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Design How-to: Brochures that Get Noticed

You don't need metallic inks or tricky die-cuts to create a brochure everyone wants to pick up. Just offset the folds and work a little design magic. It's easy -- we even give you templates!
Image and tutorial by John McWade

Visits: 1095

Design How-To: Choose the Right Typeface Every Time

Flashy typefaces are fun, but when you design something with large blocks of text, you need a font that doesn't tire your readers. We share our favorites and reveal easy tricks for identifying other suitable choices.
Image and tutorial by John McWade

Visits: 811

Design How-to: Endless Pattern Possibilities

Just one simple step-and-repeat technique is all you need to create striking background patterns perfect for the covers of books, annual reports, brochures -- you name it.
Image and tutorial by John McWade

Visits: 611

Design How-To: Make Type and Photos Play Nice

When text and images are battling for the same space, you don't have to give up one or the other. Here are practical techniques for bringing the two together.
Image and tutorial by John McWade

Visits: 696

Design How-To: Solve Color Dilemmas

No matter what you're creating -- a print piece, a Web site, an illustration -- the element with the greatest effect on your audience is color. How do you choose the right one, or even more daunting, the best mix?
Image and tutorial by John McWade

Visits: 675

Digital Camera Poster Creator

Digital Camera Poster Creator lets make photo quality posters of any size/shape from your digital images. Our exclusive Edge Calibration technology ensures quality results, customized for your individual printer. Features such as zooming, cropping, rotation, and full screen preview make the software easy to use and flexible. It is compatible with all printers, digital cameras and digital images.

Visits: 1331

Digital Painting

This is what the final image will look like. In this tutorial, I am not doing any work on the background, just the candle.
Image and tutorial by Phillip Williams

Visits: 548

Digital video frame to a woodcut icon

In this tutorial a low resolution image is used, a frame from a digital video camera
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

Visits: 1138

Direction

The element of direction can have a powerful influence on the mood of a painting. Find out how to control it.
Image and tutorial by John Lovett

Visits: 580

dot-font: Acrobatics -- Putting the Story on the Screen

How do you meet the challenge of designing a PDF page for comfortable reading of a long piece of fiction -- onscreen? John Berry tells the saga.
Image and tutorial by John D. Berry

Visits: 680

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