Icons can be a pain when it comes to web design. Designers who haven’t been in the game for long might not have picked up the basic illustration skills that more experienced designers use to create their own icons suited to a…
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Thousands of today’s websites share a very similar look and feel. Apart from unique logos and color schemes, many of these “standard” websites are largely indistinguishable from their peers. Because of the uniformity found on the web, adding some illustrated elements to…
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Photoshop is obviously a great tool for editing images, but Photoshop’s extensive color capabilities are often underutilized. Depending on your purposes, certain color modes in Photoshop can transform your work from “properly edited” to dazzling, vibrant, highly colorful images. It doesn’t matter…
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Color is the one aspect of a design that can drastically change the tone of the entire project. Your color choices can make the difference between a polished, professional, perfected design and one that misses the mark altogether. Creating a color palette…
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“Retro” refers to an image or a design from a previous time period, such as the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, or ‘80s. Just like any other design style, these styles have their place. For example, you might be asked to create an album…
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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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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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Sreeraman has been a visual designer for over 8 years. He began as a hobbyist, but he now works full time on a variety of design projects, including print design, branding, corporate identity, as well as T-shirt design and front-end development. Sreeraman hopes…
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Color choices come very early in any design process. Often, designers are constrained to using very specific colors from existing branding. Occasionally, designers are given full freedom (and very little guidance) to choose from millions of colors. Neither scenario is ideal; having…
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The distinct roles of graphic designers, web designers, and illustrators are fairly obvious. The titles themselves serve as clear, succinct definitions of their respective duties. But, the role of an “artworker” is a mystery to many, even those who work within the…
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