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How to Use Artboards in Photoshop

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How to Use Artboards in Photoshop

One of the features in Photoshop CC is the ability to create multiple artboards in Photoshop. An incredibly useful tool, especially in web design projects helpful. Why? Because it allows the ability to develop a website for various views. For example, you can have the design for a website for desktop, tablet and mobile all […]

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How to Load Swatches in Illustrator

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How to Load Swatches in Illustrator

Did you buy a swatch from a third-party website, but no instructions included? Or maybe there were instructions, but it didn’t make any sense? In today’s video tutorial, you will learn how to load swatches in Illustrator. First of all, download the files to your computer. Once downloaded, make sure you unzip or extract the […]

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How to Use ‘Paste Into’ in Photoshop

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How to Use 'Paste Into' in Photoshop

Creating a mock-up for the first time can be hairy. For our class project, we are creating a movie database. Why we are creating a database? In 2 or three months from now, you will be creating a React movie database site. Chances are you won’t have time to create a new one unless you […]

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How to Create a Pie Chart in Illustrator

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How to Create a Pie Chart in Illustrator

Quickly create a pie chart for your designs in under 2 minutes. Do you love working in Microsoft Excel? Excel has some great features, but to import it into Illustrator, one needs to download a variable script. Instead, I am going to show you how you can use Illustrator to create a simple pie chart.  […]

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How to Change Keyboard Shortcuts in Illustrator

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InDesign versus Illustrator: Place-Command

If you watched some of my videos, you may have noticed my Place image keyboard shortcut isn’t the default setting of Command/Control Shift P. In my video tutorial, I will be showing you how to change a keyboard shortcut setting in Illustrator in about 60 seconds! Because I use InDesign, InDesign uses Command D. Trying […]

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Typography Guidelines

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Typography Guidelines

Should you distort your text? Horizontal or vertical scale? Should we bold everything and use ALL CAPS throughout the website to get my point across? Should we small type for all our body copy so that we can get as much information on the page? Which word is distorted? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any […]

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How to Use Artboards In Illustrator

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While working with a client, the client may need a logo, business cards, letterhead, envelopes to website design, forms, and favicons. What is the purpose of having artboards? Think of it as pages to a file. Artboards can be different sizes and orientations and can be arranged depending on your workflow. Although, the more artboards […]