Posts made in April, 2010

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Design a Graphic for their Facebook Page! With the Coast to Coast Tickets Facebook Page nearing 2200 fans, it’s time for a visual upgrade! Show us your graphic design skills by designing a graphic for our Facebook and Twitter pages, and you could win a $200 gift card, good for any tickets on the Coast to Coast Tickets site. Contest starts on April 19th, and you’ll have two weeks to submit your artwork. Our social media pages get huge...

Just watched Adobe’s CS5 Live Event on what’s “NEW”.Here’s what I gathered…in case you really were wondering. Pardon the rough notes, but I am excited!!More can be found at Adobe.com or Adobetv.comDesign Premium1. Photoshop“Refine Edge” command with “smart radius” ; Example = details for selecting hair…“Content Awareness fill”2. Illustrator 5“Variable width tool”3. “CS Review” – live integration...

Michael Beirut has 13 sane/simple tips! Click here for article or read the tips here:1. Keep a notebook. Bierut started this practice in 1992, and now has 86 of the things. But they’re not some fancy Moleskins full of lush watercolor sketches. They’re plain vanilla notebooks, filled with, well, notes and the occasional sketch. They seem to work as well as the high-priced spread.2. Listen first, then design. Actually, you...