http://www.webdesignshock.com – It’s usual to see graphic designers having problems while trying to explain their customers the main idea of the project that they want to develop, this happens often because graphic and web designers are getting used to draw everything straight in the computer, without a previous hand drawn sketch. When the creative arrives to the costumer’s office / house and finds out that the person is not familiar with graphic programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator and so there’s is no way to show him the super cool vectorized interface that was supposed to blow out your client’s mind; don’t worry my dear creative people, because now there’s a product that will solve all your graphic presentation needs regardless of having the complete Adobe Suite at your disposal. (Graphic )

http://colorburned.com – In this tutorial I will show you how to create a color picker icon from some blends, gradients, and simple shapes. This icon works great for web design project and in user interface design. Moreover, you can use the techniques in this tutorial in other icon, web, and print projects. Let’s get started! Final Image Take a look at what we will be creating. Preparation There isn’t much preparation needed for this tutorial. All you need is Illustrator CS4 or CS5 and a beginning to intermediate knowledge of how to use the program. Step 1 With the Line Segment Tool (/), create a path that is about 80 px tall. Make sure the new path has a 1 pt stroke and change the stroke color to an orange. (General)

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com – Whenever you visit website these days, every single one of them is trying to compete one and another. Despite the difference of products or services they offer, their mission remain the same: to engage their visitor or customer. If you find adding big text, icons, or illustrations on web design isn’t so entertaining anymore, let’s add textures. Some web designs use solid or gradient colors as their background, others use illustration to make it look attractive. As for textures, you can add it as the background of a web design, create a certain effect on the text, or even add it to the buttons or other web graphic elements. In this post, we will show you 5 types of texture in web design for your inspiration. (Web Design)

http://www.pvmgarage.com – Ritesh Reddy is the owner/founder of reddy2go , Freelance Firestarter and The Scalene Triangle. Could you please introduce yourself? For starters I’m a Creative Generalist – jack of all trades and master of many. Also known as a nexialist, I’m skilled in the science of joining the dots i.e. the knowledge of one field of learning with that of other fields. In the tradition of the old Internet – ASL – Age: 30, Sex: male, Location: India. (Graphic )

http://www.sitepoint.com – Hey guys Ive just started getting into illustrator and Im wondering how I can get the color picker window up so I can select my color for each color stop (slider). Currently I can only choose from swatches or if I double click on a color slider but that only brings up either the color swatches or the RGB spectrum which is fairly difficult to use compared to the larger color picker window that allows me to also use hexadecimal values. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (General)