Using Photoshop and IllustratorWritten by Jelaine Macaraeg
Unless you have tons of money to burn, every consumer wants to be as smart as possible when buying their goods. We want value for our money. If there’s a cheaper alternative that can deliver same results, of course we would rather have that!Same thing goes with graphic designers and professional photographers who use digital imaging applications. One particular issue that has been quite a favorite in various debates and discussions is one that involves Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. When I first heard about it, I was a little surprised. I mean, both products are from Adobe, who takes pride in being world-leader in digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for various consumer segments, so what’s big deal? As it turns out, debate is coming from people’s notion that Adobe Illustrator is cheaper Photoshop and because they can pretty much do what other does, they can be used as a replacement for each other. The truth is, Photoshop-Illustrator comparison is another case of comparing apples with oranges. Here we actually have two different programs having similar but not exactly same functions. Photoshop is for manipulating individual color pixels within a fixed bitmap. So if you need to create, modify and produce digital files, which are “photographic” in nature where whole image is part of a "fixed" pixel structure, or a bitmap, or if you need to prepare complicated color or black and white images for further processing in page layout programs for high resolution printing, Photoshop will work for you.
| | The right Navigator for youWritten by Maricon Williams
If you think it’s hard to decide what navigational style to use and what design fits you best, then read on and be enlightened…Text links are simplest sort of navigation. Usually they contain one to two words and are filed in an array. Example to this is array Home – About Us- Contact Us. Using this links, you can load fast. With this cascading style you can also apply varying colors, background and other attributes such as underlines. Text links can also help your search engine rankings to soar. Nevertheless, some of its disadvantages are being not flashy and size cannot be exacted. The fonts in this style can be shown on different operating system such as Linux and Windows. Graphic buttons is another navigational style. They are not fast loading compared to text links, however, they are eye-catchers. They can flow with your page’s design. Graphic buttons also maintain a width and a height which is kept standard transversely in all browsers if height and width are provided in image’s tag. Their disadvantage though is that it requires longer loading time. They are also less descriptive, require more labor and more bandwidth to download from server. The use of mouse will double downloading time. Graphic buttons are oftentimes applied for few links or a maximum of five links.
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