Multimedia / Graphics

A friend suggested I take a look at this site photofunia.com It is really neet. The site has something like 100 effects. The effects are preset photos that you can insert your own photo into. The backend must be setup to run a number of image processing scripts on the photo you submit and merge […]

If you are trying to learn a 3d package like blender it is important to read all the information you can but seeing someone actually manipulate a wireframe real time is where you will get the understanding of how tools are suppose to be applied to do different tasks. Blenducation brings together a variety of […]

Having to generate technical drawings from time to time it has been nice to have access to products that can get the job done right and do it without costing a lot. Well Imsi just released DoubleCad a 2D drafting product that is suppose to exceed the features found in AutoCad LT. There are 2 […]

PHP Thumbnailer Class v2.0 A PHP image manipulation class, aimed at generating thumbnails. It features the ability to resize by width, height, and percentage, create custom crops, or square crops from the center, rotate the image, and create AppleTM-style reflections. It also features the ability to perform multiple manipulations per instance (also known as chaining), […]

This is a really useful tool to provide dimensional control over your google sketchup projects. Driving Dimensions is a plugin for Google SketchUp 6 and 7 (a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program) running on Windows 2000/XP/Vista that allows the addition of driving dimensions to SketchUp models. Using the tool you can modify the dimensions of an object to fit the measurements […]

When laying out your site you can sometimes get lost when it comes to choosing colors that match. ColorMixers provides an easy way to generate a relative pallet of colors based on a single base color. The process is pretty simple either enter the RGB values or use the slider to set the base color […]

Kaltura is a video hosting solution provider that is trying to contend with industry giants like Brightcove and YouTube by providing some additional tools for blog and website developers. The product is standard video hosting but on top of that they offer a number of plugins for a variety of different CMS / Blog packages. […]

Browsing through Sourceforge we were looking for something to replace Adobe Illustrator. Well maybe we have found it … InkScape provides a number of drawing tools similar to Illustrator and best of all it is free. If you are use to using Illustrator you will notice that some of the tools are different which will […]

AT&T Labs has a really neet demo site that you should keep in your bag of tricks. Their Text-to-Speech Demo Site allows you to convert your text into a .wav audio file that you can include as a voice over in your videos or audio files. Simply add the text that you want spoken into […]

It happens to a lot of sites that include flash video content in their posts or on the sidebars and also make use of popout menus. You embed the video on your page then go to access your menu and the menu is hiding behind your video. This is bad enough if it is a […]