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pictaculous is a web app that extracts the hexadecimal values of the color scheme from an uploaded image. you can download the adobe swatch file or compare it to similar kuler and colourlovers schemes. you can even use it on your mobile phone by taking a picture and emailing it to colors@mailchimp.com.

cloud zoom is a snazzy image zoom jquery plugin. a bunch of options are available and the animations are very smooth. works all the way down to ie6 and minified its only 6kb.

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cool/wow - a web app for finding where images came from, how they’re being used, and if higher resolution or modified versions exist.

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creating css sprites is a useful and common performance-enhancing front-end development trick. instead of making a handful of http requests for dinky images, just make a call for one image and position the background accordingly with css. creating sprite sheets and the css by hand is about the most tedious and unfun thing ever though.

spriteme is a time and hair saving javascript bookmarklet that will read all the images in the css of the page you are currently viewing and automatically combine them into sprite images and css.

punypng enters a crowded field of png optimization tools, including smush.it, optipng, and imageoptim, but puny claims twice the file-size savings as any of them. definitely worth a look.

yes please. a collection of articles from google on how to optimize your site for faster performance.

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