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Adobe Photoshop tutorials are excellent tools for learning the ins and outs of Photoshop. Tutorials help us learn shortcuts, new techniques and effects and harness the true power of Adobe Photoshop for designers to manipulate images. Here are ten effective tutorials that will help you learn not only a few ...

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  Designing a trifold (or “letter fold”) brochure should be a simple task, right? Just choose a few infographics,  images and blocks of text, and paste them neatly into the panels provided by the brochure’s design. Customers have one reaction to the standard, accepted and traditional design: Yawn. To design ...

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Inspiration is all around us. Where do you go when you need inspiration? Do you seek out nature, or walk amongst your fellow man along sidewalks flowing with humanity? Do you prefer to walk around, or to sit at your desk and watch the birds outside the window? Do you ...

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Every profession has basic tenets that are accepted unquestioningly. And, in many cases, those tenets are true… to a point. So called “sacred cows” can become stumbling blocks to a graphic designer who embraces them too whole-heartedly, stifling creativity and stopping forward motion. While sacred cows may be sacred for ...

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A workspace says a lot about a person. Whether your office space is neat, cluttered, inspired or simple, the most important element of any workspace is inspiration. If you feel inspired by your workspace, you’ll be more productive and creative. Today, we’ve put together ten images of creative, inspired and ...

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Staying focused in the midst of distraction is one of the freelance designer’s most difficult tasks. Social media, streaming videos, chat windows, the internet seems to teem with juicy tid bits all vying for our time and attention. Fortunately, there are some steps we can take to maintain focus and ...

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  Designing your blog so that people are not only attracted to read, but come back again and again, is the key to successfully monetizing a blog. Traffic equals dollars. Hooking the reader is just the first step. Keeping them coming back for more takes a little more finesse. The ...

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Learning web design, and keeping up with all the updates in software, platforms and other industry news, takes dedication, time and commitment. Books, seminars and webinars on various subjects related to web design can cost a small fortune. Fortunately there are many excellent free resources available to web designers. Today, ...

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  Usability is a convoluted concept. There is no simple answer to the question “what is usability”. Usability depends on the user, and a website designer’s job is to understand and predict potential usage patterns and increase usability. Usability is a concept that goes back as far as Leonardo da ...

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    Freelancing, as any new designer can tell you, is tough. Competition for the limited number of jobs available is fierce. Successful designers need to think outside the box when it comes to making money from their designs. While it may be possible to make money by selling wall ...

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Designers are, by nature, creative people. Creativity within art is necessary to the success of design, but applying that creativity to the market is also a key component of success. Some of the world’s best-known and most influential designers have carved out a niche for themselves by focusing on their ...

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Comic books are as large a part of American history as George Washington and apple pie. With the new sharing the Internet has brought about, comics from around the world have been woven into the international culture. From Japanese Anime to action/adventure and superhero plots, comics are a ubiquitous part ...

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