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How to Combine Line Art and Posterization to Create Dramatic Images
Line art—it’s used to spike a picture with high contrast impact. It’s void of color and midtones and contains only…
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The Digital Eye: Un-Masking Mask Making
The ability to isolate elements on a picture is an essential skill in the image editing process. Accurate masking determines…
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The Digital Eye: Brush up on Brushes
If you think about it, the methods used by painters and computer artists differ mainly in the physical application of…
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What are the steps for aligning objects in CorelDRAW?
To align an object with another object, follow these steps: Select the objects. Click arrange, align and distribute, align and…
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Best Practices for Searching for Stock Photos
When searching for stock photos, use multiple keywords in your search. Instead of a single-word search term such as “flower,” try…
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A Look at CorelDRAW’s Add Perspective Tool
It’s important to be able to show clients not only a proposed design, but how that design would appear in real…
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Try This: Convert Color Graphics into Grayscale Lasering with Manual Method
Sometimes, the customer won’t have a grayscale image or logo that is ideal for laser engraving. It’s not the end…
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Is there a way to cut down on digitizing costs?
Digitizing is one of those services that’s worth paying for quality. The primary goal should be to cut overall costs…
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Terminology to Know Before Diving into Stock Art Sites
Stock Photography, Media, or Graphics: These are images or graphic artwork that you can download and purchase for use on personal…
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Try This: Movie Strip-Style Poster
You can find lots of cool effects that can be created in Photoshop, many through a long series of steps,…
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Artwork Adjustments for Sandcarvers
Check out the following example of original versus adjusted artwork. This printed artwork is an element from a wine label…
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The Three Rs of Image Editing: Resizing, resolution, and resampling
When we’re laying out a design, resizing images is a pretty common practice. However, the more the image is enlarged,…
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How to Whiten Smiles in Photoshop
Open the image in Photoshop and zoom in toward the teeth you want to brighten. You will create a selection…
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Pairing Embroidery Fonts with Workwear
Selecting embroidered fonts for workwear is similar to selecting fonts for any project, at least at first. You should think…
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The Digital Eye: Swapping Heads
It happens sometimes-the wrong expression on the right pose. Perhaps the smile looks more like a grimace, or everything else…
