Archive for February, 2010
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
How To Change Text To All Caps In Photoshop
In this quick tip I’ll show you how to change the case of existing text in photoshop. This can be super handy if you are working with lots of text in photoshop as I was today. If you are too lazy to watch the video the magic keyboard shortcut is shift+cmd+k with the text selected [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Quick Tips, Screencasts, Web 2.OH by Niki Brown
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
It All Started With Photoshop…
So it looks like Photoshop just rang in another birthday! Photoshop just turned 20?!?!?!? Holy crap that’s a long time for software. I don’t know about you but Photoshop was my first ‘design’ program starting with version 6. I admit that I cheated a bit and also tinkered with Gimp for a bit. But I [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, design by Niki Brown
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Clients From Heaven, Clients From Hell – Design Chat With Liz Andrade
In the wake of the popularity of the Clients From Hell site I thought it would be appropriate to talk about good experiences with clients. I had a chance to have a chat with Liz Andrade from CmdShiftDesign and discuss the topic.
What do you think?
Have you had good (or bad) experiences with clients? What was it [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Web Design, design, design ethics, freelancing by Niki Brown
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Designers *First* Designs…
Remember when you had that *first* genius moment in design when we discovered effects in Photoshop or the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator? (I remember these moments quite fondly…) Its always great to look back and where we came from and laugh at ourselves I asked some of my fellow designers to [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in design by Niki Brown
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Finding A Design Community Online
Social design communities can be found all over the web and can play a vital role in growing and learning as a designer. I will be reviewing four of my favorites: Flickr, DeviantART, Coroflot and Behance and discussing the positives and negatives of each community.
