Personal blog of a freelance designer

Custom fonts for your website

Posted by on Mar 23, 2011 in Resources, Tips & Tutorials, Web | 0 comments

Have you seen the custom fonts available for use on your website from Google? If you’re a web developer, have a look at this. Earlier...

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Photoshop: How to get your selection back

Posted by on Feb 10, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

Have you ever made a selection, done whatever you needed to do with it and moved on to other things only to find that you need to use the...

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint a pearl

Posted by on Feb 10, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

Create a new canvas of 500 x 500 pixels. Select a hard edge round brush of about 200px, and on a new layer, click the canvas to create a...

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Illustrator: Save selection

Posted by on Jan 31, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

Vector graphics can become quite cumbersome to manage depending on their level of complexity. It’s advisable to make a habit of...

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Illustrator: Remove stray anchor points

Posted by on Jan 28, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

Sometimes when working with lots of paths in Illustrator, and you’re copying them, using the scissors tool to cut them, and so on,...

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Photoshop: Set white and black values

Posted by on Jan 13, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

When printing it’s important to make sure your blacks aren’t too black, and you also don’t have any completely white...

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Photoshop: Little known keyboard shortcuts

Posted by on Jan 12, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 0 comments

I love keyboard shortcuts, and photoshop has plenty of them, as well as giving you the option to create your own. Below is a list of a few...

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Illustrator: Trapping with rich black

Posted by on Jan 11, 2011 in Tips & Tutorials | 1 comment

There are two kinds of black in design – 100K B and Rich Black. Rich black is the colour you want to use as 100K black isn’t so...

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