Hello. I'm Rob Cubbon. I'm a graphic and web designer / blogger.
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Creatives are paid fortunes to think laterally, to come up with a word or an image that no one else has thought of. But now we have the most amazing lateral thinking resource at our fingertips – the internet. You have dictionaries and thesauruses to help you with words. There are directories of English idioms [...]
The best advice for a Quark user working for the first time in InDesign is go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts… at the bottom of the menu and choose, obviously, Shortcuts for QuarkXpress 4.0. While you’re there you may want to remind yourself of the more useful ones. Command-shift-option- R whilst your type tool has clicked [...]
The Quick Mask Mode is a much overlooked method for making selections. In particular, “burning” or darkening skies more at the top of the image than at the horizon. To do this, go into Quick Mask Mode, either by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the tool bar or by pressing Q. Immediately, [...]
This is about the very basics of improving landscape photography. For years I’ve been taking rather bland photos of both natural landscapes and cityscapes and then pushing those pixels to bits in Photoshop. One of the most important things to learn in Photoshop is selecting areas of pictures. For example, in the Tower of London [...]
This is one quick key that I discovered recently that’s going to save me so much time. If you are working on a Photoshop layer and have the move tool selected then you can use the shift key with – or + (plus or minus) to flip through the layer blend modes, from Normal, Dissolve, [...]
Fanfare! I have just published a new website detailing the method I used to quit cigarettes. Please have a look. I started smoking when I was 18 and very quickly developed a 20 a day habit. I immediately noticed a dip in my health – not to mention an increase in my asthma. But still [...]
I’m at school at the moment. In WC1, hiding in between the Islington’s Lloyd, Wilmington and Granville Squares is Framfab LBi, Europe’s largest web agency, where I’m working now, in a building that used to be a school. And it actually feels like a school. The staircases, the rooms, the panelled headmaster’s study, the canteen, [...]
Here’s another thing that I hate about doing websites … Flash. When I first set eyes on it I thought it was great but for me it hasn’t really lived up to expectations. The problem is not everyone has the Flash Player installed in their browser – not everyone can see it! And it is [...]
How do you cut out a high resolution photo? It depends on the picture of course. If you are cutting out a product – a mobile phone, say – then use the pen tool in Photoshop. Blow the image up big and follow the edge one or two pixels in using Bézier curves. Bézier is [...]
This article is massively out-of-date and virtually everything said in it is now incorrect but it is useful to show how quickly things can change in this area! If you now type “freelance graphic designer and artworker in London” into Yahoo! I’m number one. In Google I’m hundred and fifty something! I’m trying to do [...]
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