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Infographics is a hot trend these days. These are engaging, easy to understand and a perfect way to dissipate information. It is a wonderful and appealing method to communicate data, facts, figures and statistics about a certain issue, instantly grabbing user’s interest with the graphical story board sort of presentation. Its soaring popularity subsists in the fact that it not only conveys information in an interesting manner but is easy to understand. It has permeated into so many areas these days encompassing technical subjects, social media, internet and design. Large amounts of information can easily and effectively be encapsulated at one place using inforgrpahics.

The question here is, since this method is highly effective how this can be utilized in the web design field? I did lots of research but could not find anything useful that can answer the question in the title I posed. Therefore, in this respect I require your comments and suggestions showing how this useful phenomenon can be smartly employed in web design.

For this post, I would take you round some wonderful and really fun to see social media infographics. Some really great work has been done for social media and its promotion using this awesome method boosting social media popularity more than ever. These have a greater impact on the audience than to placing just simple and boring content. Inspired by these I have put together a classic collection that will mesmerize you.

The Profile of a Twitter User

How to Use Twitter?

Impact of Social Media on Small Businesses

Impact of Mobile Phones on Social Media

5 Ways to Make Your Social Media Strategy More Effective

Facebook Vs Google- The Never Ending Rivalry

Reviving Facebook’s Precious 6 Years

Social Media Impact on College Admissions

Rising Trend of Social Networking Ad Spending

The Way Our World Spends Time Online

How to Build a Company with Social Media?

Adobe illustrator is considered among the best software’s to compose such astonishing artwork that is distinct and one of its class. It is used widely by web designers all over the world for vector graphics as the software comprise of drawing tools and natural brushes that offer accuracy, expression and a sense of natural blend. It not only makes working on images easy and fast but lets you make use of motion paths to animate images. But the major problem is the whole Adobe creative suite is too much expensive for an average user or graphic designer to work. In this article you will find a collection of some awesome alternatives to adobe illustrator. These programs are easy to use and fun to work with. These programs can be downloaded free from open source online communities. The collection displayed here is carefully chosen to provide the readers with the best alternatives that suit their needs and give them smooth work experience.

1. Inkscape

Inkscape is distributed with a free software license known as GNU General Public License. This is an amazing tool that lets you see applied effects in real time. Its major features comprise gradients, arbitrary transformations and opacity. The main aim of the tool is to provide full support for scalable vector graphics. The tool works on both Windows and Mac and is a really good alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

2. Creative Docs.NET

Creative Docs.NET is a relatively simple and wonderful application. It has an interface with nice drag and drop which is lacking in Adobe Illustrator. Its interface is friendly for drawing different sorts of curves and merging different shapes. It is a free vector based graphic design tool and supports rich text, posters, illustrations, schemas etc. This application is for Windows platform only.

3. Corel draw

Corel draw is a creation of Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is a vector graphics editor and well known among people who have some experience in designing. Corel draw is no doubt one of the best alternatives of Adobe Illustrator. It is best in terms of both functionality and performance and enables you to perform and create everything that can be done with Adobe Illustrator. But this software only works for Windows.

4. Karbon 14

Karbon 14 is a component of KOffice that is the KDE office suite. It is a really helpful tool for beginners as it very easy to use. It is highly customizable and extensible. The application is suitable for both amateurs as well as professionals. In other words perfect for people desiring to begin and explore the world of vector graphics and those desiring to produce stunning art work. Using the application one can create illustrations, logos, photo realistic images, clipart etc.

5. Xara Xtreme

Xara Xtreme is developed by the British company Xara which later in 2007 was acquired by a German company MAGIX AG. This is a 2D vector graphic editor.  It has menus, palettes and floating dialogs with really powerful graphics. This is a free version and it  works on Windows and Linux.

6. Skencil

It is an interactive free vector drawing application released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Skencil is a perfect tool for drawings and illustrations. It is like a supplementary program and lets you import files from Adobe. Some of its features are Bezier curves, transformed text and images, gradient fills, blend groups etc. It can be used on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

7. GIMP

This is a free raster graphics editor. This is primarily used as an image restoring and editing tool. It can be used for free form drawing and accomplish tasks such as editing, resizing, converting between different image formats, cropping photos etc. You can use this tool to create basic animated images in the GIF format. It is compatible with platforms like Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.

8. Alchemy

According to the tool’s official site it is being developed in Tokoyo, Japan. It is a vector graphics drawing tool that facilitates idea development and creativity. The software is based on experimental interaction and explores ways how one can create, sketch and draw in different ways. It has a sketching environment and its main aim is to focus on the initial stages of the creation process rather than creating a fine piece of artwork.  Alchemy is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac.

