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Paint a dashed line with rounded corners in Photoshop

Tweet In Illustrator, it’s fairly easy to make a dashed line in which the dashes have rounded corners. In Photoshop, there’s more of a trick to it. I’ll show you how to do both here.    

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Make a Cartoony Pencil in Illustrator

Tweet 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

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The CMYK Color Wheel

Tweet CMYK stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow and Key color (black). These are the primary colors for the translucent ink used in offset lithography (printing). When you subtract all four CMYK colors, you get the white of the paper (no color). That’s

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The RGB Color Wheel

Tweet RGB stands for Red-Green-Blue, which are the primary colors of light. RGB is the color mode used on computer monitors because they shine light into your eyes. When you add all three RGB primary colors together, you get pure

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The Illustrator Color Picker

Tweet The Color Picker in Illustrator allows you to set the color for the foreground, the background, text, and other aspects of an Illustrator design. After the jump is a summary of the main parts of the Color Picker, and

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