Find thousands of inspirational, cool and beautiful images and design-oriented material on these great visual resources. If you feel lost and needs some visual creativity, bizarre and humor things, best image sharing sites provides you with tons of amazing design stuff: photos, crazy visualizations, posters, art and illustrations. (more…)
Best tutorials on Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash I gathered in this post. Every graphic designer should have enough technical skills to implement own ideas and concepts. While some people still believe that to become a graphic designer you should start with deep knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash etc., in my opinion it’s now quite true. You could know software perfect but being still unable to produce something worth. The balance should be anyway. (more…)
Logo design is probably most simple and at the same times most difficult area of design. While a quality logo design combining with a good brand strategy could boost companies’ business the bad one could ruin it. A logo does not sell, it identifies. Many people think that a logo is just a nice picture and forget about creating a meaningful symbol that depicts the main ideas of the customer business through the use of shape, fonts and color. Creating something simple but meaningful at the same time is the real challenge about logo design. (more…)
ReviewBasics is a nice online service from SharpStyle Labs, that provides free and amazingly easy way to have your design work reviewed. It could be a website, a photo, flash video or a document. Built-in conersion utilities allows to import a bunch of file formats including DOC, PPT, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PDF, FLV, WMV, AVI and MPEG. Invited users can apply callouts, highlighters, arrows, stamps and emoticons to particular areas of your design work using sticky notes. You just need to upload your work (not limited in a quantity but up to 25 mb in space) and invite reviewers. (more…)
If you were always dreaming of being on a cover of the Time magazine, now after many years of trying to hit the stars you can fulfill your dream. MagMyPic.com is a fun application that let you create your own custom magazine covers featuring your photo, photos of your friends or even pets. You can upload any photo you like and turn it into a fake magazine cover.
There a number of popular magazines you can choose from such as Fortune, GQ, National Geographic, People, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Time and more. After creating your cover you can send it to whoever you want and post it on your blog or social network. (more…)
Corel Corporation recently released a new version of its flagship product CorelDraw X4 (frankly speaking, other parts of Corel Graphics Suite have almost no value) which still have thousands of users around the world. Most Corel admirers like it partly because of mythic easier learning curve, partly because of lower price in comparison with its main competitor Adobe Illustrator. Some Corel users find invaluable multipage files and use this feature for layout purpose like InDesign (total headache for every designer, especially for people in print shops). (more…)
Adjust your monitor for right brightness, contrast and saturation with web site Screen Check. This site displays two bars, one grey for adjusting brightness and contrast and the other for adjusting color. Though it isn’t professional calibration which is required to have image look the same on any screen and in the print (usually made using special hardware or software at least), following the Screen Check instructions you should have a monitor displaying colors in photos and pictures more naturally than when you adjust settings relying on your own taste only.
