Webinar Recording: 5 Great Graphics Tools
by Beth on August 20, 2010
in Ave Z Webinar, Beth Favorite, Free, Worth Paying For
The first Cheapskate Freelancer webinar just ended, and I have to say the webinar platform, Dimdim, did what it said it would do. I’ll post a review of Dimdim in the near future.
In the meantime, enjoy the webinar recording. I covered five great (and free!) graphics tools: Picnik, GIMP, FotoFlexer, Aviary and SignGenerator.org.
The goal of these webinars is to cover a handful of tools in 30 minutes or less. Next month’s topic coming soon!
Photovisi: Create a photo collage in minutes
A running buddy of mine who, like me, raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through Team in Training and wanted to make a collage of pictures from our last running season. I’m going to send her to Photovisi, a cool site that makes collages in a flash.
Without registering, you can choose a template, upload photos, then save your collage and download. I bet putting together a great collage of our pictures from the season would take her about 15 minutes. Way cool.
Photovisi is 100 percent free. Way cool as well.
Photovisi – Collage photo effects.
PS — want to see some of my (slightly humiliating) running pictures from Team in Training seasons? You need to click here. Oh, and if you’ve ever saved money from a tool on this blog, I’d appreciate a small contribution! Or a big contribution!
WhatTheFont!: Font recognition from graphics
WhatTheFont is a lot like one of my favorites, Identifont. This little free service allows you to upload a graphic that contains words, and the system does its best to identify your font.
I tried it with a few logos I’ve developed where I knew what the font was. It hit about 50 percent of the time, but the misses were darn close. I could have easily used one of the fonts they came up with as a close match to the look and feel.
WhatTheFont is a tool brought to you by MyFonts, which looks to be a pretty inexpensive way to purchase interesting fonts. Of course, I still prefer dafont, which is free. I’m funny like that.
