Category: Design Tips
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Stained Glass Illustration
I was asked to take this pencil illustration (see art here) and create a graphic for a poster that will advertise a newly written opera. I’m not much of an illustrator myself but I at least had the pencil sketch from the client to work off of. I used Adobe Illustrator to outline and ink…
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2015 Lunar Year of the Ram Graphic Freebie
I was asked to make a little web graphic for a Chinese New Year festival. It’s the year of the ram or goat or sheep – that seems to be up for debate. I am really fond of sheep when I witnessed two sheep in a herd on either side of another sheep being its…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
I just had to make a greeting card design for Valentine’s day when I remembered you could change the bokeh shapes in the background by putting a piece of on the front of your lens with a cutout of a certain shape. Enjoy!
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Tutorial on making a thought bubble, new card design & and a puppy
[mp_row] [mp_span col=”12″] I recently took pictures of an adorable Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy and some of the photos have been accepted at Shutterstock. This one of of the sad puppy pose in particular I am making into a greeting card for when you are missing someone. The front of the card shows her as a sad little…
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Highlight link to current page with javascript
If you have a menu on your website and you would like to provide some visual feedback with that one of the links in the menu bar is the page you are on it’s pretty easy with some HTML and CSS. All you have to do is add a class name to the HTML for…
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My catmas christmas card to you
I recently took this shot of our cat and felt I needed to do something with it! Here is a little Catmas Christmas card! If you interested in purchasing this image it was recently accepted to shutterstock.
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Animated graphic for a newsletter created in photoshop
Tis the season to make little holiday graphics so I thought I would share how to make a little animated graphic you might embed in an email to encourage someone to click it. Below is several I put together along with how to create one in photoshop. These were to encourage viewers to click through…