发现有不少外国朋友看我的blog,为保他们也有东西可看,特附英文在下。大家也可趁机复习下English。
也许你和我一样只能使用windows进行网页设计开发工作,而设计时常用的操作诸如颜色选择,创作字体,编辑图片,或是测试效果是否都必须麻烦地打开新的软件窗口呢?这篇文章将告诉你一堆有用的网络应用,解除设计师的烦恼。
When it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.
In this article, you’ll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.
kuler是Adobe公司创造的web应用。你可以用它创作你的色彩搭配并与他人分享。你可以多次使用那些他人提交的色彩主题,或者使用其中的工具为网站自己搭配颜色。
kuler is a web-based application by Adobe that helps you create and share color themes. You can peruse theuser-submitted color themes or create your own color themes with the kuler Create web tool.
pixlr是拥有Photoshop般效果的在线编辑应用,它有层,滤镜或是图章等常用功能。可以一试。如果任嫌不足,可以留言和我联系。
pixlr is a web-based image editor with a Photoshop-like user interface; pixlr has similar features like layers, filters, and even a Clone Stamp tool. For more image-editing web tools, check out this list of web-based image editors.
Wellstyled’s Color Scheme Generator也是个在线颜色搭配应用。不过它的界面更简洁直接。而且现在还有了新的版本。不过似乎老版本更清爽些
Wellstyled’s Color Scheme Generator is a simple web tool that helps designers produce color themes. It has an intuitive interface and the ability to bookmark generated color themes.
Typetester 允许你做关于各种关于字体的在线测试,可以用你输入的文字同时做比较测试,甚至可以使用你自己电脑上安装的字体。强力推荐。
Typetester allows you to test, tweak, and compare screen typography. It has a variety of typefaces that include web-safe fonts like Arial and Verdana – but it can also use your personal fonts.
TypeNavigator是帮助你找寻心目中希望使用的字体的在线好工具,特别是外文字体。
TypeNavigator is a very clever web tool that can help designers identify typefaces. It’s great for hunting down a font you saw that you’d like to use on your own designs.
BGPatterns是在线制作图案的工具,可以自己制作,修改,或是使用他人制作的好图案。多为你的ps库准备点东西吧。
BGPatterns is a web tool for generating tiled patterns. Its intuitive (yet robust) user interface will allow you to tweak, edit, and resize a wide range of patterns.
Dabbleboard是个方便的在线协作绘图工具,界面简洁易用,最关键是可以多人合作。如果你喜欢这种合作模式,可以在这里找到更多。就可惜是英文。
Dabbleboard is a convenient web-based collaborative drawing tool that’s designer-friendly. Create web layouts, design user interfaces, or draw freehand with other fellow designers. For more web-based collaboration tools, check out
this list.
PicMarkr是个在线水印制作工具。如果你不想你的设计被轻易copy,那么试试这个吧。和flickr相似的界面,强力推荐。
PicMarkr is a web-based custom watermarking tool that you can use to protect and prevent design theft. It’s great for mockups or copyrighted designs that you publish online.
favicon.cc是个相当快捷的在线像素图创建工具,除动手画外,你还可以从你的电脑里直接上传图片转换。
templatr是个创作网站模版的在线工具。不但极其好用,还能下载中文版源码,自己安装用。超强力推荐。
templatr is a handy web application for creating web page templates. It has a very simple user interface, making itself an excellent tool for quick-and-dirty mockups of web layouts.