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White is clean and elegant, these are the two things we see on White. This color has always been popular that is used in different kinds of industries. For instance in interior designing, designers prefer more White to stand out as the main color in decorating a room or a house.
But how to create such design on our own?
Have you ever been in the situation where you want to preview something that you’ve done in Photoshop and accidentally you don’t have Photoshop installed at the moment? Maybe it could be on your friend’s PC, and you just wanted to show him your latest work or design or wallpaper made in Photoshop.
Sometimes you just forget to make flat image in JPEG format, sometimes you just save the file as it is in PSD and at the moment when you realize that on other PC you don’t have Photoshop installed, it’s too late…
Well there is one easy and quick fix that will let you preview images in PSD file format, even if you don’t have Adobe Photoshop installed on that PC.
It will enable you to see the image in Windows Explorer, like you see thumbnails of other known formats like JPEG or PNG, except this will work for PSD too!
There are two ways to do this little trick. I’ll show you both and then you choose which way is easier to you.
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Adobe Photoshop is great image editor. One of the best out there… Sometimes happens that you are not home and you don’t have your computer or laptop with you soa there is no way to use Photoshop. But if you’ve got internet connection then this shouldn’t be a problem. There are really some great online alternatives for Adobe Photoshop that will help you do your work effectively. Here are 13 free online image editors that I’ve found and tested. They are really powerful online apps and for even better effects, you can combine their features and get amazing results. Many of these don’t even require any registration or anything, you just upload the image and enjoy editing!
I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
But your portfolio does! Of course it’s a good thing to get a design education and a proof of it, but when it comes to get money out of their wallet clients want to see what you are capable of, not a diploma. When looking for work, I never had to show my diploma, not even once.
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When you are in design school, the teacher sets the deadlines for you and tries to give you enough time. Your boss or your client will not be like your design teacher, they will try to push you to be more productive and give you too little time to get work done. All my worst designs have been created when I agreed to work with unrealistic deadlines.
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They just think you should help them to sell more. This doesn’t mean you should give up on good design, it just means that you’ll have to be convincing when you want to bring a more artistic touch to a job. I’ve been very frustrated with this when I first got out of school, but I learned to deal with it by educating my clients.
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When you are in school, you learn a lot from getting criticized by your teachers and classmates. Obviously these people all have some design skills, sometimes more than yourself. It is much harder to handle critics about your work when they come from people with no design education. You can be sure that you’ll hear some insane things and have to deal with it.
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Most people learn this the hard way, the day their computer crashes. Usually it happens at the worst time, before a client meeting or something similar. If you think that this isn’t design-related, you are totally wrong.
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Be sociable, even if you are the best designer out there, nobody will know it if people don’t get a chance to meet you. You don’t even need to attend work-related events, just join a sport team, drama group or whatever suits you, the most important thing is that you meet some like-minded people. When with people, don’t oversell and talk about your work all the time, but be sure never to miss an opportunity when you think that someone could need your skills.
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This is sometimes annoying, especially when you think that you can trust the client, but it can save you a lot of trouble. You should make it a habit to have you clients signing a simple and comprehensive contract before starting to work. If you have no clue of how to write a contract, take a look at this article by Andy Clark.
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Getting your diploma doesn’t mean that your design education is over, far from it. As a designer you have to stay up-to-date with the latest trends, software updates and industry news, or you’ll quickly lose touch.
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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”. This quote by Thomas Jefferson says it all about the importance of hard work in creative fields. As a designer, you need to read, work and experiment constantly, it is the only way to let your natural talent explode.
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Need to print your design to go meet your client? Chances are that your printer will chose that moment to die. Make sure you have some friends or working partners willing to help in these cases.
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Written by Mirko Humbert
Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.
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