Blake McCreary Design

In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to convert a custom font for web use in CSS. We’ll be using Font Squirrels @font-face Generator. These fonts work well with most all modern browsers that I’ve tested.

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.

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.

Looking for freelance work? I’ve been doing business on VWorker since 2004. With over 200 completed projects, I can show you the sweet spots on most VWorker employers. Jump-start your success with these bidding tips!

Standing Out In The Age Of Blogging Just about anyone can start a blog in this new golden age of technology and information overload. How are you going stand out among the 1000′s of design bloggers? After studying several top graphic design bloggers, I’ve come up with 5 vital habits to pick up in order [...]

Here’s the first of several blog posts, offering an excellent insight into how graphic designers plan to take a vacation. I’m welcoming feedback from anyone who is a professional freelance designer.

New to the freelance design game? I’ve put together a brief list of tips that I wish someone had told me out of the gate. Good luck, and comments are appreciated!

Trying to design non-profit organization websites? Non profit web design doesn’t have to be difficult. Learn basic web design principles from my design experience in the simple web design article. Non-Profit Web Design Non-profit websites typically get a bad wrap when talking about great web design. Many non-profit organizations out there are getting web design [...]

Andy Warhol used non-representational color and representational form to convey different sensations. Apply the same idea to the portrait of Marilyn Monroe below, using the controls to adjust the colors. How does the color affect the mood? (source: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html) Contemporary art is often misconcieved as lackluster or lazy art. Many artists like Pablo Picasso started movements [...]

Update If you’ve come to this page because your lightbox is opening in a new window make sure your WordPress theme has the correct template tags. Recently, I was building a gallery for my theme and I had the same problem. You need to have the wp_footer() API hook in your footer.php file. To learn [...]