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How To Create a Baseline Grid Pattern in Photoshop
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How To Create a Baseline Grid Pattern in Photoshop

The best designers will admit that grids are vital to any project. Whether you’re designing for print or the web, grids offer structure that can either be followed or ignored. Most people think of grid systems like 960GS where you create long columns across the full width of the page. But there is another grid…

Quick Tip: Convert Video & Audio Files with Adobe Media Encoder
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Quick Tip: Convert Video & Audio Files with Adobe Media Encoder

The task of converting media has always been tricky. It’s possible to use online tools or free programs like MP4 to MP3 Converter. But most of these tools are lackluster, full of adware, and don’t have the prettiest interfaces. Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 released with a new program called Media Encoder. This allows you to…

44 Clean New Startup Homepage Designs
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44 Clean New Startup Homepage Designs

Clarity is a vital aspect of any successful startup. Your purpose needs to be conveyed in an easy-to-understand manner without obscurity. The best websites know how to convey information through design aesthetics while expressing the main purpose of a company. The following examples are perfect for any designers who want to design their own modern…

Quick Tip: Metadata Editing in Adobe Bridge
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Quick Tip: Metadata Editing in Adobe Bridge

If you’re a photographer or a creative artist who uses a lot of digital resources, Adobe Bridge is something you should learn. It’s like a much more powerful version of Explorer where you can browse files, organize collections, and edit metadata for project work. Bridge can be opened directly through Photoshop which allows you to…

40 Material Design Android Apps for Clean User Interfaces
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40 Material Design Android Apps for Clean User Interfaces

Google’s material design has become a language unto itself. Both mobile and web designers are swooning over the simplicity of Google’s systematic foundation for textures, animations, and icon styles. Material design is here to stay and only seems to be growing in popularity. 21 If you want to design apps for Android then material design…

The Basics of Illustrator Vector Manipulation
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The Basics of Illustrator Vector Manipulation

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful vector program made for digital and print designers. Vector shapes are made to scale without any quality loss, which makes them quite different from pixel graphics. This means vector graphics can be manipulated differently and under different contexts which may be confusing for new designers. In this post I’d like…

How To Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers
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How To Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers

Most people who are familiar with photo editing should know about image adjustments. These are used to affect a photo’s levels in light & color. The only problem with using typical adjustments is that they can damage an image’s pixels permanently. This brief how-to will explain the benefits of using an adjustment layer instead of…