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, or even just a student getting an online web design degree, 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. Those of you are who are designers will probably already know a fair bit about what works for you and what doesn’t. You will know if you like to incorporate the latest o2 Mobile Broadband into your computer usage and if you want to use the latest and most hi-tech equipment that you can. What we want to do is to help you make those important decisions, so you can continue with excellent design work. 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.
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