Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

Ahoy there! It’s another social icon set to soak up your precious bandwidth, royally entitled, Isometrica.
Your friendly pirates over at Arcnerva have given exclusive rights to Six Revisions to parlay our hard work to its lovely readership.

So what is this Isometrica, you ask?

An isometric, margarine butter slab-shaped conglomeration of social network iconograffitia, of course!
Put these icons on your website, your blog, print them out on extra heavy cardstock and throw them at your co-workers. It’s doesn’t really matter because they are royalty free for any use. Just CSS them into whatever arrangements you like.
There are 18 "normal" sized icons at an overweight 105x67px (.PNG) and being the sporting chaps that we are, we have even included a set half the size as well as a .PSD file you can mess about with.
If everything goes well with this release and you want more of our shenanigans, we just might include the vector source files in our next set of icons!

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• isometrica_social_icons (ZIP, 0.34 MB)

DarkSocial: A Free and High-Quality Social Media Icon Set

In this free icon set, you will find 10 high quality social media icons: Blogger, Digg, Yelp, Picasa, MySpace, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and an RSS icon. This set is perfect for bloggers.
Each icon comes in 4 sizes (512px, 256px ,128px and 64px) in PNG format. All icons have been created by La Glanz Studio exclusively for the readers of Six Revisions.
The icons are released royalty-free, so you may use them for any commercial or personal purpose, except the redistribution of these files without prior consent from us.

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• dark-social (ZIP, 0.99 MB)

Glossy: Free Icon Set

This free icon set has 20 high quality semi-transparent and glossy icons. The package also includes 48 derivative icons of the 20 icons. Each icon comes in 6 different sizes (32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512) in PNG format. They are perfect for web designers and graphic designers.
These icons were designed by productivedreams.com and exclusively released on Six Revisions.

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Terms of Use

These icons are free for personal and commercial use. You are not required to attribute the work, although it is very much appreciated. Read the License.txt file included in the download for more information on usage permissions of the files.

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• glossy_icons_productivedreams (ZIP, 18.7 MB)

12 Really Useful Image Optimization Tools For Web Designers

Images are very important because they will make your web pages look nicer and more attractive. But, high quality and beautiful images always huge in file size. They make your pages load slower and consume more bandwidth. So we, the designers should optimize the images so that they are tiny in file size, but good in quality.
There are a lot of useful image optimization tools which can help us to optimize and reduce the file size of the images. These applications are available as both web-based and desktop-based applications.

Web based Image Optimization Tools

1. Smush.it

Smush.it is a popular image optimization tool that able to reduce the image file size but retain the quality, which is what we called “lossless” image optimization! You can run Smush.it through the web site (5 images at the same time) or through Firefox’s YSlow extension.

2. Dynamic Drive Online Image Optimizer

The Online Image Optimizer lets you optimize different image file formats such as GIF, JPG and PNG. You can either upload the image from your local machine or paste the URL of an image. This tool able to optimize and convert your image to different file format. The limitations of the Online Image Optimizer are 200KB per file, and only single file allowed per conversion.

3. PunyPNG

PunyPNG uses several optimization techniques. It will first check your images and then determine which technique is the best for that particular image. PunyPNG supports most of the popular image file formats and will automatically determine the converted image format for you.

4. SiteReportCard Image Optimization Tool

SiteReportCard Image Optimization Tool support GIF, JPG and PNG formats. You can either paste the image’s URL or upload it from your computer, and the tool will compress and optimize the image into various size and quality.

Desktop Image Optimization Tools

1. Shrink O’Matic

Shrink O’Matic is an AIR based application which is able to rize image on the fly by drag and drop images onto it. You can choose options like the output formats, output name or the output sizes.

2. OptiPNG

OptiPNG is an advanced PNG Optimizer, which will convert various file formats into optimized PNG. Windows users can integrate OptiPNG into the shell through the OptiPNG Windows Shell Integration project, or use OptiPNG as Paint.NET Plugin. While Mac OS X users can enjoy OptiPNG through the PNGCrusher application.

3. ImageOptim

ImageOptim is a front end tool for a set of image optimization tools. ImageOptim uses AdvPNG from AdvanceCOMP, OptiPNG, PngCrush, JpegOptim, jpegtran from libjpeg, Gifsicle and optionally PNGOUT.

4. PNGOUT

PNGOUT is a command line application which has a lot of different options. It supports PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG, TGA and PCX formats.

5. PNGGauntlet

PNGGauntlet is a .NET application that use the PNGOUT to optimize PNG files. It is able to convert JPG, GIF, TGA, PCX and BMP files to PNG. If you are not familiar with Windows Command line, you can try PNGGauntlet.

6. JPG & PNG Stripper

This application able to remove unnecessary metadata from the image files. It supports JPG, JFIF and PNG file formats.

7. TweakPNG

TweakPNG is a low level tool for optimizing PNG files. So, you need to familiar with PNG file format in order to use this tool. You can read more about PNG through this site.

8. RIOT – Radical Image Optimization Tool

RIOT able to read and optimize different image formats by reading the magic number. So, it is able to optimize images with uncommon extensions, which makes it unique compare with other image optimization tools. RIOT will display the original and output images side-by-side, so that you can compare the quality of them easily.