Over the years I have been passed many a logo to “clean”. I also learned while I was in college that I was of the few that actually knew how to make a logo one shape so it would appear correctly on any background color. I always make my logo files this way for two reasons:

1. It gives the client the best possible file.

2. It makes your files easy to use. (printers love you & your clients love you)

Cleaning a logo is a must do. This isn’t something that you just pass on to someone else. Just like naming your layers before handing off the logo, this separates the men from the boys (or women from the ladies) and truly defines you as a good designer to work with or a great designer that gets recommended to others.

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In this quick tip I show you how to create a dotted line instead of a dashed line in illustrator. Also check out the new fullscreen feature with blip.tv – yay!

In this quick tip I show you how to quickly create slices from guides in Photoshop. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Today we are going to go over the basic’s of making a brush for Photoshop. While I am using CS4 there is no difference in using CS3, as seen in my previous tutorial.

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In this quick tip I’ll show you a magic keyboard shortcut to make an apple logo in Photoshop.

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