Twitter for Business: Special Considerations and Ideas
Insight The biggest mistake companies often make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information. In
Twitter for Business: Special Considerations and Ideas, Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein show how to do Twitter right.
Insight If you don't optimize images, you send extra data over the wire that adds nothing to the user experience. The tips in Optimizing PNG Images for Web Sites show you how to shrink images in this increasingly popular file format.
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New additions to our on-demand video tutorial library 5 Photoshop Tools for Color Changing
Every color change you perform in Photoshop is a unique challenge. Instructor Helen Bradley shows how to use a variety of features to make especially tricky changes, including transforming a pink flower into an orange one while retaining the subtle texture of its petals, and switching an outdoor shot from autumn to spring.
The Complexities of Simplistic Design
With the help of some striking examples, branding expert Jonathan Gouthier illustrates how color, white space, specialty printing techniques, and typography can be used to create simple design work that also makes an impact. In addition, Jonathan reveals the brainstorming strategies he uses in his practice to generate concepts that lead to brilliantly simple design.
New Resources
Varoom "Varoom—the journal of illustration and made images" is a magazine devoted to exploring the world of illustration and image-making.
Smush.it This free online service makes it easy for you to reduce image size with no loss in quality.
Check My Colors Another free online service, this one checks your site and provides a report on whether it provides sufficient contrast when viewed by someone with color deficits.
Help End the Email Horror Email newsletter designers of the world, unite! The time has finally come to throw off the oppressive formatting chains of Microsoft Outlook.
PORTFOLIO: What's Yours is NOT Theirs Susan Kirkland encourages creatives to know their rights and stand up for them, a timely topic in today's uncertain job climate.
Pixelformer Pixelformer is a new Windows bitmap editor, specifically designed for creating, modifying and converting small and medium-sized images. It's currently free, as a beta version.
ExifTool Mac | Win This free utility is just the ticket for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.
Save a Directory List to a File If you need a list of files within a certain Mac directory in text format you can create it using the ls Terminal command.
Convincing IE8 Ad As Homer Simpson would say, "It works on so many levels."
Nike Basketball Paper Battlefield Check out these Design Lion Grand Prix winning call-for-entry posters for the annual Nike Basketball League Competition in Hong Kong.
CSS for Printing
A web designer has a question about printer-friendly CSS style sheets.
LiquidTreat:Art Packs Recognizing that evocatively named crops such as Long Island Cheese Pumpkins, Double Yield Cucumbers, and Mammoth Grey Stripe Sunflowers are ripe for illustration, Hudson Valley Seed Company has created Art Packs, a set of seed packages that feature the work of 11 artists from New York's Hudson Valley. Bridge to Paris Pepper—born of a hybrid pepper called Paris and produced by Phillies Bridge Farm—features an antique photograph of the Eiffel Tower, while rodent-loving artist Ayumi Horie leapt at the chance to illustrate Rat's Tail Radish (named for its distinctively curled edible pods). Designed by Sarah Snow of Treeo Design, the colorful packages unfold like flowers and are printed using earth-friendly inks on recycled paper.
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