Awesome guys at Visual.ly just released a a free online tool that can visualize Google Analytics stats into a great looking report in a form of infographic in a matter of basically only a click.
Knowing how to select parts of your Gimp documents with the help of Quick Mask might be one of the first things you should learn when starting with Gimp. Let me introduce you to the basics of Quick Mask.
Due to work flow optimization guys at Adobe decided to hide some of the filters in Photoshop CS6, if you are missing some of them, you can easily make the visible again.