Along with these wallpapers to beautify desktop during Christmas season, you should also check out Christmas themes for Windows 7.

All the wallpapers given below are in High definition resolution. Click on the image to get full size and then right click >> Save Image as to download it.

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Some people are artistic in nature and emphasize on visual appearance of Desktop. And to do that, they change Theme, Wallpaper and Icons to give completely a new look. May be it is a Chat/IM Messenger or Folders or Drives or an operation like Cut Copy Paste. If you want to move out of the default look, Icons must be changed.

This article will be of little help to such users as I list some Icon search engines to find Icons for Software Applications, Desktop themes and much more.

Downloaded icons are compatible with Windows, Linux and Macintosh. If you don’t want to do it manually, you can use tools like Icons Replacer or integrate change icon option on right click using FolderIco.

Click on the name of the website to open search Engine. Just type the keyword like “Games”, “Social Media tool” or “Media Files” to find icons.

All icons are available in ICO, ICNS as well as PNG format and at least four sizes (256×256, 96×96, 64×64 and 48×48)

1. Icon Finder

2. FindIcons

3. Mr. Icons

4. Iconlet

5. Icon scan

6. Iconspedia

7. Iconizer

8. Very Icon

9. Icon Library

10. Icon Seeker

11. Icons Search

12. Free We Icons

13. We Love Icons

14. Icon Archive

Hope these options help you find the perfect icon for Windows theme or your next Design project. Windows user can also change the folder background too along with the icons.

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These are waived of all copyright and related or neighboring rights so that you can download and use it for all your commercial projects worry free. Good thing about Vector Cliparts is that they don’t have fix resolution, that means they can be boost up to any dimension without loosing the image quality.

1. Open Clipart Library: All Images in SVG Format

If one has to choose a resource for vector images, it would certainly be the Open Clipart Library. With a collection of images in SVG that is growing, there we can get all kinds of drawings on the most varied subjects uploaded by users. In terms of quality, although it is variable, on average I would rather say it is shooting high.

While all images are available in SVG, we can also download them in PNG format indicating resolution that we want to download. We can also edit them online, for which the site redirects to the editor ImageBot.

Link | Open Clipart Library

2. Clker: Another Great Library for All kinds of Images

Clker is a very similar in content to the Open Clip Art Library. Like this, the images are uploaded by the creators of these, which are both professionals and amateurs. Similarly, the quality is variable but we can find enough quality jobs.

However, Clker is distinguished by having additional tools that we can be useful at some point. It has a online vector editor to create drawings that are stored within the site.

The images are available on site in PNG (in three different resolutions) and SVG format. In each, they also provide embed code.

Link | Clker

3. All Silhouettes: Dark Minimal Vector Collection

If you like minimalism and all you need are silhouettes, this is your place. Unlike the above, you can not download the images individually, but in collections. For example, if we need the silhouette of a person jumping, we get off the file “Jumping people”, which contains 16 images of people and then, in your editor, choose the one that we use.

There is also another fundamental difference: the site is maintained by one person and most of its contents are written by him. However, there may be material from other people, so you should check the license of which go down to see the constraints mind when using it.

The images are high quality and at the time of this writing, the site features 11,450 images in 212 collections. The vast majority are in formats AI (Adobe Illustrator 8) and CSH (Adobe Photoshop custom shapes), but the collections increases from August 2011 are also in EPS 10 and SVG .

Link | All Silhouettes

4. The Noun Project: Vector Icons Download

To continue with the minimalist and even more so, The Noun Project is focused solely on the icons. With images uploaded by the users, has a fairly large catalog organized by categories and collections, although it should be noted that misses a little at this point in the organization and sometimes you have to go checking by eye to find what you need.

Despite the latter, the site is still an excellent resource to find minimalist icons of all kinds. The images have been formatted in SVG and downloaded compressed into a ZIP .

Link | The Noun Project

5. Vector Junky: Huge Vector Graphics Collection on Web

Vector Junky is an online gallery of free vector graphics. All the images on this site are free for personal use and a lot of them for commercial use. Categories are varied and offers easy navigation to find Vector of your choice.

