A Graphic Designer's Top Ten Resolutions for 2005

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When we were still kids, we always looked forward torepparttar New Year’s Day to prepare our resolutions. Others really use these resolutions to guide them all throughoutrepparttar 107456 year. But I didn’t have that love for resolution-making. I know that I’ll not be able to live by it so I’d rather not take time to do such thing. Anyway, I’ve learned that a graphic designer named Judy Litt has come up with her top ten resolutions in graphic designing.

As a graphic designer, Litt stresses more on productivity, marketability, time management, networking and knowledge acquisition. It’s not bad to set yourself a quota onrepparttar 107457 number of designs that you need to finish in a matter of minutes as long asrepparttar 107458 quality ofrepparttar 107459 design is not compromised. Also, it’s necessary to devise realistic and feasible marketing strategies from time to time. It’s also good to be a part of an organization with people inclined also in graphic designing for you to be more exposed and be more oriented in this line of work. Asrepparttar 107460 old cliché says, learning is a continuous process – this also deals with graphic designers. You should always know and learnrepparttar 107461 latest trends in graphic design. Remember, we learn new things everyday. This will surely make you more effective in your craft.

The Art of Feathering in Photoshop

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Some people are startled on how wonderful images look with blurred edges. They certainly don’t know how easy it is to do it. It is called a feathered edge in Photoshop (PS). You can put in many feathered images together to get a wonderful collage that melts seamlessly together usingrepparttar Octagonal and Rectangular tool orrepparttar 107455 Lasso Tools in PS.

Feathering is one ofrepparttar 107456 most commonly used techniques when creating wallpapers. It is set by a radius measurement in pixels which means that it occurs in both directions or on both sides ofrepparttar 107457 selection boundary. Since it’s set by pixels, a feather value will have a very different effect on images of very different resolutions.

The feathering effect to combine two or more images smoothly in PS is easy to be learned. As a start, it’s advisable to use two images. Here we go. First, create a new image of any size you want and pasterepparttar 107458 image. It should be on layer 1. Now, here comesrepparttar 107459 feathering effect. Chooserepparttar 107460 Rectangular Marquee tool and you will seerepparttar 107461 thing that says Feather. Once you have found it, changerepparttar 107462 px to between 15-20. Then, select around one-third ofrepparttar 107463 image onrepparttar 107464 left side and press delete. Now, you can see some ofrepparttar 107465 second image throughrepparttar 107466 first image.

Usingrepparttar 107467 Selection menu, you can setrepparttar 107468 amount of feathering you wish. Higher numbers, mean widerrepparttar 107469 spreads of feathering. You can also setrepparttar 107470 amount of feathering by usingrepparttar 107471 Options bar text entry field for "Feathering" in PS versions 6, 7 and CS. From here, just clickrepparttar 107472 QuickMask button if you wish to test your feather. Now, you can seerepparttar 107473 feather in action. If you want an even clearer demo, double-clickrepparttar 107474 QuickMask button inrepparttar 107475 tool bar; and inrepparttar 107476 QuickMask dialog, setrepparttar 107477 mask color to white; andrepparttar 107478 Opacity to 80 to 90%. Keep selecting some parts ofrepparttar 107479 first image and press delete untilrepparttar 107480 two images are combined smoothly. That's it! You now have a feathered image.

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