If you get into a daily design routine with all of your projects, chances are that you’ve already developed your own custom workflow. You likely have repetitive tasks that you need to perform each day. It could be website maintenance, adding images,…
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As a designer, you spend countless hours behind your computer tackling client work and polishing the pixels of your own personal projects. Whether you realize it or not, long hours in front of your computer can be detrimental to your health if…
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Despite the emergence of powerful desktop technology tools, it still takes more than a single software suite to become a great web developer. Web developers are virtually tethered to their computers, but just like graphic designers, web devs can be surprisingly productive away from their desk or…
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The past few years of 3D animation have shown huge leaps and bounds in visual quality improvements. New software and technology has made it possible for animators to take their work to new heights. Video games, short films, TV shows, and full…
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I recently had to break out of my box and start working in a design tool with which I have very little experience. Short of opening up InDesign and thinking, “Okay. This looks cool. See ya!”, I hadn’t really messed with it…
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Interface design has become a hot topic lately. It comes as no surprise considering it’s a vital part of how we interact with software or equipment. Imagining intuitive, futuristic interfaces can be a challenge; the only limit is your own creativity. Futuristic…
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Print designers, web designers, web developers, illustrators, and photographers all accumulate massive amounts of files. Adobe makes specialized software for all of these different professions, but they also have a file management system that serves all of these specialties equally well. Despite…
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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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QR codes may seem like a nascent, cutting-edge technology, but they’ve actually been around for almost 20 years. They were originally invented in the mid-1990s to track car parts during the manufacturing process, but the emergence of smartphones (and QR code scanning apps)…
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If you haven’t already been exposed to Google Goggles, then we need to get you caught up. The technology is built into the Google app available on the iPhone and Android platforms, which allows you to take a picture of an item,…
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