Graphic Design/Software
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Education
Using Photoshop for a Wraparound Van Wrap
Wraps veteran Grant Dorsey of Aurora Graphics in Eldorado, Kansas, discusses how to use Photoshop to extend a wrap from…
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Font Choice ‘Dos’ for Awards
Typically, serif fonts are used for large bodies of text as the serif guides our eyes and makes words easy…
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Adjusting a Selected Color on a Graphic
There are some quick ways to do a basic color correction of a selected color throughout your design in Photoshop…
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Go with What They Know: Font selection
As a designer, you may think you’re making a creative choice, when in reality, the answer can easily be defined…
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What is the difference between CMYK and RGB color mode?
The colors you see on your screen never exactly match the colors in your prints. This is because the colors…
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What design strategies can my shop employ to make one-of-a-kind awards for each client?
Great design and layout might make an award unique; however, the ultimate service is to make any product truly identifiable…
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Education
Create a Gradient Effect in Photoshop
In Photoshop, open your color image file and the Layers window palette. With the open file, you can find this…
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Virtual Awards: Use CorelDRAW to Develop Samples
Start by constructing as much of the shape of the award as possible, to actual size, by utilizing the dimensions…
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Education
Turn Down the Volume of Your Fonts
Be careful not to use too many different fonts in the same design. It looks amateurish and can actually wear…
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Cerebral Signage: Applying Design Thinking to Signs, Part Four
Design thought is the blending of intelligence and imagination with creativity. Smart design wrapped around intellectual data and concepts can…
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Cerebral Signage: Applying Design Thinking to Signs
Design thought is the blending of intelligence and imagination with creativity. Smart design wrapped around intellectual data and concepts can…
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Education
Create Vintage and Retro Images for Sublimated Photo Gifts
Using layers in Photoshop with various transparency settings and layer blend modes makes experimentation with retro image effects easy. The…
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What are the benefits of RIP software?
A RIP program offers a professional wide-format print shop multiple benefits beyond the basic printer driver: Saves media and ink cost with…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Focus on Focus
The image may be perfect in most respects. The contrast is fine, the color works, the composition is well balanced…
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What’s one way to make the sandcarving process more efficient?
There are numerous ways to make a sandcarving operation efficient. Creating good digital art is crucial to achieve higher quality…
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Education
Intro to CorelDRAW Brushes
Brushes allow you to make more complex vector graphics quicker than is possible using just the Bezier tool. In the…
