The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Can Your Book Pass This Simple Test? [Infographic]
- Eight Things Everyone Should Know about Photoshop
Overwhelmed by Photoshop? There are eight useful things that make Photoshop Photoshop, and Deke McClelland is here to explain them in plain and simple terms. If you’re exploring Photoshop for the first time, or just want a 5,000-foot view before wading back into the nitty gritty, this course will help you understand the core features—layers and channels, sharpening, selections and masks, the retouching tools, blend modes, color models, Smart Objects, and layer masks—that lie at the heart of this amazing image editing program.
Tags: Photoshop
- 5 Skills Every Designer Needs to Know – HOW University
You will learn the importance of:Sales and marketingCopywritingBusiness studiesPsychologyCustomer serviceTags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Become a Design Insider, get 10% off HOW Design University courses for one year.
Seems like a pretty good sale.
- The 13 Must-Have Adobe CC Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheets, Free!
All together, there are 13 individual cheat sheets for the following Creative Cloud desktop tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Lightroom, Muse, Dreamweaver, Flash Pro, Fireworks, Première Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Bridge – and the different keyboard shortcuts are clearly distinguished for both Windows and Mac users.
- 100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
I have assembled a collection of all of the biggest things I’ve learned over the course of my year-long journey to become as productive as possible. Below are my 100 favorite effective time, energy, and attention hacks that will let you get more done on a daily basis, and I also put together an article onthe top 10 lessons I learned about productivity over the last year. I know you’ll get a ton out of both articles.
Tags: productivity
- 3 Shakespearean Insults
Great insults pepper the comedies and tragedies of William Shakespeare. (Though the Bard of Avon is known for his terms of endearments as well.) From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to King Henry IV, here are a few of our favorites.