Adobe Portfolio? What About My Behance Portfolio? I noticed that I hadn’t updated my Behance portfolio in a while. I’ve been pretty busy with client projects, so I thought I would hop on there and upload some on my latest web work. Then I discovered that ProSite, the...
Adobe Buys Fotolia I just read the news from the past couple of days that Adobe has decided to acquire the stock photography site called Fotolia. It's one of the biggest stock photography sites on the web, featuring some of the best stock photos you would expect to...
Saving Views in Adobe Illustrator I love Adobe illustrator for creating vector graphics. I've been using illustrator for close to 10 years now, and to me, it just keeps getting better and better. The interface is becoming more and more intuitive with each upgrade. One...
Well, it is apparent that Adobe is discontinuing the ability to purchase the Creative Suite via disk. This will be replaced by the sole capability of using the Creative Cloud Subscription service. While a lot of people really like this subscription service, some are...
When Would You Convert CMYK To PMS? Every now and then, we get ourselves into sticky situations. Sometimes clients change their minds, or you are used to doing things a certain way and your client prefers otherwise. Whatever the case may be, you may have encountered a...
Yet Another Reason to Join the Adobe Creative Cloud In case you didn't know about Adobe Creative Cloud, it is Adobe's paid subscription service where you can pay a reasonable fee ($49.99 per month for new members, $29.99 per month for upgraded members) and you are...
Corner Styles in InDesign In Indesign, in the top menu bar, you can change the corner style from the traditional squared corners, to round, inset, etc. The problem is, if you want one or all of the corners to be different, there isn't a way to do it from here. If you...
Perspective in Illustrator We all remember the days when we used to have to draw out tons of guides in order to create convincing perspective in Adobe Illustrator. It would take so much time to create convincing perspective artwork inside of Illustrator, that most of...
Why You should Choose Design as a Profession I have a lot of friends that hear about my job and think "I would love to do what you do!" I love the enthusiasm, but I don't think a lot of people really know what is involved in graphic/web design, illustration, or...
Adobe Fireworks has a few more control settings than Photoshop when it comes to certain things, and gradients are one of them. In Photoshop, you have your typical Radial gradients, linear, angle, reflected and diamond. You can also create transparent gradients, but in...
Yesterday, I covered some basics regarding glow effects and how to use them to your advantage. Today, I will cover some more advanced techniques that will help you to achieve some really cool effects. I created a new document with the dimensions 1024 x 768 and filled...
Glow effects can really add drama to your designs and really make them stand out. Contrast is key here, so it is always a good idea to use a really dark, or even black background. You can add these types of effects to anything such as text, lines, shapes, etc.To do...
This is a really cool feature found right inside of Adobe Fireworks. What is great about this feature is that when you blend the colors, they are safe for the web. Many times when I am building site composite, or a piece of web work I would like a mix of two major...
We have all had this problem when making a web site - You are creating a mock-up of your web site, and you have a distinct number of menus. You want to create buttons that are the same width across as the header and that are spread out evenly across your site....
Sometimes when we are editing and color correcting a photograph, we realize that a photo could use a little something, or that a color is off, but we can't figure out where we need to make the adjustment to get the look that we want. Photoshop has a tool built in that...
This tool is a very handy tool for replacing color in a photo inside of Photoshop. It is found behind the brush tool and goes as far back as CS3. This sort of works like making a new layer and setting it to color in the layers panel. That is an old trick from before...
Image size really makes a difference in the look of your documents. The size of your document and its resolution are determined by where your image is going to be viewed. Print This includes magazines, flyers, posters, and anything else that is printed. The higher the...
This tutorial is just in time for Halloween, with an eerie background and 3D text with textures. In Photoshop CS5 the Repousse abilities give you a lot of flexibility, especially with textures, so you can create some really interesting work. This is only available in...
I really love to work with Adobe Fireworks when making graphics for the web. It is simple, intuitive, and has a few features that give you a little more control than what you find in photoshop. It is almost like Fireworks is a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop...
You can control the opacity of each individual color of a gradient inside of Adobe Illustrator. This is fantastic for flexibility with colors. Simply click on the color swatch of the gradient, and there is an opacity setting on the gradient panel. You can also double...