photoshop users will find it very friendly as the interface & functionality is very similar.

It offers most things Photoshop offers, supports layers, filters & has some awesome geometric shape tools.

There is also a huge community behind the application where you can get inspired.

Aviary Phoenix

Phoenix is the image editor part of the powerful other Aviary applications.

The editor works with layers, has various filters & can be exported to popular file formats or saved online for future editing.

Photoshop.com

Official online Photoshop service of Adobe.

The application has a very different interface compared to Photoshop itself & offers fewer functions. It is mostly focused on editing & optimizing images.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a feature rich online image editor that has several versions to make things easier:

• Editor – all-functions included editor
• Express – more basic version
• Grabber – to right click any image and start editing from Firefox browser + Windows desktop

Splashup

A very Photoshop-like application that can run multiple images.

It integrates well with photo sharing services like Picasa & Flickr.

There is also a light version for simpler functions.

There are also other great applications like:

• flauntR
  
• Picnik
  
• FotoFlexer
  
• & much more

which are totally focused on editing images & don't offer creating a new one from scratch.

Which one do you prefer? Any great ones missing? Share them in the comments.

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Although it is possible to create new designs via scanning drawings or designing with graphic tablets, using ready-to-use ones is always a good & quick choice as well.

In order to add a twist into any design easily, here is a collection of 37 beautiful hand-drawn Photoshop brush sets:

Swirls

Swirl Set

Swirly Scribbles

Twizzles

Whirls

Aesthetique Swirl

Flowers, Plants & Ornaments

Flower Brush Set

Paisleys

Floral Ornaments

Flowers & Vines

Plants

Folk-Art Floral Brush Set

Flower Doodles

Doodled Trees

Hearts

Hearts Set

Beautiful Hearts

Scribbled Hearts

Hearts

Two Tone Hearts

Arrows

Sketchy Arrows

Creative Doodles

Arrow Doodles

Hand Drawn Arrow Brushes

Various Objects

Doodles Set

Stick Men

School Days

Scribbles

Primitive Art

Beach Sketches

Various Doodles

Handmade Doodles

Pencil

Sketchbook Scribbles

20 Stencil Words

Dotted Brushes

Star Doodles

Frames

Hand Drawn Star Brushes

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It works by selecting spots in design files & marking them as Wordpress variables like:

• post title
• post text
• author link
• etc..

It produces valid XHTML-CSS code & themes are automatically widget-ready.

Divine has an integrated FTP-client & it is a very ideal plug-in for anyone who is not that into coding and/or Wordpress theming.

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In both cases, for Photoshop users, quality & free PSD files are a treasure. Whether you use them in a tiny part of the whole or build your composition around them, they will help a lot.

Here is a collection of 35 beautiful & free PSDs for charming designs:

Colorful Nature

80 PSD Raindrops

Slick and Clean Button (With Tutorial)

Swirl Mania

Sticker-Like Badges

Creative Elements Pack

Shiny Buttons

The Planet

Sweet Chat Bubble (With Tutorial)

Menu Design

Night, Birds & Trees

Pixel Arrows

Web 2.0 Stickers

Globe

Post-It Notes

Frames

Documents & Letters

Folder Icons

Credit Card Icon

Product Box

Old Book

Vector T-Shirt

Chocolate Arrow

Login Panel

3D Box

Shiny Speech Bubble

Picture Frame

3D Cube

Film Frame

Pencil

Apple

3D Product Box

Paper Bag

File Icon

Battery

Key Lock

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ABRView is a free software that makes this process much easier. It allows you to define the folder(s) where brushes are installed & preview them.

Also, once you download a brush, although you have an opinion on how it looks, you can not be sure until installing it, running Photoshop & checking the look from the brush palette. As ABRView can display brushes from any folder, you simply save time on seeing how they look.

It has an .exe version for Windows & .jar version for Mac & Linux.

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Controlling these applications via keyboard is a part of this "mastering process" which helps you use an application with 2 hands = much faster.

Also, knowing the tricks of tools inside these products definitely opens new doors for creating.

