If you are someone who works, draws, jots down notes, makes plans, and converts those into digital files, then you need a smart notebook. This was not feasible until a few years earlier. But the introduction of the reusable smart notebook made this possible. While everyone feels the impact of digitizing, not every one of […]
Rocketbook Everlast: A Reusable Smart Notebook with Fantastic Features
When you are required to take notes or jot down important ideas throughout the day, having a reusable smart notebook comes in real handy. One can write notes, draw, or doodle in this notebook and yet not run out of pages. This lets you keep records in the cloud system for editing and reuse in […]
Go Green with Reusable Smart Notepads
When you gift something to anyone, that needs to be used, remembered, and bring in a smile on the recipient’s face! A reusable smart notepad could be a great personal or corporate gift. One can gift these notepads to anyone starting from a student, an executive, a traveler, writer, or to your special person as […]
Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons
“It reminds me of the Georgia chain gang,” quipped the IBM executive, when he first eyed the striped logo. When the Westinghouse insignia (1960) was first seen, it was greeted similarly with such gibes as “this looks like a pawnbroker’s sign.” How many exemplary works have gone down the drain, because of such pedestrian fault-finding? […]
Quick Color Correction
Here is a 2-minute color correction technique I picked up from one of Scott Kelby’s books. It’s fairly simple, and it ranks as beginner-advanced. Here is the basic image before color correction. You can save this image and follow along if you want. STEP ONE In your layer palette, click the adjustment layer icon, and […]
What To Expect out of a Design Career
Young designers often set impossibly high standards and lofty goals. Are they setting themselves up for early disappointment? Here’s our guide to the real entry-level designer’s life – and it’s got a lot of left turns. The Dream: First, you go to a recognized design school, develop your own brand of post-deconstructionist Swiss-grid page layouts […]
Vector and Raster Halftone Patterns
Okay, ladies and gents, here it is, halftone effects done originally in Photoshop, but can be converted to illy for vector work. I do not take credit for this one however, my boss showed me this nifty little trick. Step 1. Create a document in photoshop in RGB mode. I just typed out my name to […]