Pathfinder vs Shape Builder
Have you ever wondered what is the difference between the Pathfinder panel and the Shape Builder tool in Illustrator?
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Avoiding the Lone “I” Character at the End of Lines
As the designer you are expected to check the text in your InDesign documents thoroughly.
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Creating Reflections for Products
There is nothing wrong about using subtle reflections in your designs especially when you have to work with product images.
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Creating a Subtle Out of Bounds Effect
The effect of images trying to break out of their planes is cool and it became known as the out of bound effect. Unfortunately, it is not too difficult to recreate it in Photoshop with almost any type of photo.
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Designing Animated GIF Banners in Photoshop
Photoshop is a very versatile application. It is well known for its photo manipulation capabilities but it is less known that it can be used for creating video and frame animations as well.
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Drawing Symmetrical Shapes in Illustrator
Drawing shapes in Illustrator is an important skill for every designer. You can several tools that will help you to create all types of shapes, but it is not that straightforward how to draw symmetrical shapes.
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How to use bleed in Photoshop?
There are several terms used in print design and one of the most commonly used one is bleed. But what is bleed exactly and how to use it in your Photoshop projects?
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How to Use Buttons in InDesign?
If you ever tried adding interactivity to your InDesign documents you most likely play around with buttons. They are fairly simple features, but to make the most of them you have to dig deeper
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7 Things You Need to Know About the Pen Tool
Most of the tools of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are easy to learn and understand, but there is one major exception.
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Collage Style Selection in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Pen Tool and Vector Masks in Photoshop to create a cool collage style selection of a model.
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Drawing Dashed Lines
There several ways of drawing dashed lines in Photoshop and in this tutorial I will explain my two favorite techniques.
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Working with Grids in InDesign
There are many ways to align images and text to perfect your compositions in InDesign and probably one of the best ways is to use grids. There are two type of grids: Document Grid and Baseline Grid.
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