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Color Questions a Designer Should Ask Their Printer - Find out what questions you should ask your printer before submitting your documents.
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Browser Safe Color Palettes The Browser Safe palette, as I so named it, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs.
Introduction to colour - additive-subtractive colour, colour wheel & gamuts
Bitmaps & CMYK Process - plus separations, colour filters & cmy inks
Choosing Correct Colours - save money, learn spot & process colour
Colors - Lists and shows the possible colors on the web
Color Management Explained - The International Color Consortium offers this layman’s explanation of the arcane science of color management.
Digital Colour Proves Its Potential - The market for digital colour printing it is agreed is becoming larger helped by increasingly sophisticated product choices.
Does
Paper Color Count as a Printing Color? - When
someone tells you that a printing job is a two color job
and that it's printed on creme paper, does that mean that
it uses one ink color and the stock color?
Graphics
and Palettes enlightenment on the mysteries of indexed
palettes
How Many Colors Should I Use? - Here isn't a simple black and white answer to this question (pun intended). The real issue is "How many inks should I use?" A brochure might appear to be using dozens of colors but it's only using four process inks while an eight-color brochure appears to be using half that many colors.
Process Vs. Spot Color - When combined, the four process inks--cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, or CMYK for short--can produce a wide range of colors, often far more than you will need for your project.
Showing Its True Colours - The demand for colour is driving digital growth, but what other developments have there been this year?
The World of Color Giving your page a unique appeal is as simple as selecting the right background and text colors. But first, you need to spend some time exploring the color universe and looking for the most captivating and least hackneyed colors.
True Color - Do your marketing materials give your company a consistent look? Consistency can help your company look professional. Guest author Joseph Szala helps you tame your colors with three simple steps.
Two Quick Color Tips From Your Friendly Imagesetter - The following information will help you with setting up your project.
Using color to bring harmony to photographs - If you read my series on designing with photos you heard me mention color 'harmony' again and again. In those scenarios -- when you've got top-name designers and huge budgets -- you can do just about what you want.
What Is CMYK Color? - What Is CMYK Color?
What is Spot Color? - If a designer needs to match a particular color (a logo color perhaps) in a printed piece or has a limited budget, then spot color is something to consider. Spot colors can also be used alongside process (CMYK) colors for greater flexibility.
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You’re in the Money
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Graphic Design schools will sharpen your artistic talents, but what about your business acumen? If starting a design business appeal to you, however, both sides of your brain need to be functioning. In order to get You, Inc., off the ground, knowing the nuts and bolts of business ownership is just as essential [...]
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More 3D for Fun and FunctionIn our last article we presented some nifty examples of what you can do with Photoshop in creating your own 3D objects. There are literally thousands of PS objects that you can download from the Internet, but the process of making your own Photoshop 3D items is not only fun [...]
3D Photoshop Object Projects and Tutorials - Part I
Practice Makes Perfect
After a while, it seems that plain old 2D Photoshop images are lacking when it comes to creativity for some of your graphic design projects. Maybe you have thought about doing more 3D work but didn’t know where to start. The following Photoshop tutorials can help you create some nice objects. All that [...]
The Do?s and Don?ts of a Successful Portfolio - Part II
Presentation and Eye Appeal
What would your reaction be if you were served a plate of food at a restaurant that had dust, lint, or smudges on the dish? Now let’s switch this scenario around and put this in the context of a job seeker presenting a portfolio that has dust, lint, and smudges on the [...]
The Do?s and Don?ts of a Successful Portfolio - Part I
The Basics
At long last you’ve landed a job interview at a design firm. You’re excited, nervous, and worried all at the same time. You realize that part of the interview process hinges on presenting a strong portfolio. But where do you begin?
You’ve got lots of examples from projects while going to your graphic design college [...]
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All Graphic Design Portal is a Graphic Design education directory with resources & articles for Graphic Designers & Web Designers including a Design forum, blog, graphics software tips, graphic design jobs, advice for new designers about design schools and education as well as tips for freelance graphic design business owners, and much more.
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