Create your own Patterns and Background Images within 40 seconds

Everyone loves to design their own background images or atleast a background design pattern. Whether its a blog or website or any social profile page then background image is must, but choosing the appropriate background image is slightly a tougher work and our taste is like a mad monkey, it keeps on changing our minds.


You can even ask me "there are millions of background images and stuffs available on the web and whats so special in this post ?" but really finding images matching the foreground colors and copyrights are definitely boring and takes a lot of time. If you are a master in Adobe Photoshop or any other tool its good, but it takes lot of time. then what is the solution ?? continue reading below ..



So here's a great tool called Repper where you can simple upload any image and drag a small window over the image and whooaaa ! Your pattern is ready - like shown below. The uploaded image can be anything which is captured on your camera or some wallpapers which you like , etc..



You can use Repper to create unique background patterns for your social profiles or your personal webpage or use it for posters or business cards, to design textile patterns or whatever you can think of; your imagination is your only limit!

How to use it ?

1. First go here and by default there are some images from which you can create your pattern designs.

2. You have a drag feature (white color box) you can drag and design your pictures from the right bottom image.



(1. Random image button and Upload Image button 2. Drag white box 3. Save button)

3. On the top bar you have 2 types of patters , you can click and change according to your taste.

4. You can also click the random image button and change the images.

5. Then you have an option of uploading your own image and creating a pattern from them and

6. Finally you can save your design. You can either link to it from your social profile or webpage, or download the pattern to your computer.



The small picture shown with a green border at the right bottom is what I uploaded, and further the green square inside the image is the area selected and finally the red arrows show the pattern that is formed by that small selected area.

You can also chose images and patterns from the Gallery page (left side) - here. You have an option to download the selected from the right bottom window.

Tip : You can create a beautiful background image for your twitter profile.

Repper - Homepage Link

Give this tool a try and turn your images into eye-catching designs.

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Perfect Search Engine for Icons - Iconfinder

Icon Finder is a New Search Engine for finding your Favorite Icons on the web. Icon Finder provides high quality icons for web designers and developers in an easy and efficient way.



At Iconfinder you can find many good icons for your blog/website. You can browse all the Icon sets here - Click here to Browse Icon sets. You can also download preferred Icons in 2 formats - Png and Ico.

For example - Click here for User web2.0 Icon sets.



If your not satisfied with the Icons given there, you can also order your Custom designed icons which fits exactly your needs. You can now order custom designed icons directly from Iconfinder here - Click here to Order your Custom Designed Icons.

Some Features of Iconfinder are :

# Everybody can add tags for the icons. When new tags are submitted other users can vote. If new tags don't get enough positive votes, the changes will be reversed.

# Lots of new icon sets and a nice way to browse them all without searching.

#Setting limits to the sizes of the icons shown, changing the number of results per page and changing the background color is now possible with just a few clicks.

# You can also send your Designed Icons to their E-Mail id.

Iconfinder - Homepage

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Adobelearn and Mozillaca - Bookmarks for 9th July

yia sas readers!! As i have mentioned yesterday, I'll be sharing two bookmarks with you now. Today you got two beautiful websites to be Bookmarked!



1. Learn anything about Adobe product completely :

Are you much interested in learning about Adobe products like Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Page Maker, Frame maker, etc ?? If that is your case you'll enjoy this site with more fun and knowledge. Adobelearn.com is an Online resource where you ll learn anything about Adobe products in an easier, faster and Completely.



This site not only gives you tutorials about Photoshop or Flash, it also has some tutorials about Flex, ColdFusion, Premiere, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc. You must surely give a visit to this site and check out your if there is a tutorial of the product you want to use. It's an Best resource for web design students :-)

Adobelearn - Homepage

2. Microblogging service from Mozilla Firefox :

This is specially for Firefox developers and Mozilla lovers :-D Yeah! Mozillaca microblogging service from Mozilla is same like Twitter where you can send messages to your friends and fans using the Web, RSS, or instant messages in no more that 140 words. For this you need to register, Login and send messages.



Mozillaca has an greater advantage of sharing information to fellow Firefox developers and In this way anybody that is part of the Firefox developing community can get in touch with others who think about the same things, and have similar minds. You must give this site a visit.



Mozillaca - Homepage

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Best Online and Desktop Image Editing Tools

Salaam Alekum! pronounced as (sulam ulakume) don't be wondering what is that, I greeted all my readers in Arabic language. so today when i was talking to my friend through Gtalk he asked me to suggest some image editing tools for his blogging use, decided why shouldn't I write something on that ?



