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Graphic design for lifeGraphic design for lifeTips, tutorials, interviews, reviews, software. This blog mainly consists of writings on graphic design in the real world. I do cover quite a bit more but my focus is graphic design. Articles
Top 10 inspiration tips for graphic designer
2007-12-04 21:17:00 Are you looking for inspiration and have no idea? Do you can’t get in a creative flow and can’t think of alternative to routine solutions? Try these advices. I picked out 10 most interesting and useful inspiration tips from 60 sources of inspiration for Photography and applied them to graphic design. Share This More About: Inspiration , Tips , Designer , Graphic , Graphic Designer
Windows Live Writer 2008 installation problems and solution
2007-12-03 08:20:00 I was unpleasantly surprised by Windows Live Writer 2008 installation. While with other blog clients ( BlogDesk, BlogJet, W.bloggar etc.) I had no problems at all, every time I got a couple of errors installing Windows Live Writer. Most of the time I get error ‘It looks like you’re offline’ though it was everything ok ... More About: Software , Problems
120 ways to graphic designer self promotion
2007-11-30 07:48:00 Self promotion is not the last thing in the career of a graphic designer. Sometimes it happens that professional with a good self promotion have more chances than those who have more skills. It is no surprise. For example, when you choose some goods and don’t know anything about them what do you choose? More ... More About: Promotion , Tips , Designer , Graphic , Graphic Designer
7 tips to be creative when you want it
2007-11-29 21:05:00 Creativity is one of the most important things for a graphic designer. If you don’t like to be a machine, software addition or design copypaster you have to be creative. Sometimes it is rather difficult to be creative, especially if you have nothing in your head in this particular moment. I call it creative constipation ... More About: Creative , Tips
Free Photoshop actions to sharpen photos like a professional
2007-11-28 11:00:00 I made this Photos hop sharpen actions (link to download) to save time and get better result in sharpening photos without a lot of efforts. Photoshop sharpen actions set includes individual Unsharp mask filter presets for Flowers, Sky, Portrait, Landscape. There are also Strong Sharpness, Sharpen for Web and More contrast action which actually use Unsharp ... More About: Software , Free , Professional
What every designer should know about web 2.0 design and trends
2007-11-27 21:18:00 Web 2.0 design gains popularity not only among startup guys and geeks but being accepted by non-web businesses. Surprising story about land trade site adopting web 2.0 traditions prove that in the near future web 2.0 design trends will come from Internet to our everyday life. Share This More About: Design , Reviews , Trends , Designer
Search, identify and browse fonts by tags with MyFonts
2007-11-22 21:10:00 MyFonts is a very handy service to find fonts, identify unknown fonts and to buy fonts. There is choice of more than 56,000 fonts. If you need to use certain font seen in publications or ad campaigns, but you didn’t know its name, you can identify unknown font with MyFonts recognition system. You can also submit ... More About: Reviews , Search , Tags , Browse
How to make banner in 30 minutes with Photoshop CS3
2007-11-20 22:14:00 How to make GIF banner quickly in Photoshop CS3 I’ll show you in this tutorial. Probably this banner will be not as eye catching as those made with special software for making banner ads such as Adobe Flash or Koolmoves but it will be light and attractive. Though ImageReady is abandoned in CS3, all its ... More About: Tutorials , Make , Banner , Minutes
Vectorize images better than Illustrator and Corel with VectorMagic
2007-11-18 19:55:00 The online tool for precision vectorization VectorMagic impresses very much with its results. This great service is the result of a Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda. In comparison with Adobe Live Trace (Illustrator CS2) and Corel PowerTRACE (CorelDRAW X3) online VectorMagic look like much more precise tool ... More About: Software , Images , Ages
Sleep less to be more creative
2007-11-13 22:21:00 When you sleep less, you seriously boost your creativity for that particular day. I discovered this amazing thing from my own experience. We all know how important is to sleep well and long enough but if you had insomnia last night you can turn it to advantage instead of worrying about sleeping. I can’t say ... More About: Creative , Tips , Sleep
Search photos by sketch or image with Retrievr and ImgSeek
2007-11-11 16:01:00 Retrievr is an experimental image search engine which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr photos by drawing a rough sketch (using 4 brushes of different size and color palette) or uploading image to find similar photos. Testing Retrievr I tried a very roughly smile, a firtree and a cup and got ... More About: Software , Photos , Search , Image , Sketch
Color matching, color schemes and palette design with 6 online tools
2007-11-08 23:10:00 If you have no idea which color to choose for this particular project or looking for inspiration and something original or just like to have fun with colors, there are some valuable resources for graphic designers, web designers and illustrators. Colr.org is a nice online tool to search by color codes or tags and pull colors ... More About: Design , Tools , Reviews , Color , Online
10 image manipulations to do easier with XnView
2007-11-03 16:53:00 Quick, feature rich and easy to use multi-platform image viewer XnView replaced on my PC sluggish, awkward and non free ACDSee a long time ago. Firstly I use XnView just for viewing and cataloguing images but soon I was amazed how much wonderful functions XnView has. In addition, XnView supports a lot of image file ... More About: Software , Image , Pula
How to disable Adobe updater
2007-10-30 12:42:00 Adobe updater could be really annoying, though I find Adobe Creative Suite 3 as a masterpiece. Every time that you start Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat Adobe updater pops up and tries to download updates. It is also a big resource hog. So how can you disable Adobe updater? The solution is very simple. Find through search ... More About: Adobe
Will Gimp ever be a professional image editor?
