Pixel Art Tools

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Check out this Pixel Art Tool by halfshag, a Flash application that allows users to create their own isometric drawings easily. Users also have the option to save their work and post it to the screensaver and gallery.

Here you can take a look at it: http://www.halfshag.com/iso/

Seam Carving and Smart Resizing

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My eyes were recently drawn to this video of a new technique for resizing images from Dr Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science.

This technique can be used for reducing and enlarging images as well as removing items from the image which are not wanted (by manually painting ‘negative weight’ over an area of the image).

Transparent iframes

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One of the advantages of the new tag in Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 6 is that you can make the inline frame transparent. Here’s how to do it..

Pixel Pusher - What’s it about then?

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This site is designed for those interested in design in its various forms. My objective is to provide ideas which may be of help at the moment of designing. If there is a difference between a good and a bad designer it is his design creativity.

Many people think that this is an incidental feature within the psychological layout of people, but I believe that just as theoretical notions, creativity can be acquired afterwards. After all, imagination is a mental process just as the formal logic reasoning we apply to mathematics. That is to say, it can be exercised and developed.

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