Most of the graphic designers reading this probably strive to create appealing designs. You could thing that being creative and good at designing is enough to find clients. Wrong! The [...]
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You don’t need to be a photographer to be a good designer. However it helps to be able to take good photography, and also to know some popular photography techniques. [...]
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Designing e-commerce websites is probably one of the most complicated task for a web designer. Your client (or yourself) will have some very clear goals that will make the UI [...]
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Steampunk illustrations show us a victorian retro-future. They are inspired by steampunk litterature, a sub-genre of science-fiction that involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used. [...]
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When running a business, you obviously want to increase your income. Chances are that you also want to reduce your expenses, or that you have too. For designers, software costs [...]
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Designing and sending HTML newsletters can be a little tacky sometimes. The output of HTML in email apps is still much more limited than in web browsers, which means that [...]
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Blog engine or CMS, call it whatever you want but WordPress is a great tool for web designers. It just get a little hard to use sometimes when you want [...]
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Ever used some CSS3 properties in your designs? Maybe you should already start messing with it as some properties and selectors can already be used. To give you an idea [...]
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A sketchpad is a designer’s friend – always present, ready when inspiration strikes to take down an idea for a logo, a postcard or just any whimsical image. Sometimes these [...]
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Setting sail on the content management sea? Well here’s a navigational chart that’ll help avoid the ragged rocks and hidden shoals. Don’t leave shore without it! Being adept in your [...]
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For most designers you will have had the question, “can you fix this photo for me?” asked at more than once in your lifetime. Whether for family or friends, or [...]
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When creating a website one of the most important things to get right is the layout, the UI – user interface as you would call it, is something that is [...]
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create cool water typography effect in Photoshop playing with stock photos, blend modes and filters. We will also use some water [...]
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If you are a regular web worker and/or a freelancer, you must already work with a lot of online apps like Google Docs or YouSendIt. Many online applications are free, [...]
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If you are serious about your website or blog, you should definitly take the analytics part seriously. In this post I explain how to track some events on your pages [...]
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If you use WordPress as a CMS for your clients’ websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find WordPress hard to use. Yes, it is quite user-friendly, but apparently [...]
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Blog posts with tons of jQuery scripts are pretty cool, but you’ll have to know how to use them first. To be able to use these scripts, you’ll have to [...]
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While Photoshop is not the most appropriate tool to layout type, it can be pretty amazing when it comes to create illustrative typography effects. The following Photoshop tutorials will teach [...]
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