Category: Blog
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Adobe Indesign CC: Drop Caps Tutorial
A Drop Cap usually marks the beginning of a paragraph, section or chapter usually with the beginning first character the height of two – three lines. It is a visual way to add more oomph to your work. How to add a drop in Indesign CC Step 1: Create a text box and fill it…
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Illustrator CC: Guidelines Tutorial
Guidelines are a useful tool to use, especially when using illustrator. The function is the same across all the Adobe programs, but they vary slightly on how it’s done. Step 1: At the top: View > Rulers > Show Rulers Step 2: Ensure the guidelines are on a separate layer. The reason I suggest this…
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Canada 150: How is Canada Celebrating its 150th Birthday?
Canada became independent on July 1, 1867! This year it will be Canada’s 150th Birthday and as a Canadian, I wanted to write a little post before this upcoming summer for my fellow Canadians. This is a momentous occasion for Canada, and the Government and other bodies are going all out doing events and getting citizens involved.…
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Canada 150: Cross Stitch
Jen from StitcherzStudio has my logo for Canada 150 as a cross stitch in her shop. I’m very flattered and honoured that she liked the design! Check out her shop here: @ Etsy. I’m all about supporting independent artists, and hopefully, in the future, I can work with some.
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The Freemium Pricing Model
Freemium is a mash-up of the words “free” and “premium.” The gist of freemium is that consumers receive the basic features for free at no cost. The ‘premium’ features and add-ons cost money (Kumar, 2014). Freemium is a reasonably new pricing model that started in the 1980s (Seufert, 2013) and has quickly grown since. Over…
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Say NO to Spec Work
Spec Work is short for speculative work. Defined by AIGA (The Professional Association for Design) as “work done before engagement with a client in anticipation of being paid.” Most common in the design industry, such as website, graphics, and so on, but it does happen in other sectors such as software design. Spec work means…
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A primer on A/B Testing
What is A/B Testing? When comparing two versions of something to see which one performs better (VMO, 2016), the one that performs better is the one chosen. It can be anything from TV ads to websites. It is used often in the world of business. The purpose of A/B Testing The purpose is to optimize the…
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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.…