The useful information for design creators in August 2022 is here. It is full of various design tools and fresh materials that can help you increase your productivity! Please enjoy it slowly. If you think the content is good, please share it with others around you.
【Online Tools】Timeline Hero
This website can help you generate beautiful timelines and Gantt charts, which you can place in presentations or plans. With simple settings and data input, you will soon be able to create a very professional timeline for any project. Although this is a foreign website, it also supports input of Traditional Chinese characters. This platform provides a free version that allows you to create a timeline. There is no limit to the projects on this timeline. You can directly export the timeline/post chart to .png file format. In addition, you can also upgrade to the paid version of Timeline Hero, so that there is no limit on the number of timelines you can create. In addition, you can also directly transfer it to the .pptx format of the presentation format. The fee is 5 euros per month, which is about NT$150.
[Reference example]Workspaces
Every creator dreams of building a perfect studio of their own. With the evolution of digital technology, and during the epidemic, some people have been working from home for a long time, so creating an ideal work desktop is a top priority. During the design planning period, refer to other people’s style designs to draw experience and design inspiration. At the same time, it can give a boost to your work environment that you have been lazy and unable to improve for a long time, and increase the motivation for improvement. Workspaces This website will provide you with some office design styles every week. These are the working environments of creatives, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, etc. It has accumulated at least more than two hundred design works. By subscribing to the newsletter, Workspaces will send these ideas and the business processes behind them to your mailbox every Saturday and Sunday, giving you full creative motivation.
【Reward Design】Residential equipment ペーパークラフト
In fact, I don’t know where to classify this website. Simply put, this is a paper model provided by a bathroom brand website. You can download it for free and print it out yourself. After assembly, it will become a three-dimensional model. Most of the material categories inside are indoor furniture, so the name of this page translated into Chinese is “House Equipment Paper Craft”. It is mainly for everyone to use when planning interior design. Let’s make a desktop sample house for everyone to discuss and use. Each object will be marked with the estimated production time and the amount of paper required. After downloading, it will be a PDF file. When printing, it is recommended to use slightly thicker paper, so that the folding effect will be better. If you don’t have thick paper at home, you can go to a convenience store and use thick paper to print it. By the way, if you want to use it as a paper house and burn it, it seems that it can also be used (error)
【Online Tools】imgtools face-privacy
If you want to make a masking action on all the faces that appear in the photo, Jie Jie’s previous method was to throw them all into Photoshop. In the software, we can mask each face one by one and make a mosaic. In fact, the whole process is not too difficult, but it is too labor-intensive. Fortunately, we now have powerful AI artificial intelligence, which can help us save a lot of time through automatic recognition of excellent images. Open this website, click on the upload option in the middle, directly upload the photos from the computer, and the action of masking the face will be automatically recognized. In addition, it also provides a variety of masking styles to choose from, such as mosaic, blur, heart, mask, smiley face, etc… The image file formats that can be uploaded currently include GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG, SVG, WEBP, TIFF, TIF, PSD and other common files. Currently, this website is completely free.
【Online Tools】Ava Maker
This website allows you to design a set of personal avatars through the website’s tools. There are four styles to choose from, including cute version, Disney style, American comic style, etc. On this website, you can configure the selected parts such as gender, face shape, eyebrows, eyes, mouth, clothes, beard, etc… These objects can also be directly set to the specified color you want. The plasticity is very high. After the design is completed, you can directly download it to the image file. In addition to the PNG image file without back, there are also vector formats. The SVG file can be downloaded, and the size of the bitmap PNG format is up to 400×400 pixels, which is more than enough for use in most places. This website is also very Buddhist, and the downloaded files will not have watermarks. As for the range of use of downloaded images, there is no clear indication on the website, but at least for personal use there is no problem.
Source: KOCPC Chinese