Now I have some two divisions: Online and Desktop Image Editing tools, First ill share Desktop Image Editing tools which i use it and recommend personally.

1. Photoscape :
Photoscape is a cute photo viewing and editing software with different features. It has viewer, built-in Flickr option so that you can view the random Flickr images, batch editor , Merge images, Animated gif maker, Print, Splitter, Screen Capture, color picker, Renamer , Raw converter. I use only Photoscape for cropping and Merging images. The above picture(Obama and stuff's) is done using Photoscape and it only took 3 mins for me because it contains all ready made icons :)



Photoscape - Download | Homepage | Screenshots

2. Paint.NET :
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. This is one of the best alternative for Photoshop which is less than 2MB and supports plugins. You won’t find a better one than this!



Paint.NET - Download | Homepage

3. IrfanView :
IrfanView is another great tool that lets you view and convert images. You can do more advanced things like creating slideshows, batch processing, and playing sounds and movies. You can view any file format with IrfanView. Plus, it also supports plugins and even has different toolbar skins so that you can change the look of your toolbar. Though IrfanView has less emphasis on image editing and more on image viewing, it’s still one of the best!



IrfanView - Download | Homepage | Plugins | Toolbar skins

4. Picasa :
As you all know Picasa is one of Google's products. Its helps you to easily upload your images to web from your computer in easy steps. It also provides powerful editing tools. Then use Picasa Web Albums to share those photos online with family, friends, and the world.

Picasa - Download | Homepage

5. Fotografix :
Its one of the best alternative for Photoshop, it allows you to adjust and add filters to images as well as retouching photos.You can also use layers so that you can even create basic graphic designs and transparent backgrounds. Since the file size is so small and doesn’t require installation, Fotografix can be run from a USB drive. There is support for a large range of different image formats. Fotografix also allows you to use scripts which automate frequently repeated tasks.



Fotografix - Download

6. GIMP :
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
One of my favorites!



GIMP - Download | Homepage | Screenshots

If you have any problem in using these tools, use comments section or mail me :)
Feel free to use the comments section and share your Image editing tools with us :)

Now i'll share some Online Image Editing Tools :

Online editing tools provide you a good platform where you can work with images anywhere on the web. Here is list of some best online image editing tools which are very powerful and very near to Photoshop and other desktop based image editing tools.

1. Pixlr - Link
Pixlr is a online image editor, that means that you can upload your images and edit them in your browser.

2. SUMO Paint - Link
SUMO Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support.

3. Aviary - Link
Aviary Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate and more. All you need is a web browser. Try it completely free!

4. Picnik - Link
Picnik is online image editing tool with connecting to your favorite social networking and photo-sharing sites.

5. FotoFlexer - Link
FotoFlexer is the world’s most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.

6. flauntR - Link
flauntR is online photo editing Tool. Its Easy and free, Store unlimited photos for free, 1000s of free photo designs, 100s of free fonts and shapes, Dozens of editing effects.

7. Pixenate - Link
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.

8. Snipshot - Link
Snipshot is one more online image editing tool also Snipshot Pro version available it coast $9 per month.

9. Facebomb - Link
Facebomb is is online photo editing Tool with good photo designs and large number of effects. You can also write text on pictures. I'm loving it!

10. Photobucket - Link
As you know Photobucket provides you a image editing tool, which is good with more effects.

You can find millions of online editing tools but i personally perfer these above one's. You can also share your tools through comments section.

Don't forget to read how to copy text from images and How to search images in private secret directories!

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Extract the Exact Color codes From Websites or Blogs

Have you ever wanted to extract color from a designer's website? and u have no idea how to ?? Then , this is for you ..



Like Your Colors is a free online tool that extracts the colors of any website or blog. It actually reads the website’s stylesheet(style.css file) to find the colors and the end results are surprisingly accurate. Just enter the URL of any website or blog at the bottom and click Get colors. and in few seconds you will get the colors.



Like Your Colors - Link



If your a Die-hard Firefox user , then this Add-on is specially for you - Install colorzilla a Firefox add-on that allow you to hover with your mouse on any colors in the page and i’ll give the the color code you want.

If you need to know the General color codes then 4096 color wheel helps to chose the Web smart colors.

4096 color wheel - link

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