Essential software for site & theme work.

[ARG]

Ok, this is awesome. Just got myself a new code editor called ConTEXT. This one was actually used to write a lot of SMF and has advantages over Notepad++.

Nice find. I used it and it seems like a very good editor.  

[antechinus]

Hey I found a good little app today. PNGGauntlet.
Ok, so what is it? Well it squashes PNG images and makes them smaller. Seems to work very well with no loss of quality. It will handle both png-8 and png-24 images, and you can even feed gifs or whatever into it and it will spit them out as png's.

I've been doing a bit of testing and depending on the image I've seen file size reductions of between 20% and 60% compared to a png-24 exported straight from Photoshop and around 10% to 20% on png-8's.

It comes with a simple and easy to use GUI, which is handier than some of the other command line tools around, and it seems to give better compression than the others as well. Highly recommended if you're looking to get your images loading faster and using less bandwidth.

[Cepsi]

Hey I found a good little app today. PNGGauntlet.
Ok, so what is it? Well it squashes PNG images and makes them smaller. Seems to work very well with no loss of quality. It will handle both png-8 and png-24 images, and you can even feed gifs or whatever into it and it will spit them out as png's.

I've been doing a bit of testing and depending on the image I've seen file size reductions of between 20% and 60% compared to a png-24 exported straight from Photoshop and around 10% to 20% on png-8's.

It comes with a simple and easy to use GUI, which is handier than some of the other command line tools around, and it seems to give better compression than the others as well. Highly recommended if you're looking to get your images loading faster and using less bandwidth.

awesome ive been looking for something like this! 

[simply sibyl]

Hey I found a good little app today. PNGGauntlet.
Ok, so what is it? Well it squashes PNG images and makes them smaller. Seems to work very well with no loss of quality. It will handle both png-8 and png-24 images, and you can even feed gifs or whatever into it and it will spit them out as png's.

I've been doing a bit of testing and depending on the image I've seen file size reductions of between 20% and 60% compared to a png-24 exported straight from Photoshop and around 10% to 20% on png-8's.

It comes with a simple and easy to use GUI, which is handier than some of the other command line tools around, and it seems to give better compression than the others as well. Highly recommended if you're looking to get your images loading faster and using less bandwidth.

woot this is super!  Thanks for posting it..   does seem better then the command line tools out there.   It squished an 837k png file to 718k   I see no image loss at all.   Just a wallpaper image i have that I used to test..  definitely going to play with this one!  Thanks!

[Milka29]

Hi, everyone. I’ve read much about a new plugin for Photoshop – Divine plugin.  However there is no information about it at Adobe’s official site.  Have anyone tried Divine? It seems to be very useful for designers and developers.

[3wasef]

Hi, everyone. I’ve read much about a new plugin for Photoshop – Divine plugin.  However there is no information about it at Adobe’s official site.  Have anyone tried Divine? It seems to be very useful for designers and developers.

Check this site:
divine

 

[Maarten]

Hi, everyone. I’ve read much about a new plugin for Photoshop – Divine plugin.  However there is no information about it at Adobe’s official site.  Have anyone tried Divine? It seems to be very useful for designers and developers.

Check this site:
divine

 

Doesn't it is compatible with 64bit ? Or the stable Windows 7 xD
OS requirements:

    * Windows XP
    * Windows Vista
    * Windows 7 RC

You may count on Mac OS in the nearest releases of the program.
Photoshop requirements:

    * Adobe Photoshop CS2
    * Adobe Photoshop CS3
    * Adobe Photoshop CS4 (32bit)

But, okay thanks:P

[Terence]

Is there any way to get PS for free?

[ARG]

Is there any way to get PS for free?

No, not from anyone on this site. 

 

[Terence]

Is there any way to get PS for free?

No, not from anyone on this site.  

 

Lol, I think 400 bucks is not worth it, anyways, how did you get yours.