Sometimes used at a funeral or distributed right after a person has passed away, prayer memorial cards are a way to work through grief while keeping a friend or family member’s memory close at heart. Prayer memory cards may have religious tones, with scriptural passages and symbols, or they can be secular, with images such [...]
Whether you want new icons for your computer’s programs and file images or to use online for gaming, chatting and message boards, you can create your own custom ones with just a few mouse clicks. When you draw your own icons, give them an extra added edge with transparency tools, which are available with the [...]
Look at the world around you, and everywhere you will find the work of graphic artists. From newsletters to book covers, magazine layouts to video game cases, bulletin boards to marketing materials, a graphic artist touches the print and online media world on a daily basis. A graphic artist career field can be a rewarding [...]
Adobe Updater is an application that comes with Adobe applications such as Reader or Creative Suite. It launches automatically and connects to the Internet, where it prompts you with frequent notifications to download updates from the Adobe server. If you prefer to update your program manually when you want to, disable the Adobe Updater application [...]
Thanks to the Photoshop graphics software available from Adobe’s Creative Suite, photographers, artists and designers are no longer tied fast to their cameras, time of day, lighting or even subjects’ clothing or makeup. Photoshop’s tools, filters, colors and palettes can aid even the most novice user in enhancing, editing and tweaking pictures. Photoshop can even [...]
Windows Media Audio (WMA) files may be burned to DVD using the Data DVD function in a DVD burning application. Burning the WMA file to the DVD as a data file preserves the original format of the audio file. DVD burning utilities such as Nero Burning ROM and Roxio Creative Suite may be used to [...]
Graphic design is a learned skill, but it’s not necessary to have a degree to make a living as a graphic artist. With a good eye for design and an aptitude for problem solving, becoming a professional graphic designer is a challenging yet attainable goal.
By devoting the hours necessary to learning software skills and then [...]
The Adobe Creative Suite gives users the benefit of relatively easy integration between its programs. One of the ways the programs work together is by allowing the vector program, Illustrator, to work with one of the raster programs, Photoshop. Using Illustrator’s Live Trace functions, you can convert even the most complicated layered Photoshop files into [...]
Adobe Photoshop is considered the essential software for graphic design. It is sold on its own, or as part of Adobe’s Creative Suite, which also includes Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro and several other tools. Photoshop’s primary functions include photo editing, website design, and the creation of elements for any type of project. It [...]
You will need an eye not only for composition but also for opportunity, new graphic design trends and technology, plus the will to promote and network yourself, if you want to set up a graphic design business. The field is overflowing with small, upstart graphic design businesses, many run right out of the homes of [...]