Link | Vector Junky

6. Vector Open Stock

Nice Portal with collection of vectors mostly suitable for Designers involved in Advertisement and Banner making. Though categories of collection is vast, Abstract Vector art is worth browsing.

Link | Vector Open Stock

7. Logo Open Stock

If you are looking for Website Logo or Designer into this business, this site has great collection of Logos for almost all type of website and Blogs. Download them and modify according to your Site name and design.

Link | Logo Open Stock

8. Magic People: Free Anime Vector Images Download

Navigation of site is worst and makes difficult to find image you want but collection is appreciable. You can find Free vector EPS or Ai files free for designers. Anime, Christmas, wedding, valentine vector clip art for free download.

Link | Magic People

You may be also interested in 17 Websites To Find Free Quality Images For Blog Posts.

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You need not have to be a Photoshop expert to work on it instead just follow this simple tutorial and you are good to go. We are going to make use of a feature of Photoshop called “Actions” to apply these artistic effects. Actions are simply a means to record all the commands used to generate an effect in Photoshop for re-application later.

What is needed?

1. Photoshop. I assume you have it installed and if not, download now from Adobe. Even Portable version will do.
2. Instagram Photoshop Actions by dbox which you can download here.

How to Install Instagram Actions for Photoshop

1. Unzip the downloaded “Actions” archive to any directory (say desktop).
2. Copy and Paste it in following directory – Computer >Local Disk ( C : \Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Presets\Actions
   In case of Portable Photoshop, you have to paste in <Portable Photoshop>\App\PhotoshopCS6\Presets\Actions

How to Apply Instagram Effects with Photoshop

1. In Photoshop, open Image you want to work on.
2. Press “Alt+F9” to open “Actions” Menu.
3. Actions menu will open and there you will see “Instagram actions” folder below default actions. In case, it didn’t appear, find it by clicking on small arrow button encircled in screenshot.
4. Select appropriate action to be applied and click on “Play” button at the bottom to apply those effects.

Package of Actions include 20 effects and their names are given are same as in Instagram app for Smartphones. More than one effect can be applied at a time by selecting multiple actions.

To summarize– Install Photoshop Actions > Open Image > Select Actions > Press Play to Apply.

This was indeed easy and even the result output was similar. I am using word similar because effect don’t exactly match the ones provided by Instagram. Still, in both cases, output has one thing in common- They look awesome!

Here is a quick comparison of the results which I tested using Photoshop CS5 and Instagram Android App where I applied Lo-Fi effect to same picture.

Isn’t it easy especially for non-experts? Is yes, then you should also know about essential Instagram tools to do wonders with your photographs. Possibilities are many and results can be more artistic and beautiful but only thing you need is some time to play around all options and little bit of creativity.

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But the task of finding the right image for your article, is bit cumbersome, especially if you want to find a good image for free. That’s why I present here 17 websites where you can find free quality images for your projects, Blog articles, etc..

Some of these sites require you to register to download their images and others require further that give credit for the image, depending on its license.

Google Images

Depositphotos

Photogen

Wikimedia Commons

Pixel Perfect Digital

Flickr

Image Bank

BigFoto

Dreamstime

EveryStockPhoto

RGB Stock

Free Digital Photos

Stockvault

Free Photos Bank

Stock Xchng

Free Pixels

Morguefile

Free Range Stock

Image * After

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If you really care about “How FB Cover Photo should look” and you have a good hold on photoshop or any other image editor then creating a cover pic is a piece of cake. So what about the people who want to make their cover pic to look better but don’t know how to do it can visit some of the below mentioned webservices which are totally dedicated to cover pictures for facebook users.

If you still haven’t activated Facebook Timeline, get it  instantly else sooner or later, it will be activated automatically.

1) FacebookProfileCovers

FacebookProfileCovers has a vast library of covers that are created and uploaded by different users. There are thousands of covers in different categories like abstract, animals, anime/cartoons, art, celebs, colorful, creative, for girls, guys, and much more to choose from.

