by Whit | Sep 19, 2016 | Design Tips, Info, Web Design, Web Development
There are two types of people in this world, kid: Those who want their site to be as up-to-date as possible, all the time Those who couldn’t care less TL:DR Version » ALWAYS update your security plugin » Let your web person handle everything else To be...
by Whit | Jul 7, 2016 | Design Tips, Editorial, Info
We’re not a hateful studio, honest. But the fact of the matter is that there are lots of great service providers out there, and then there are well-known service providers who are “good” for specific reasons, but also bad for some more important...
by Whit | Nov 1, 2012 | Design Tips
Selecting tools with a mouse is for suckers. Since the advent of Photoshop, Adobe has been baking easy-to-access keyboard tools into its software that make navigating and manipulating your composition a breeze.
by Whit | Jan 2, 2012 | Design Tips
Five simple techniques to instantly boost your photographic prowess You really, truly don’t have to be a pro photog or have a $4000 rig to take creative, memorable photos. Your level of photographic acumen will jump by leaps and bounds with the consistent use of...
by Whit | Nov 1, 2011 | Design Tips, Web Design
If there’s one thing designers obsess over, it’s typography. And for that reason, the web has been problematic from the start, since web browsers can only take advantage of fonts that are installed on the viewer’s computer, and there just...
by Whit | Aug 1, 2011 | Design Tips
Gain insight into who is using your website, and how they are using it It seems like everybody and their brother has a website these days. You have one. I have one. Actually, I have several. The question I have for you is this: how healthy is your website? You...
by Whit | Jun 1, 2011 | Design Tips
Pull in the reigns to take your presentations to the next level Most of us have to use Microsoft PowerPoint at some point in our careers. It’s a powerful tool for delivering complex presentations, but it can produce nauseating results if its wide array of visual...
by Whit | May 2, 2011 | Design Tips
Make your good photos great with these easy graphic editor tips You really don’t have to be a seasoned photographer to create vibrant, powerful photos – you just need to be armed with a little bit of Photoshop knowledge (and a computer with Photoshop or...
by Whit | Apr 1, 2011 | Design Tips, Fun
Move over, Adobe. With their latest Office update, Microsoft enters and dominates the big leagues of graphic design. Learn how to use Word to generate your next enterprise-caliber publication. It’s no secret that Office has always included an enormous library of...
by Whit | Mar 11, 2011 | Design Tips
Keeping the typographic family together The terms “widow” and “orphan” aren’t quite as sad in design circles as they are in, say, the last Charles Dickens novel you read, but you still don’t want to be causing either of them. Take a...
by Whit | Nov 1, 2010 | Design Tips
Photoshop hobbyists can double their skills with the use of masks! Strictly speaking, masking is the same thing for designers that it is for painters: the act of blocking off one area so that the rest of the area is exposed. But while painters typically mask areas off...
by Whit | Oct 1, 2010 | Design Tips
It’s all in the spacing, people. Even if you’re restricted to the, let’s say, “less than pro” fonts that come standard on most computers, you can make your headlines look twice as good just by giving them the right letter spacing....
by Whit | Sep 1, 2010 | Design Tips
The primary colors are red, blue and yellow, right? So why don’t TVs and printers just mix those colors to create the rest? Well, frankly, it’s just not that simple. First, let’s start with those primary colors. The fact of the matter is that RBY is...
by Whit | Aug 1, 2010 | Design Tips
(Yes, it Matters!) Many businesspeople out there have never heard of these terms, but virtually all of them have encountered both kinds of graphics. We’re not talking about graphic file formats here (JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS, etc.), we’re discussing the...
by Whit | Jul 1, 2010 | Design Tips
Many people outside of the design industry don’t quite understand how image resolution affects the output of their design piece. Photographs and other continuous-tone images are bitmap images, which means that they’re made up of a grid of pixels (as...
