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- 10 Tips To Really Succeed After Graduating
What if you turned a commencement address into infographics? You’d have less perspiration in auditoriums, more inspiration in the real world.
- What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface? 3 Design Experts Weigh In
And does the distinction even matter anymore? We ask design experts Gary Hustwit, Eddie Opara, and Tobias Frere-Jones to weigh in.
- Using the Shape Builder Tool In Adobe Illustrator
“When creating complex shapes in Illustrator, you can use different shapes together to form one shape. Instead of tediously drawing your complex shape with the pen tool, you can combine several shapes together to create the complex shape that you’re looking for. The shape builder tool makes it easy to combine shapes into one custom shape. Simply by clicking and dragging your mouse, you can combine overlapping shapes. This enables you to combine the parts that you want to, without including the pieces that you don’t want. By holding down the Alt or Option key, you can subtract shapes from your selection. This makes it easy to trim parts of the shape away that you do not want.
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- 10 Illustrators To Follow This Week
From magazines and posters to greeting cards and t‑shirts, great illustrations can be found everywhere, but their goal is the same: to convey ideas and messages that words simply cannot describe.
- How to Automate Your Workflow in Adobe Photoshop (Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Actions)
“Not only is Adobe Photoshop a powerful hands-on image editing tool, it’s a very powerful hands-off image editing tool. Read on as we show you how to automate repetitive and routine tasks so you can spend your time more creatively, rather than cropping, correcting, and otherwise clicking.”
- Top 50 Business Buzzwords of 2013
“The Global Language Monitor has announced its first annual Top 50 Global Business Buzzwords, a global survey.
Top 50 Global Business Buzzwords of 2013 represent some five continents, which continues to confirm the ever-expanding nature of the English language.””
- The Freelance Generation
“ONCE upon a time, it was only natural to seek and secure a stable job after you graduate, preferably with an established company where you can build your resume based on the reputation of the company.
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- How To Create a Custom Twitter Header for the New (Mid-2014) Twitter Profile Design
“The new Twitter layout is meant to look more personal. You have your profile picture on the left, followed by your bio underneath. Under that, you can see preview images of all your photos that you’ve uploaded to your Twitter account. These are commonly known as Twit pics that you’ve linked to your account. In the middle, you’ll find information such as your tweets, your videos and photos, who you’re following, how many followers you have, and your favorites. Underneath that, you’ll find all of your latest tweets. One handy thing that you can do is if you have a certain tweet that you want to promote, you can pin it to the top of your Twitter page. This is really handy for promoting a subscription link to your website or your latest website promotion.
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- How To Create a Custom Twitter Header for the New (Mid-2014) Twitter Profile Design
“The new Twitter layout is meant to look more personal. You have your profile picture on the left, followed by your bio underneath. Under that, you can see preview images of all your photos that you’ve uploaded to your Twitter account. These are commonly known as Twit pics that you’ve linked to your account. In the middle, you’ll find information such as your tweets, your videos and photos, who you’re following, how many followers you have, and your favorites. Underneath that, you’ll find all of your latest tweets. One handy thing that you can do is if you have a certain tweet that you want to promote, you can pin it to the top of your Twitter page. This is really handy for promoting a subscription link to your website or your latest website promotion.
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- A Book That Teaches You How To Take Great Photographs Without Using Jargon
The book covers five aspects of photography, including composition, light and exposure. There are no diagrams or technical terms that are difficult to understand—instead, the author features images and uses simple terms to describe why these images are visually appealing.