Posted by randee on Jan 30, 2010 in
Downloadz,
Fontz,
inspiration
Yeah well, I’ve been busy. But I told myself I’d make it worth your while. This is first in a series of entries full of some really excellent downloads.
We’re going start this off with some type. I’m an addict. I love type. Especially creative type. Now, Ive seen fonts that go from clean and stylish to well…unreadable messes reminiscent of a 3 year old’s scribble. All have their place. And here you thought Grunge died in 1994 with Kurt Cobain. Read more…
Posted by randee on Jan 9, 2010 in
Tutorials,
inspiration
My apologies, I posted a link in a previous blog and didn’t have it linked anywhere.
This is a very simple trick, but not obvious if you’re new to Photoshop. The trick is understanding how Curves work and it’s not specific to Photoshop – you can use curves in Paintshop pro and GIMP for example. From what I understand the only exception is Photoshop Elements, which can’t do this trick because Elements doesn’t have a method to edit the channels (i.e. Red, Green and Blue channel alphas that make up the colors in the image).
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Tags: color, design, graphic design, Photo manipulation, photoshop
Posted by randee on Jan 1, 2010 in
Uncategorized
Happy New Year!
I have had several dozen questions posed, asking about wages for this field. The Bureau of Labor statistics provides median incomes and statistics which need to be looked at.
Here’s a small look at the stats they provide and what they mean.
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