We have just finished a review of Artlandia Symmetry Mill 2 which revealed that this program goes well beyond Website background generator usage. So this tutorial shows how Symmetry Mill 2 and Photoshop were used to create some Canada Day cards for the 150th birthday today. Card Creation Steps This artist believes that Fall is […]
Here are two stats that will be of interest to Designers and Photo Finishers. WordPress currently is used on 27.3% of all the World’s websites well ahead of Drupal at 2.2% and Joomla at 3.4% while Weebly, Wix and SquareSpace barely have 0.5% presence worldwide. the second stat is that images alone [ excluding Flash and
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Photoscape has well earned the title of the Swiss Army Knife of photo editors. Recently, more clients have been asking about a tool that does batch editing of files for resize and quick fixes. Photoscape, a free program available for both Windows and Mac, has one of the most versatile Batch Editors. This tutorial describe how
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There are many images on the Web that are just good. This small tutorial will show how easy it is to go from good to better using a free Photoshop-like Image editor. However this could also be done online with anyone of 8 free online image editors. In the spirit of demo-ing how practical the
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The world of design is full of double entendres. A sense of humor with more than a touch of empathy which allows a designer to draw out the core elements of a story with a dash of panache. It helps catch the mind behind the eye. But is this design sense teachable? The people at the mostly free Canva.com
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Over on my sister publications, PixofToronto.com and PicsofCanada.com I am doing a story about graffiti mural artists in Toronto. One analysis is to see if there is a color motif or fingerprint for the various artists and their works. For example, here is the Marina Wall graffiti found down in the Queen and Spadina and
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Two significant trends have emerged in website design during the past year that influence better web space usage: The size of individual webpages grew rapidly. The average size of a webpage increased from 1.28 MB at year-end 2012 to 1.9 MB at year-end 2015. That’s a big jump, especially when you consider that in 2010, the
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For this photographer and web developer, compression of bitmap images is vital. It was a topic of discussion here before because in web development full width and supersized images are used in sliders, backgrounds, and splash pages all the time. But these large images exact the price of slower load times which is a killer
