These 10 essential Firefox addons will make your life as a graphic and web designer much easier! The Firefox addons are extremely easy to install and you will be notified when new versions of the addons are available. I have hand picked all of these add ons and without further ado here are the 12 best Firefox addons for graphic designers!
I was looking through the Adobe Design Center recently and noticed they had some really great free resources there! The one that caught my eye the most was the Adobe Video Workshop. The Adobe Video Workshop has dozens and dozens of free video tutorials for 20 different Adobe products. You can find tutorials by selecting one of the 20 products such as Photoshop CS3 or you can find videos by topic such as page layout and design.
Adobe has just released an online application called Photoshop Express which is basically a smaller version of Photoshop geared towards photo editing. It is not as extensive as Photoshop obviously, but it is online and free! Some of the features include resize, tint, distort, red eye removal and much more. You can also ad effects to your photos such as pop color, sketch, hue, black & white and so on.
Famfamfam.com is known for its free icons and these 3 sets have been around for a while. If you haven’t come across these free computer icons, flag icons and web icons you don’t know what you are missing! These are probably the three most useful free icons sets I have ever come across. They are well executed and can be applied to many design projects. Enjoy the free icons!
We all know how expensive and difficult putting together a quality font collection can be, thats why I was delighted to hear that the Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials font collection had been released. Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials is the essential font collection for design education. Adobe has teamed up with the AIGA ( The Professional Association for Design ) to bring designers 500 elegant and trusted fonts, in one extremely affordable package.
SimpleViewer and Lightbox JS are two great resources that can help take your portfolio to the next level by improving the way your work is showcased.
Graffiti fonts are one of the most sought after free fonts available online, so below you will find a great collection of popular free graffiti fonts. All of the fonts can be downloaded for free from the great free font site dafont.com.
Autobahn has taken the time to create three cool free fonts called Gelvetica, Tomatica and Heldentica. They have some interesting photos of the font creation process that really give you a sense of how much work actually goes into creating a custom font, let alone three cool free fonts.
The greatest toolbar ever is StumbleUpon. Its a toolbar add-on that lets you choose categories you are interested in such as “graphic design” and then all you do is click the stumble button and it will take you to a related website.
As a graphic designer I spend most of my time bettering my self at, well graphic design! The one thing I would love to get better at is coding websites, but I just don’t have the time right now, so I pay a professional to do my coding for me which saves me a lot of time and trouble. Speaking of which our new theme should be recoded very soon, just a few more days!
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