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2010
August


Photoshop Expanding Dynamic Range in Photoshop
Rick Sammon shows how to create an HDR-like effect directly in Photoshop using just a single image.
Photoshop

Photoshop Fundamentals: Removing Dust and Scratches in Photoshop and Lightroom
Stephen Laskevitch points out the differences between cloning, healing and filling, when it's time to remove imperfections from your photos.
Photoshop

Insight Taking Stock: Getting into a Stock Frame of Mind
iStockphoto inspector and microstock photographer Rob Sylvan provides the inside scoop on how to succeed in this competitive field.
Insight

Insight Creating Consistent Text for Website UI Elements
Can first-time users find their way around your site easily and locate what they're looking for? This extract from the Yahoo! Style Guide provides some pointers.
Insight

Graphic Design Nature Printing: The Italian Art
Roderick Cave takes a look at the ingenious nature printing techniques employed in 16th century Italy.
Graphic Design

Insight Business Secrets for Designers: Ethics and Social Responsibility
In discussing ethics and design, Shel Perkins introduces us to three different levels for consideration.
Insight

Insight Gamestorming: Games for Opening
Games can help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights and strategies.
Insight

July


Insight Designing Great iPhone Apps: Josh Williams and Gowalla
Josh Williams, CEO of Gowalla and lead designer for the app, shares the story behind its inspiration and evolution.
Insight

Insight A Brief History of Markup
Jeremy Keith provides a heads up on the history of HTML, from its creation in 1991 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to the upcoming HTML 5.
Insight

Insight Planning an African Photo Safari
Ever dreamed of going on a real African photo safari? Wildlife photographer Uwe Skrczypczak shares his experiences in the East African Serengeti National Park.
Insight

Photoshop Sharpening Part of an Image in Photoshop
One of the most useful portrait retouching techniques you’ll ever learn is to accentuate your subject’s eyes and lips, as shown by Lesa Snider.
Photoshop

Insight Digital Photography Fundamentals: Storing and Managing Your Images
Paul Duncanson sketches out the fundamentals of an often-overlooked aspect of digital photography.
Insight

June


Graphic Design 3D Typography: Beyond the Page and Screen
Jeanette Abbink and Emily CM Anderson have sought out compelling examples of typography that don't rely on a screen or printed page.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Design Fundamentals: Essential Visual Strategies
Timothy Samara covers the basics of building a strong composition, defining clear visual hierarchy, symmetry and asymmetry.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Universal Principles of Design: Baby-Face Bias, Biophilia Effect, Cathedral Effect and Chunking
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler revisit the thesis that the work of those in other disciplines can be put to effective use by designers.
Graphic Design

Insight Name Tagging: COST, EDEC, SURE and FAUST
Noted graffiti photographer Martha Cooper profiles writers who have chosen the diminutive format of nametags for their work.
Insight

Graphic Design Logos: It's Often the Little Things that Count
The initial work in designing a new logo for a major brand is the most personal, and perhaps the most creatively rewarding, assignment an individual brand warrior will tackle.
Graphic Design

May


Graphic Design Package Design: Showcasing a Better Mousetrap
Smart Design made the packaging for simplehuman products stand out by paring back the imagery and text to the essential elements.
Graphic Design

Insight Selling Email to Your Design Clients
Selling email services is a logical step forward for freelance web designers and developers. As Mathew Patterson asks, "Why wouldn’t you sell email services?”
Insight

Insight Adding Social Web Submit Buttons to WordPress
You don’t need to rely on plugins to add social bookmarking submit buttons to your WordPress site. Thord Daniel Hedengren shows us how.
Insight

Graphic Design Drainspotting: Japanese Manhole Covers
Remo Camerota documents the rich tradition of Japanese manhole covers, a celebration of the role of the decorative arts in urban environments.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Idle Idol: The Japanese Mascot
Edward Harrison and John Harrison provide a guide to the exotic world of the characters and mascots found all over Japan, from kitch to compelling.
Graphic Design

Insight Using Dreamweaver CS5 with Web Content Management Systems
Joseph W. Lowery shows how to tap the ability of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 to efficiently maintain CMS-based sites, such as WordPress and Drupal.
Insight

Photoshop A Multipass Photoshop Sharpening Workflow
Many have attempted a multipass sharpening approach, but few have succeeded. Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe show us how.
Photoshop

Photoshop Photoshop Fundamentals: Adding Texture and Aging to a Photo
In this tutorial, Scott Kelby shows how give images an historical, archival look, using textures and some sleight of hand.
Photoshop

April


Graphic Design Beautiful Visualization: How Do We Achieve Beauty?
Given the abundance of less-than-beautiful visualizations, it's clear that the path to beauty is not obvious. Nonetheless, Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky remain optimistic.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Presentations: Establishing a Strong Design Priority
Design priority, another way of saying focal point, is based on a determined assignment of value or importance to different elements. According to Garr Reynolds, it can make all the difference in presentations.
Graphic Design

Insight Creating PDF Files with Adobe Illustrator
Ted Padova shows how to take advantage of Illustrator's sophisticated integration with the PDF format.
Insight

