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How to be Successful in Graphic Design

How to be Successful in Graphic Design

March 10, 2012 No Comments

    How do you succeed in graphic design? One of the biggest things you can do is know the Adobe Creative Suite, and know how to use it efficiently. While that advice may seem simple, there are several ways you can go wrong. Here are a few simple tips that will help you stay ... (function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];s.type = 'text/javascript';s.async = true;s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);})(); Digg Diggvar dd_offset_from_content = 40; var dd_top_offset_from_content = 0;

A picture worth a thousand words: Making a portrait out of words

A picture worth a thousand words: Making a portrait out of words

September 23, 2011 No Comments

If you’re like me, every now and then you come across a tutorial that at first glance does two things: it gets your designing juices flowing and makes you excited like but also kind of makes you question if your design skills are good enough to produce such elegant results. For me, mastering a cool ...

Tips and Tricks: Creating Your Own Grunge Brush

Tips and Tricks: Creating Your Own Grunge Brush

August 31, 2011 No Comments

Although I have experimented with the grunge brush library in illustrator, I can never get quite the effect I was looking for. That is, until I found this awesome tutorial to make your own grunge brush. To begin, I would say the hardest part of this tutorial, is finding a picture of the texture you ...

Tips and Tricks: The Tilde Effect

Tips and Tricks: The Tilde Effect

August 30, 2011 No Comments

You will not believe how such a small effort can create such a cool effect. I found this trick online and haven’t been able to stop playing with it for the past hour now. First, open an illustrator document. I chose a background color so my designs would pop more but a background color isn’t ...

Design Tips

Design Tips

August 27, 2011 No Comments

No matter what level of a designer you are, there is always more to learn on the road to perfecting your craft. One area that will be valuable to you when getting ready to print, it using blacks in your design and understanding how to determine what the printed result will look like. Read on ...

Blend Tool Shape Multiplier

Blend Tool Shape Multiplier

August 25, 2011 No Comments

So while I was looking for ways to accomplish a specific illustrator task, I stumbled upon a really easy, yet neat tutorial that produces an awesome effect. Take a look! To begin, open an illustrator document and for best results that pop, choose a background color. Next, draw two curving lines that intersect each other ...

Clipping Mask

Clipping Mask

August 3, 2011 No Comments

Whether you are a trained graphic designer, plan to be, or just like to play around with the Adobe programs for fun, you will most likely appreciate this tip. As a graphic designer, I spend a lot of time in front of my computer with about 15 programs open at once. One of those programs ...

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Adobe Creative Suite 5

May 28, 2011 No Comments

So I recently bought the new CS (again…) which is Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Design and WOW so far I am in love with it. For the past 4 or 5 months I been forced to use programs like GIMP in order to edit my images and save them for web. What a hassle ...

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