Google is providing a host of (relatively) new features that allow you to add “rich snippet” metadata to your web content. For those who design, write, and manage WordPress blogs, this is a powerful tool that can help you build your personal…
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If you have ever had a large image-retouching project, working with a mouse usually makes it a less-than-precise and laborious endeavor. After years of experience using a mouse, I have refined my ability to use a mouse to edit images. However, there…
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a photographic technique where multiple exposures of the same image are layered and merged together. With the different exposures merged together, you are able to get a wider range of tonal values, which gives you a more…
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Once upon a time, I bought a $6 bottle of water at a gas station. The bottle was glass, and it had interesting, eye-catching, minimalist packaging and labeling. But, why did I spend $6 on water? Because good design sells. Good design sells…
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Key card design is an overlooked and underutilized facet of hospitality marketing. A surprising number of hotels elect to use blank, bland, or generic key cards due to budget constraints or a lack of creativity. Ironically, these are often the same businesses…
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Whether it’s for a high fashion magazine, an advertisement for a new product, a marketing promotion, or just for your new Facebook photo, we all end up retouching photos on occasion. With a few Photoshop techniques, you can change a boring, flawed…
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The following collection focuses on advanced CSS tutorials to help you sharpen your CSS skills. Once you’ve recreated these tutorials on your own, you can use and re-use the resulting files and keep them in your personal toolkit for future reference. We…
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Texture is not just a passing trend in web design. It’s an essential tool for adding depth and dimension to an otherwise flat page. The best designers know that a website’s texture can draw the viewer’s attention and emphasize important words or…
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As designers, we are sometimes tasked with transforming a design from one medium to another. One common example is when a software product that has its own brand and label needs to be sold online, and a design for the box is…
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Nick Voronin is a graphic and web designer with more than seven years of professional experience. Nick specializes in corporate identities, logos, and web-page designs. He is an art director and a founder of Voronin Design Studio located in Lviv — the art heart…
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