2007-10-29 14:13:00 New version of open source image editing software GIMP 2.4 recently came out with new goodies and long-awaited improvements. Most valuable new features are scaling for all kinds of brushes, intuitive selection and crop tools, improved printing and color management, red eye removal, a new object alignment guide and advanced tools like perspective cloning and ... More About: Gimp , Image , Editor , Professional , Fess
Awesome edit Flickr photos with Picnik
2007-10-25 13:14:00 Flickr users will be able soon to edit photos more extensively than just rotate and crop, using the Flash based online photo editor. The deal has been signed and Picnik tools will be integrated via an iframe within next few months. I should say that currently Flickr users can edit their photos using Picnik ... More About: Photos , Awesome , Flickr , Edit , Flick
How to avoid mistakes in graphic design business
2007-10-22 17:20:00 Frankly speaking, a couple of times my graphic design ideas was stolen by unfair customers, even though I didn’t send them my works in good resolution or vector. You know, to repeat something is much easier and cheaper than to create from scratch. So now I don’t even think of the project in graphic design ... More About: Business , Design , Graphic Design , Graphic , Avoid
Remove undesirable objects with Photoshop MSU Image Restoration plugin
2007-10-22 07:07:00 Photoshop MSU Image Restoration is a great plugin for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 (probably also working in other versions) to erase unwanted objects such as accidental people in photo or in my case I wanted to remove ugly trolleybus wires which really corrupted photo of cool big board in Warsaw. (You can have a look ... More About: Photoshop , Plugin , Objects
How to colorize black and white photo?
2007-10-15 14:44:00 What to do if you’d like to impress your mom or granddad making especially valuable for them old faded photo look vivid and colored as though it was taken yesterday? Probably I exaggerate a little, but the result will be worthy :). Anyway, this tutorial helps you a lot in coloring black and white photo. Technorati ... More About: Photo , White , Black , Black and White
My works in Prestigio wallpapers contest
2007-10-02 16:04:00 I participate in Prestigio wallpapers contest The Art of Hi-Tech with two works: Taste the sweet glam Hi-Tech! and Autumnal Hi-Tech. If you liked any of them, please comment and vote for it. In my opinion, contests are great for every designer. They give you publicity, fresh look for the world and your works. And ... More About: Contest , Wallpapers , Works
List of 55 graphic design blogs
2007-09-29 14:01:00 I made this list searching for blogs related to graphic design. All blogs in this list have interesting posts about graphic design though some of them are focused on ads, photography or web design. List is made in random order and the position of any blog does not reflect its importance. If you have any ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Blogs , Graphic
Stamina - free typing tutor with humor
2007-09-04 15:31:00 Every graphic designer should have good typing skills, in my opinion. Recently I discovered a great free app Stamina Typing Tutor which helps me now to improve touch typing, in particular, for writing for this blog. After the training course with Stamina, you will be able to type long paragraphs, use shortcuts and Instant Messengers ... More About: Humor , Free , Mina
10 best sites for graphic designer job search in Canada
2007-08-31 14:42:00 Up to 100 graphic designer jobs postings are available every week across Canada . Though, someone say that most jobs are never advertised and only about 5% of job seekers will ever find a job using a job board, it is still rather useful way to find a job, besides networking, company research and letters of ... More About: Search , Sites , Designer , Graphic
How to transfer your blog to another hosting without having downtime
2007-08-20 11:48:00 Once I faced the problem of transferring my Wordpress blog to another hosting. Surely I didn’t want to have downtime, headache with making blog on the new host operating properly or in the worst case lose any data. As a result I gathered all available information on transferring site without downtime and my transfer went ... More About: Hosting , Blog , Transfer , Tran
My graphic designer portfolio
2007-08-18 21:24:00 I recently created my graphic designer portfolio on this blog. In my work as a graphic designer I tend to be as clear and simple as possible. In my opinion, graphic design should work first of all, if it also impresses, it’s superb. In my portfolio you can have a look at graphic works in ... More About: Portfolio , Designer , Graphic , Graphic Designer
8 killer tips to better deal with graphic designer
2007-08-13 14:31:00 Some people who are far from graphic design really think that graphic designers are very complicated people to deal with. Sometimes I even being asked such odd questions as “Don’t you come to prostration sometimes?’ or ”Do you able to vanish suddenly?” I‘d like to assure you that most of my colleagues are fully adequate ... More About: Tips , Killer , Designer , Deal , Graphic |
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