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How To Design And Print A Christmas Greeting Card In Illustrator

November 21, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 20 Comments

How To Design And Print A Christmas Greeting Card In Illustrator

As a freelance designer, it is always good practice to send your clients and vendors a holiday greeting at the end of the year. This year, instead of purchasing a box of cards made by another designer, why not show off your own design skills by sending out your own unique greeting card. And, to

How To Customize Your Thesis WordPress Theme

November 20, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 14 Comments

How To Customize Your Thesis WordPress Theme

Thesis by DIYthemes is one of the most used wordpress themes out there. The reason people like thesis is because it’s not just a beautiful theme per se, but also a smart framework that let’s you customize just everything on the fly. If you often do wordpress design for your clients or for yourself, you

2 Minutes To Fast Rounded Corners For Complex Shapes In Illustrator – Design Trick #2

October 30, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 7 Comments

2 Minutes To Fast Rounded Corners For Complex Shapes In Illustrator – Design Trick #2

  There is a short way of doing a task and a long, roundabout way of doing it in Illustrator. Ever since I started tinkering with the software earlier this year, I have inadvertently ended up going the longer route. But once in a while you have the a-ha moment on your self-learning journey and

How To Create Vector Retro Circles And Convert Them To Photoshop Brushes

October 13, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 10 Comments

How To Create Vector Retro Circles And Convert Them To Photoshop Brushes

  A few weeks ago I shared a free high resolution photoshop brush set with my readers. Today I am going to show you how to create that brush set in 5 easy steps. We will be using both Illustrator and Photoshop to create very high rsolution, clean vector images for the brush. We are

How To Make A Seamless Grid Pattern In Photoshop CS4

October 5, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By | 9 Comments

How To Make A Seamless Grid Pattern In Photoshop CS4

  Grid patterns as backgrounds on websites are very hip and trendy. They instantly give the feel of a moleskin cahier or graph paper style sketch book, which is quite a coveted look. The best way to achieve this is to make a seamless grid pattern in Photoshop and use that image as a tiling