The Toolbar

The Creatives Are Community Toolbar is a browser toolbar add-on for Firefox / Flock / Camino and Internet Explorer / Maxthon. It was built to empower, inform, and connect creative professionals. It seeks to fulfill that purpose by putting the most important information and features at the fingertips of graphic designers, Web designers, illustrators, and other creative professionals. The complete list of features is below.

You can even customize the Toolbar to show only the menus and features you use!

Features

Design-Specific Search Engines

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Features

The Creatives Are Community Toolbar is loaded with features to empower, inform, and connect you!

Design-Specific Search Engines

Search stock photos–free and premium–vector art, logos, fonts, portfolios, design job postings, live design discussion, software tutorials, and more with the crown jewel of the Creatives Are Community Toolbar, Google-powered creative media searches. View full details of the Toolbar’s specialized media search functions (below).

Share Links with the Design Community

One-click sharing of interesting content with all the design community’s favorite social media.

Like the article you’re reading? Click the Toolbar buttons to instantly post the link on DesignFloat.com, DesignBump.com, Vo.teti.me, Ping.fm, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and/or Delicious! The toolbar even includes a button to shorten the current URL to a tiny, easily shared link via http://Tr.im . You can even track how many people click your shortened link. (Click tracking requires free Tr.im account.)

Community Menu

Spend a few minutes with the Community menu to get plugged into the growing creative professional community thriving all over Web 2.0.

Jobs Menu

Put your best foot forward with the directory of portfolio Websites and resume hosting sites, and then shop for your next job with the directory of design job and request for bid Websites. The lower part of the Jobs menu lists 30 most recent design job and RFQ listings open right now and updated 8 times a day. Find your design dream job or ideal client with the Creatives Are Community Toolbar Jobs menu!

Resources Menu

Creatives need a fresh supply of resources and tools–particularly good freebies–and you’ll find plenty of them on the Resources menu.

Freelancing Menu

Whether you’re a one-designer-shop or part of a large in-house team, you’ll find plenty of interesting stories and Websites on the Freelancing menu. Subjects range from how to deal with problem clients to how to find the ideal client, tax considerations for freelancers to guerrilla markeing tactics.

Inspiration Menu

Staring at a blank page while the clock tick-tick-ticks? Can’t find just the right color combination? Get inspired with the resources on the Inspiration menu. Daily color palettes and patterns, dozens of design inspiration Websites, and the latest 30 inspiring images, type treatments, and headlines collected by WorkflowFreelance.com from hundreds of Websites can’t help but get your creative juices flowing like white water rapids!

Typography Menu

It always boils down to typography–as it should! The Typography menu features the latest type-, type design-, and typography-related headlines from hundreds of Websites as well links to the best typography Websites in the world.

Creative Application Menus

On the Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat & PDF, and QuarkXPress menus you’ll find everything a professional user needs: Links to the official sites and support forums, lists of other Websites dealing with each of the applications (the Photoshop Websites submenu in particular is huge), and for each application the latest 30 tutorials, freebies, reviews, news, tips, and tricks from GurusUnleashed.com.

See Just What You Use

Hide the menus and tools you don’t use. Not a fan of QuarkXPress? Hide the QuarkXPress application menu. Don’t use Ping.fm for your social status updates? Not a problem; remove the Ping This! button. The Creatives Are Community Toolbar is fully customizable to your needs. You can remove any button or menu, and even add applets and features! Just visit the Customize Your Toolbar page for easy instructions.

Features

Design-Specific Search Engines

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Design-Specific Search Engines

The Creatives Are Community Toolbar features over a dozen specially constructed search systems enabling you fast access to the best creative media across dozens of sites without the need to visit and search on each site individually.

Free Stock Photos

Search the Web’s largest collections of free stock photography, hundreds of thousands of free stock photos, all at the same time. Search the complete collections of the Stock Exchange, Morgue File, and many others all at the same time. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Stock Photography

Search for stock photography across 20 of the world’s largest rights-managed and royalty-free stock photo agencies. Search the complete collections of the Getty Stone, Corbis, Veer, and many others all at the same time. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Free Vector Art

Search the largest collections of free vector art on the planet from the likes of Vecteezy, QVectors, Vector Mania, and more. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Premium Vector Art

Search royalty-free and rights-managed vector art from GoMedia, Veer, VectorStock, and many others all at the same time. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Logos

Search among the world’s most recognized and most obscure logos, ready for download in EPS, AI, or JPG format, from the best logo resources on Earth. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Fonts

Search 20 of the world’s largest and most respected type foundries for exactly the right typeface for your next project. Receive results from the Adobe Font Library, Emigre, FontBureau, Monotype, House Industries, ITC, and many, many other foundries all in one unified, Google-powered results page.

Photoshop Brushes

Thousands of free Photoshop brushes are out there waiting to be used in your next project. Search for stains, textures, faces, halftones, or hundreds of other types of Photoshop brushes across the world’s largest collections. Receive search results from all sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Colors and Palettes

Looking for inspiration? Have in mind a one or two colors, but need a few more to complement them? Search on a color name or value to dozens of possible colors and palettes–all readily downloadable–in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Tutorials & Resources

Powered by GurusUnleashed.com, search the world’s largest index of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, InCopy, QuarkXPress, and Acrobat tutorials, downloads, tips, tricks, articles, news, and reviews from hundreds of writers and publications.

Feelancing Articles

Powered by WorkflowFreelance.com, search the world’s largest index of creative professional freelance and contractor articles, tutorials, freebies, tips, tricks, and news from hundreds of writers and publications.

Design Job Openings

Find–and apply for–your next job or project by keyword, phrase, or location in this search of thousands of open design job listings and requests for bid. Powered by Design Jobs by WorkflowFreelance.com.

Portfolios

Use keyword, phrase, skill set, or location to search the world’s best and biggest creative pro portfolio Websites for your next vendor, sub-contractor, inspiration, or competitor. Receive search results from Behance, Coroflot, CarbonMade, and many more portfolio sites in a unified, Google-powered results page.

Live Design Discussion

Search the real-time graphics, typography, freelancing, and design discussion happening right now on Twitter, Indentica, and thousands of other social media and blog sites. Search by keyword or phrase to find new design Tweople to follow, hot design blogs, and peer opinions on everything from the latest Wacom tablet to whether Helvetica should be loved or hated. Powered by Design Talk Live! from WorkflowFreelance.com.

Other Searches

Of course the Creatives Are Community Toolbar includes the ability to instantly switch from the above specialized searches to a standard Google search, a Google Images search, or a search of the site you’re currently visiting.

A note about search results: Search result pages include sponsored links at the top. Please note that I did not put them there, nor do I earn anything from them. The sponsored results, which are clearly labeled and easily scrolled past, are inserted by Google and the toolbar platform provider.

Features

Design-Specific Search Engines

Screenshots

Download & Install

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Screenshots

Features

Design-Specific Search Engines

Screenshots

Download & Install

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Download & Install the Toolbar

Install the Creatives Are Community Toolbar in Mozilla-powered Firefox, Flock, or Camino or Internet Explorer and IE-powered Maxthon. The toolbar is guaranteed spyware-free and malware-free.