9. Serif Draw Plus

Serif Draw Plus is developed by a UK based Software Company known as Serif. This is a 2D vector graphic editor. This tool is best for brilliant effects and impressive drawings. It is perfect for advanced artistic features and provides blend modes, realistic brush, pen and pencil tools. It also provides tools like curve smoothing, curve editing and quick shapes. This software works only on Windows platform and is free.

10. sK1

The application was developed by a small team lead by Igor Novikov in 2003 based on the existing graphics editor Skencil discussed already. Its major features are CMYK color-space support, CMYK support in Postscript, Color management etc. It is oriented for PDF output as well. Using sK1 you can carry out publishing in professional style. The application is free and is Linux based.

There are several open source online communities that will provide you with a wide range of applications that have great features and capabilities. Therefore you do not have to spend even a single dime to find the best quality tools available that perfectly suit your needs.

Logo – your business identity, your emblem, your weapon to make users remember you in a unique way. It is the first thing that gets special attention while conducting any business. Online business approach has revolutionized the way of designing a business logo. Now it has become an integral part of web designing. Whenever the question of web designing arises, business owner wants logo designing as well. Web design firms also offer unique logo designing along with regular web designing package.

Gone are the days when logo was designed just around three colors and use of gradient was discouraged. Rainbow Apple logo launch in mid eighties had reversed the thought. Now professionally designed logo shows ‘seriousness’ of a business and ‘care’ about customers. Because of online branding concept, the appearance of logo has got a different meaning. Computer screens show business logos in a pleasant way so web designer has to follow new dimensions for logo designing. Colorful logos give any business a stunning appearance that negates the ‘strictness’ of avoiding gradients in past.

Producing 3D gradient effects in logo designing is not that much easy, it needs continuous efforts of learning. This article will offer good support in terms of some appealing logo designs using gradient effects. Give your products a unique identity and get your right share of global customers.

1. Apple Logo

2. Cia do Suco

3. Adff.ly

4. Simply Stunning

5. SideWinder

6. Science House

7. Beyond Media Inc

8. Fritz Industries

9. Fenix

10. FOLD IT

11. Jar Creative

12. Sushi

13. Water Empire

14. Floris Ambigram

15. Evate Studios

16. Yogo

17. Glocalis

18. Backup Drive

19. Flutterfly

20. Multimediums

21. North Colour

22. Veriation Music

23. Down the Mall

24. Mad Compass

25. Premio Vida

26. Dynamics Lab

27. Eem

28. Bunzy

29. TGB 09 Logo

30. Magicthree

31. Water-S

32. Connect Soft

33. NIVID 2

34. Geneauter & Marino

35. Elara Systems

36. Cocoastuff

37. Emono Studios

38. Communtini

39. Union

40. Volume Studios revised

41. Grey & Saurian

42. Vavao

43. Bananas Films

44. Webics

45. Coffee CUP

46. Moxlo

47. Nucleus Creations

48. M40ON

49. Kevmor

50. Funnel Interactive

Introduction

Few years back there was not much scope of graphic designing, but with the passage of time, the networks of network (internet) has grown up to optimum level and this increases the scope of graphic designing in the web industry.

The use of graphics in the web is known as web designing. Web designing is the art of making the content attractive and appealing to the site visitor so that web masters get the benefit of less bounce rate and conversion with the high traffic.  There are the designers who are engage with the professional web design companies in order to deliver quality results.

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We recommend the best graphic design freeware tools which you can use for adding the graphic into the website.

1. Flockdraw :

Summary:

It is a Freeware Web based Painting/drawing tool.

Features:

It has almost every feature of MS Paint; with drawing you can also have the chat facility with the other people in the chat room.

Usage:

It can be extremely useful when you want to show your drawing/creativity to your client, for instant purpose you need to understand some points visually you can use this web based software and invite your client on the chat room. This web based application can also be used for the entertainment purpose by designers.

2. Paint.net :

Summary:

It is really a professional tool for drawing, painting and photo editing. You can download it and use it as a desktop application. It has a great and user friendly interface. But there is one requirement that is you must have windows upgraded version like SP3 or windows Vista.

Features:

An innovative user interface with the support of layers. You can do unlimited undo, can add special effects & a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Usage:

Paint.net has the active and online community which provides tutorials, online help and various plug-Ins. It can be positively used as a graphic design application for creating most powerful elements for your website.

3. Blender :

Summary:

Blender is the freeware 3D Multimedia content creation suite. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Features:

1. It has the Flexible and fully configurable window layout.
2. Undo support at all levels.
3. Built-in text editor for comments and editing Python scripts
4. Unwrapping methods like angle based unwrapping.
5. You can build animation (skeleton) with fast creation mode.
6. Automatic skinning support.

