Monthly Archives: April 2009

Make a Cartoony Pencil in Illustrator

I am currently working with a client who asked me to revise a logo concept I had drawn in Illustrator to be more cartoony or hand-drawn. He thought the original drawing looked too much like clip art. He was right.

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Eliminating spam is good SEO

This article is fantastic. Eliminating spam is good SEO from Askimet.com SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, the process of building and tweaking your Web site so it gets high rankings in search engines like Google. If you are unfamiliar

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A Better Method of Adding Texture in Photoshop

Photoshop has a number of texture filters that can be applied directly to an image. If you want to make an image look like it’s painted on a textured surface, don’t apply the texture on the same layer. I have

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10 tips from another graphic designer

This list of ten tips from designer Daniel Thomas Cassaro is funny and true. 10 TIPS : YoungJerks (Dan Cassaro) 1 – STAY HUNGRY LIKE BIGGIE ON HIS FIRST ALBUM – Success can satiate hunger and blur the line between

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Building an Online Community

For years, I have worked with blogging software like WordPress and shopping cart software like X-Cart. For much of that time I have been intimidated by the prospect of developing an online community. They seem to be an order of

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