99 Useful Resources for Graphic Designers. Articles September 27, 2007 I have used every one of these resources as a graphic designer and website developer and have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness and overall quality. I hope you find these resources as useful as I do! Enjoy! Organizations 1. www.gag.org The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects its members and is committed to improving conditions for all graphic designers and the whole industry. They also produce the well known Graphic Artists Guild Handbook which is an essential part of any designers library. 2. www.aiga.org AIGA, the professional association for design is dedicated to protecting and advancing design and its importance to society. Education 3. www.guidetoonlineschools.com Guide To Online Schools is an education directory that specializes in online degrees, online schools, and distance learning. 4. www.getdegrees.com Getdegrees features the nations best online degrees from over 300 colleges.
Generally Useful 9. Stock Photography. 45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts - Noupe Design Blog. Oct 11 2009 In his famous 1908 essay, ‘Ornament and Crime,’ modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” This pronouncement banished many of the frilly, decorative fonts of centuries past from the realm of High Design. Fast forward to the present day: Web 3.0 is awash in enough sleek sans serif and classic roman typefaces to make designers long for the typographic indulgences of yesteryear. Harness the power of the antique and make your graphics pop with one of these vintage-inspired fonts, which have returned to the spotlight both in print and online. From the Wild West and Victoriana to the Avant Garde and Calligraphy, there are plenty of styles to choose from.
Wood Type and Display Fonts Carnivalee Freakshow This distressed, wood-type-inspired font has the shabby charm of an old sideshow banner. Dirty Ames This is another beautiful distressed font that draws inspiration from 19th century display types. CSSDesk - Online CSS Sandbox. Boost Your Creativity: 30+ Logo Designing Illustrator Tutorials. Kuler. 185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc.
Did you know that going through cool effects made in Photoshop and Photoshop Web Design Tutorials is one of the best and fastest ways to learn web design? Designing web sites is a highly creative process and it is not easy at all to get started if you do not have the right ideas, inspiration, skills and tools available. One thing is to get the idea or falling in love with a design used on some web site you run into. Turning the idea into a concrete design, e.g. a nicely layered and structured PSD ready to be sliced can be quite a challenge unless you have years of experience.
One of the best ways to get started is to learn from others having enough experience and passion to share their techniques and ways of working in detailed tutorials. Great thanks to all the Photoshop Web Design Tutorial creators – keep up the great work! I recommend anyone planning to create a web design to long for inspiration on responsive web site layouts. Photoshop Web Design Tutorials Index Business PSD Layout.
200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions, Enhancement, Colouring, Effects, Filters etc. In this article tripwire magazine presents a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). A Photoshop action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Actions can make nearly any change to an image and examples could be changing the image size, adding new layers, appling filters, saving files in a specific format etc. With the click of a button an action can help us achieve time consuming effects in no time you just need to have access to the right actions.
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