Posts belonging to Category Graphic Design
Posted by Tim on April 20, 2012
The effective use of graphical images can enliven webpages by breaking up the monotony of long blocks of grey text. Such graphics can be clip art originally designed for print use and repurposed for the web, photographs, artwork designed specifically for blogs and webpages, or graphics that you create yourself. To incorporate graphics on your [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Mac Software, Online Resources
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Tags: Adobe Photoshop, animations, design, GIF, Graphical Interchange Format, GraphicConverter, graphics, Graphics Interchange Format, Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG, MacPaint, PNG, Portable Network Graphics, websites
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Posted by Tim on March 31, 2012
Let’s say you are readying the launch of a new product. You have spent months or even years studying your target market and developing your product. The day arrives for you to open the real or virtual doors of your business to sell your product, and you notice that, while you get a few browsers, [...]
Categories: Business Management, Graphic Design
| Tags: color, graphic design, logo
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Posted by Tim on October 24, 2011
Promotional experts tell us that the most important part of any advertising message is what it communicates to potential customers. A logo is an important part of a product or businesses’ overall image, and therefore must be designed carefully to convey the right message. At one time, logos may not have been so important. After [...]
Categories: Business Management, Graphic Design, iPhone / iPad Apps, Mac Software, Sales Methods
| Tags: design, Dingbat Magician, graphics, Guess the Logo, iPhone apps, logo, Logo Design Studio Pro for Mac, Logo Me, Mac software
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Posted by Tim on October 23, 2011
Photoshop (and Photoshop Elements) is a handy tool for everyone from digital artists to Internet marketers, who can use the software to create everything from ebook covers to web graphics. One of the first things you will want to learn, however, is the various options you’ll find on the Photoshop toolbox, (the little palette that [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Mac Software
| Tags: adobe, brush tool, Business, clone, clone tool, computers, design, history brush, Internet, lasso, Mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh, magic wand, paint, pencil tool, photoshop, photoshop elements, selections, services, tutorials, websites
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Posted by Tim on October 16, 2011
You have a blog, and you worked hard to get visitors to it. I hate to tell you this, but that’s the easy part! The next challenge is actually getting them to stay and read what you have to say. Of course, you want to draw visitors back again and again by providing quality information [...]
Categories: Blogging, Digital Camera, Graphic Design
| Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, animations, DPI, GIF, GIMP, Graphical Interchange Format, Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG, PNG, Portable Network Graphics
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Posted by Tim on October 14, 2011
One of the biggest mistakes of beginning web designers is the overuse of graphic images on their websites. Perhaps they’ve become so focused on the “gee-whiz factor” of the technology that they focus on “Look what I can do” rather than on a site’s functionality. It is important to keep the function of Web graphics [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Internet, Mac Software, Site Building
| Tags: Apple, design, graphic, graphic design, graphics, HTML, images, in, Mac OS, page, using, web, Web design, Website, websites
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Posted by Tim on October 7, 2011
Images and graphics can enliven your blog or webpages when used correctly. Images can attract instant visitor attention and can provide in an intuitive way a very quick understanding of what an article or blog post is about. Studies also show that images, by helping to break up the monotony of large blocks of gray [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Internet, Mac Software, Site Building
| Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, animations, DPI, GIF, GIMP, Graphical Interchange Format, Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG, PNG, Portable Network Graphics
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Posted by Tim on August 3, 2011
Graphic design is the process of using color, light, contrast, balance, proportion, proximity, emphasis, texture, repetition and a host of other elements to create a composition that is pleasing to the eye. It is also the process of molding an image or images along with text together into a composition that conveys a theme or [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Mac Software
| Tags: Adobe After Effects CS5, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Aldus PageMaker, AutoCAD for Mac, Bryce, computer graphics, DAZ Studio, design, Google Sketchup, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Mac graphics, Mac OS X, Macintosh, MacOS X
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Posted by Tim on July 8, 2011
Studies show that blogs that have pictures or images are accessed more often and create more interest than those that are text only. If you are looking for a simple way to boost traffic to your blog, you might want to consider adding images. Adding images to your blog posts is not difficult. Most blog [...]
Categories: Blogging, Graphic Design, Internet
| Tags: Apple iWeb, blog, blogging, blogs, image browser, images, iMedia Browser, interest, Mac, Macintosh, making money, money making, pictures, post editing area, RapidWeaver, readability, toolbar, traffic, Upload/Insert icons, WordPress
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