Tips For Battling Designer’s Block
A deadline is fast approaching, but all inspiration has left your mind. Nearly all creative people experience a block at some point and find it difficult to get their groove back. Unfortunately, these blocks happen at the most inopportune times, usually when working on an important project.
The more you try to work through a designer’s block, the harder it can be to get your inspiration back. Fortunately, some easy tips will get your creative juices flowing again so you can complete your project.
Warm Up Your Brain
Before working on an important task, warm up by sketching and getting…
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We all know the saying – “Once you go Mac, you never want to go back.” There must be some truth in that.
Designers in particular have a penchant for Macs due to their high graphic resolution along with an amazing set of apps to complement and supplement all designers’ needs. The company is right in tune with graphic designers love for beauty, efficiency, and creative selection of software.
Design apps come in a variety of areas: color selection, vector, image selection and more. Not every designer can afford the Adobe Creative Suite. Some of the following apps are free…
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Rape is a taboo subject at the best of times, not that there ever is a ‘best of times’ for rape. Despite all…
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Postcards are less expensive than any other kinds of media out there. What’s more, it is considered “flexible” as this can be shared from families to friends to office mates and the likes.
If you’re falling short of ideas for postcard designs, then, worry no more. Here are twelve brilliant concepts for a budding freelance designer like you.
Play with Shape.
Majority of postcards come in rectangles. How can you stand out from the rest? If you design your postcard in an innovative shape, it will get the attention you need from your potential customers. Try to…
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I’ve got a client on the East Coast that’s driving me nuts right now – woman’s clearly got OCD issues. Over this Easter/Passover weekend she has called and left me two messages (both extended beyond the 2 minute limit on my machine so she got cut-off in mid sentence), she also left me 6-7 emails (I lost track after 5). Even though we’re on record pace, she’s desperately trying to get her web site up and running for…well, there isn’t a specific event or date we’re shooting for, it’s just become an insatiable obsession for…
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You need to be a flash developer if you want to embed animations, graphics and sounds in your website on your own. Flash is the best choice of experts for beautifying a website with attractive presentations and graphical expressions. However, you can easily learn Flash and its basic operations but for extreme quality and professional aspects, you need to master it. Becoming a Flash Developer is the only option in this case. So, if you too want to become a Flash Developer, here is a simple guide that will help you understand all the required consequences.…
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In the last half of the twentieth century, graphic design moved from the drafting table to the computer. During this time of transition, computer skills were more important than design skills. Computerized graphic design programs were complicated and difficult for most people to use. If you were computer savvy, you could…
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1. Adobe Photoshop
The ability to use and understand the basics of pixel based photo manipulation. The best Photoshop experts are constantly learning and experimenting through online tutorials, books and seminars. This is the grand daddy of them all. Make it a goal to spend X amount of time each week learning a new technique.
Test: Can you do complex selections via the selection tool? Are you accomplished with layers? Do you understand how to use adjustment layers, masks and channels? Can you remove blemishes, “scratches” and color correct
2. Adobe Illustrator
The ability to use and understand…
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Freelancing can be a rewarding and lucrative career option for talented designers, but becoming successful goes beyond how to design cool collages in Photoshop or cartoons in Illustrator. This article sheds some light on the biggest and most costly mistakes designers make in opening their doors as freelancers.
1. The most talented designer is always the most successful
Talent is certainly helpful, but the designers that make the big bucks know how to articulate value to their clients, how to market and how to sell. I’ve seen designers that had all the talent in the world…
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What’s new in After Effects CS5? Let’s get started.
Adobe CS5 is a watershed moment and it travels in great company. With the release of 64 bit versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, we are getting used to 64 bit versions of Windows operating systems. Windows 7 has been road tested now. The incredible difference in available memory alone makes the previously tedious, long winded tasks a pleasure as you get to zoom down the timeline instead of going for another cup of coffee. Being able to view high def videos such as…
