Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category

In most modern web browsers you have probably noticed a tiny icon that appears to the left of the URL in the address bar, in the browser tabs as well as in your bookmarks menu and toolbar. This small icon is called a Favicon or favorites icon, which can help visitors quickly identify your website and further establish your brand within a browser.

If you do not have a Favicon setup a default icon will display, such as a tiny blank page in Firefox or the browser’s logo used in Internet Explorer. The following covers 4 steps for adding a Favicon to your website which canl help personalize your site’s presence within a browser.

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Dec
29

Free Photoshop Template!

by Michael Lekse

Hey everyone, I decided for my next post I would put out a little freebie template for you all to download. I always loved getting my hands on other designers PSDs and taking a look at how they structured their designs, layers, etc.

So feel free to download this template and use it for whatever you like! I included three versions of the same website but altered the color schemes slightly. Play around with some of the layers Hue/Saturation and see what you can come up with!

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If you’re and experienced designer it’s likely that you have a knack for matching colors and building your own custom color schemes. However, for the majority (including myself) you can probably pick out a great color scheme, but would have a difficult time putting one together on your own.

The good news is that there are a bunch of extremely user friendly tools available to help you quickly and easily develop professional looking color schemes on the fly. The following are a list the most powerful resources I have come across.

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It’s not every day someone tells you that being lazy can actually be helpful, but when it comes to applying the same action in Photoshop to 100 images, being lazy is about the best thing that you can do for yourself. In this post I will teach you how to create a droplet in Photoshop.

Droplets are scripted actions outputted to a file that when any image or group of images is dragged and dropped onto it (hence the name droplet) the recorded action is performed on every image added to the droplet.

With the recent release of PowerGallery, WebAssist’s pre-built PHP photo gallery solution, I thought it would be a good idea to post something on how to batch convert images to create a black and white photo gallery. Keep in mind that the options are endless when it comes to creating custom droplets. Other uses for droplets, are batch resizing, adding drop shadows, borders, image overlays and much more.

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