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Apr 17, 2023

Art advice: ‘If you can’t make it good, make it big. If you can’t make it big, make it red’

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Apr 13, 2023

Advanced HTML/CSS

Beginning of Advanced HTML Text: Time, Mark, and "Presentational" HTML5 adds and amends a handful of tags relating to text. Many of the minor amendments,…

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Apr 13, 2023

Intermediate HTML

Beginning of Intermediate HTML Span and Div HTML is all about applying meaning to content. Whereas most HTML tags apply meaning (p makes a paragraph, h1 makes a heading…

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Apr 5, 2023

Flexbox: Advanced Web Design

Basics and terminology Download Flexbox Poster Here! Since flexbox is a whole module and not a single property, it involves a lot of things…

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Mar 22, 2023

Euphoria: Student Magazine Example

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xp4b73nhs930i3d/montclairstatemagazineeuphoria.pdf?dl=0

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Mar 21, 2023

CREATE A CITYSCAPE IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ILLUSTRATOR TEMPLATE FILE General setup Below is an image that shows the general setup of the illustration. As you can see from the Layers panel, I've…

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Mar 14, 2023

How to Make a Silhouette in Adobe Illustrator

Tired of using stock silhouettes? I feel you. As designers, we like to be unique and special. Having our own stock vectors is always…

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Mar 14, 2023

How to Use the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator

You can use the pen tool to convert an object to something completely new, create awesome graphics, and so much more.  Use the pen…

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Mar 14, 2023

How to Turn a Photo into an Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

We are not talking about Image Trace.  Turning a photo into a digital illustration or drawing slightly differs from vectorizing an image. We won’t use…

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Mar 14, 2023

How to Make a Logo in Adobe Illustrator

A traditional logo consists of two key elements: text and shape. This type of logo is also called a combination logo and the two…

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Mar 14, 2023

Brand Development/Process

Concept Getting an understanding of our clients & their businesses is paramount. This enables us to give each project its unique process & story.…

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Mar 13, 2023

Shape Building to Create a Football in Illustrator!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTyvaWYLrM&t=1s Use the Shape Builder, Snap to Point, and the precision of the Properties panel to quickly create some fun shapes that you can…

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Mar 13, 2023

Illustrate a Pair of Sweet Gradient Mesh Cherries

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create a pair of cherries solely with the Gradient Mesh tool. If you're not familiar with the…

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Mar 6, 2023

7 Qualities of a Great Logo

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Mar 6, 2023

Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator: Illustrator series

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/ai-basics-fundamentals.html Create and edit shapes https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/shapes-basics.html Transform and edit artwork https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/edit-artwork-basics.html Change color and strokes https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/color-basics.html Add text to your designs https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/text-basics.html Create with…

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Feb 26, 2023

How to Create a Double Light Effect in Photoshop

What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a double-light effect in Photoshop. Use the example photograph as a…

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Feb 22, 2023

How to Make a Trifold Brochure Pamphlet Template

What You'll Be Creating Trifold brochures can be an excellent tool for getting information to people in an easy-to-use, eye-catching way. In this tutorial,…

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Feb 13, 2023

How to Achieve Miniature Effect Via Photoshop

Instructables (2017) How to Achieve Miniature Effect Via Photoshop, Instructables. Instructables. Available at: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Achieve-Miniature-Effect-via-Photoshop/ Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small and…

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Feb 8, 2023

How to Create a Botanical Wedding Invite in InDesign

Romantic botanical styles are one of our favorite wedding stationery trends here at InDesignSkills. What You’ll Need to Create Your Invite To create the…

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Jan 22, 2023

Logo Design, and Style Guide with User Interface Elements

Brand Style Guide Use this free style guide template layout to create a custom brand manual for your startup, small or large company. Add…

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Jan 22, 2023

Style Guides

What you need to include.  At the very least, you need to include these three things on your sheet:  Your logo.  Color palette with…

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Jan 15, 2023

How to Create a Confetti Brush in Adobe Illustrator

What You'll Be Creating Who else loves brushes in Adobe Illustrator? They're fun to create and play with. As part of "Love Week", I'm…

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Jan 13, 2023

11. Transforms: rotations, scaling and skews, Vertical alignment, Head tags and search engines, Flexbox, CSS animations, Forms, Audio, video and media

Back in 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter about Adobe Flash, the multimedia tool that most of the Web was using for animation…

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Jan 13, 2023

9. CSS Displays @Media

Earlier in this guide, we talked about different tags having different types — some tags were “blocks” that push other tags down the page,…

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Jan 13, 2023

8. Mobile-friendly designs with media queries

In one of my classes a student was talking to me about how the company she worked for had recently spent thousands of dollars…

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