Building Awesome Color Palettes Sometimes as designers and artists, we get a little stuck with choosing the right colors in our work. Sometimes we spend a lot of time trying to get colors just right, and it can be frustrating. Thankfully, Adobe has included some tools...
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...
Freelance Jobs Vs Full Time Work Freelance work is a way of life and a way of making a living. Some designers prefer to work strictly as freelance designers. They are afforded the freedom to decide their own income, and they make their own schedules. Freelance...
Make More Money As a Freelancer As a freelancer, your ability to master both your time and attention is the key to making more money and truly enjoying your off-hours. Mastering time is one thing. Mastering your attention is another and requires laser focus. Here are...
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...
Having a Good Business Attitude Affects Your Business One thing to consider is the way that you carry yourself. If you are visiting a client at their place of business, it is common for the secretary, or receptionist to observe your actions. Someone is always watching...
Your invoice says a lot about you and your business Your invoice is something that you should forward to sending. After all, it says that you have put a lot of work into a project, and now it is time to get paid for your efforts. Some designers may look at an invoice...
Choosing a Method That Works For You What I have realized from being an artist for years is that we all have a different ways of doing things when it comes to creating good design. Some of us like to do a mainly traditional route and sketch everything out. Some people...
Why Good Design Service is Just As Important As Your Design Skills Many of us strive to be successful. We work hard and we are constantly refining our skills to get better. We want to be able to build websites faster, edit images faster, build great layouts faster. We...
Evaluating Your Landing Page One of the most difficult processes in promoting a product or service is developing a great landing page. Your overall goal is simple: You want as many interested visitors as possible to sign up for your newsletter, pay for your service,...
Useful Free Photoshop Brushes Creating dazzling effects in Photoshop is something that we do as designers everyday. One way that we do this is to use very resource available to help us do our work faster and easier. If you read my previous article: 25 Fantastic Free...
What's New in Web Design Graphic Design & Typography This week I have come across a lot of great content for you to explore. There is bound to be some great design information to make you better, help you do things quicker, get you inspired, or just entertain you....
About Using Grids in your Designs Learning and understanding how to build a layout is one of the hardest parts of visual design to master. Many designers have trouble grasping the concept of alignment and how to use grids to make their designs balanced. The reason...
Web Design Graphic Design & Typography Weekly 8 This week is another awesome week of design greatness. There are a lot of great resources, articles and tutorials to inspire you, inform you, and refine your skills even further. This week you'll see some new free...
Understanding Typography Design is about visual communication and effective delivery of a carefully-crafted message. The message is delivered through a combination of imagery, color, words, and typography. Understanding typography will help you make your message...
Custom Brushes in Photoshop If there was one skill or capability in Photoshop that could be considered to be at the very foundation of most Photoshop techniques, it would be the ability to use any brush shape that you want. Since this was integrated into Photoshop...
Brighten Eyes in a Portrait Many times you will have a good photo, but something is missing. You will look at it and look at it trying to decide what is missing. Then, you realize that your subject's eyes are dull and too dark. It isn't difficult to brighten eyes in a...
Fonts With Specific Purposes Every designer has a set of fonts that they like to use for most projects. Most of these typefaces are versatile and can be used in a wide variety of applications. You can use them in headlines and in large bodies of text as well. A great...
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly There's always great content from around the web. This week was no different in the fact that there is something for everyone. Whether you are into web development, typography, web design, web development, graphic...
Create a Christmas Card in Photoshop Easily If you're anything like me, this holiday season has flown by. Christmas is just around the corner, and you have only 1 weekend left to get cards out to your friends and family. With that being said, you don't have to settle...