As I observed, there are some awesome cover pics if you just want your timeline to look more creative. The only thing which most of the people will not like about these cover pics is the site watermark used in all pics.

2) TimelineCoverBanner

TimelineCoverBanner is a very customizable facebook timeline cover creating service. All you have to do is choose from many backgrounds presented infront of you for your timeline and then customize it to every possible details like the saturation, hue, graphics, and insert your own image as background.

People who want a ready-made cover photo and still want to give a custom blend should go for it.

3) Pic Scatter

Pic Scatter is another facebook timeline cover creating service which creates cover pics for you according to your needs. You can choose your own background, profile pic, and on top of that you don’t even have to upload it to your facebook account as you already need to login with it to create the cover and the rest will be done by Pic Scatter.

4) FbCoverPix

FbCoverPix is quite similar to FacebookProfileCovers, but has more versatile cover pics. Not only that but unlike FacebookProfileCovers, FbCoverPix provides you watermark free covers. So you can choose from variety of covers with no watermark of the site which actually created it.

5) 99Covers

99Covers is totally like FacebookProfileCovers, but has more categories and cover pics. All of the categories are sub divided into what you can say subcategories.

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For this reason alone, I searched the internet for some wallpapers alluding to the Christmas, And managed to post about 25 wallpapers / Desktop Backgrounds for you to decorate your desktop.

All are free, you can download and use. View and choose the one you like better. Click on the Images to download.

Collection includes wallpapers of standard resolutions: 1600×1200, 1920×1200 and 1280×1034 px.

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Why CSS Sprites gaining popularity?

Rather than HTML content images are the major area of concern in increasing or decreasing the web page performance considerably. There are atleast 3-4 images in every web page which are much responsible for taking the much more time to download at the client site.

The real statistics which prove the above fact is done by “The 80/20 rule which tells us about reducing http requests“.

Table : Time Spent in loading Popular Websites

1. Reduces number of HTTP requests

Whenever a user visits on a website, the browser requests the data from the server. The client(i.e.browser) made an http request to load the page from the server on which it is save. Every image on a webpage made a different http request to the server, so more number of images leads to more HTTP requests to the server which ultimately leads to more downloading time. So, CSS Sprites helps in reducing number of http requests by combining number of images in a single image.

2. Saves downloading time of webpage

Reducing number of images on the webpage helps in saving the downloading time of the web page and ultimately increase the web page’s performance. CSS sprites helps in merging number of images which saves the downloading time.

3. Reduced file size

CSS Sprites containing more number of smaller images will have more savings on file size than the cumulative of individual images. So, combining smaller images in a single images reduced the file size and helps in the web page’s performance effectively.

4. Flexibility

Flexibility in a web page is very important feature, if your webpage has more flexibility the user loves to visit back to your site. CSS Sprites helps in making your web page more flexible.

How to implement it?

CSS Sprites are really simple to implement on your webpage. There are a lot CSS Sprites generators available online from which CSS Sprites Generator is one of them. CSS Sprites Generator is one of the best generator as it has a simple mechanism to generate a code to make your web page more efficient then ever. You can choose as much number of images as you want to make them as a single image so that it would make your web page more attractive and a efficient one. You can also choose the padding between the two elements you choose, border around the whole image, background colour and how to align them. You can see the preview and can generate the code.

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Diagram Designer has customizable template object palette, slide show viewer and simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions and spellchecker, advanced pocket calculator with equation solver. It can import/export WMF, EMF, GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, and PCX images. It’s a Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.

My Verdict: The diagrams were simple to create and adjust if mistakes were made. It is an easy-to-use tool for basic kinds of diagrams, charts and other schematic designs.

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Follow me on Twitter Icons

For this it is ideal to have icons for Twitter, so find one that fits well into our design, and is not a style so different that it is mismatched.

WebTreats posted an interesting package of varied Twitter Icons, which collects in a single archive, Twitter icons from different sets to have on hand a well diverse group. In all 53 icons, all are free for personal and commercial projects, which can be downloaded in a file that weighs 6.1Mb.

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