The Animation palette feels right at home in Photoshop. With Adobe’s release of the CS3 lineup came the abrupt loss of ImageReady, possibly leaving you feeling a bit jilted. Prior to CS3, ImageReady came bundled with Photoshop, and contained loads of Web-focused graphics tools for creating animated GIFs, rollovers, image maps, and more. Photoshop CS3 has taken on some...
Clear short spurts of time everyday for marketing There’s no “good” time to do marketing. So if you’re really busy and you’re waiting for a slow period, you can stop waiting right now. By the time things get slow, it will be too late: that’s the essence of feast or famine. The cruel truth is that fitting in marketing...
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, the head of the Graduate Program in Graphic Design at Yale since 1990, is also a practicing designer, public artist and Feminist. In 1971, de Bretteville founded the Woman’s Design program at Cal Arts, and later co-founded the historic public space ‘The Woman’s Building’ with Judy Chicago and Arlene Raven 1973,...
Most professional designers aren’t all that familiar with Corel’s line of imaging software since Adobe products tend to be industry standard. But when it comes to replicating natural painting techniques digitally, Corel has always had a leg up with its Painter application. 2007′s release of Painter X is extremely powerful, simulating the look and feel of real painting with...
If there is a utopic, sun dappled wonderland for nerds—the kind of place abundant with old circuit boards and sympathy for anachronistic societies—it would probably feature lots of free copies of Make magazine. Make: technology on your time, published quarterly by O’Reilly Media (of Tim O’Reilly, champion of the open source movement and all forms of tech related publishing),...
“I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to write the check…” “I was out of town and nowhere near my checkbook…” Whether the excuses are legit or not, delayed client payments affect your bottom line. So why not offer credit card payment to your clients so you can get your money faster? It’s easier than you think.
Do you cringe whenever you see a billboard covered in Comic Sans? Or a logo designed with Arial? Do you notice every kerning misstep or poor leading choice? Sounds like you might be a type snob. Don’t worry, there are many like you out there, and it’s not necessarily a bad quality for a designer to have. Take, for...
Interactive development process Guide In my experience as an interactive art director at a strategic marketing firm, I’ve found that the best client relationships are open and collaborative, enabling a productive exchange of ideas and fostering a common pursuit of a singular goal. I have also found that creating visualization charts of my interactive development process has been a...
Our ongoing look at Adobe Creative Suite 3 continues with a peek at Device Central. This application, bundled with most CS3 products like Dreamweaver and Photoshop, is used to test designs for cell phones and other mobile devices. The program contains a variety of “skins” for popular cell phones – just load in an HTML page, Flash movie, wallpaper...
I just got back from attending the HOW design conference in Atlanta, GA and I’m excited to report back on what it was all about. Many designers consider conferences indispensable opportunities to network, get inspired, recharged and invigorated with new ideas. The HOW conference is one of the largest of its kind, drawing over 3,000 designers from all over...
