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Our Latest NewsWe did it again! 2 more wins 3 days ago, out of 183 logos my design was awarded 1st place in a logo design contest on guerra-creativa.com website which I joined very recently. The logo was for a new business called ArtsEmotion which will publish their website very soon. Please check the logo here. Here's what the client had commented when she announced the winner: Older News2 wins in 10 days On (november 10), we received an email that carried good news. We won our second logo contest in 10 days. The first win was for a logo design for braintapper.com. The second which we knew about this afternoon is for an Italian company caller S.I.R.A. Brain Tapper www.braintapper.com selected our design (see it here) out of 77 participating logos to be their new logo. Below is the design that caught the client's attention from the first moment he saw it. Steven NG, the founder of Brain Tapper sent us a nice email to give us the good news. We thought that this email was an excellent feedback so we're sharing it here with out dear visitors and clients.
"Congratulations Laith! Your design won! There were three core criteria that the winner had to meet: 1 - Appeal to my emotions: I had to love the esthetic of the work. 2 - Appeal to my brains: The design had to make sense for the image I wanted to communicate, i.e., elegant and professional. 3 - Appropriateness to the company - To others, it had to at least imply what kind of work I do. Many of the designs met one or two of the criteria, but yours met all three. You did some fantastic work. Throughout the contest, I kept coming back to this core design. I think you reached design perfection with v7. For me it was hard to improve on that design, hence my feedback on your subsequent versions." Tips & TricksiConvert
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Photoshop Tip: By Vailancio Rodrigues | July 14, 2009 Photoshop is an amazing graphics application that has forever changed graphic, Web design and digital photo editing. Check them out
The Top 10 Vector Plus Tutorials of All Time: By Skellie | July 4, 2009 Vector Plus launched in late September 2008. Since then it added dozens of tutorials and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Check them out
Indesign Tip: By Jeff Witchel | July 3, 2009 When you go to Type>Find Font in CS4, you can learn a lot more about how and where particular fonts are being used. All you have to do is press the More Info button in the Find Font window to reveal just about anything you might need to know about any font that is used in a document. So if you have any questions about what pages a font is used on, or what Styles it is included in, the answers are a just click of a button away. You can even find out exactly where the Font files are located on your computer.
Web tip: By Laith Ibrahim| July 3, 2009 ConvertFiles.com can help you convert files from a format that you cannot open to one that you can use on your computer. I found it very handy when I receive 2007 office files that has the "x" at the end of their extensions. This free online servcie will convert the files to older versions of Office. Check it out here
Photoshop Tip: By Conrad Chavez | July 3, 2009 To get sharper photos, you just apply the right sharpening settings in Photoshop and you’re done, right? Not quite. To create consistently sharp pictures, pay attention to important factors at every step of your photographic workflow -- especially steps that affect image contrast. Click here to Read the whole tip
Acrobat Tip: By Donna Baker | July 3, 2009 Some projects are quite involved, and the finished document reflects that complexity. There may be all sorts of non-optimized content, such as images with overly high resolutions, multimedia renditions added and deleted, pages inserted and removed, and so on. Click here to read the whole tip
Illustrator Tip: By Jeff Witchel | June 24, 2009 Things have changed in CS4. By default, the Pathfinders work like Filters by changing the original vector object. To use it as an Effect, Group the objects (Object>Group), and go to the Effects menu and apply the Pathfinder to the grouped objects. You can also use the Pathfinder panel, without altering the vector objects, by holding down your Option key (Alt on PC) when you press the Shape Mode command buttons.
Indesign Tip: By Jeff Witchel | May 19, 2009 Aren't guides annoying sometimes? You have probably wished that there's a quick way to delete all guides in Indesign. Well, there is. in Indesign CS3, press Control + Alt + G (CMD + option + G on MAC) to select all guides and then press the delete key. In CS4, simply right click on your spread (Control+Click on spread) and select "Delete all Guides" from the pop up menu. This will get rid of all guides and you enjoy the clean spread.
Indesign Tip: By AnneMarie Concepcion | April 25, 2009 On the Mac, you can just press Option-Tab to insert a tab inside a table cell. On a PC, Alt-Tab is reserved for flipping through your open programs. However, you can choose Type > Insert Special Character > Other > Tab. Or, instead, just go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. It’s listed under the Type Menu product area; look for Insert Special Character:Other:Tab. You’ll see that “Tab” is already set as the default keyboard shortcut for this, but only while in a Text frame (it says “Context: Text”). If you choose “Table” from the Context pop-up menu, you can add another keyboard shortcut for this command. I use Control-Tab. In other words, when I want to add a tab inside a cell in Windows, I press Control-Tab. Works great.
Twitter Tip: By Raj | April 24, 2009 Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates. One thing like about twitter is simplicity. Check out these applications for other ways to send and receive Twitter Updates. See the list
Quark Express Tip: By Pariah S. Burke| March 30, 2009 In the usage box, select all out-of-date images and ask QuarkXPress to update them. When prompted to update the first image, don’t click OK. Instead, hold the OPTION (ALT) key while clicking Update. XPress will then prompt only for the location of the first image in each folder; if all out-of-date or moved images are in a single folder, the update will finish all by itself!
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Where actually not sure how it calculates the score (my profile got a 5/10), but what we do know is there are plenty of other tools which do the same thing but much better. What is good about TwitRank.me is the sites design, which one would simply describe as “pretty”. Read More 50 Excellent Image GalleriesBy NetTuts.com | May 28, 2009 Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community! Check it out Twitter To Make A TV ShowBy Nicholas Carlson | May 25, 2009 Twitter and production companies Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment are joining to come out with a TV show that is about "putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format." Variety reports the novelist Amy Ephron – yes, she's Nora Ephron's sister – came up with the idea. 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I have myself struggled with some designs not knowing where to take it from there. But, lately I have learned that there is tons of ways to get that extra boost to your creativity. Search Engines! Yup, that’s the way to go. And now you’re thinking google at an instant right? Read more
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