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Whether it is to learn something new or just poke around and have some fun, a lot of designers like to jump into a great PSD and dissect it to see how certain things were accomplished. Whether you are a beginner or not, it can be useful and stimulating to your design senses. In this post, I have gathered a few cool free PSDs I’ve come across that I want to share with you.

In this tutorial we will create a portfolio web layout using Adobe Photoshop. I will show you how to create patterns and textures for your web designs and how to use the 960 Grid System to help you align the elements of your web layouts. I will also provide the patterns that I used in the resources section below so you can install and use them straight away.

A slick login form can be a beautiful – and memorable – thing. In today’s post, I am going to lay out eight great login forms I’ve run into recently. All of them are available for download so you can use them in your own designs (though I would recommend making your own if you can). Whether it be for inspiration or to use them, check these out and then share some of your favorites in our comments.

Using texture in web design is risky. When it goes bad, it can go really bad. But when it goes well… well, it can blow your socks off. In this post you will find some very subtle textures to enhance your designs alongside some bolder choices to be used by those with a more discerning eye (if you can pull it off!). Also, I don’t discriminate against certain types of textures here – we have all types from glass, metal, brick, grunge, and super grunge to some really unique vintage wallpaper and damask stuff. All of these are free to use, but please read the specific usage rights on each website. Enjoy, and happy designing to you and yours.

The iPad has undoubtedly opened new doors in design and functionality, but who is utilizing the device the best? That is the question I sought out to answer with this post. I looked through apps of all kind: communication, productivity, accessibility, and education to name a few. Below are the best examples I could find. Some are old, some newer, but all demonstrate great understanding for user experience and eye catching design.

The other day I came across a fantastic icon set that I really wanted to share. It was a Wooden Mac OS X Dock Icon Set (you will see it later in the post, too) and it intrigued me because though I usually don’t like this style, I really admired these. Inspired, I dug deeper and found some other wood icon sets to share with all of you. I also snuck in a really cool tutorial from Design Instruct at the end. Enjoy.

We are happy to announce a new giveaway for our loyal readers of Web Design Fan. Today we present the SiteGrinder SG3xpress plugin. To find out more about this product, read on. You will find information on how to win a free license for yourself at the end of the post.

If you happen to use the blog with WordPress platform, one of the advantages of this platform is the number of themes that you can use as a design and layout of your blog.

There are so many blogs using Wordpress to power their blogs with various features and functionalities that I want to share 20 (include 10 free and 10 premium) new WordPress Themes to help you out.

Today we bring you another icon set from the WDF vault – a collection of professional blue icons.

This set comes in 3 different sizes: 32×32, 64×64, and 128×128 pixels. We have provided both the .PNG and .AI files.

This collection is completely free for use in anything! Complement any of your projects with these attractive and professional icons.

Every artist, designer or photographer should have a digital portfolio. Today I would like to show you how to design an elegant and clean photography portfolio website in Photoshop.

You will see how to implement a photo into full design layout, how to play with typography to achieve clean and elegant look. Hope you will find this tutorial useful!