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Resources
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:54 am
by Mikari
What resource sites do you use to make shrines? This is the place to share them! Image galleries, brushes, fonts, they're all welcome. Please only post links to sites that allow visitors to use their resources.
Fonts:
Da Font: It has quite the variety.
Image editing:
Gimp: My favorite! It's good for editing, resizing, using brushes, making animated gifs, etc.
Image editing:
Real World: I haven't tried out all the programs, but I really like the cursor editor.
My own little resource dump (mostly simply tileable backgrounds) can be found
here.
I also have a lot of cursors that can be "installed" on websites (additionally to computers) to transform the mouse arrow into a chibi. I haven't organized them into their own folder yet, but save for the ones in the Slayers, Final Fantasy and Pokemon
folders all the others can be found in the Pixel folder. Tutorials links for installation are included along with the files at
Deviant Art.
Re: Resources
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:35 am
by Todd
favicon.css is pretty nice. It's a favicon generator, and makes the process really simple.
Re: Resources
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:33 pm
by Vii
I use a variety of resources, mainly textures, brushes, and patterns from websites like
FEEL,
Hybrid Genesis,
99mockingbirds,
Sanami276@dA, and
crazykira-resources@dA amongst others.
I get my fonts from daFont.com and most of my brushes are from defunct resource sites that I've had since 2006-ish. I used to only use one site's resources for all of my design work, and when that site shut down unexpectedly I had nothing xD So now I back everything up on my computer in neatly organized folders so I always know where my resources came from xD
I used Photoshop CS5 currently :) And Notepad for coding. Oh, and
Minitokyo for high quality images.
Re: Resources
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:46 pm
by Camy
Brusheezy is the number one place I go to find brushes following the ones at dA of course.
Then I found
Lost & Taken a beautiful texture site that are HQ and they're ALL free. All of them.
Of course, there's
W3Schools.com when you're stuck (I get stuck a lot haha) and there's also
CSS3.info if you want to see what CSS3 can do in browsers that currently supports it.
I use Adobe Photoshop CS5 and sometimes Paint Shop Pro 8 when cutting since it's easier for me. I also use Dreamweaver CS5 instead of Notepad now since it helps you ending tags and tells you which line is which - which is handy when any errors in validating the code. It's also color coded so if you mess something up, you will notice (helps a lot since I usually miss a " or something silly |D
Re: Resources
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:26 pm
by Mikari
W3 Schools! how did I forget that even if I use it so much?
There's also
JS Lint
Re: Resources
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:53 am
by Vii
Oh! One of my favorite resource sites is actually hosted on Neopets.
Nienke Resources :P I love her lighting effects in her textures~
Re: Resources
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:19 am
by Mikari
Those textures are cute! I didn't realize Neopets gave that many page customization options. I learned on Angelfire and Geocities when I started out...
Here's another one I just remembered:
Code Tutorial
Re: Resources
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:30 am
by Camy
Omg, how could I forget
Google Web Fonts.
Basically you can choose a font and use it on a site by using the code and following the instructions Google gives you.
It's amazing and so magical 8D
Re: Resources
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:39 am
by dubiousdisc
Re: Resources
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:09 am
by Camy
Oh wow, very nice list dubious!
I recognize some of those links - especially the grid system :D