Many Web designers use tools besides photoshop which make their lives easier. These are tools made by design community members for the rest of the community. Here are a few of them:

1) Tiled Backgrounds Designer

When it comes to tiled background patterns BgPatterns.com is there to help. This handy generator allows you to create, modify and test out tiled backgrounds which you can download after you are happy with the results.

At the pattern editing you can define the pattern and background color, the canvas size and texture, the preset image(with scaling and opacity modifying possibility), and you are also able to rotate the pattern.

If you don’t want to create your own pattern you can simply browse and download member created patterns.

2) Blind Text Generator

If you are tired of using Lipsum.com to generate dummy text to fill your designs BlindTextGenerator.com is just the right tool for you! The tool allows you to generate dummy text from several sources like Lipsum, Kafka, Cicero, Pangram and allows you to preview how the text would look like in a box with the width, font and line spacing specified by you.

You may also define the number of paragraphs/characters that you want to generate. This tool clearly says: its time to let lipsum.com go!

3) Watermark your designs

PicMarkr.com allows you to easily watermark your images in 3 steps. You upload the preview of your design, select watermark type(Text, image or stripe) and download the watermarked image which you will share with your customer. Simple as that.

The best part is that you can select the watermark text,image AND stripe, by this way you got more flexibility than ever in your hands. After you’re done you also have the possibility to upload the image(s) to your flickr account.

4) Vectorize your images

Even though everyone knows that wizards applications don’t create perfect outcomes Vectormagic.com is pretty close to flawlessly vectorizing images. It’s cool if you created a logo and want to print it on your shirt you will need it to be vectorized. If you re very short on cash i recommend this tool, but if you have $5 to spare than you can get a perfect vector image from a freelance vectorizer.

5) Stripe Designer

Imo Stripedesigner.com is a must for every web designer. This nifty generator allowss you to generate cool stripe patterns for your designs. It also provides a cool feature which allows you to preview it on different colored backgrounds, this way you can determine that the stripe will 100% fit your design. Awsome!

6) Stripe Generator

The most used stripe generator on the whole wide world! Stripegenerator.com is the #1 source to create and to get stripes for your designs! You can define the stripe size, alignment, color, background color and shadows. If your not satisifed with the outcome you can always head over to the showcase section and download stripes created by other users.

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