Hence many advance options are supported by the Blender Application which provides you an easy way for 3D designing.

Usage:

It can be best used as a 3D making software, and you can make cool and attractive animations which can be inserted into your website.

4. Myna :

Summary:

If you want to merge some audio with your graphic works, then this application is best for this kind of work.

Features:

1. You can make your audio tracks remix which can be inserted into your graphic design.
2. Moreover you can independently modify the audio file like sets its tempo, merge other audio effects, high nodes, low nodes effects.

Usage:

Very interesting and entertaining software to modify your music files. And you can place these unique music files into your website background.

5. Boxee :

Summary:

With the help of Boxee Tool you can view your design media under one place. It is a freeware tool. Moreover they have their own services which you can avail it and view all the media either into your laptop or in your big Screen LCD TV. They have full tutorial available for attaching your laptop with your digital TV.

Features:

1. It can manage all multimedia items like videos, audios.
2. Sharing feature is also there for

Usage:

You can download it, and customize this software for your website, and can merge all the multimedia items into one platform.

6. ImgBurn :

Summary:

ImgBurn is the software application used to burn your web projects into the CD, DVD or even HD/DVD.

Features:

1. It has several Features which includes read, write or build mode.
2. Read mode provides the DVD to read for an image file.
3. Create Image file from your computer files.
4. Write the files or image into the Disc.

Usage:

It provides the useful means of transferring data into reliable media sources and excellent choice for graphic designers to use the functionality free.

7. Phoenix :

Summary:

Phoenix allows basic image retouching to advance or complex effects. By viewing its home page you can get the clear picture of what kind of work it can do for you.

Features:

1. It is a complete web based image editing tool available for designers.
2. It has a toolbar on its left side of the browser window likewise fireworks or Photoshop.
3. It has different panels for editing image.
4. Useful options for layer handing or effects like transparency.

Usage:

Phoenix provides the complete image editing features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity & ease of web based application.

8. BeFunky :

Summary:

It’s a Smart Photo Enhancement tool & provides means of editing images with a single click.

Features:

1. BeFunky provides image modification and effects to the daily usage pictures.
2. It easily fixes your daily photo’s problem with less effort.
3. There are digital goodies available which can be add-up with your photos like frames, glasses etc…

Usage:

You can modify your images personally for yourself, can modify your face book profile picture, or as a designer you can add different effects online.

9. Splashup :

Summary:

Love Photoshop but hate the price? Then use Freeware photo editing web application that is Splashup.

Features:

1. It is not recommended to install any big application software for designing tiny elements. You can use splashup for speedy work online.
2. It is very light in use, so any user can use it online with less to medium connection speed.
3. All featured tools are available for editing or adding effects to the image.

Usage:

Designers and general public can use it easily for image editing.

10. Picasa :

Summary:

Picasa is the freeware Google product for graphic designers that make your pictures look great.

Features:

1. Manage your photos; organize your digital photo album with Picasa.
2. Can create slide shows, prints & wallpapers.
3. You can easily do basic fixes of your photos with less effort and time.
4. Tuning options are there for images.
5. Collage feature allow you to combine your best pictures together with a cool background.
6. You can create virtual photo albums.
7. Picasa has the powerful searching capabilities by assigning tags & stars to photos.
8. With the Sharing feature, you can share or sync your photos online easily.

Usage:

Google Picasa can easily be used by the general public and professional designers.

11. Dropbox :

Summary:

Dropbox is the great tool we have to manage our all data either multimedia or simple text.

Features:

1. One of the great features of the dropbox is that it is meant for synchronizing your all data. So wherever you go for travel, you will get all of your files same.
2. It gives you the file access by assigning you a single magic box, which can be assess into your laptop, pc or mobile phone.

Usage:

The persons, professionals, designers who use to travel much frequently can use dropbox. Even you can place your photos, multimedia items into the dropbox.

12. Executor :

Summary:

Executer is a multipurpose launcher program and a customized version of Windows Run Functionality.

Features:

1. Programs / short-cuts.
2. Documents / files / folders.
3. You can assign number of keywords like shutdown, logoff,  show date, week, show (ip),  start screen saver.
4. Executer has the fastest searching mechanism based on the assignment of keywords, because keywords are the searchable by the user and are easily to be remembered.
5. Auto Completion is supported for keywords,
6. Send emails
7. You can do fast calculations
8. Manage and View running applications.

Usage:

The Designing is the act of making the content much attractive with the use of different designing tools. Sometimes it’s become so hard to locate the element or item related to designing. So this tool can help you in this regard to keep track of your all data, software’s, applications, and multimedia items. And provide you an easy way to perform tasks efficiently.