Author: Lucy Nguyen
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Disney Princesses/Heroines Business Cards
Just for fun, I thought it would be humorous if I made fake business cards for the Disney princess. I tried to imagine what job would fit with each princess and it was quite hard! The Little Mermaid I’ve got whozits and whatzits galore. You want thingamabobs? I got twenty. I imagine Ariel as someone…
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Personal: dciman32.dll problem
As your computer gets older, it gets more problems. Perhaps it’s planned obsolescence, or I’m not a very good caretaker either way. I recently had a problem with my dciman32.dll being deleted, and I thought others might have had the same problem. So I decided to share my experience. The Problem My computer was shut…
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Indesign CS5 Tutorial: Document Settings
Setting up your job is an important part of Indesign. When you first open the program you are faced with this window. The Create New, on the right side has three options. Document, Book, and Library. Document is for a single file, Book is when for example you have multiple chapter in one document and…
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Indesign CS5 Tutorial: Master Pages
Adobe Indesign is the best way to go if you are making something that has a lot of pages. You won’t be able to keep track of them in let’s say Photoshop or Illustrator since they are separate in Photoshop. A Master page is useful, because it acts like a blue print. Whatever you put…
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Tutorial: How to Create PDF via different methods
There will be a time when you need to convert different file format to PDF because of school or work. Here are various methods of creating PDFs from different programs. Microsoft Word: Office Word 7 In the newer version of word there should be an option to choose to save as a PDF. Adobe Photoshop…
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial: How to use the Pen tool
The Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator Differs in how they work from Adobe Photoshop. It works differently to become a more versatile tool for illustrators. You can check out my tutorial for pen tool in Photoshop here. Step 1: Setting up your Pen tool. Just like in Adobe Photoshop you have up how the “line” will look.…
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorial: How to use the Pen tool
Step 1: This tool you will often see and will use in Adobe programs. This is a basic tutorial on how to use the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5, but previous versions of Photoshop will be similar to CS5. I often use Pen tool in Photoshop to do outlines but I prefer Illustrator. You…
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Fashion Infographics
I used to run pixelxo.com a fashion website, but suddenly it crash and I lost all my information. I still have some of my info graphics that I liked and I wanted to share!
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Canada 150 Logo
As a Canadian I can’t help but be a little nationalistic! This was suppose to represent Canada’s 150 anniversary of the confederation. It’s the parliament building with the colour red subtly hinting at mountains, symbolizing strength and resilience.
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Book Cover: Icarus Falling
A good friend of mine is a talented writer, and I wanted to make a cover for one of her amazing story: Icarus Falling. It is about the dangers of a drug addiction, and how like Icarus in the Greek mythology was brilliant but flew to close to the sun. It was a fun process…
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Bridal Shower: Lien
I had quite the fun bringing the theme French Cafe to Lien’s Bridal Shower. The invitation was style as a passport. Photos courtesy of Steffanie Nguyen
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Wedding: Lien & Stan
Using Photoshop and Illustrator. I designed the graphics, from invitations to the website to follow a consistent theme. I was able to create a satisfactory wedding graphics package. Website: Invitation: This Invitation was entirely hand drawn and then colored and cleaned up in Illustrator. I created two versions for them to choose from a day version…