The Loading animation icon generator is an online tool that supports output formats of GIF and vector SVG, and even provides you with the ready-made CSS. Back in the day, we had to rely on Flash to create and continuously play back animations to check for glitches, Oh, the memories!
Burst is a free image library offered by the e-commerce platform Shopify, specifically for businesses. The photos are licensed under CC0 and are primarily high-resolution materials suitable for use on websites or graphic design. They can be freely used for personal or commercial purposes. The licensing is CC0, which means the images can be modified or edited. Additionally, if possible, it is appreciated to credit the source and the author as a token of gratitude to the platform.
The website is a material site with food as its main theme, and most of the food photos have backgrounds to enhance the quality. Furthermore, you can also upload your own works to the platform and share them with others for download and use.
update: the website has been repurposed as of Oct 20, 2020.
A online generator for combining multiple strings into a tag cloud, where words can be arranged in different sizes and orientations, and adjustments can be made to the position and color of each word. Additionally, pre-made styles can be applied, and the image can be downloaded in transparent PNG format by using the "save as" function.
518 is a platform for accepting projects, but instead of recommending the platform, the author is sharing its resources, specifically, templates for project contracts that can be downloaded. These templates cover a wide range of services such as website design, graphic design, illustration, video, writing, programming, translation, industrial design, and more. Even contract or invoice templates for when you need to hire a designer can be downloaded from this website.
This website compiles user manuals from various brands. Although the manuals cannot be used directly as design materials, they can be used as reference for designing user manuals. There are tens of thousands of manuals included on the website. In addition to being used as a design reference, it also means that in the future, user manuals for 3C products that are bought can be thrown away directly, as they can be searched for and viewed directly on the website using a smartphone. This allows for a minimalist lifestyle, getting rid of the accumulation of manuals that are only used once.
This website is a rare free image search website that allows you to directly download image libraries without the need for additional registration. In addition to categorizing, you can directly search for photos. Specifically, in addition to downloading JPG files directly or downloading them as ZIP files, it is suggested to download in this format so that the website's traffic will not be consumed too much. In addition, if you are willing to share your own photos with others for free use, you can also upload photos after registering. Therefore, the photos on this website are very diverse.
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This is a free tool produced by the Taiwan electronics team, similar to the EZPR press release platform shared yesterday, it is also a simple tool platform for publishing press releases. For designers in brand management, it can be a channel for added exposure.
Designers who are launching new products or holding exhibitions need a channel for exposure. The platform I am sharing this time is a self-service news release platform. After registering an account, you can post the press release yourself, increasing the exposure of the event. Some reporters even come here to look for news to get extra exposure.
This website provides free CCO commercial use photos. To download, you need to register as a member. After registration, you can also choose to have the website send 10 high-resolution photos to your email inbox every 10 days. It feels like being fed a library of images at all times.
This is a free and open-source vector drawing software that supports Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, with a portable version and support for 64-bit computers. The best part is that it has a traditional Chinese version. Because it is open-source software, development and updates will be stable. It can edit Adobe Illustrator AI file format and CorelDraw CDR files. Additionally, it's worth mentioning that to move the hand-held drawing board (tablet), it is not the spacebar or the H key, but by holding down the middle mouse button and dragging.
This is a rare GIF image compression tool on the internet, which can effectively compress GIF images. For example, a file that is 359 kb in size can be compressed to 265 kb, reducing it by almost 100 kb. The website interface is very simple, just upload the image to the website and compress it. In addition to GIF compression, other tools are also provided, you can take a look if you're interested. You can see the comparison of the compressed and uncompressed images in the side notes link.