creativecommons

This website provides CC licensed knowledge units and is a non-profit organization. Now you can directly search for photos and works that can be used for commercial purposes from libraries, Flickr, 500px and other platforms all over the world through his website. It is a collection of historical tracks and public domain materials of modern people. With the prevalence of open source concepts, the data inside will become more and more. It is a must-have collection source for designers. Note that if you want to search for photos that can be used for commercial purposes, you need to check the two items "Use for commercial purposes" and "Modify, adapt, or build upon".

 

Freenom

This website provides a one-year use of a website name, including .tk, .ga, .ml, .cf, .gq five domains. In addition, this website has a traditional Chinese interface. Previously, I shared a free hosting service that can be used, but you need to have a domain name to open an account. Now, through Freenom's free website registration, you can use it at the same time. The entire application process is very simple and does not require entering credit card account information. Remember to choose a 12-month free period. In the future, the cost of renewing the domain is around 10 US dollars per year.

 

Wordmark

This website allows you to input an English string and it will automatically apply hundreds of different fonts to it, allowing you to compare them side by side. When designing a logo, you can input the brand's English name and see how it looks in different fonts, which is a great way to find inspiration for web design or typesetting. The website also has features such as the ability to specify text size, white text on a black background or black text on a white background, and the ability to switch between uppercase and lowercase. This is a great tool for designers unless you only use a few fixed fonts for all your designs.

 

紐約大都會博物館

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is providing 370,000 images as digital files in a CC0 public domain format, which means they can be freely used and edited by anyone without any copyright restrictions. In addition to scanned images, the collection also includes photographs of three-dimensional artworks. The museum is also participating in the Wikipedia Loves Art program, updating its collection information and related interpretive materials on Wikipedia and releasing structured data on Github. It also has partnerships with organizations like ITHAKA-Artstor and Pinterest, as well as other visual image-based communities, to promote the use and exposure of the museum's collection. It seems that in the future, the museum's ticket sales will continue to increase. The link provided is the museum's authorization statement, so be sure to read it before downloading these free images.

 

Warmify

Setting up a website to reduce resource loads, many people use CDN caching techniques, Warmify is a company that provides CDN services. In addition, there is a free website acceleration CDN for WordPress, allowing visitors to help you disperse image traffic, up to 10G of traffic is free, 1G over is 1.5 yuan. Interested web designers can give it a try.

 

Icons8

Icons8 is a free icon service that requires a link to the Icons8 website to be placed on your website or project. The download page also provides a link back to the Icons8 website. Additionally, the entire collection of icons can be downloaded as a package by registering with your email address. The package includes more than 30,000 icons. A paid option is also available for downloading vector format icons.

 

Zenkit

Sometimes designers have to work on multiple projects at the same time, and when they encounter a project they like, they will unconsciously spend a lot of time on details, and other projects will be forgotten. This project management website allows you to plan the time and deadline for each project and even take notes, and you can also share project permissions with colleagues, synchronize the process and progress of updating projects. Additionally, this online tool manages projects in a visual design style, with features such as lists, boards, tables, calendars, etc. Interested designer friends can give it a try.

 

Lorempixel

Sometimes when designing a website, the owner hasn't prepared images yet, and in this case, designers have to find substitute images to place in the layout of the website. This website provides simple code that can automatically configure random placeholder images for you, and it also supports responsive design and fast image loading. It is a simple and easy-to-use placeholder image generator.

2020.1026 update, the service appears to have ended.

 

photoskop

Before getting a DSLR camera, you can visit this online learning website for camera operation. By adjusting the aperture, shutter speed, and exposure values directly on multiple photo samples, you can see the effect of your adjustments, while also learning what these values represent. It is a good website for learning the basics of photography.

 

Jiemr

Material sharing This time I want to share bird illustrations, more specifically, bird illustration materials. This album was published in the 18th century. Before this, bird illustrations were not in line with the proportions of the real bird or the natural posture. But the author used a realistic style to complete the illustration of these birds. The book is now in the public domain and contains hundreds of bird illustrations. Designers, isn't this a good material for you to download?

 

PDF Candy

This is an online PDF conversion and processing tool that can convert PDFs to Word, images, Excel, PPT, and even convert these files to PDF. In addition to conversion, it also supports merging, splitting, compressing, encrypting, cracking, unlocking, flipping, deleting pages, and adding watermarks to PDFs.