A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts and Graphs to display the meaningful data visualizations. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to display my data analytics on pie charts and graphs too.

Nowadays, there are over hundred thousands of resources available on the web. Instead of spending time on researching for the ones you needed, we pick the top and intelligent ones for you. Below, you’ll find a collection of Essential Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution by which you can increase your productivity.

Personally speaking, I love vintage textures – although we’re living in a high-tech society where everything is shining and glossy, sometimes we need a bit of old, ancient feeling to get a balance and taste the history. Not to mention if you’re working on a design project requiring the vintage touches, you will find those textures and Photoshop brushes extremely useful.

Hey everyone! It seems that we have recently lost touch with the magic of Photoshop Layer Styles, until recently that is. So, in lieu of this, we have complied the ultimate roundup of 750+ style sets for you! Layer Styles are a great resource, and can really save heaps of time when designing something. They provide a great base of styles that are easily editable later on. It doesn’t stop there, don’t forget that they can easily create web buttons, icons, and Web 2.0 Text Styles.

Textures, textures, textures. The design community, both print and web, seems to be going absolutely texture mad, but there are several valid and very good reasons to why that may be:

1. Texture can completely change the way people ‘read’ your design work and illustrations because, with very little effort, texture can dramatically change the mood of your work ..

New month new wallpaper to your desktop.

Grab your fav and share this list with your friends, and Welcome to March 2010!

Enjoy !!

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Here are a few high-Resolution Free GIMP brushes which will speed up your project and make life easier  to be working on. Most brushes have been converted from photoshop so dont worry if they say photoshop in the image. Please read the terms before using it.

To install, unzip files into the brushes folder in your GIMP program files (usually C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\brushes in Windows or /home/username/GIMP-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/brushes in Linux) and then restart GIMP.

Using a seamless pattern in your web design is a great way to instantly add impact, style and depth – simply and quickly.  Whether you are using a pattern as background or to add texture to a specific area, it can take a design from good to great.

Lets take a look at this collection of more than 250 of the best free seamless patterns, resources and tutorials, ranging from grunge to metallic to floral patterns that can be used to enhance your designs immediately.

As with any type of free downloads, check and see if there is are requirements set by the developer

E-commerce design requires much of the same design knowledge and skill as any other type of web design. The pages are built from many of the same elements – headers, footers, columns, graphics, and text, among other things. But there are additional elements that need to be considered, from both a design and usability standpoint. Site architecture is often more complicated, with products sometimes falling into multiple categories. Product pages need to be laid out in a way that makes it easy for customers to see exactly what it is they’re getting. And the checkout process needs to be as simple and streamlined as possible while still capturing necessary information and encouraging repeat business. Overall, e-commerce design takes a bit more planning and care than simpler website forms.

I was going to use the adjective essential in the title rather than useful but no one book is essential when it comes to learning web design. There are thousands of online tutorials to help you master the profession and there are dozens if not hundreds of books  on all aspects of web-based creativity. Not having access to any one book  will stop you from learning your desired skill but some books will greatly assist you in the process. 10 of these such books  are below.

If you are a web or a Graphic Developer then Adobe Photoshop is a necessary tool. If you want to do powerful work quickly then your Photoshop application should be loaded with all the most important things like brushes, styles and Gradients. Everyone knows the power of Gradients. It has .grd extension. If you have proper gradient set in your Photoshop then you can make some beautiful eye catching stuff. If you like web2.0 effect then load the gradient of web2.0 and start the work.