Whether you’re a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you’ve probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It’s not much fun if you have to convert all of them by hand. Batch image processing can reduce this process from hours of work to just a few simple clicks. With batch image processing, you can specify a size or file type, and then a script runs to convert the images. You can process hundreds or thousands of images with just a few clicks. And nearly every image processor comes with a unique feature set.

I’m a frequent online buyer and been enjoying buying Tees on the Internet because that’s probably the only way I’m rest assured the design will never duplicate whenever I’m walking on the streets. Few weeks ago I was recommended by friend to check out an online T-shirt store - Design By Humans and I gotta say these folks got a great collection. I spend hours browsing through these nice designs and settled with 7 pieces of t-shirts.

This post showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe. We feature Oriental, Iranian, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and Russian typographic posters as well as a number of further references. This isn’t a “best of”, there is no ranking and the collection isn’t supposed to be complete; it’s rather subjective and quite random. All screenshots are clickable; however, links not always lead directly to the corresponding image (e.g. it’s impossible in Flash-based sites) — sometimes you’ll need to search for it.

I have always used Dreamweaver, and love it. But, I have been thinking, what are the FREE CSS editors like? So I went looking , first one I found was TopStyle Lite, it was OK, nothing special, and then tried some others. It did get me thinking, Which is the best FREE CSS Editor available? So, over to you, what do you think? I have listed 7 Free CSS Editors to help with your choice. If I have missed any, write a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Illustrator Symbols are a very under rated feature within Illustrator, they let you design quicker illustrations and build a library for quicker reference and to make changes that little bit quicker. If you aren’t already using them you should be.

I just thought I must do one more inspirational article, to really blow Your mind and to make You wish to do something creative too! It’s not secret beverage companies spend nice cash to advertise and create appealing design to get new clients. So I just took a look at some of those companies and artworks related to companies and wanted to share with You either. Hint - You must be at least 21 years old to view the pages or..smart enough to become older with just one click! Drinking is not good for Your health! You might know that! Cheers!

Another new type of post here at Resource Pile, we’ll see how it goes. Anyway, without further a-do, I present to you the amazing vector work of vector artist Machine56. Unfortunately, it seems he’s away at the moment, and is not updating/responding to interview requests. However, from what I’ve learnt, most of the pieces are created from scratch in CorelDraw. No sketches, no “plan”, no photoshop (!), just CorelDraw.

A while back I did a group discussion asking about how many of you blogged. If you missed that discussion, you can check it out here, Do you blog? It seems that everyone has some sort of a blog going. Some use it to promote their business, while other just do it for fun. Regardless of why you blog, I decided to showcase everyone that participated in the discussion. There are a few really good ones in here. You may end up subscribing to some more blogs!

Well we are another month forward and we bring you 50 new sources of inspiration once more! Enjoy :)

Afterthought typography occurs when the designer lays out the elements of their design, crafts it with their precision and skillful manner, and after completely putting the pieces together, decides that text is needed and tosses it in. Seemingly as an afterthought. This can serve to disrupt the flow and harmony of the entire piece and even distract from the original idea, rather than assist it. Instead take time to include the text into the project from the beginning. Manipulate the layout to find the best, least obtrusive, location for the type to be placed. Carefully select, or create, a font that blends nicely into the work, while carrying the attitude intended from the whole design. Matching the tone with the type is key, don’t miss this mark and inadvertently end up contradicting the feel of the whole piece with one element.

The aim of this post is to gain design inspiration and ideas from what others have already done, some times its best not to reinvent the wheel and see what others are doing to make there designs work. Sometimes you can take an idea such as how the navigation looks or how the page has been separated in to different sections and build on this to produce your own variation or new concept. I’ve managed to compile various websites that look particularly interesting and have certain design elements to get designers thinking about what they could include in there next design.

September has been a crazy month for me, getting prepared for university, trying to maintain this website, starting university and getting stuck in as well as releasing a second website it has all really kept me on my toes, hence the reason for the lack of posts/tutorials over the past week or two, hopefully things are settling down now and I can resume normal posting, roll on October…

A great example of design creativity in philanthropic campaigns -- awesome series of posters and print ads to spread awareness about the #1 killer of children in Africa, using nothing but mosquitoes to compose the layout.

As always, it’s been a busy month for design blogs. Here is my collection of the best articles and resources I’ve come across this month: Web Design and Development, Graphic Design, Inspiration, WordPress Theme News, Freelance/Business.

If you’re looking to boost the social media traffic that your blog receives, you may want to consider adding a few icons to your favorite social media sites (or more accurately, to those that are most relevant to your blog). Here is a brief collection of ten icons sets that feature a number of social media-related icons for your own use.

One of the first things new visitors will notice upon arriving at your website is your header. Some sites are able to make an excellent first impression by featuring an artistic or creative header. This mini gallery post is a collection of some of the more inspiring headers out there.

As the calendar ticks over into October, PSDTUTS's sister site ThemeForest has made it to 1 month of age! We're very excited about ThemeForest's potential over here at Envato and I'm working hard to build traffic and content on the site. So I thought I'd take a moment to show you 21 of the neatest themes so far. There are plenty more to look through (200 more in fact), but these ones are my favourites!

t's always nice to know that there are good designers in the city where you live. At least I really like, even more when they are very good. That's the case of this studio from Porto Alegre, my town, Santa Motion. Their work is simply awesome and it's definitely worth checking their site out, the URL is http://www.sant.at/.

Design lovers everywhere gotta love Absolut. It is an amazing brand that besides the drink itself, makes people enjoy really well done bottles and advertising designs. Making a little research about it, it came up that Absolut asked well-known Brazilian artist to come up with custom layouts. From famous 80's names like Daniel Senise to total "new" ones like Adhemas Batista and Guilherme Marconi. The exposition follows the post. Besides that, I absolutely recommend a visit to the Absolut site, where you'll get an inspiration overload. If you really enjoy good taste motion graphics, there's a section full of it. Well... I think this is all you'll get of Absolut today. Just today, 'cause I'm pretty sure we can't get enough of it. Enjoy!

I have a great interest in illustration and I am always looking for inspiration and new ideas and techniques that I could try and integrate in to my designs, looking at some of these illustrations you can see what makes them, whether it be blurring shapes, adding a light source or using photos in your illustrations it all has an effect on the final piece. This collection is mixture of more traditional illustration to photography and illustration, when I look at illustrations like this I always think about how there made, such as paint splatters did the designer take a can of spray scan it in and manipulate it, stuff like that can add a whole new dimension to the illustration.