The useful information for design creators in December 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】email1
Jiejie shared many interesting online tools with everyone. Although most of the tool services are free to use, some services require exceptions to register an account. However, if you just want to try the service but are afraid of receiving a lot of spam, you can use a temporary mailbox to register for the service first. “email1” is a tool that provides an online temporary mailbox. You don’t have to worry about receiving a lot of spam. Junk mailbox, apply for this temporary mailbox. If it has not been used for a period of time, the mailbox will be automatically deleted. The website provides a simplified Chinese interface that is easy to use. There are more than ten different domain names in the mailbox section for users to freely choose. If you want to use the free temporary mailbox “email1” for a long time, you can directly consider registering for this website for free, and you can use it for a long time.
【Design materials】StockAI
It is becoming more and more convenient to obtain AI pictures. In addition to doing your own calculations, you can also obtain beautiful pictures drawn by AI through other channels. “StockAI” is a website that provides photo galleries generated by AI. We only need to enter the description of the photo scene we want, and the “StockAI” website can accurately help find matching pictures. If the photo you want does not exist, it can also help you generate AI pictures. Unregistered users can download small-size pictures for free. The picture pixels are 512x768px, can be used for personal or commercial use, no need to mark the source, if you need a larger size image, you need to pay extra. If you want to generate more unique and exclusive images that you can use, you also need to register as a member. Each member can have 3 opportunities to generate images for free. Of course, “StockAI” also provides other payment plans.
【Design materials】Generated Humans
This online material website is “Generated Humans” launched by the GENERATED PHOTOS website. It automatically generates full-body portrait photos by AI. These look very much like real human faces and full-body portrait photos. In fact, they are all generated by AI. The works calculated by artificial intelligence can have such excellent calculation capabilities and produce a lot of lifelike images of faces and whole bodies, whether they are male or female, or have different skin colors such as yellow skin or black skin, and there are also portraits of various ages, and these photos can be downloaded and used by users for free. The coolest thing is that up to 100,000 images can be downloaded at one time, although they are of small resolution. The resolution is 256×512, and the background is white, but it is enough. If you want to get advanced PNG images and higher-resolution images, you can get them for a fee.
【Design materials】Storyset
“Storyset” is a gallery website that provides a series of style illustrations and separates each image element in the illustrations into layers. Users can directly use the online editor tool provided by the “Storyset” website to customize the colors of the elements in the illustrations according to the user’s preferences. and background color. In addition to being presented in a static way, the illustrations on the “Storyset” website can also animate the elements inside the illustrations through the animation effects defined on the platform, such as basic movement effects, entry effects or loop effects, etc. These illustrations can be downloaded as vectors after they are set. SVG format or PNG image files and video formats such as GIF and MP4. In addition, Figma’s Storyset plug-in is also provided to facilitate users’ design and production. The downloaded images can be used for personal or commercial purposes.
【Online Tools】LINE PagePoker
LINE is a highly used instant messaging software in Taiwan. It is installed on almost everyone’s mobile phone. It is also a good tool for advertising and marketing. Creators can also share their creations through LINE. However, sometimes when sharing website links, the thumbnail of the website cannot be displayed normally on the LINE APP. In this case, the attractiveness of the link is much reduced, which affects the chance of the link being clicked. Now the official website of LINE provides an online tool “PagePoker” You can manually update the cache thumbnail and other information of the URL link, and you can preview the display screen of the link on LINE. You can also check whether the website syntax is correct, which is convenient for website designers to make modifications, which greatly enhances the attractiveness of the link. Moreover, if the website changes the featured image, you can use this tool to quickly clear outbound links, so that the linked images can be displayed normally in real time.
Source: KOCPC Chinese