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Guide to Color
Combinations and Color Schemes
in Graphic Design & Web Design
- The
ultimate guide to Color theory
and Examples of Color Schemes
and Color Combinations Within
Designs.
Effective Strategy To Estimate
Time For Your Design Projects
How
many times have you been
completely confused at how that
’small’ project turned into such
a big one costing double and
taking three times the length
you estimated? Many of you will
say estimating time for web
projects accurately is an
oxymoron, but by applying a few
effective techniques it’s
possible to dramatically
increase the accuracy of most
web project estimates.
Brochure Design: The Grid
What do houses and well designed
pages have in common? They are
both built on a framework--a
carefully measured, solid
structure that forms a
foundation on which to build.
Excerpt: Don't Make Me Think: A
Common Sense Approach to Web
Usability
In today's world of web design
the sites that offer the best,
easiest, most intuitive
experience are the ones people
visit again and again. Join
usability guru Steve Krug who
distills his years of experience
into a practical primer on the
do's and don'ts of good Web
design.
Essential Photoshop Keyboard
Shortcuts
Julieanne Kost provides a potent
collection of shortcuts for
boosting Photoshop productivity.
Graphic Design Palettes
This is one
in a series of what I
call "design palettes:" the mix
of basic ingredients--typefaces,
photographs, illustrations, and
color schemes--that, in one
designer's opinion (mine),
represent a distinctive mood or
style.
Stock Photography for Web
Developers: Part 10 - Terms,
Pricing, and Resources
This week is the last article in
this series which features an
abbreviated glossary of terms,
information on stock photography
pricing software, image editing
applications, resource materials
and Web sites.
How
to Use Photoshop for the Web
In this lesson you'll learn how
to create images for the Web.
Some of the topics covered are
file formats and size, preparing
backgrounds, creating slices,
making pages load faster and
more.
Creating a Collage With Stock
Photos in Photoshop
Victoria Spah shows how to
transform a simple stock photo
into an attention-grabbing image
in Photoshop.
Photographic and Design
Techniques in Stock Photography
This installment takes a brief
look at a few of the
photographic and design
techniques necessary to create
your own stock images. Some of
the topics covered include the
Rule of Thirds, the importance
of image placement, designing
for type, verticals vs.
horizontals and more.
The
Readable Page
The truth is there is no secret
design formula known only to
professional designers.
Readability is accomplished
through a series of
small, often
subtle changes that
anyone--designer or
non-designer--can implement.
Object Marketing
Call it the profound power of
"free." I don't know if you're
like me, but I get excited about
receiving unsolicited gifts in
the mail--little unexpected
promotional
items such as pens,
booklets, CD's, mouse pads,
coffee cups, and such.
Rethinking Your Business Card
The
business card--many of us use it
more than any other single
marketing item, yet it very
often demonstrates the least
marketing smarts.
Brochure Design: When a
Newsletter Looks Like a
Newsletter
It
may, in fact, be to your
advantage to make your
newsletter look nothing like a
newsletter.
Masking with Channels in
Photoshop
Masking is one of the most
important aspects of working
with Photoshop and often the
most difficult. These week
you'll learn how to create
effective masks for tree
branches and fur, how to make
the most of blending modes and
more.
Photoshop Fundamentals:
Customizing Brushes
Use Photoshop's brush options to
reveal portions of an image.
Exploring Bridge and Version
Cue: PDFs, File Naming, and
Metadata
This week we look at the PDF
review process, file naming in
Version Cue, adding and viewing
metadata in Photoshop,
Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat,
GoLive, Bridge and more.
Free Photoshop Plugins: Part 2 -
Cybia Plugins
Plugin developer Harald Heim
continues his quest to seek out
just the best in free Photoshop
plugins.
Create Vintage-Type Illustration
Effects Using Photoshop
Illustrator John Kachik used
Photoshop as an electronic
silkscreen press to lay screens
over his vintage-inspired piece.
Stock Photography: Part 8 -
Layouts, Compression, and
Slicing
This week we look at methods of
using stock photography for Web
layouts, more image compression
options, how many images to use
on a page, image slicing and
more.
The
Non-Designer's Web Book, Third
Edition
Type on the web can be a
terrible mess, due in part to
the different browsers and
limitations on what can be done.
This week you'll about the
basics of good typography, how
to adjust traditional
typographic rules to work on the
web and how to use Cascading
Style Sheets (css) for better
typographic control.
Nine Type Rules for the Web
While some print purists still
think web typography is an
oxymoron, you can create
effective graphic communication
by following a few simple rules.
Using Curves Adjustment Layers
in Photoshop
Three example applications show
how to harness the power of
Curves, the adjustment layer of
choice for savvy Photoshop
users.
Graphics: Create a Cloudy Day
Effect
Need to add a little gloom and
doom to a far-too-cheerful
image? This tutorial shows one
approach using Photoshop.
A
Web Development Primer
In this article, the author
examines a wide variety of Web
technologies, beginning with
HTML, it's limitations and how
to go beyond it. Other topics
covered are client side
technologies, server side
technologies, networks,
JavaScript, DHTML, CGI and more.
Making Color Adjustments in
Photoshop
After youve optimized the
overall tonality of your image,
the next step is typically color
adjustments. Tim Grey shows us
how.
Create Color Schemes in
Photoshop
Grayscale images, desaturated
process color images,
over-saturated RGB images they
never seem to mix well in a
project. One way to tie a group
of disparate images together is
to create an overall color
scheme by applying specific
colors to different points on a
grayscale tonal range.
Building Websites with the
ASP.NET Community Starter Kit
The ASP.NET Community Starter
Kit from Microsoft is an
application that allows you to
create a fully featured
community-driven Website,
complete with article and news
management, downloads, forums
and user handling.
Web
Site Cloaking and Search Engines
Cloaking, according to Webopedia
and Google, is where the page
delivered to search engines is
different from the one displayed
to visitors. The purpose? To
hide content from search
engines. Should you use it?
The
Inner Workings of Robots,
Spiders, and Web Crawlers
Robots, a.k.a. spiders or Web
crawlers, are used to feed data
to a user, such as Google. Most
robots are useful, but some,
such as EmailSiphon and Cherry
Picker are spambots. Here,
you'll learn what robots do and
how to gain control over them.
Web
Design on a Shoestring
Web design on a Shoestring
reveals all sorts of free or
inexpensive resources that are
available but unknown. Learn how
to test your web sites
efficiencies and
functionalities, to understand
content management systems, and
what commercial products to use
or avoid. By New Riders.
The
Business of Web Design
Lee Creek delves into the
business end of web design. Join
him as he discusses everything
from finding the money to get
started, to planning for the
emergency that could ruin your
company.
Initial Flash: The First Steps
Macromedia's Flash is the most
popular animation format after
animated GIFs, yet it's much
more than simply animation. This
new tutorial series will help
you learn how to develop
complete multimedia
presentations that are extremely
bandwidth-efficient.
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