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How to crop Images

Visit digital-photography-school.com/blog/cropping-for-impact Wow! This is a really great article on how to crop images. It handles Topics like “Covering Framing Mistakes”, “Finding Balance”, “Editing Distractions”, “Finding New Formats” and much more. So before you crop a picture in Photoshop again go and read this article!

03.20.08 | Comment? |
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Principles of Design

Visit www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_of_design/ A short but great article that covers various topics of “design”. You will learn about Balance, Rhythm, Proportion, Dominance, Unity.

01.16.08 | Comment? |
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Classic Graphic Design Theory

Visit www.usask.ca/education/coursework/skaalid/theory/cgdt/designtheory.htm This is a short introduction to graphic design theory, explaining the different aspects of design which are considered when composing a piece of fine art or producing a graphic layout in commercial art.

01.07.08 | Comment? |
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Great drawing tutorials

Visit www.farlowstudios.com/content/view/24/33 Here you will find some really great tutorials on drawing: “How to Draw: Digital Inking”, “How To Color: Creating Flats”, “How to Color: The Basics of Hair”, “How to Color: Skin - Face”, and much more. So if you wana know how to draw: check it out now! :-)

12.09.07 | Comment? |
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Grid Layout for your site

Visit www.gridlayouts.com The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code. Currently, the Grid Layouts Javascript relies on jQuery.

11.20.07 | Comment? |
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Chunking and Interface Design

Visit web.mac.com/kevinoboyle/My_Personal_Homepage/Articles/Entries/2007/11/14_Dan_gets_schooled.htmlHere you find a very interesting article about Chuking (Chunking is how your brain deals with complexity) and Interface Deisgn.

11.15.07 | Comment? |
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PAGE DESIGN: Design grids for Web pages

Visit www.webstyleguide.com/page/grids.htmlDesign grids for Web pages

04.18.07 | Comment? |
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Grid-based layout

Visit www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=grid-based-layoutGrid-based Layout

04.18.07 | Comment? |
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