To insert special characters with the Mac keyboard
(Times New Roman font):
Accent Key Strokes Available Characters
Grave ` option ` + the character À È Ì Ò Ù à è ì ò ù
Acute ´ option e + the character Á É Í Ó Ú á é í ó ú
Circumflex ^ option i + the character Â Ê Î Ô Û â ê î [...]
Posts in the "Web Design" Category
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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.
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Technique One: Images with Plain Backgrounds
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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.
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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:
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1. Print Design such posters, books, magazines, business cards. shop signs
2. Screen Design such as websites, television, computer screens, mobile devices.
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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.
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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.
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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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I'm Bhuwan Timalsina from Nepal, Graphic designer and Web designer. My work covers print design, advertising, corporate identity and web design areas.
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