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Friday, December 19th, 2008

Don’t Forget To Recharge Your Batteries

The holiday season can be stressful. Clients want all their work done before Christmas, snow slows everyone down, holiday shopping can be a nightmare with tons of people at malls, and being around relatives can be….well…interesting to say the least. How the heck do you not keel over from stress?

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Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Quick Tip #6 – Photoshop – New Layers Via Copy

This quicktip covers a realllllly handy shortcut to create a new layers quickly in photoshop. Apple + J FTW!!! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Design Community Twitter Hours

This Thursday (Dec 18th) 6-8 pm est I will be co-hosting Design Community Twitter Hours ( #DCTH ) along with Chad Engle. What is this DCTH non-sense? Its a weekly time period where you can get answers to your design related questions via twitter.

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Monday, December 15th, 2008

10 Questions For Adelle From Fuel Your Creatvity

I got a chance to virtually sit down with Adelle Charles who runs the graphic design blog Fuel Your Creativity this week. She shares her insights and thoughts on fonts, design inspiration and bananas. Enjoy!

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Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Quick Tip #5 – Converting Anchor Points In Illustrator

This tip covers how to convert an anchor point while drawing a line – without having to select the pen tool again! Woo! Thanks to @paddydonnelly and @cmdshiftdesign for the idea for this quicktip.

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Friday, December 12th, 2008

Quick Tip #4 – Illustrator Patterns

In todays quick tip I go over how to create a simple polkadot pattern that does not involve copying and pasting a million times. I know these videos are simple, but unless you watch someone go over these things its hard to know about the features! Leave a comment and let me know what you [...]

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