Tweeaks DesignThis post was sent out to all the email subscribers of the Tweeaks newsletter on Christmas as a special advanced gift. I am posting it here because it’s too good not to. I wanted to create this extremely usuful list of resources for designers and those interested in graphics, and this is how I am wishing you all Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year.

What better way to kick off the first mailing of the Tweeaks Design Newsletter, than this list of resources I’ve rounded up full of useful tools that all web and graphic designers need to have bookmarked and use regularly. These can save loads of time when making a website or any type of graphic element. Simplify your life, and improve your production and quality of all design creations. Utilize the internet for all that it has. It gives you all the knowledge and power at your fingertips you will ever need!

Happy Holidays from Tweeaks

Adobe Kuler

An online color palette tool and a desktop app that uses Adobe Air for creating color schemes. If you haven’t heard or checked out Kuler yet, you must. You don’t know what you’re missing.

Color Scheme Designer

An online tool for making color schemes.

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960 Gridder – Layout Websites with Ease

960 Gridder is an excellent tool for any web developer and designer that wants to easily align, match and/or lay out websites.

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Five Minute Upgrade – Making Your Design Pop

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Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish

Great tips for improving and refinishing your web designs.

WhatTheFont

Automatically identify fonts.

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Typetester

Compare fonts, side by side.

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15 Best Screenshot Tools

55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers

Huge list of online tools for creating all sorts of things quickly.

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Toufee

Create amazing flash slide-shows and movies.

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CSS Typeset

CSS Typeset is a handy tool that generates pure CSS code to put in your CSS Stylesheet based on what options you inputted.

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GrabUp

This is a great file sharing service for the average web designer. Just simple download the free software, then begin to upload your files and share them with your clients.

BrowserShots

Browser Shots takes a snapshot of your design in multiple browsers. You can select which browser screenshots your want from multiple operating systems, and then BrowserShots gives you images from all of the browsers you selected.

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Of course there are many many more tools that could be listed here but then I would be here all day, and wouldn’t have anything for future articles. I’m sure there is plenty that can be done with the tools and resources on this list alone.

Do you have any you’d like to add?

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