2011 CorelDRAW International Design Contest
Die-hard CorelDRAW® fans, graphics pros, new users and budding design students! It’s time to show the world what’s possible when your talent and CorelDRAW come together. Showcase your work in the CorelDRAW International Design Contest for a chance to win big and express your creativity with fellow designers around the globe. Prizes Grand Prize: Roland VersaCAMM SP-300i printer—a $13,495 US value! 24 winners will receive fantastic prize packages, including customer favorites from Roland®, Wilcom®, Euro-Systems®, Digital Designware, Apple®, Digital Art Solutions, Wacom®, Canon®, HP, Seagate® and Corel®. Categories Advertising/Marketing: Flyers, brochures, logos and other designs related to advertising, marketing …Full Story »
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Adobe After Effects: BEGINNER Earth Tutorial
How to make an animated with with simple cc shpere the link for the earth map friday.westnet.com and link for the star map gallery.artofgregmartin.com
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Photoshop Website Design Tutorial 2 – Formatting the header & menu bar
In this tutorial I will teach you how to format the design that we worked on in the previous tutorial. We sort out the background, links and the alignment of the design ready for adding content in the next video tutorial.
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Photoshop Tips: Create Pop Art (#1)
This is an introduction to creating a pop-art effect with Photoshop. Something like an album cover or early 80′s poster.
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How to Start Your Career As a Flash Developer
by Aron Joshua -
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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What Makes For a Good Graphics Design Computer?
by Linka Po –
People who use their computers for graphic design work need computers with specs different from those that will be enough for general users. Because the hardware configuration plays such a huge role in the quality of the final output, most graphic designers take a lot of trouble in choosing their computers. For a long time, Apple was the first and practically the only choice and Macs set the standard for graphic design abilities that others tried, but never could match. Today companies like HP and Dell have introduced PCs and laptops that are able…
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Graphic Design Education – Two-Year or Four-Year Degree?
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Graphic design is probably as old as man himself; the cave writings in Lascaux, France are 15,000 (or more) year old graphic designs. Illuminated manuscripts from the Medieval Period are graphic designs. Anything that uses pictures and symbols to communicate something is a graphic design.
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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Marketing: Designing for Print : Design a Logo for a Business Card
When designing a logo for a business card, consider size, number of colors and representation to ensure it is a good design. Create a simple company logo, without too many colors or details, with creative ideas from the founder of a successful marketing agency in this free video on print design. Expert: Kira Evans Contact: www.kiraevans.com Bio: Award winning designer Kira Evans is the founder of Kira Evans Design, a full service marketing firm with an emphasis on the strategic use of creative branding through specialty printing. Filmmaker: bryan boyd
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Is Your Website Apple iPhone-Ready? Emerging Online Market
With probably one of the biggest technology launch of our year, if not the biggest, has just been observed, the iPhone could become the next wave of mobile internet device. Are you ready to tap into this emerging market?
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Photoshop Tips: Replace Colors!
This is a fun tip for quick changes in pictures. Instantly change the color of your car — or your jacket — or that ugly tie you had on at the Christmas party… (let’s not go there). It’s quick and easy!
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