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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Now that you have a graphics editor installed on your computer whether it is Adobe Photoshop (which I will be using in this book) or GIMP (the OpenSource solution), I would like to guide you on a journey to the basics in graphic design. Building a design is actually easy, but there are tools that [...]
Getting the Right Software for Graphic Design
The first step to building your website is gaining access to graphics software. If you’ve researched graphic software in the past, you’ll notice the hefty price tag related to it. Spending the extra money, sometimes, is the best option for developing high end websites. However, I’ve found that the talent is in the designer, not [...]
Introduction to Graphic Design
Graphic design is the backbone of any web development project. You may have created the best business model, the best online store, maybe even a million dollar product—but the website will not be successful unless it is both professional and useful. Sure, there are examples of websites in the past who are poorly designed and [...]
Using PNG-24 Graphics
It’s absolutely amazing how much graphic design improves your conversion rate nowadays! Back in the day–a.k.a. 1994–graphics played little impact on online sales and it was almost better if you didn’t have any graphics at all. I remember opening each image I used and compressing it to the lowest possible quality so it would render [...]
