If you need something urgently, you don’t always have the time or skill to use softwares like Photoshop, Fireworks or GIMP. Sometimes you just need something quick. These graphic design tools would let you create graphics on-the-fly without the hassle of buying and installing complicated softwares.

Banners:

BannerFans: Create and download banners without any hassle. You can customize the layout, color, text, size, fonts, border and even put gradient effects in your banner. Once you are done, download them as JPEG, GIF or PNG.

OnlineBannerGenerator: Create instant banners using templates. Type in your text and insert clip-art to make your banner more appealing.

Stripes:

StripeMania: Create stripes online by simply choosing a background color and a color for your stripes. You can play around with the width, spacing and orientation to customize your stripes.

StripedBGs: Generate striped backgrounds by choosing any 5 colors for your stripes. Once done, download the image in your desired resolution.

StripeGenerator: Generate stripes online by customizing stripe size, colors, spacing and background style.

Logos:

SupaLogo: A quick tool to create logos. Just enter your text and then customize your logo by changing size, color, outline, font and gradient effect.

LogoBuilder1: Instant logo creator. Simply fill in the fields like font name, font size, font color, background color and enter the text to generate a logo.

FreeLogoGenerator: In addition to selecting different colors and text styles for your logo, you can also get a reflection effect with this logo creation tool.

LogoFactory: LogoFactory lets you insert one of the many images in their image library to make your logo look more professional. You can customize the look of the logo by setting the font and color preferences.

LogoEase: Probably the most feature-rich tool to create instant logos online. The drag-and-drop editor is easy to use and offers features like object resizing, scaling and rotating.

Buttons/Badges:

CoolRGB: Choose a button type, enter your text and create an instant button using this tool. You can play around with text style, colors and even insert effects like shadow, bevel and glow.

DaButtonFactory: Create and customize a button by playing with text styles, fonts, colors, shadows, borders and button types. You can download your button as an image or get the CSS code to paste on your website.

TheButtonEffect: Create buttons instantly. Customize the text in your button by aligning vertically or horizontally. Use rounded corners and gradient effects to make your button more appealing.

Web2.0Badges: Create free badges with a web 2.0 look by customizing text, colors, fonts and even angles.

Backgrounds:

Dotter: Generated dotted backgrounds for your website. Simply specify the color of dots and the background and you are ready to go.

GrungeTextures: A free collection of high-quality textured backgrounds. Over 1300 high resolution images.

PatternCooler: Create seamless background patterns for your website. Start from scratch or edit one of the templates. Over 75,000 patterns to choose from.

BgPatterns: Create tiled backgrounds by customizing color, transparency, texture and rotating patterns.