250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 1) As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Tips, tricks and checklists are often one of the most underused yet potentially useful models of providing great, quick and easy to follow pieces of useful information. You may or may not know some of the tips below — and you may or may not agree with everything listed — but hopefully it will give you some ideas for your own sites or motivate you to create a checklist to help cover your bases. Making Photo Books in Lightroom! (San Francisco) - SF Bay Area Lightroom User Group (San Francisco, CA June 22, 2012 · 6:30 PM This month's meetup will be in San Francisco, and we'll discuss the new Book module in Lightroom 4. We'll go through the complete process of making a book in Lightroom, from start to finish. The presentation will include a description of how to use Auto Layout Presets, which are a powerful tool for quickly and easily making the book you want in as few clicks as possible. If any of you have made a photo book using Lightroom (or any other photo book making tool), please bring it to the meeting to show to others!
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Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And Developers Cheatsheets and various quick reference guides are available for almost any type of software and language these days. Unfortunately they’re not always easy to find when you actually need them. This is why I decided to take some time to gather up as many as possible and share them with you here! Lightroom: Better keyword management I would like to add my voice to this request for something to edit/manage key words. At present, as I understand it, any "detailed editing" is best done by exporting the keyword list, making one's changes/edits and then reimporting it and even this approach has some serious limitations. This is like trying to drive a car sitting on the trunk facing backwards and looking into a set of mirrors, in my opinion.
Sagmeister and Walsh join forces In an email that stopped the whole of the Computer Arts office in its tracks this afternoon, Sagmeister Inc. made the announcement that the studio has renamed and relaunched as Sagmeister & Walsh. Jessica and Stefan certainly weren't lying when they state that 'We will do anything for design' with the email featuring full-length, fully-naked portraits of the pair - although Stefan opted to leave his socks on. Stefan Sagmeister certainly needs no introduction, and Jessica Walsh should also be a household name to readers of Computer Arts having created two covers for the magazine - as well as ranking number one in our 2009 'New Stars of Design' issue.
How to Design the Perfect Business Card In this post, we’ll discuss how a thoughtful, well-designed business card can help your company give a good first impression and send the right message. We’ll look at elements to include in your design and the different approaches to take. We often hear of the importance of first impressions in both our professional and personal lives. In business, the first impression we make on potential clients and other professionals can affect how much business we get. If we fail to dazzle in the first meeting, we might not be attending the follow-up meeting in which we could raise the bar. Also, we tend to forget that first impressions often begin with a business card. Awesome CSS3 generators to simplify front end development CSS3 Generator This generator is definitely one of my favorites, as it allow you to generate more than 10 different CSS3 effects, such as border radius, text shadows, transitions, and more. Visit css3generator.com CSS Gradient generator
Web Culture: Grid-based Layout Designs The semantic web has brought on a new generation of Internet technology. As designers and developers work together to redefine the rules of the web, the number of open-source projects and third-party APIs continues to grow. The opinions of web scholars differ on the use of grid systems. Many argue that setting grid points limits the creativity of designers. 22 Free Lightroom Preset Sources Lightroom Loves Presets! UPDATE 1: Due to the popularity of our free preset list, we have dedicated a new page full of 39 more Free Lightroom Presets! UPDATE 2: Free Lightroom Presets (Part 2) can be found here. UPDATE 3: Complete .zip file of RoTP Presets: RoTP - All Presets (25873) Adobe Lightroom is so powerful that often times you can get away without editing your image in Photoshop! What makes lightroom even more deadly is it’s ability to completely change the look and feel of an image with one simple click of abutton.
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