Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel – Photoshop Tutorial – with Video
Share I found a number of old photos and after scanning them in – they had a grainy finish and had lost the punch and impact they once had. So I devised this little process to give them their punch back! Hopefully its of use to yourself. You can follow along with the screenshots or [...]
Turn A Boring Photo Into An Emotive Portrait – Photoshop Tutorial – with video
Share This is a fairly ‘intermediate’ tutorial, although most beginners will be able to follow along with the video. It’s a neat little tutorial packed full of lots of little gems and tricks which we use in order to arrive the result; which is a much more stylistic portrait, that’s a lot more emotive and [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
Share 1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is [...]
Going to Print Tip – Photography
Share Morning All, I recently got some of my photographs printed at A1 size ready for sale for the very first time. At the printers, I was lucky enough to catch some advice from some more experienced photographers who were printing their work, involving post-processing images ready for print. Add Noise – 5% – Filter- [...]
Google Analytics Explained Almost
Share Google Analytics Explained, well almost… sort of As i continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our [...]
4 Tutorials to Improve Your Drawing
Share Below, find some tuts that we have found useful. Click the images. 1)How to Draw eyes 2) How to draw human poses 3) How to draw hair 4) How to Draw Anime
Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance
Share Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance on Windows http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=320782&sliceId=1 Excerpt: By configuring your system to run efficiently, you increase the amount of memory available to applications and ensure that they run smoothly. Increase the amount of memory available to Illustrator, quit applications you are not using, or disable nonessential startup applications or fonts to improve [...]
Read-Write: Use your NTFS Hard Drive with Your Mac
Share Users running Mac OS X are often stumped when trying to write onto most external hard drive’s as normally they are bought, they usually come in the NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it. This is because this is the file [...]
Designing for Print and Designing for Web Differences
Share Designing for print, and designing for web are two different kettles of fish, and learning some of the basic considerations between the two can save you many of the traditional rookie mistakes that plagued us, in our teething process. this little article should hopefully stop you from making any huge mistakes early on. Firstly, [...]
5 High Quality Photoshop Tutorial Websites
Share Hi all. I learnt Photoshop like many through resources and tutorials available online. We all however know, that there are few quality sites out there, many are filled with the types of effects and filter processes that leave you with amateur and poor results. The sites below, all have a degree of quality control [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Understand Typography
Share 1) Typography: The Essential Guide What is typography? And why is it so important to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style make any difference? Because everything you touch, see and create is impacted by [...]
5 Tutorials and Resources for Image Replacement Techniques
Share 1) 9 techniques For CSS Image Replacement s a quick review, CSS image replacement is a technique of replacing a text page element with an image. An example of this would be including a logo on a page. You may want to use a tag and text for this for the accessibility and SEO [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Help You Understand/ Implement Copywriting Techniques
Share Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. Although the word copy may be applied to any content intended for printing (as in the body of a newspaper article or book), the term copywriter is generally limited to such promotional situations, regardless of media (as advertisements for print, [...]
Code to Embed Flash so it Validates
Share Something I found a long time ago, thought it might be useful for when people are embedding banners etc and are creating a document to validate. Link: Valid Flash Code
Photoshop Actions Tutorial
Share Recently, I went out with my camera, captured around 200 10MP photos with my DSLR. I then wanted to upload each picture to the web. Instead of resizing and individually sharpening each one, I created an Action; Photoshop then automatically converted all 200 images for me, whilst preserving the originals in their source folder. [...]
Print Design Templates (Bleed, Trim, Guide’s)
Share Below is a list of links I have compiled over time to free psd templates for everything from business cards to flyers. The templates do not contain designs, just simply all the correct bleed, trim and text/content guides, to help ensure what you design on screen gets printed properly! All PSD files are 300DPI [...]
10 Resources and Tutorials to Understand and Create Corporate Identity
Share 1) How to create a strong corporate identity You need to decide what is the core proposition of the company; what you do and what you sell,he said. If you don’t know what the company stands for it is difficult to create an identity. You can come up with the funkiest identity but if [...]
Using Humour Effectively in Design
We went on a short trip to amsterdam, and stayed in, probably the worst hotel in Europe. (that anchor text is adding to their advertising, trust me!) It wasn’t an exaggeration to suggest that our room resembled a prison in every way, except for the bars. However, the budget hotel embraced it’s flaws instead of trying to cover them up – using humour in their advertisments, they successfuly turned what should have been the worst aspect of any hotel, into its biggest selling points.
10 Tutorials and Resources to Teach You CSS
In my quest to learn how to design using CSS to style my web designs in my development of my web skills, I compiled a list of 10 resources and tutorials that I have found invaluable in learning the basics and some intermediate tips and tricks in CSS. Hope you all find them useful in helping you to learn CSS.
Custom Right Click – Flash Tutorial
Creating a custom right click menu in Flash using AS2
Adding A Rainbow To A Photo in Photoshop Tutorial
Share Hey all. Every now and then you take a beautiful picture of a clear scenic day and nothing could make it better than adding a wonderful rainbow into the shot. Or in your designing etc, you may just want to add a rainbow to the composition. Below, is a tutorial, showing you how to [...]
Photoshop Adjustment Layer and Retouching Tutorial with Video
This tutorial should hopefully have you adjusting and touching up all your photos at an intermediate level in no time. the techniques and principles can ten be applied in doing other things within photoshop.
What is Usability?
Share During my web travels, I have seen the term usability thrown around everywhere and although on the face of things, its an easy concept to grasp; I searched for an in-depth resource to explain the term, its applications and examples. Then I came across this, give it time, takes a good 2 minutes to [...]
Sep 26, 2008 | Categories: Commentary, Tutorial, Web Design | Tags: Business, Graphic Design | 1 Comment »