As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories and resources, from our colleagues, which you probably should check out. Selected stories were published in the past week and were found amongst many other great stories. We made this a traditional Monday post where we point out those that we think were inspiring, helpful, and even funny to read. Of course, they are related to what we do here and that includes design, inspiration, resources, and everything else in between. One for each day of the week. Enjoy.

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How many times have you seen a professional portfolio of a famous designer, or photographer, which had a nice, and pro looking slideshow right in the middle of it? And how many times have you wondered how did they do it? Well, in order to make some of those, you’ll probably need to learn how to code, but there is also an easy way out. Using tools like PhotoSnack you can make pro looking slideshows in minutes. And no, this is not another advertisement for PhotoSnack. That’s just the way it is.

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Right as I was in the middle of collecting material for PrintRadar’s newest list article, I bumped into a serious rant from the guy who made the CSSVault long time ago. The target, Smashing Magazine, and pretty much the rest of the community and bloggers who accepted the Smashing Magazine “way”, and that means lists in general. So, what’s with this amazing Battle At Kruger title? Well, all that kinda reminded me of that event, with lists being the buffalo who was caught in between the attacks of the lions and alligator, with the late support from the pack, if any. Oh yes, and the reporters to document all that. Silly, I know.

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Since today is Thanksgiving Day, and we are very grateful to all our guests here on PrintRadar, and since Christmas is very very near, we made this quick but cute Christmas greeting card ahead of time, so you can prepare yourself for the upcoming holidays. If you like it you can download this greeting card in PSD format and use it and modify it however you want. This is our very small gift for all of you today, and although it is not much, it comes straight from the heart.

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We all know that sometimes our CSS style sheets can really get big, especially if we are coding large websites with lots of pages and sections. Nice coding habits like comments and code separation are useful at development stage, but that also contributes in a negative way as style sheets usually get even bigger. When CSS files are big they eat up bandwidth and slow down website response time because more time is needed to process them. That’s where CSS compressors jump in to optimize them properly, but keep in mind that they are not always the best solution although they can really help at some cases.

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If you need to find out primary and complementary colors for your image, then this tool might help you do just that. Whats Its Color is an image color processor that will process images and give back primary and complementary dominant colors. And not only that. It will also give information about how many visually unique colors are there in the image, which are the top ten visually unique colors, and which are the best suited color palettes straight from Adobe kuler.

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As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories from our colleagues which you probably should check out. Selected stories were published in the past week and were found amongst many other great stories. We made this a traditional Monday post where we point out those that we think were inspiring, helpful, and even funny to read. Of course, they are related to what we do here and that includes design, inspiration, resources, and everything else in between. One for each day of the week. Enjoy.

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We all know that there are virtually dozens of online generators for almost every possible task you can think of. Amongst those tools, we also have stripe generators which are often easy to use and give quick results. If you need a background image with stripes, and you need it quickly, there is probably no better and faster way to make it than to use one of those generators. So, without further ado, we present you with seven stripe generators that you can use online at any time of day.

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Ispired by stories showcasing out of bounds photos, I’ve decided to make this quick and simple out of bounds photo and join the party. Chosen photo was found on the web and it shows a beautiful house on water with wooden bridge leading to it. It immediately showed natural potential for going out of bounds, so it was actually pretty easy to make it.

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Those were the years when computers were just starting out. When video games demanded more imagination from players who were chasing dots and small sprites on screens. Great years. Anyone still remembers such brands like Commodore, Amiga, and Spectrum? Things have changed drastically in the past decade or two and we were all here to see that. Today we take a look at some computer related magazines from the past decades which had some great illustrations on their covers.

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