BittBox exploded onto the scene in January* and has quickly established itself. It always looks stunning, has high quality content, covering topics related to Graphics and Web design, and often with a smattering of nice freebies and tutorials. It’s quite inspirational, and I like to watch the RSS. So, umm… check it out.
Following up on yesterdays’ post, there’s perhaps an even better way to find yourself some free stock imagery. Everystockphoto is a search engine that pulls its images from a range of online imagebanks, all free of course. Amongst them are sites like Stock.xchng and flickr. It even utilizes OpenSearch to make it even more useful.
The downside of using EveryStockPhoto however, is that you can’t instantly be sure of the liscensing permissions of the images, and you have to look into it yourself, which can take a little longer than simply searching on places like Stock.xchng. Plus, the search results are often full of amateur photography results pulled from flickr (most of which are tagged in some stupid way for a stock repository) But, where there’s volume, there’s more of a chance that your obscure search results will dredge up something.
Free stock photos? Easy. Stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu) is a lovely little website that offers you just that. There’s a little bit of liscensing on some images, and you have to register (for free, however) to view the full-size images, but that’s all. It’s cunningly tied into their sister site, stock.xpert, which is of course, stuff you have to pay for.
I noticed today that Kuler Desktop has arrived. Kuler, as I’ve mentioned before, is an awesome tool, and one which I first found out about through my research into Apollo. Kuler was always designed to be one of the first Apollo aps, a community colour-scheme orientated plugin for CS3. It was released early in Flex, probably to build up a following, with the promised that the Apollo one was on its’ way. And now it’s here. You can download the .air file from Kuler’s subdomain.
Print Designers have it easy, you know. They get things like Pantone Books, and well, things like that. Time to even the score? I think so, and obviously so does Adobe.
Until recently, I’d touted ColorJack as the best place to gen-up on colour theory and match colours, and it’s still pretty good. But Kuler, from Adobe Labs, is awesome for matching up colour schemes. Even better than that, you can save your schemes and share them with others. If you’re stuck for inspiration, take it from someone else’s scheme. If you need a good match, you can use Kuler’s tools to pick a theoretical partner.
Go ahead, check it out.
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