Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Experiment with different colors and images with the easy to work background designer tool at BGPatterns. Scale, rotate and change the opacity of the images, as well as the overall background texture and color. The tool works in ‘real time’ and there is no need to refresh the page with each change. You can choose from BGPattern images, or download your own.

Browse through thousands of pre-colored seamless pattern backgrounds at PatternCooler. All artwork on this site can be used freely for web and graphic design projects, blogs, Twitter, scrapbooking, MySpace profiles, mobile phone wallpapers etc. The site offers some great retro and modern designs:

Find beautifully done realistic paper and cover textures at DesiznTech. These textures are scanned from real papers, then edited in Photoshop for color balance and effect. You get old paper texture, notebook cover texture, grunge paper texture and even textures with an old gummy price sticker on it. The torn spiral bound papers, wrinkled and three hole punched ones are also very realistic and fun to work with.

For all textures click here.

Choose from dozens of different ’styles’ (like alligator, acrobatic and bubble) of ASCII text you’d like generated at network-science.de. You can also choose the width of the final result, a mirror image and alignment. Here are some examples of what this ASCII generator can do:

Free online storage that you can access with your mobile phone is available at SnapDrive. You currently get 5GB to store your files and you don’t even have to log in to use this service. Free accounts have a limit of how long the files will be hosted for free. SnapDrive hosts most file extensions.

Finding matching colors is not that difficult but when you have to do it every day all the time, you might reach a point when you’re running out of ideas. For ready made instant thematic color schemes visit GPeters.com’s site. The color scheme generator works by getting colors from pictures Yahoo! search will find when given a keyword or phrase.

Creatr’s free logo generator lets you choose from 7 presets for creating your logo, incl. logos with mirror effect and striped backgrounds. The site also has a generator for backgrounds which lets you add text to create buttons.

This free logo generator at Web2.0Stylr doesn’t give you any options besides font style, color, and background color but the default style (mirror effect) is pretty useful and we like it! Try it here…

Choose from a couple of dozen different styles and then customize your logo with different fonts, sizes and color options at CoolText. The buttons generator also lets you define the size of the button and effects used. This generator works quickly, offers hundreds of different fonts to choose from and lets you download or e-mail your image in various different formats incl. animated gifs.

Want to see who is using your images? Unlike conventional image search engines, TinEye uses image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. With TinEye you can find where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. We’ve tried the search with purchased and licensed stock images and random pix from the web and the results were amazing! Cool search examples here…