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How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop in just 60 seconds: Software leading company Adobe has launched a new video series, “Make It Now,” offering tutorials to help with projects that require a quick turn. These videos, created for design enthusiasts, demo how to create a specific project in 60 seconds or less. If you’re a beginner or you want a (very) quick and fast refresher, these tutorials could…
How to Cut Out an Image in Photoshop: This Simple 37 minutes tutorial features 10 tips and tricks, with difficulty ranging from beginner to advanced to create awesome cutouts using Photoshop. Nathaniel Dodson, who is the man behind Tutvid said. “We’ll make simple, straight-line selections with the Poly Lasso tool,” “We’ll select car parts with the Pen Tool and edit the path, we’ll use Calculations to create extremely intricate and…
How to Use Pen Tool in Illustrator: There is no doubt that the Pen Tool is one of the best and the most powerful graphics editing tools in Adobe Illustrator. But sometimes it can be confusing and frustrating also. Paul Trani, who is a senior worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe, is behind this “Pen Tool” cheat sheet for Adobe Illustrator. cheat sheet for Adobe Illustrator. We’ve also collated some tutorials…
Why Creative People Are Different: There is no argument anymore that creative people are very different from others. What makes creative people different from the rest of us? Neuroscience confirms that creative people think and act differently than the average person. Their brains are literally hardwired in a unique way. Also, read 21 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity If you love a highly creative person, you probably experience moments when it…
Illustrator to Photoshop: As we all designers know that pixels play a big role in the images, which allow us to view an image clearly. I’ve always had trouble getting large groups of shapes from Illustrator over to Photoshop without rasterizing them all in the process. You can copy from Illustrator, then Paste in Photoshop as a shape layer. But you’ll have to do that for each and every path…
Do you find yourself thinking about how to increase your client value? Many freelancers assume our client cares only about the quality of our design work. While it’s true that he cares how awesome our design is, the client also cares about other things. An author of “The NU School” Ran Segall is talking about the five things your client cares about, and how to increase your value to him, and be able to charge more. Related…
Don’t feel bad all the designers make mistakes not only you. Here are the most common, and how to avoid them. Almost all designers out there committed them at least once in their careers. Let us see what mistakes you should not do. We have previously hosted an article: 20 Common Mistakes Graphic Designers Make. 1. Failing to Understand the Brief Without a clear idea of what the client wants…