Here are two background generators, one free and the second premium-priced but very good. The free one is SiteOrigin’s Background Generator which has been covered in an overview at theOpenSourcery.com. Before Background Generator, this designer avoided working on backgrounds because so much time was spent in Photoshop or Ink or Xara Designer constantly refining a […]
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The problem with Web images is that many are DirtyDogs. Now Dirty Dog images are not bad per se; just wanting in style and polish. They are produced on smartphones or even SLR cameras in which the camera automation has been “tricked into” giving you an “okay” picture. But on closer inspection they turn out to
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Here are two stats that will be of interest to Designers and Photo Finishers. WordPress currently is used on 27.3% of all the World’s websites well ahead of Drupal at 2.2% and Joomla at 3.4% while Weebly, Wix and SquareSpace barely have 0.5% presence worldwide. the second stat is that images alone [ excluding Flash and
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A Touch of Color works very well in photofinishing. By lowering an image to just hints of the original hues or leaving just traces of the original full colors, graphic artists have attractive design alternatives. This post will look at a range of color hints and touches available to photofinishers. Full Color Traces It would appear
Sometimes creating a background for a website is easy because the website’s subject matter, as in the case of a knitting site, offers plenty of background images for tiling. But other times, after several rejected proposals, one can start pulling an already thin crop of hair. But not any more thanks to SiteOrigin’s Background Generator.
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There are many images on the Web that are just good. This small tutorial will show how easy it is to go from good to better using a free Photoshop-like Image editor. However this could also be done online with anyone of 8 free online image editors. In the spirit of demo-ing how practical the
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In an earlier review, thePhotofinishes examined Canva.com as a a Graphic Design School and came to the conclusion: So clearly Canva.com is not a Photoshop or Illustrator for design features. But there are enough robust options and a great set of practical, Try-It-Yourself lessons in the spirit of W3Schools for Web Development, that makes learning
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As a web designer and developer,a positive UI-User Interface/User eXperience is a vital ingredient to a website’s success. But making up good UI/UX is Great Graphics Design This is a combination of layout, design, and well tailored media – both images and video – that make the interaction on the website easy and effective. But
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Ten years ago it used to be true that when one needed to fixup an image or make a quick drawing live online, users were out of luck if they were on a smartphone, at the library’s computers or using a tablet. Those days have gone by. Just 3 years ago thePhotoFinishes looked at the wealth
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The world of design is full of double entendres. A sense of humor with more than a touch of empathy which allows a designer to draw out the core elements of a story with a dash of panache. It helps catch the mind behind the eye. But is this design sense teachable? The people at the mostly free Canva.com
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