How To Optimize Your Print-Based Portfolio
Print portfolios are not dead. While an online portfolio certainly is extremely important in today’s digital age, a print portfolio is still equally important for showing that you know how to design...
View ArticleChristmas Design Tool Kit for Greeting Cards
There’s still time to get your Christmas greeting cards designed and printed! The key to quick, quality designs is to start with the right resources. Once you have quality stock images and fonts, you...
View ArticlePhotoshop for Beginners: The Clone Stamp Tool
One of the single most powerful tools in Photoshop is the Clone Stamp Tool. With this feature you can work magic on photos that need to be touched up or have items removed. In the photo below, the...
View ArticleImage Recovery
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View Article16 Brochures You Don’t See Everyday
Brochures are an excellent marketing media for informing clients of products, services, or company, but they can only do their job when clients are intrigued enough to open the cover. Most designers...
View Article3 Standard Principal Elements in Effective Print Design
Companies are scurrying to merge their print and online media to become a unified and effective tool for reaching out to their audience. But a constantly evolving landscape of Web design is making it a...
View ArticleBehind the Font-Face Part 1: The Psychology of Font
There is a relatively new maxim that suggests how important your choice of font is. Now, not a lot of people take the time to personalize their choice of font-face. However, when it comes to print and...
View ArticleBehind the Font-Face Part 2: Choosing Fonts for Print
We’ve touched slightly on the psychology and different perspectives on the influence of font-faces. Now we’ll look into the application of this research into print media and marketing. We would focus...
View Article24 Great Graphics for Labor Day Ads
Whether your marketing efforts for Labor Day sales include postcards, sales letters, emails, or even a simple icon on your website, you are sure to find something from the following graphics. The list...
View ArticleCreating Dramatic Type in Illustrator — Tools for Different Situations
Many projects require you to design for mulitple types of mediums: postcards, posters, websites, billboards. You can start with a MASSIVE Photoshop file or instead use Illustrator for your designs....
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