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A Guide to Photography and Taking Pictures for Graphic Designers

July 1, 2009 – 11:27 am

As a graphic designer, sooner or later you will need to take a picture. If you are fortunate enough to work for a company which supplies you with a camera, use it if that camera is good enough. If it is not, find one that is.

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Social Networking Communities for Graphic Designers & Web Designers

June 29, 2009 – 2:16 pm

Are you a graphic designer looking for a place to fit in online? Well, I have put together a comprehensive list of community sites for graphic designers and web designers.

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50+ Vector Clip Art Sites for Editable Graphics

June 27, 2009 – 8:30 am

One of the drawbacks of most clip art is that you cannot edit these images in Adobe Illustrator or other vector art programs such as CorelDraw. The other major drawback is that you can not resize rasterized clip art without pixelating them. Because of these two major setbacks, many graphic designers prefer vector graphics and clip art. That is why I have taken the time to put together this list of 50+ vector clip art sites.

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How to Choose Fonts : A Guide to Choosing Fonts for Graphic Designers

June 24, 2009 – 11:47 am

Ben Baker has put together this guide to choosing fonts for your design layouts. I hope that Ben's Fonts Selection Guide helps you out...if it does, please pass the link on to other graphic designers.

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Graphics Compression Tips for Print Design Projects

June 23, 2009 – 8:21 am

Although compressing images isn't as essential for print design as it is for web design, being able to compress graphics certainly comes in handy on some occasions.Hopefully the following article will help you with tips for print design compression.

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A Guide to Binding Multi-Page Documents for Graphic Designers

June 11, 2009 – 9:48 pm

Binding is mostly an issue where multi-page documents are concerned, like magazines, books and multi-page event programs. Most multi-page event programs are center-stapled (saddle stitch), as are most magazines. Only a few high-end magazines, like National Geographic, take the extra expense of having a glued binding. Briefly, here's a list of the most common kinds of binding.

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Numbering Pages in a Single-Fold Layout Graphic Design Project

June 2, 2009 – 10:44 pm

Numbering a multi-page single-fold document is anti-intuitive to many people. It does not make sense to most people if they just glance at the numbering pattern.

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Prepress Checklist : Use on Graphic Design Projects Sending Out to Printers

May 28, 2009 – 9:40 pm

Your project is camera ready and you are ready to ship it out the door. Here's a quick list that you can use on almost any project you send out for printing. Print one of these and check off each one as you verify things for each project you do.

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Don’t Go Broke at the Printers - How to Save Money at the Print Shop

May 18, 2009 – 12:58 pm

Find out ways to save yourself money the next time you go on over to the print shop to get one of your graphic design projects printed out. The more you can do in house before sending a project to a printer, the more money you can save on the printing cost. Below I have shared some secret tips with you to save some of your precious money at the commercial printers.

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Easy Guide to Commercial Printers for Designers Who Always Get Lost

May 17, 2009 – 1:14 pm

The most common issue printers face with graphic artists and designers are deadlines. Some graphic designers think that when they hand the design project over to a printer, that they should get the final project back within 30 minutes. While that may be possible on small-scale projects done at quick-copy establishments such as Kinkos, it is not going to happen with a commercial printing press printer. First, understand that getting the project off your computer and turned into the final product has several steps.

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