2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create.
I am a graphic designer, and I just decided to start working on my own. My name is Daniela. I am very nervous and was wondering if you wouldn’t mind to just give me some tips, I would really appreciate it. Well, the biggest thing is that I am not sure what is the best way to look for clients. Should I just walk from business to business giving my business cards or cold calling? Or is there better way to do this?
Starting out a design career is challenging. You can be confused about many tasks beyond strengthening your design process and planning skills. After you have spent months or years collecting quality samples for your portfolio, what do you do? Many will put their prints in a large book, and lug it into an interview for a print job. That’s “fine and dandy” if that’s what you are into.
A fantastic set of subtle repeating patterns for use in your Photoshop projects. Use them to add texture to your web designs or set off a print project!
Join AIGA on Wednesday, February 15 for a unique opportunity to learn about the inner-workings of the design team at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). David Russick and Matt Taylor will discuss how the IMA Design Studio works to create and maintain all design aspects of the museum’s diverse needs.
In this nearly 60-minute long presentation for Academy Class, Martin Perhiniak will explain how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 together in a seamless workflow to enhance your raw photographs.
Here’s a collection of ribbons I’ve used for several non profit projects over the past couple years. The set includes ribbons for several cancer and abuse types. Find the meanings here: http://www.trinitylondon.com/awareness-ribbon-meanings.asp and you can always edit them for the color of ribbon you need for your organization. Download Vector Cancer & Abuse Awareness Ribbons
This Adobe Photoshop (psd) file was used a while back on a client website. The client wanted an Apple.com style navigation menu, and these are the remade styles for the previous Apple website design. This PSD includes the three styles for the Apple menu background, hover button style, and onClick style. Hope you find it [...]
Recently, Grant Friedman (of PSDtuts) had the opportunity to chat with Matt Kloskowski. Matt is the author of “Photoshop Compositing Secrets,” a new book that demonstrates some excellent techniques to help you create better and more realistic Photoshop compositions. In their interview, they discuss why it’s important to bring a camera with you wherever you go, some techniques that you should always apply to your images, and much more. The video is around 25 minutes long. Enjoy!
This Adobe InDesign short key chart was forwarded by a reader. I’m not hugely proficient in Adobe InDesign so I have not verified all of them. Some of you may find it useful. Let me know if there are any problems with it. The InDesign Shortcuts are provide for both Windows and Mac OS. Thanks! [...]
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