Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Photoshop How-to: Total Color Tranformation
When clients supply photos for Web sites or print materials, you're never sure what you're going to get. If the images are less-than-ideal but you must use them, Photoshop can help. This tutorial walks you through the process of completely altering colors. The end result would be a positive addition to any project.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 479 |
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Design How-to: A Better Newsletter
Before & After magazine is renowned for its practical yet beautiful advice on laying out pages. This excerpt from the book "Before & After Page Design" is no exception. Here's all you need to know -- from the basics to the refined detail -- to design successful newsletters.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 469 |
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Using levels in Flash
A few tips for using levels in flash when loading swf files, and how to set the position of an exernally loaded swf movie. Author: Wipeout44 | Visits: 463 |
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Purple and White Cut Icon
In this Photoshop Tutorial I will show you how to create the purple and white cut icon in my image. Author: Jasmine Starr | Visits: 460 |
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Image File Formats guide
Don't know your JPGs from your PNGs? Follow this guide in utilizing file formats to create BEAUTIFUL web sites. Author: tu-torial.com | Visits: 418 |
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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.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 415 |
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Human-Computer Interface Design
This section discusses recommendations for designing the interface between people and computers and recommends some principles to be considered. Author: Usask | Visits: 412 |
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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?
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 404 |
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Heavy Metal Madness: We, the Yearbook Nerds
It's the time of the year when graduates around America pick up their yearbooks and flip through the pages in anticipation of what surprises or embarrassments might await. Gene Gable wonders how many other graphic professionals got started while working on a yearbook staff, and considers that not all the lessons learned are about layout or photo cropping.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 366 |
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Heavy Metal Madness: A Focus on Hocus Pocus
Kids may no longer dream of growing up as magicians, but at one time magic was not just a popular hobby, but a thriving business opportunity. In this installment, Gene Gable unearths a secret cache of magic tricks from the days before David Copperfield.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 353 |
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