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The design section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of web design on the internet today. Also discussed is print design for offline media. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of brand identity, graphic design, photo manipulation, typography and more. Additional topics include how to effectively manage website layout, e.g. mobile and tablet interface, responsive website design as well as coverage of online communities that assist with the design profession.

How to Create a Static Text Effect in Photoshop

I’ve got another cool Photoshop text effect for you today. This one is ultra simple and it shouldn’t take much time at all. All you need to do is write out some text with a text tool in Photoshop and then apply a layer style to it. I’ll show you how to do that below. […]

On-Image Adjustment Tool + Curves Adjustment in Adobe Photoshop

The Curves adjustment is, hands down, one of the best tools you can use in Adobe Photoshop to edit contrast and the like. As opposed to the regular, more straightforward Brightness/Contrast adjustment, the Curves adjustment has the ability to fine-tune edits in a way that the other simply can’t. In the Brightness/Contrast adjustment Properties panel, […]

Using Advanced Blending Options in Photoshop

I was toying around with a section of the Layer Style palette a few days ago when I stumbled upon a neat little area that offers some granular control over blending modes. If you’re familiar with blending modes and how they work in Photoshop, you may enjoy what I have to share below. The section […]

Tips & True Costs For Selling Greeting Cards on Etsy

My lady and I have recently taken an interest in color photo printing. We’ve got oodles of very high quality photos that we’ve taken through the years and thought it might be nice to see these photos on paper. Over the past few weeks, We’ve been doing a lot of printing. We purchased a Canon […]

How to Create Blurry Text in Photoshop

I’ve been working on a lot of different text effects lately and one interesting effect I discovered had to do with blurring. If you aren’t aware, or if you’ve never looked closely at blurred text, you can actually see different colors stemming from the edges. It’s strange to look at and even stranger to notice, […]

Adding a Vector Mask to Text in Photoshop

I recently wrote a post that discussed making a selection in Photoshop and then converting that selection into a vector mask. The vector mask was applied to some text and it appeared to somewhat integrate itself into the text to offer a very cool effect. To read the post and see all the screenshots I […]

Softening & Brightening a Portrait in Photoshop

Have you ever wondered how magazines and professional image editors work their portrait photos so they look as good as they do? I’ve wondered this for a long time and I think I’m making some progress in figuring out how they get things done. It’s the secret sauce that I’m interested in and I’ve recently […]

More Fonts for Adobe Photoshop with Typekit

I’ve been battling with fonts for decades. Every time I get a new computer, I have to deal with the fact that I’ve got a small handful of horrible fonts installed on it. Back in the day, I had a pretty sweet collection that I used all the time. Today, my go-to font for design […]

Can You Create Vector Shapes in Photoshop?

I know that many people out there think of Photoshop strictly as a photo editor and I blame the name of the application for that. You know, the “Photo” part of the name. Perhaps it began as merely a photograph editor, but these days, things have changed quite a bit. If you’ve used Adobe Photoshop […]