Whether To Use Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign?

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Adobe’s Creative Suite of programs includes some heavy-weight applications that are mainstay tools for millions of graphic designers all over the world. Everyone knows what Photoshop does – it’s the photo-manipulation software. It’s forced it’s way into the English language. You hear kids these days looking at a photo of a model saying “her skin’s [...]

Free 2013 Calendars as PDF, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop files for Download!

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Hello there! I want to wish you good health, good luck and happiness in 2013! Free 2013 calendars PDFs to download Here is a PDF of a 2013 calendar all on one page. You may prefer to right-click and save the PDF to your computer rather than clicking on the link and have it appear [...]

How To Make A Favicon For Your Website

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The “halo effect”, as I mentioned in an article about why I’d never use cheap website builders, suggests the way we look, dress, speak and the sort of homes we live in influence other people’s impressions of us. This is why, when you’re designing a website for yourself or a client, you should take care [...]

Create a Free 3D E-Book Cover

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If you would like to publish free e-books or even sell a premium e-book, it is a great idea to show a beautiful 3D image of it as a physical book. Even though the book does not physically exist, the image of a real book creates more of a desire in your website’s visitors or [...]

Removing Backgrounds and Cutting Out in Photoshop

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If you spend anytime designing, you’ll know that cut out images or shapes are more interesting than square or rectangular images. Have a look at the two flowers below, which one makes the most impact? Cut outs look great. Just do a Google image search for “product” and you’ll see that the advertising industry has [...]

How to Improve Picture Quality in Photoshop

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Every designer knows that sometimes your clients will give you awful photos to work with. But when this happens there are many things you can do to improve the picture quality in Photoshop. Images can be improved by increasing contrast, increasing saturation, cropping and by employing a host of other Photoshop tricks. Increasing contrast Increasing [...]

How to design and code a beautiful web button

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The internet is daunting, disorganized and idiosyncratic. Web designers should try to make the user’s journey as simple and as pleasant as they can. What’s more, there are certain actions that webmasters would like visitors to perform – to go to a page, to submit some information, for example. For these reasons, knowing how to [...]

Designing a Web Page with Photoshop

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It is usually better to show a client what a website will look like before the development stage starts. Here are a few tricks for creating website visuals in Photoshop. Getting started Create a large Photoshop document, at least 1200 pixels wide by 900 pixels deep (this can be increased later with Canvas Size), RGB [...]

What you need to start a graphic design business

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It pains me to think of the $3000 I spent on a Mac Performa 6400 complete with a huge monitor and in-built 28K dial-up modem in the mid-90s. The machine chugged along like an aging donkey and the information super-highway felt more like a traffic jam. I wish I was starting now with readily available [...]

Free open source alternatives to Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

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A guest post from Louise Baker of Zen College Life For web designers, developers and amateur creative types that work with a lot of graphics and image manipulation, the decision of which software to use is an important one. While Adobe Photoshop and its related Creative Suite programs are well respected throughout the world, open [...]

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