Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Cyclo.ps – Search Multiple Stock Sites
Reading time: < 1 minute
Just found this cool site called Cyclops that lets you search multiple stock photo sites at once. Sounds pretty useful and I’m diggin the illustration and design of this site!
2 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Web 2.OH, Web Design, design, illustration by Niki Brown
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Quick Tip #3 – Photoshop Auto-select
Reading time: < 1 minute
Another quick tip for you guys! This one is about using the auto-select layer. Quite possibly the most helpful checkbox in all of photoshop. Leave a comment and let me know what you guys think!
20 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Screencasts, Web 2.OH, Web Design by Niki Brown
Monday, December 8th, 2008
Dunkin vs Starbucks
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I was at dunkin donuts the other day and noticed that they beat Starbucks in a ‘national taste test’. This prompted me to ponder where I get my coffee and why. I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve noticed that designers tend to be snobby about their coffee [...]
42 Comments » - Posted in Boston, Graphic Design, Package Design, Web 2.OH, coffee, color, design, design ethics, illustration by Niki Brown
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Quick Tip #2 – Illustrator Shortcuts
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes
Another quick tip for you! This time I talk about switching colors quickly with keybord shortcuts in illustrator. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
8 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Screencasts, Tutorials, Web 2.OH, color, design, illustration by Niki Brown
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
A Review Of You We You Coding
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Time is always a critical matter when designing for clients and sometimes you need to outsource work. There are tons of PSD to HTML conversion services out there – so how do you go about picking one? You We You Coding is an advertiser on my blog (take a look over [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Reviews, Web 2.OH, Web Design, design, technology by Niki Brown
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Quick Tip #1 – Dreamweaver
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
Hey everyone! Trying something a bit new here – some short (less than a minute or two) screencasts! I’ll be doing a series of quick tips. Todays quick tip came from my boss at Brunello Creative who is the master of all things keyboard shortcut related. Hope you enjoy!
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