Posts in the "Web Design" Category

  • Boolean Operations with Selections
    This example shows how to Load, Add, Subtract, and Intersect selections between overlapping layers just with quick thumbnail clicks.

    Load Pixels to Selections
    In “Layer 2″ Command-click to load a fill as a selection. Any pixel which is not transparent in “Layer 2″ will be loaded as a selection. This is not the same [...]

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  • Selection in Photoshop
    Photoshop selects pixels based one of the three properties, as shown in the image below:

    Chroma: is the color of the pixel. Color of a pixel is the level of RGB values and color based select tools like the Magic Wand. Select by color uses the RGB% as a criteria to group pixels based [...]

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  • When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results.
     
    Technique One: Images with Plain Backgrounds
    The best photos [...]

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  • The most useful shortcut keys on Mac is the one for Expose and Dashboard so if you still haven’t configured them on your keyboard (or mouse) go to System Preferences ->Dashboard & Expose and configure them.
     
    This is the first set of the 10 most useful shortcut keys on Mac that you really need to get [...]

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  • Word & Pictures used in an artistic, creative and dynamic way while still sucessfully getting information and message across clearly. Examples are:
    1. Print Design such posters, books, magazines, business cards. shop signs
    2. Screen Design such as websites, television, computer screens, mobile devices.
    Anything where words and pictures come together in a dynamic way to enhance information [...]

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  • Taking a picture of your MAC’s desktop is as easy as pressing your keyboards shift+cmd+3 buttons. Note, don’t include the + symbols. They simply refer to ‘as well as’.

    Pressing your keyboards shift+cmd+3 will take a screenshot or desktop picture as some like to call it, of the entire screen, placing it on your desktop. It [...]

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  • Designing a basic brochure – how hard can that be? For good graphic designers, the answer is a lot tougher than you think. Even for the most basic type of brochure, before you ever put pencil to paper or click your mouse, there is essential information the client and you need to discuss.
    The first thing [...]

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  • Within the Design and Layout, Graphic Design, Web Design area you’ll find a wide range of annotated links to Web design tutorials, design and layout principles and tutorials, graphic design principles and tutorials, tips, and resources, and cross-platform and cross-browser issues. You’ll also find helpful Web design style guides and Web sites devoted to Web [...]

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  • This is an alphabetical list of Web Building Glossary Terms.
    Access (Microsoft Access)
    A database system developed by Microsoft. Part of Microsoft Office Professional. Mostly used on low traffic web sites running on the Windows platform.
    ActiveMovie
    A web technology for streaming movies from a web server to a web client. Developed by Microsoft.
    ActiveX
    A programming interface (API) that allows [...]

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  • A CSS framework is a library of CSS files that are used to make development of standards-based XHTML and CSS Web pages quick and painless. A CSS framework typically provides CSS styles for:

    Typography
    Layout – typically in a grid system
    Browser resets

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