Insight Photographic Compositional Elements: The Vanishing Point
David Ziser discusses the different ways you can position your subject with respect to the vanishing point.
Insight

Insight Going Beyond Web Site Type Defaults
Don't let the default values imposed by browsers or by perceived limitations dictate the voice of your site designs.
Insight

Insight Concert Photography with Compact Cameras
Veteran shooter Loe Beerens shows how to get good results when using a compact camera for concert photography.
Insight

Graphic Design The Paintings of Nathan Ota
Tina Ziegler features the work of Nathan Ota, who moved from graffiti artist to illustrator before focusing on exhibiting in galleries and teaching.
Graphic Design

Insight Photographer Profile: Darwin Wiggett
David DuChemin profiles landscape and nature photographer Darwin Wiggett, who realized early on that he was wearing two hats—one as a photographer and one as a businessman.
Insight

Graphic Design Make Your Own Paper for Digital Design
Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon demonstrate that papermaking is a simple process with many possibilities for the graphic designer.
Graphic Design

March


Graphic Design How to Set a Text-only Logotype
John McWade , of Before&After fame, shows how to squeeze the most impact out of a typeface-centric logo treatment.
Graphic Design

Photoshop Working with Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop
In this tutorial, Ted Padova provides techniques for mastering the relationship between Acrobat and Photoshop.
Photoshop

Graphic Design Classic Typefaces for Contemporary Graphic Design: Clarendon
Tamye Riggs demonstrates that modern weights and styles make this design suitable for both text and display applications.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Photographs by International Graphic Designers
Stefan Bucher provides a sampling of photos selected from the personal portfolios of some of the world’s most innovative and creative graphic designers.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design How to Avoid Being a Work Addict
Cathy Fishel points out that no matter how busy you are as a freelancer, there are simple ways to inject space between you and your work.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Working with Clipping Paths in Adobe InDesign
In this tutorial, Galen Gruman shares techniques for creating and working with image clipping paths in Adobe InDesign.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design Artist Profile: Michael Knapp
Steven Withrow profiles art director Michael Knapp, known for his work on such titles as Horton Hears A Who and Ice Age 3.
Graphic Design

Insight The Bold New World of Web Analytics 2.0
Avinash Kaushik makes the case for why you need to drastically rethink what it means to use data on the Web.
Insight

Photoshop Photoshop Fundamentals: The Right Way to Dodge and Burn
Harold and Phyllis Davis show how to use blending modes and layer masks, instead of the Dodge and Burn tools, to get the desired results.
Photoshop

February


Insight Designing Social Interfaces: Sign Up and Sign In
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone demonstrate best practices when a user wants to access parts of a site or application that requires creating or saving personal information.
Insight

Graphic Design Rule 1: Thou Shalt Make a Logo That is Instantly Readable
John Stones treats us to a collection of logos that make demands on their viewers and require deciphering.
Graphic Design

Insight Creating Effective Website Marketing Plans
In addition to the tactics needed to generate in-bound links, you need an overall strategy for increasing the visibility of your site.
Insight

Insight Photographic Travel Impressions: Focusing on the Details
As George Barr demonstrates, when photographers get to travel it only seems sensible to bring along a camera and make the most of the opportunity.
Insight

Photoshop Constructing a Textured Door in Photoshop
Luke Ahearn provides a detailed tutorial on how to create a weathered door in Photoshop.
Photoshop

Insight Creating the Tables Turned Environmental Portrait
Photographer Michael E. Stern demonstrates the importance of combining creativity with a workflow management system.
Insight

Photoshop Create Photoshop Brushes from Animal Textures
Carlos Cabrera demonstrates how to create Photoshop texture brushes from photos of animal fur.
Photoshop

Insight A History of Panoramic Image Creation
Harald Woeste outlines the development of panorama creation, from the paintings of the 18th century up to the digital images of today.
Insight

January


Photoshop Creating a Charcoal Drawing Effect in Photoshop
Susan Ruddick Bloom shows how to create a convincing charcoal effect—without the dust or fixative.
Photoshop

Insight Public Speaking: What to Do When Things Go Wrong
Since all public speaking is a kind of performance, things can and will go wrong, no matter how good you are.
Insight

Insight Questioning and Impressions: A World in HDR
Works and reflections on photography from noted high dynamic range evangelist Trey Ratcliff.
Insight

Graphic Design Creating Iconic Brand Identities: Staying Motivated
David Airey provides motivational tips on how to keep your spirits up and the creative juices flowing during tough projects.
Graphic Design

Insight Social Networks: Choosing a Winning Business Model
Depending on your motivation for starting a social network, generating revenue may or may not be a driving factor. Ric Mazereeuw suggests some possible revenue streams.
Insight

Insight The Rewards of the Presentation Backchannel
In the backchannel, the small drops that are individual tweets collect to become a Twitterstream that can change information in a presentation.
Insight

Graphic Design ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently
Colleen Ellis dismantles the Latin alphabet, shifting the focus from the subject — the letter — to the surrounding space.
Graphic Design

Insight Social Network Marketing Fundamentals
Don't know your LinkedIn from your Facebook? Dan Zarrella provides first steps on the path to social media marketing mastery.
Insight


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