26 Hot Free Fonts Inspired by Movies
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This collection of 26 free movie fonts is mainly for the hardcore fans out there. Please don’t be mad if I didn’t include the font from YOUR favorite movie :). These 26 are from my point of view, the best free movie fonts out there. Enjoy!
Custom Stock Photos at ViaU!
I don’t usually run press release articles but this website has a pretty cool idea of getting professional custom photography at a fairly reasonable price. continue…
Staying focused during the day: A how-to for part-time freelancers
For all you part-time freelance designers out there with a full-time non-design job, here is a guide to help you improve your freelance career. When you have a non-design job during the day it may be hard to keep that creativity flowing, but you have to find the opportunity to help to improve yourself. continue…
From the Vault: Text Effects
Now that Denis Designs is a little more than a half a year old, I thought I would recap some tutorials that I have created over the past few months. Since I really like working with text, I’ll showcase some of those tutorials. Enjoy! continue…
How to have an effective website as a Web Designer
If you are a talented web designer, the Internet is the perfect place for you to showcase your work. However, it does not matter how skilled you are if you do not take advantage of good website building that uses less resources on a web server. continue…
Top 5 Laptops for Designers
If you’re a designer, you have a few primary needs for a laptop. It has to display colors accurately. It has to have a large enough resolution for you to be able to work without constant scrolling. It has to have enough power to run your applications without slowing down. And if it could look good while doing it, that wouldn’t hurt either. The following is a list of the top 5 laptops for designers that fit these needs.
5. Dell Studio XPS 16
A List of Photoshop Shortcuts Every Designer should Know
Being a good designer is more than just pumping out something that looks nice, you also have to be quick about it. Learning your shortcuts is the best way to be quick in Photoshop, or any other program for that matter and is essential for you to be good designer. It’s not a guarantee that you will be a good designer, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Below, I have listed some important short cut, key commands that every designer should know. The top one is the Mac version, and the bottom one is the PC version. These will help you with the basic functions, as well as functions that designers use on a daily basis. Lets check them out.
General Commands
Beginners Guide: Open your documents anywhere
The most frustrating thing in the world is when you bring your work somewhere and you go to open it and you get an error message, because for some reason the program can’t open up your document. Either the computer you are on doesn’t have the program you used, or you did your work on a Mac and you are trying to open it on a PC. Either way, these following tips will help you to open up your document anywhere you go. I am going to talk about how you will be able to open up InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop anywhere.
What does your website say?
What does your website say about your business? Can everyone see what you are selling in the first few seconds they arrive at your site or do they have to search around to find what they are looking for? Do people go to your site and wonder if they went to the right place? There are many things you can do to get people to stick around your site and find what they are looking for instead of going to a competitor. This article will help with the general setting up of your website, how should it look, what should and shouldn’t go on it (specifically the home page), and how your products and information are presented.
Setting the mood
Picking your colors.
