Category: Design
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No bullshit mentality
I live by what I call the “no bullshit mentality”. This means I’m always honest, whether the question is personal or business-related. I’ll always respond with complete honesty—though sometimes, I may take a more diplomatic approach. In the past, during initial interviews for potential projects, I’ve focused on getting to know the clients while allowing…
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How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
Photoshop is a powerful tool for almost everything you need in graphic and web design. This article explains how to use Photoshop to create product boxes. How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options…
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Developing the grid that supports your design
Just a few months ago when I created any design, I didn’t practice a grid system. I didn’t know much about it so I thought that I can live without it. Yes it’s true. You can live without a grid system, but should you? Why is the grid important? I will try to answer to…
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Creating news site heading like in Daylife.com Covers
A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting news site called Daylife. Its front page (Covers) is something like an internet/TV hybrid, with its flash intro page that displays most recent news. To say the least, I am a fan of Flash, as of JavaScript and other technologies, but I think that the same…
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Using Photoshop masks for creating web graphics
If you want to create a dropped shadow background than you could just add a drop shadow layer effect to a specific layer. But what happens when you would like to create a dropped shadow background that fades with the background itself. The easiest way is to use Photoshop “power”. I am talking about Photoshop…
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Creating web graphics in Photoshop
In this brief and illustrated tutorial you will learn how to create most commonly used web graphics in Photoshop. Techniques explained in this tutorial, can be used in other similar programs as well. In this tutorial I will try to explain how to create a menu, like the one explained in the article “CSS image…