Create a Versatile Sofa in Illustrator

When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Create a Versatile Sofa in Illustrator

In the following tutorial we will use Illustrator' s basic tools and simple techniques like the Pathfinder, Arrange, Gradient, Transform etc..to create a Versatile Sofa illustration.

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Getting Started in Digital Photography

Digital photography has many advantages over using a traditional film-based camera. Once one has made the initial investment, one is not expected to purchase endless rolls of films and pay for their development and enlargement. The most important benefit of digital photography is that a person can take pictures again and again till fully satisfied. Also a person has all the power of a professional darkroom at one’s fingertips, fine tune and freedom to adjust, or completely change or combine several pictures, once the pictures are transferred to the pc.

Getting Started in Digital Photography

We've already covered the basics of digital photography in our past post. Now this tour of digital photography addresses many questions commonly asked by those new to the subject.

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The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

There are many of elements that go into enhancing a web design project. Typography, new technologies and UX design patterns are only some of them. One the most powerful is illustrations and vector graphics. They can be handy in a broad range of applications. Remember the cliché, a picture is worth a thousand words? In using them, we designers are able to do more while spending less.

The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

Illustrations are a good way to make a design unique and memorable. When they are used appropriately, users will associate them with your website, thus enhancing your brand. They also make the page more attractive, and draw attention to particular parts of the layout. They can also be informative or directive, such as to show steps in a process or how to use a service.

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WixMobile Giveaway: Discount Coupons for Yearly Subscription

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. This time we’ve teamed up with the awesome team at Wix, a free web publishing platform, to give away five $50 discount coupons for a yearly WixMobile premium subscription.

WixMobile Giveaway: Discount Coupons for Yearly Subscription

The new WixMobile site builder is an easy and cost-effective way for anyone and everyone to get an HTML 5 mobile compatible site up and running in under 10 minutes and as it is HTML 5 based it works perfectly on all mobile devices.

So Hurry up, read the rules, drop a comment to enter this contest.

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Office Bullying: Designers Are The Biggest Targets

As in the schoolyard, some children just do not play well with others. Some children are liars and some are tattle-tales. Some children just make up for having small penises with office power plays. That goes for some women I know, too!

Office Bullying: Designers Are The Biggest Targets

Human resources or employee relations in any firm, large or small just wants the status quo and ignores what will rock the boat and injure only internal organs with no outward signs of beatings and that emotional scars can be given a mental bandage later on. Creatives are usually the targets, just as we were in the schoolyard. The bullies grew up and became marketing executives and salespeople and while they also grew fat and bald, they never lost the edge of insecurities that made them lash out at others to compensate for old drunken Uncle Touchy making them ashamed to be alive.

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What to Know When Printing Images?

After taking pictures the next obvious step is to see the result. This is possible by making prints of Images.

What to Know When Printing Images?

When black-and-white photography was popular, enthusiasts of this hobby generally gave the exposed films to professional studios/laboratories, but sometimes they developed and printed them at home. This was so because photography, being a hobby, people enjoyed indulging in it and took pride in showing the results of their personal endeavors. With the advent of color photography, this hobby received a setback because, besides being much more elaborate and cumbersome, printing was more expensive and time consuming.

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