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Freelancers submit details!

I very often need freelancers to help me with my jobs. So I am looking for hard-working, honest individuals to contact me and supply me their details. Here are the sort of people I am looking for: print designers, web designers, interior designers, artworkers, photographers, illustrators, copy writers, copy editors, Flash specialists, Photoshop re-touchers, PHP, [...]

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Freelance designer vs Design agency

Independent freelancers often outperform agencies in quality, price and timeliness. To some the word “freelancer” may have a certain stigma of a maverick who ignores rules and misses deadlines. In reality freelancers have usually been around the agency block already and know their stuff. Nobody starts work as a freelancer. There used to be advantages [...]

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Designing screen PDF newsletters – Why and How?

Question: How can you disseminate a graphically interesting, beautifully designed small book to a large number of people cheaply? Answer: Email a PDF. Almost every computer has Adobe Reader (formerly called Acrobat Reader) and PDFs are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Question: Why [...]

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Public art near Tate Britain

Not only can you see art for free at Tate Britain, you can also get some just down the road. On the left you can see Locking Piece (1963) by Henry Moore on Millbank right by the river between Vauxhall bridge and Tate Britain. And on the other side of the road there’s Jeté by [...]

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Photoshop flame effect

Choose and bold sans serif for your type. This is Arial black. Rasterize Type. Rotate canvas by 90º clockwise. In order to get points coming from the top of the type it needs to be white out type on black on the same layer. Go Filters > Stylize > Wind from the left. Then invert [...]

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Designing PDF newsletters

The first rule of making PDFs is easy… do it in InDesign, don’t even think of doing it in Quark. Navigation, linking to the web and even playing movies can be sorted out in InDesign first before the PDF is made. This way when the client has added his changes these elements don’t have to [...]

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