Beyond Creativity

Written by Kristine Llabres


Breakingrepparttar rules and following your own are advisable at times to create and innovate your own style and discover things. But before doing so, it is necessary however to know what kind of rules you are trying to break and be familiar withrepparttar 136775 alternatives that you can substitute fromrepparttar 136776 original ones.

Whew! It is just so fun and exciting to explore and try new stuffs that completely according to your own style. Fulfillment and achievement are just two ofrepparttar 136777 rewards that you can get from having things innovated and discovered.

In catalog design, it has to come a long way fromrepparttar 136778 industry’s downscale origins and jam-packed books. Withrepparttar 136779 latest technology that we have plusrepparttar 136780 aggressive minds unusual use of typography and color make catalogs really look different and trendy.

Catalogs are important to stand out in today’s ever-crowded and critical mailboxes, bear in mind that being different does not necessarily translate into greater sales and profit. Catalog designers have lone been followed many principles in designing simply to sell products.

What you should know to go beyond your limits. First, always place a best seller inrepparttar 136781 upper right corner of each spread. Whenever readers glance at a catalog from cover to cover their eyes fall torepparttar 136782 upper right corner of a spread, so it is better to put strong product there. So placement of items onrepparttar 136783 catalog matters a lot.

Second, keeprepparttar 136784 typography simple and limitrepparttar 136785 number of typefaces you use. Take note thatrepparttar 136786 catalog must be legible, that means no reducingrepparttar 136787 type to 6 points to help you cram in allrepparttar 136788 text. Sometimes some elements ofrepparttar 136789 copy need to be represented in type that is bolder or bigger to emphasize and exaggerate to win a sale.

Creating 3D Text Effects in Photoshop

Written by Mart Gil Abareta


We know that with Photoshop, we can do everything that we want in terms of web and graphic design. This software has become a valuable tool in every designer’s works of art. Now, I have hererepparttar procedure from www.absolutecross.com in creating a pretty cool text effect to make it seem to melt into or "pop out of" your website's background.

First, you must open a new document and make itrepparttar 136774 right size forrepparttar 136775 text you will be working with. Select a color fromrepparttar 136776 color picker that’s brighter thanrepparttar 136777 color as your text will be. Click onrepparttar 136778 arrows to interchangerepparttar 136779 foreground to your background color. Go back torepparttar 136780 color picker and select a shade that’s darker than what you’ve chosen forrepparttar 136781 foreground color.

Then, fill uprepparttar 136782 still empty image withrepparttar 136783 texture which will be utilized forrepparttar 136784 website’s background. Openrepparttar 136785 texture and select all by pressing Ctrl+A. Now, click on EditDefine Pattern and then closerepparttar 136786 texture. By going back to your main graphic, select EditFillPattern. Uncheckrepparttar 136787 Preserve Transparency and setrepparttar 136788 opacity to 100% and mode to normal. Your graphic must now be filled up withrepparttar 136789 texture of your website's background.

Next, chooserepparttar 136790 Type Mask Tool, type inrepparttar 136791 word/s you want to incorporate in your graphic inrepparttar 136792 input field, and click OK. Then, have a selection of your words on your image. Make a new layer and fillrepparttar 136793 text selection withrepparttar 136794 foreground color by pressing Alt+Delete. Whilerepparttar 136795 text is still selected, make another layer and repeatrepparttar 136796 texture fill process we utilized earlier forrepparttar 136797 background withinrepparttar 136798 text selection – only this time with a different texture. See if you need more textures, too.

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