Specifically for designers, here is a list of cheat sheets for the most popular applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, Fireworks & more..

Photoshop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are very well organized, both by menu & alphabetically.

Also, shortcut presets that add lots of extra shortcuts are provided too.

Keyboard shortcuts for previous Photoshop versions:

• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Photoshop 7
• Adobe Photoshop 6
• Adobe Photoshop 5

Photoshop Black And White Cheat Sheet

There are many different way & settings for converting images to black and white with Photoshop.

This is a Photoshop file presenting different filters/presets. Just update 1 file & see the various outputs.

Photoshop Brush Tool Cheat Sheet

A compact & helpful guide on Photoshop’s brush tool.

Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheat Sheet

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

For the previous versions of Illustrator:

• Adobe Illustrator CS3 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)
• Adobe Illustrator CS2 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

Adobe InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

For the previous versions of InDesign:

• Adobe InDesign CS3 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)
• Adobe InDesign CS2 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

QuarkXPress 8 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

For the previous versions of QuarkXpress:

• Adobe QuarkXPress 7 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)

Adobe Pen Tool Cheat Sheet

The Adobe pen tool works similar in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Tips & tricks on using this powerful tool.

Gimp Keyboard Shortcuts (direct link to PDF file)

And more on Gimp:

• Gimp Quick Reference Card (direct link to PDF file)
• Gimp hotkeys on Linux
• Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2

Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference (Mac – PC / direct link to PDF file )

Quick references for previous Fireworks versions:

• Fireworks MX quick reference (Mac – PC)
• Fireworks 4 quick reference (Mac – PC)

Freehand MX, 3D Studio Max, Illustrator & More Shortcuts

Computer Arts presents keyboard shortcuts for Freehand MX, 3D Studio Max, Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop.

3D Studio Max 9 Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts for previous versions of 3D Studio Max:

• 3D Studio Max 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Adobe Bridge And Camera Raw 3 Shortcuts

Final Cut Pro 5 For Mac Shortcuts

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But, there are various ways to harden the process & make it not worth trying like disabling right clicks, using images as backgrounds, adding watermarks to them & more.

Here are the good practices of these options:

Hide The Images

Put A Blank File Over The Real Image

This method will make the real image unreachable unless checked from the source.

You can use the original image as a background & put a transparent-blank file over it that matches the size of the real image.

For ex:

<div id="image1" style="background-image: url(originalImage.jpg);">
    <img src="blank.gif" height="250px" width="300px">
</div>

So, when the image is right-clicked, it will be the blank.gif that can be reached.

There are also 2 JavaScript framework ready solutions for this:

• dwProtector for MooTools
• dwProtector for jQuery

Auto-Slice The Images

Super Simple Image Tiles

This is a very effective image protection method.

An image is automatically sliced into pieces but presented as a whole. The original image is also hidden as watermarked.

Some serious disadvantages of this method are:

• adding a relatively more overload to the server as multiple requests will be made
• you’ll have lots of image files

Using Watermarks (Pre-Generated)

Adding a watermark to an image is an effective way of protecting images.

Besides the cons like:

• image not being presented clearly (there will be a watermark on it!)
• can be downloaded and cropped

as the source file is marked, there is no way to get the original image.

There are several solutions to watermark images with ease. From modifying it via Photoshop, GIMP, etc. to some web-based watermarking services like:

PicMarkr

A free service to watermark images online.

Multiple images can uploaded once or they can be grabbed automatically from Flickr.

It is possible to apply a text or an image watermark.

WatermarkTool

Another web-based free watermarking service.

You can upload images to be watermarked, customize the watermark text to be applied & download the updated images.

Using Watermarks (Generated Server-Side)

 It is possible to automate the watermarking process at the server level. Once applied, this is the easiest method to use.

To mention, implementing these methods require at least a bit of scripting knowledge.

Here are several libraries & examples for this:

Asido: PHP Image Processing Library

Asido is a PHP image processing library that can work with GD2, Magick Wand & Image Magick.

Here is a detailed information on watermarking capabilities of Asido.

