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The Down Low on Free Downloads
In working in any design software, you can greatly improve your end result with little difficulty by taking advantage of royalty free, downloadable images and fonts. [...]
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | LauraSeven Tips to a Better Newsletter
In my line of work, I see many newsletters formatted by people who have had no formal graphic design training. They have Microsoft Word and figure that they can just throw something together on their own. To be honest, 90% of them look terrible. When I receive poorly formatted newsletters in the mail, I honestly never look at them. [...]
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | LauraTutorial: Working with Bezier Curves
Pierre Bezier first introduced “Bezier” curves to the public in 1962, and they are now a standard element in programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. I would recommend learning to use Bezier curves in Illustrator as the two programs work extremely well together for vector based images. [...]
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | LauraTutorial: Page Numbering
InDesign lends itself to working with multiple paged documents, but sometimes it can be downright confusing. Sometimes wading through all of the extensive and advanced topics in InDesign Help is the most frustrating. This tutorial gives you the basic steps for one of the most useful tools: automatic page numbering. [...]
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | LauraGraphic Design 101
When I decided I wanted to be a graphic designer, I was unaware that graphic design was considered an art. Yet now that I am a graphic designer, I cannot imagine it being anything else. [...]
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | LauraBranding
Branding. Corporate Identity. Personal Identity. It has many names, but it all amounts to the same thing. Branding is by definition “the promotion of a particular product or company by means of advertising and distinctive design.” Every major corporation, Nike, Pepsi, Apple, Kohl’s, or McDonald’s for example, abides by this as a permanent rule. [...]
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | LauraTutorial: Using Quick Mask in Photoshop
As a designer, I am constantly working with photos, oftentimes those by amateur photographers that need a little, or a lot, of touching up before they can be used for advertising, displayed on websites, or inserted into brochures. [...]
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | Laura
