Quick Tip: Working with the Group Selection Tool
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
A quick look at the little-known, but very useful Group Selection tool in Adobe Illustrator. This tool allows you to select individual object within groups, as well as sub groups within groups. Watch the demonstration video to learn the usefulness of this tool and how to work with it. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.
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Photography and Photo Editing Cheatsheets
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot. For today’s news we have a great collection of useful Photography cheat-sheets, visit the resources for the full articles and download pages. Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier Here is a list of all the cheat sheets available from this resource: Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card; The Photographic Cheat Sheet by Gordon McKinney; 49 Photo Tips Cheat Sheet; Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card; Photography Cheat sheet; PhotoBert Cheatsheets; Reflector Card Cheat Sheet. You can download the all of the photography cheat sheets from here: Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier .
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Quick Tip: 4 Photo Documentary Guidelines
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Documentary photography can be fun, rewarding, and offer a real insight into a particular subject or event. It can be difficult to get right, and today we’ll be offering four guidelines to follow when embarking on your first documentary project! Plan and Research in Advance Photo by guccio You need to have a good background to the situation in question before attempting to document it. This requires research, reading around the event, and generally becoming well-versed in what you’re about to capture. It’s also important to build up a relationship with the people involved in the photo shoot – a child’s mother, the staff in the workplace, or the people organising a charity event.
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Quick Tip: Working With Illustrator’s Workspaces
Mar 7, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Learn how to work with Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator. Workspaces allow you to arrange the Panels and other interface elements in Illustrator. Learn to work with the built-in default Workspaces Illustrator CS4 comes with, as well as how to customize your own workspaces to suit the type of job you’re working on. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.
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8 Tips for Taking Interior Shots Like a Pro
Mar 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this article you’ll learn some of the tips and secrets to lighting and staging a room for great interior photos. These include how to approach lighting, flash, styling, where to position yourself, and how to stay creative. Introduction This article does not deal with camera settings, but rather with the general principles to getting the perfect shot and making sure the scene looks good. Some general camera tips, however, include shooting above f/6.3 to allow good depth of field and shooting at a low ISO to avoid noise.
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4 Awesome Recently Released jQuery Plugins
Feb 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Where would web design be without the wonderful jQuery and its marvelous library of free plugins? Of course there are other Javascript libraries, but none of them have had such a dramatic impact on modern web design as jQuery. It really is indispensable. For today’s news we take a look at four very different recently released jQuery plugins and, as we try to do, keep you up to date with its development.
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5 Practical Ways for Using Ajax
Feb 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Over the past few years we’ve seen an increase in awareness and interactive use for AJAX, it’s becoming more and more popular and it has empowered web apps with the functionality of desktop applications. This is Ajax, a powerful web-based scripting language that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s main use is to allow an application to communicate with a server without having to refresh your web page. Within this article we’ll discuss a variety of ways for you to embed AJAX into your web designs, we will also touch base on how they can benefit you.
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10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block
Jan 31, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Today’s guest star is Jacques van Heerden – a freelance digital artist from South Africa who works under the creative identity An1ken . He runs Creativeoverflow – a fresh design blog for anything creative. You should definitely connect with him on Twitter @an1ken . Creative Blocks are quite common in the industry that we work in especially amongst very busy designers.
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14 Traits of Successful Blogs
Jan 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Millions of people start a blog every year. Conversely, many blogs die every year from lack of updates, lack of interest, not having original content, copying/stealing of content from fellow bloggers or copyright violation etc. Those that stand above the others stand far above the others. Have you ever visited a blog and wondered how they got 100,000 RSS subscribers or 200,000 Twitter followers?
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Better Drop Shadows in Photoshop
Dec 4, 2009 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Most real sheets of paper and card are not completely flat, but a standard Photoshop drop shadow can make an object look like its floating in mid air a lot of the time. However, a slightly curved or rolled page, a folded corner or a small crease is enough to go from looking too ‘Photoshop’ to looking quite natural. Using Photoshops ‘Selection’ tools you can crop your basic drop-shadows to make them appear much more realistic and more 3 dimensional. 1: Define Your Page Element > Open a new Photoshop file to page requirements (72 dpi for web, 33dpi for print) > Create a new layer and name it ‘Page’ (or a name of your choosing) > Using the rectactangle selction tool – draw the page you want to apply the effect to 2: Apply a Drop Shadow to the Page > Layers (from the main menu) > Layer Style > Drop Shadow The settings used for this tutorial are; Distance=”4px”, Spread=”0px”, Size=”16px”.
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