[App of the week] Photoshop Express

29.10.2010, 11:56

Photoshop Express for Iphone

The Iphone version allows you to snap and edit pictures directly from the app interface or to edit images in your library. It offers four editing categories, which provide basic functions like rotation, cutting or flipping. To change saturation or contrast you simply swipe your finger right or left, depending on what you want to achieve. Several effects and frames can be applied to polish off your mobile piece of art.

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40 open psd-photoshop templates

28.10.2010, 9:50

40 open files with all layers available

The Photoshop file format par excellence is the .psd format. It avoids quality degredation when you save (keyword loss-free compression) and keeps layers if you wish to. With the layer information available designers can easily understand how design elements are composed.

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30 highly convincing logo examples

25.10.2010, 11:04

30 highly convincing logo examples

Designing a convincing logo is difficult. It becomes even more challenging when you use these examples as benchmark. They feature graphics with gradients, 3D forms, extremely fine lines and purely typographical logos.

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Designing your portfolio

21.10.2010, 11:01

Design for a purpose

In Part II of our portfolio design feature we give you valuable advice on designing and marketing your portfolio. We also included plenty of links to useful tools and resources to support your project. The headings are numbered in continuation of the first part, where we already talked about planning your portfolio project. Careful planning for a clear target is really important and greatly improves the chances of your portfolio being successful. If you go everywhere you’ll end up being nowhere.

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Apps will take over the internet | weekly comment

15.10.2010, 12:27

Apps will take over the internet

Since the very beginnings our online experience mainly consisted of clicking links and typing or pasting URI’s in the top bar of our internet browser. Not anymore. The rise of the mighty smartphone is the apocalyptic horseman for the internet experience as we know it – at least in a mobile context. As mobile access to the worldwide web increases at an insane rate network operators become scared of the spirits they have cited. Sounds good and helps to get across the message: Mobile is key!

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Creating a captivating design portfolio | Part I

14.10.2010, 10:31

design portfolio

The design portfolio is not an invention of the digital age. It’s probably as old as the profession and easily the most important marketing tool for any designer – employed or freelancer, successful pro or newbie. In the “analogue” decades you presented it in person or sent it via mail. Nowadays there’s hardly a way around creating an online portfolio, which provides 24/7 worldwide access to your achievements.

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30+ fantastic designer portfolios

11.10.2010, 10:27

portfolio inspiration

This is part I of our portfolio inspiration series and showcases some great examples. In part II we will give you valuable tips on planning and designing your own portfolio.

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How annoying letters save our written culture

08.10.2010, 15:20

CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s

Just recently I stumbled upon an interesting article about CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s, which made me read a bit more about this whole thing. Nowadays they are an almost omnipresent part of our online experience, especially when you tend to interact through comments or have an account on Facebook.

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Winner Tiltshift Competion

08.10.2010, 11:52

Winner Tiltshift Competion

Last week we posted a tutorial on creating the tiltshift effect with Photoshop. The effect became quite popular lately through various commercials and youtube videos showing real life scenes which look like a miniature model. It looks amazing and is fairly easy to achieve when you know how it works. So we asked you to try it yourself and send us your results.

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30 fresh logo ideas

07.10.2010, 8:06

30 creative logo designs

nspiration is extremely important for the development of an artist. Sources of inspiration, such as this collection of 30 creative logo designs, play a relevant role in triggering new and fresh ideas in a designer’s mind. They also showcase what other creatives came up with and thus help to avoid accidental duplication.

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