Other PHP solutions:

• Put watermark on images using PHP
• Watermark your images with PHP 5 and GD
• Watermark images on the fly in PHP

ASP.NET Solutions:

• Thumbnail and watermark images on the fly with ASP.NET
• Watermarking Images in ASP.NET with an HttpHandler
• CoolWatermark (paid)

Ruby Solutions:

• RMagick
• Watermarking your images with RMagick

Use Flash To Show The Images

swfIR

swf image replacement displays images inside a Flash file which makes right-click impossible.

And, images can still be styled with CSS properties

On the other other hand the image source is mentioned at the source which again can not provide a total protection.

Browser Based Image Protection

Disable Right Click

Disabling right click via JavaScript is a way to start protecting images. But it is a simple step which can stop novice users as it is possible to disable JavaScript or get the path to the original image by reaching the source.

Is this a good method? Definitely no as you will be disabling all the right-click options like print, copying the link, etc. (updated 23 Jan 2009)

It may be a better solution to disable only save functions which this jQuery plugin can help.

Disable IE6 Image Toolbar

When an image is hovered for a while, IE6’s image toolbar appears automatically with an option to save the image. This can be disabled too.

Add the following code between the head tags of the webpage.

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

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They make a complicated task much easier & help creating amazing effects, designing faster & better.

There are lots of free Photoshop plug-ins which can fire your skills. This post aims to present  most of them (150+) in a comprehensive way.
 

How to install Photoshop plug-ins?

Photoshop plug-ins are .8bf files. After downloading a plug-in, simply place it in the presets>plug-ins folder of the Photoshop’s installation folder (creating a folder with a name defining the plug-in & placing the plug-in files inside the folder will make it more organized).

Here they are:

AlphaWorks – Transparency Effects

A free Photoshop plugin for easily removing black or white values and making the region transparent.

It provides 6 different filters to match any photo type.

ColourWorks – Colour Modification

It has 20 effects to modify image colour values in several ways.

The plug-in can be used for digital-photo color correction or any other transformations.

EdgeWorks – Cool Artistic Styles

It has 20 effects to create dramatic edge and colour modifications.

This Photoshop plugin is handy for photo transformations for a highly stylized look & creating interesting texture effects

ScreenWorks

Easily create screen/mesh patterns with 30 options.

In one step, you can add small detailed and repetitive texture overlay effects to areas of your image.

EmbossWorks

The plug-in has helps creating various quick and easy embossing styles with 30 effects. T

They are helpful when adding a sense of depth or relief to an otherwise flat image.

SwapShop – Colour Exchange

Easily switch colour values in your images with 15 filters.

You can reach surreal effects by playing with the combinations.

MasterBlaster – Maximum Colour Toning

Use intense colour into your images with 20 filters.

Ideal for adding dramatic impacts to your photos or work.

Mezzy – Artistic Grain

15 effects to create simple grain and mezzo styles.

B/W Conversion

A Photoshop black-white conversion plugin with powerful features.

Tones of every color can be managed. And there are ready to use popular presets, an option to simulate the effect of color lens & more.

Selective Saturation

Sometimes using saturation may caouse some parts of the the images to be "over-saturated".

Using the plug-in, you can define a "saturation zone" and apply a saturation to only that area.

Local Contrast Enhancement

This is used to bring out the details.

It simply increases the contrast between a pixel’s value and the mean value of the adjacent pixels in a local area.

High Pass Sharpening

This Photoshop plug-ing sharpens images with the high-pass method (high-pass is known as producing less halos).

Soft Focus

Give a soft focus effect to images.

You can set:

• focus softness
• overall strength of the effect
• blending mode of  the overlayed blured image.

Lens Correction

A plug-in for fixing barrel and pincushion distortions that are produced by most  zoom camera lenses.

Contrast Mask

It decreases the overall contrast of the image, helps bringing out details in highlights and shadows.

Gradient Blur

This Photoshop filter helps drawing viewer’s attention to specific point by simply bluring other parts.

Xpose

A plug-in to adjust exposure.

Easily adjust highlights and shadows & preview the results.

