The easiest way to create your CSS sprites

With SpritePad you can create your CSS sprites within minutes seconds. Simply drag & drop your images and have them immediately available as one PNG sprite + CSS code. No fiddling in Photoshop, no manual assignment of CSS styles.

ImageAlpha converts 24-bit PNG to paletted 8-bit with full alpha channel. This greately reduces file sizes with only minor loss of quality. Such images are compatible with all browsers, and even degrade well in IE6.

ImageAlpha can achieve conversion quality better than MacromediaAdobe Fireworks by employing latest pngquant, pngnq.

Even images that need more than 256 colors can be made more compressible using special alpha-channel-aware posterizer.

bgStretcher 2011 (Background Stretcher) is a jQuery plug-in which allows you to add a large image (or a set of images) to the background of your web page and will proportionally resize the image(s) to fill the entire window area. The plug-in will work as a slideshow if multiple images mode is used (the speed and duration for the slideshow is configurable).

Take a screenshot in OS X and have a URL to the picture in your pasteboard a second later.

A free and open source version of the different commercial variants (GrabUp, Tiny Grab, etc).

For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.

Grabs the dominant color or a representative color palette from an image. Uses javascript and canvas.

Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages. You can even create amazing Slideshows.

Indexr is a small versatile footprint PHP script that lists images and files in any folder on your server. Simply drop the single index.php file into your directory with files or images, and it will list everything in a nice eye-pleasing manner when accessed.<br />
You can use Indexr to quickly set up small gallery, display files for clients online, or simply to resize all images or create thumbnails in a specific folder. You can change sorting order, thumbnail size, CSS and html layout by simply editing the single index.php file. Not only does Indexr list files in folders, but it also creates thumbnails for images and shows additional file information. If you need a simple but pretty directory listing with thumbnails, try Indexr!

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

ImageOptim provides GUI for various optimisation tools: AdvPNG from AdvanceCOMP, OptiPNG, PngCrush, JpegOptim, jpegtran from libjpeg, Gifsicle and optionally PNGOUT.

It's excellent for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop) and also useful for making Mac and iPhone applications smaller.

Simple Comic is the most intuitive comic reader on the Mac. Its clean interface gives you full control of your viewing experience without getting in the way. Reading comics on a computer has never been easier.

uPad is an image manipulation utility that can convert, crop and pad, scale, and rotate images. It's an AppleScript that uses the Image Events process to read and manipulate images. For convenience, use a launcher to launch the AppleScript -- I'm using Spark. Or, for access from the menu bar, enable Show Script menu in menu bar in AppleScript Editor's General preferences, and put uPad in ~/Library » Scripts » Applications » Finder (you might have to create some of those folders yourself).

uPad moves selected files to a temporary folder on the Desktop, saves or moves files back to the target folder, and then deletes the temporary folder. After finishing, uPad will try to reappear with the manipulated files/folder selected in Finder. Type q to exit uPad. There are notes inside the script, or you can press i in the input box in the dialog to read some on-screen help. If you're script-confident, change the limiting variables near the top of the script to suit your workflow.

JustResizeIt! introduces a brand new way of resizing images – just drag and drop them!

1. Drag and drop one or more images,
2. wait a few seconds, and
3. drag and drop resized images into an e-mail, an office document, or a folder

You can create widgets that define how the images will be resized (for sending in e-mail, using in a document, upload into a web gallery)

ToyViewer is an image viewer, which also provides various editing functions. Quick starting is one of the features.

This script uses Image Events to convert any recognized image format to any other supported format. Much faster than firing up your graphics editor!

Input formats supported: "PDF", "BMP", "JPEG", "JPEG2", "PICT", "PNG", "PSD", "TIFF"

Output to: "BMP", "JPEG", "JPEG2", "PICT", "PNG", "PSD", "TIFF"
Release Notes: Fixed a bug that caused TIFF files with short file extensions of "tif" to be ignored and cause an error.

Want to give Google Android a try, but don't feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC.

You can also use the disc image in a virtualization application like VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC if you want to try the operating system without even rebooting your computer.

This generator allows you to create your own crazy achievements as images.

Sequential is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga.

Atheists have started advertising on buses in the UK. Do you want to see your
own message on the side of a bus? Well now's your chance.

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: # Backup logical drives and partitions to image files # Browse these images, view and extract files # Restore these

Jpeg Enhancer is a simple and extremely powerful program that lets you restore the images damaged by low-quality JPEG compression.

It uses a unique technique that allows even novices to remove the so-called "JPEG artifacts" and the "blotchy look" from

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface.

Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native