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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Quark How-To: Fill Type with Artwork in QuarkXPressCategory: Design and imaging tutorials How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator? If the artwork-filled type is going to end up in a QuarkXPress layout, why worry about transparency, clipping path, or image preview issues? Instead, you can fill the type directly within XPress.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 270 |
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Inside CS2: MetaDesign Shares Its SecretsCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Creative Director Brett Wickens reveals the process behind the packaging for Adobe Creative Suite 2. While we might not all have the resources to x-ray a bus, we can all benefit from this case study in brand evolution.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 270 |
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What's New In Creative Suite 2Category: Design and imaging tutorials In this excerpt from "InDesign Magazine Issue 5," we give you details on the hot new features in the suite as a whole, and in the updated Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, and Acrobat.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 268 |
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Keep Editorial Fingers Out of Your LayoutsCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Widows, orphans, bad breaks. Just the sound of them is enough to make you cry. And in your carefully designed layout, they look even worse. While today's page-layout software automates many things, beautifully set type doesn't just happen. Charles Purdy shows you what to look for and how to fix it.
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Painting small figuresCategory: Painting and illustration techniques An easy way to paint small figures in watercolour
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 265 |
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Plug-Ins and XTensions: It's a Plug-Inpalooza!Category: Design and imaging tutorials Create Brushes, Backdrops, and Engravings in Photoshop; Correct PDFs; Add Maps and Automate Data in Illustrator; Relink Pictures in QuarkXPress and InDesign; and Record QuarkXPress AppleScripts.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 263 |
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Plug-Ins and XTensions: What's New for Photoshop, QuarkXPress, InDesign, and AcrobatCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Do you have the wrong colors? Too smooth a bevel, or too noisy an image? Inconsistent tables? Is your printing out of control? We've got the software solutions for you.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 262 |
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Painting from photographyCategory: Painting and illustration techniques If you are painting from photographs here are a few tips to make them easier to work from
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 261 |
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dot-font: Acrobatics -- Putting the Story on the ScreenCategory: Design and imaging tutorials 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.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 258 |
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TextureCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Give your work a more interesting surface
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 258 |