DepthDither

It is specially suitable to be used on images that will be displayed on LCD screens which may show color steps in a gradient effect.

virtualPhotographer

With over 50 presets, this amazing Photoshp plugin can auto-apply combinations of

• film grain
• color modification
• B/W
• soft focus
• high contrast & more..

It also has lots of other free effects (click here).

AAA Options

It provides 50 filter options & 16 blend modes.

Effects are specially useful to be used on frames.

AAA Blur Options

A plug-ing providing Gaussian blur filter options (color blur & soft light).

Filter Forge Freepack 1 – Metals

7 metal textures and effects including alien-looking or industrial metallic surfaces, rust or aluminum foil, and more.

Filter Forge Freepack 2 – Photo Effects

7 photo enhancing effects.

Add sunny style, apply grunge look or color tints, age the image, and more to your photos.

Filter Forge Freepack 3 – Frames

7 filters for creating frames to your photos.

Some of them are: a realistic painted wooden frame or a vignette, a classic elegant feel or a ragged harsh look, and more.

Camouflage

Create an army-look with Photoshop easily.

The plug-in enables you to control 8 color layers including old & new army colors.

Night-Vision

This Photoshop night vision filter can make any image like night-vision googles do.

Images can be transformed to:

• like they are in a black-white or CCTV security camera
• an infra-red look

Snowflakes

Control all aspects of snow like sizes, amount & more.

By playing with the colors, you can even make them look like confettis.

Snowscape

Decide which areas the snow should fall down on by making the rest of the image transparent, then start the plug-in, configure how much and where the snow should fall, and SnowScape does the rest

Outliner

Easily get the outlines of an image.

It picks out various edges making them more expressive.

Dreamy Photo

Add a dreamy effect to images.

It gives a warm & soft feel. Some features are:

• Add Ghost Contrasts to images
• Offset Ghosting with Zoom angles and degrees
• Blend in Transitions and Ghosting

Mosaic

A beautiful plug-in providing various results of mosaic looks. You have:

• photo-realistic depth
• variable tile size
• color options

to play with.

Iridescent

Amount of reflection, colour strength, smoothing can be played with to create a pearl-like effect.

Water Ripples

With a 3D look & feel, the plug-in has several options to create realistic water ripple effects.

Jama 3D

Create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images.

Making various bricks, herring bone textures or crumpled paper effects is very easy.

Lattice Composer

A deformation plug-in for Photoshop.

It produces a variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations. with extraordinary 3D text effects.

Luce

Control the light in all aspects to create stunning effects.

Stereogram Lab Filter

A plug-in for creating hidden image stereograms.

Mosaic Toolkit

Add mosaic effects to images.

It has several mosaic styles like: squares, rings, balls, gears & more.

Cell size and contrast can be set as well as the ball glow & brightness.

Smart Refinement Filter

This Photoshop plug-in has the following features:

• sharpness
• depth-of-field (DOF) enhancement
• noise reduction

Fur 2

It disperses a simple figure (a line, acircle..) over the image.

Kaleidoscope

This Photoshop kaleidoscope filter has 3 effects:

• Mirror
• Copy
• Blend

to get attractive results.

Sorting Tiles

Image is cut in several blocks, sorting of colours is done and they are redistributed as patterns.

Thredgeholder

Easily detect edges of images.

Chalkaholic

This Photoshop sketch plugin is a compilation of chalk and charcoal type effects with artistic panache and flair.

3D Shadow

Easily create different types of 3D shadows from any object.

All settings are present in a single window – transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others.

Photoshop Plug-ins By Graham White

Graham White is presenting 2 filter sets with a total of 9 filters.

The filters are:

• Bleach Bypass
• Blur Threshold
• Dual Threshold
• RGB to Grayscale
• Blur Color
• Blur Custom
• Channel Noise
• Channel Shift
• Plain Gradient

Sinedots 2

This plug-in can help creating wavy effects. And, mostly, you’ll be surprised with the random results you get.

Shear

With several distortions, get a shear effect.

Retro Dots

Easily create retro dot grids based on selections. Simple yet effective.

