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 […]
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 […]
There are so many different applications, software and programs that one could use as a user experience (UX) designer. Besides Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, one could also use the standard one InVision. Although InVision Studio has been out for the past year and a bit, InVision is a bare-bones application that not only works […]
There are many things to learn. Tell me about it. I am still learning new things. Did you know you can get yourself certified in YouTube? Really! YouTube Creator wants you to be successful and help the growing community of videos. They will help you make videos with excellent tutorials, help find your target audience […]
Past clients have sometimes say this is the only image they have from the previous design team. Unfortunately, there are words on top of this image. Although removing text for a client does raise a few flags for me? If the company indeed bought an image from a stock library such as Getty Images, or […]
One of the first wireframes that I had used to working with clients was Illustrator. It was okay, but it was a bit time-consuming. I would keep the create symbols for the often used assets to make other projects go faster. Then, I came across Balsamiq that changed a few things in my workflow of […]
The clone (rubber) stamp tool will allow you to copy parts of an image. Like the past few brushes, it involves the processes of setting a sampling point in the picture, as a reference point to create a new cloned or stamped area. To make your brush smaller use the keyboard shortcut [ To make […]
A camera flash, uh-oh! A camera flash is fired directly into a person’s face, what is the end result? The light can reflect back from the subject’s retina, giving a red spot in the centre of the eye. Today, the majority of the cameras, mobile phones and tablets have a red-eye function that can avoid […]
Similar to the Patch Tool This tool works similarly to the Patch Tool in Destination mode, except it allows you to either copy a selected area or move it and fill the first area chosen. By doing this, it offers you the same adjustment methods as provided for the Patch Tool in the Content-Aware fill […]
If you can master the Patch Tool, you will never look at the Cloning (Rubber Stamp) tool the same way. This tool is different from the other healing tools in that you first select the area to retouch and then find the part of the image to replace it. With its ability to blend pixels […]