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Type Connection. A tight-knit group:ITC Stone Sans, ITC Stone Serif & ITC Stone Informal strategy:Rely on Family Sumner Stone set out to create a group of typefaces that would work together effortlessly.

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Na vi avatar photo manipulation exclusive tutorial. This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na'vi (based on the characters in James Cameron's movie "Avatar"). I used Photoshop CS2 in order to create this, but newer and older versions should do the same, as I used basic Photoshop tools only. I hope you will find this helpful. But before we start, check these useful resources for photo manipulation that will help you create an amazing effect on your photo Step 1 Import a photograph of your choice, but make sure its size is relatively large, as it gives more room to play with. Step 2 Choose a "hard" brush from the"Tools" window (I tend to use a "Chalk" brush) and set its "Mode" to "Color", and its "Opacity" to 50%.

And finally, pick a shade of purple, I used #472a50, with a small brush and its Opacity set to 10%, paint the lips with it, and then randomly brush all over the face with it, as this breaks everything up a bit, thus making it more "natural" looking. Step 3. 30 Best Websites to Learn Design and Development. 126,685 ViewsNovember 28, 2013London, UKDesign 5 min read Some of the benefits of online education are really focused on money, personal time management, pace and real fun projects and active communities.

30 Best Websites to Learn Design and Development

Recently I have published an interview with Matt Loszak who learned iOS development himself and quit his day job to pursue entrepreneurial success. Affordability While most of the courses, studies, and special workshops cost hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars online education is the way to get demandable knowledge and skills and start working for any tech company or starting your own service-based business or creating products yourself.

Immersive communities Learning with a community is much more fun and efficient. Learn at your own pace You have a family, full-time job and not much spare time. Build something real While learning you shouldn’t learn just for the sake of learning, try to solve the problem and your learning project might evolve into a business. Let’s get started! Lynda. 15 sites web developers and designers should know. Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier.

15 sites web developers and designers should know

In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked. ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme. Color Combos allow you to browse thousand of different colors combinations for getting inspired for your upcomming design. Color schemes can be browsed by colors.Visit colorcombos.com LIpsum Who doesn’t know the extremely popular Lorem Ipsum text?

What the font? You just saw a logo or website using a particular font and you enjoyed it. ConvertIcon Favicons are a must have for any website, mostly because on modern browsers as such as Firefox, it is displayed along with the site name in tabs. BgPatterns background Patterns is definitely one of the current webdesign trends. HTML Encoder. SwatchMatic. These application is usefull across a wide range of industries and disciplines: agricolture, government standards, education, interior design, environmental, pharmaceutical, food products, geology, safety, architecture, painting, archeology, classifications based on colors, tiling, GIS, Cartography, maps, computer graphics, tiling, plants, soil, When you have to publish (i.e. write docs on computer and then printing) your work, studies or product, you need to specify the correct RGB of your Munsell annotation.

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Here is the app to do this. Release 1.2 introduces also CMYK mapping and an heuristic Pantone color codes matching. Printing presses print full color pictures using a different set of colors yhan RGB, the primary colors of pigment: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black (called "CMYK"). This is "4-color process" or "full-color" printing that comprises the majority of magazines and marketing materials you see every day.

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