Several Free Photoshop Plug-ins

A set of free plug-ins like ornament, ghost, solidify & more..

Blots 2

With 3 modes: normal, camouflage & gradient, this plug-in is very ideal to create textures using blots.

Color MegaMix

A plug-in to replace colors in Photoshop.

Simply select the source colors & the target to replace them.

Eraser Genuine

It enables you to erase certain parts of images by:

• asking you the color to delete
• asking you the color to keep

By playing with the tolerance, you can decide how sharp the erasing will be. Check also Eraser Classic.

Fine Threshold

Rather than the standard threshold in Photoshop, this plug-in has anti-aliased & sharper results.

Flat Median

The plug-in has few advantages over the regular median effect.

Flatness can be controlled, it is isotropic & effect can be applied both vertically and horizontally.

Icon Plug-in For Photoshop

It becomes possible to import & export .ico files with Photoshop.

It supports multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency and allows making icons, which are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.

The plug-in also supports non-standard icons of different sizes and color resolutions, including monochrome, 16 colors, 256 colors, 24-bit True Color, and 32-bit True Color with semi-transparency.

PhotoFreebies

A set of free Photoshop plug-ins to perform photo manipulations.

Plug-ins included are:

• B/W
• Desaturation Gradient
• Histo Fix
• Remove Transparency
• Sepia
• Luma Negative
• Chroma Negative
• RGB2YCC and YCC2RGB
• RGB2HSL and HSL2RGB

DeNoise – Noise Reduction

This plug-in has 4 noise reduction algorithms:

• ow-pass
• bilateral
• adaptive bilateral
• low frequency.

These methods can used separately or in combination to get the maximum result.

Harmonix

Play with 10 harmonic frequencies of a line to create waveforms of any kind.

Greyscaler

With 3 sliders, every channel can be controlled & there are controls for contrast, brightness and depth.

Technicolor

To create a retro film effect, apply this filter which imitates the old 2-color Technicolor process.

Beautifier

A plug-in for softening & enriching images to make them pop.

You can create flattering soft-focus, high-key and infra-red simulation effects.

Bleach Bypass

The bleach bypass technique is skipping the partial / complete bleaching stage during the processing of a colour film. This prevents the silver from being removed from the negative, and the result is a contrasty image with muted colours.

The plug-in makes it so easy to apply the effect.

Weaver

Creates a weave effect. An useful plug-in specially for pattern design.

SuperPNG

This Photoshop plugin is faster than Adobe’s own PNG plug-in and saves considerably smaller PNGs.

xMeta

A set of 3 plug-ins for exporting metadata from Photoshop in raw binary form.

It can export:

•  ICC Profiles
• EXIF camera data
• IPTC press information 

Julia World

Julia ’s curves are a family of mathematical curves (fractals) renowned for their beauties.

This plug-in is extremely simple : to track down an interesting curve, use the Julia control or press the random button (that’s all !). Besides, it allows endless zooming, to customize colours, and to save settings.

Melt

Apply deformations on images with size, intensity, and aspect ratio of waves to get melting effects.

Projection

Using various perspective effects, you can tile images in infinite space (copy or mirror mode), or to repeat edges.

Posterizer

Add a poster-like effect to your images by playing with the luminosity and the hue

Autointerlace

Create interlace effects, just like a TV screen easily to create a techno look.

j2k

A Photoshop plug-in for reading/wiriting JPEG 2000 files.

Free Photoshop Plug-ins By Richard Rosenman

Richard Rosenman is presenting 24 free Photoshop plug-ins including:

• 3D Sphere Generator
• Color Bar Generator
• Grid Generator
• & much more..

Other Free Photoshop Plug-ins

• Plug-ins by Xero Graphics
• Almathera plug-in collection
• Filters by Filter Factory
• L&K filters
• BPelt.com’s Photoshop plug-ins
• Plug-ins by Forensic Science Resources
• Topaz DeJPG

Do you know of other free & quality Photoshop plug-ins? Please share them in the comments & I’ll be happy to update the list.

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