Complementary colors can be a designer’s best friend or worst enemy, in this video, I’ll explain how to use these powerful pairs the right way and how to avoid making muddy or painful color combos. Complementary Colors
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The New Year is a time for setting goals and making New Year’s resolutions. It’s a good time to think about the Skills4success it takes to be a Tennis Ball and not an Egg or in other words… a designer with professional skills and work habits. One of the best ways to stay focused on
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80% of people say that the cover plays a huge role in their decision to buy the book, even when they go to the store with a particular book in mind. People can be easily persuaded by an eye-catching visual and a good design, so keep this in mind as you create your cover. A
Time to bake digital Christmas cookies! I put more detail into the Photoshop training video and recommend using Photoshop if you have it. Baking digital cookies is about 95% the same in Photopea as Photoshop, so if you are using Photopea, please watch the Photoshop videos first to catch all the details. The Photopea videos
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Build a snow person using the Free online photo editing program: Photopea. If you’d rather use Photoshop; look for a earlier post on this page with a training video for Photoshop.
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Watch the video for step-by-step instructions on how to create an Analogous color type portrait in Photopea.
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Kendall College of Art and Design Welcome to Kendall Kendall College of Art and Design prepares students for leadership in the visual arts, design, art history, and art education; provides innovative, collaborative education that fosters intellectual growth and individual creativity; and promotes the ethical… kcad.ferris.edu Programs: Undergraduate HERE Apply to: Undergraduate Programs HERE Scholarship
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Follow these links for more information on Muskegon Community College Graphic Design Tuition and Fees Apply to MCC MCC Graphics’ Instagram: HERE
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Check out the viewbook and PDFs detailing a brief overview of tuition and the enrollment process and follow these links for more information on the Center for New Media and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. KVCC View Book: HERE Virtual Tours: HERE Getting started with enrollment: HERE
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Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop, or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free! Check out the videos below on who invented it and how to use it. Open the image below and save full size.
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) is Wisconsin’s only four-year, private college of visual art and design, offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and Design, and New Studio Practice: Fine Arts. Check out the links here for more info. Contact Our Representative: Jannet Dženeta Habibovic she / her / hers
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November is here and it’s time to head into Photoshop and make digital snow people! Watch this Adobe Photoshop training video and learn how to combine filters to make textures and custom brushes, how to create a custom drop shadow, and how to make it snow in Photoshop. Please remember this is a quiz so
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There is so much symbolism in art and design; some intentional and some not. In this lesson, you will reinforce what you have learned about patterns, repetition, and communicating with symbols and combine it with a subject matter you have known all your life: you! In your creative self-portrait, you will tell your story by
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Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year. 2020 is the first year the CTC design students have taken it on as a daily creative challenge
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Hello Wednesday and Thursday at Home designers! Halloween is a holiday that is all about images and creativity! The first part of your assignment is to check out these creepy cool design sites to get you in the mood for the 31st.
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This design challenge is to create an animal only using the letters that make up the animal’s name as your shapes, lines, and textures. Can the letter “A” become a nose or the letter “i” a unicorn mane? Carefully select a single typeface to match your animal; you can change the size, color, position, and
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Illustrator is a fantastic program and I hope you will experiment with it through these tutorials and on your own. Notice the difference between this vector-based program and how it works differently than Photoshop which is raster-based. Your first challenge is your Halloween Art Zombie – you’ll find part one and part two here…have fun!
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The Art Zombies are coming, so it’s our duty as graphic designers to make a warning sign. (yes we will be learning Adobe Illustrator next and you will be making yourself into a vector zombie!) In this Photoshop training session, you will be practicing some of the skills you have learned so far and adding
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Photoshop Manipulation is applying multiple techniques to create illusions or deceptions out of photographs. You see this technique used every day in real life either as a form of art or in commercial use to create fabulous and creative images for advertising purposes. In this training session I’ll show you how to combine two completely
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Follow the video to create an awesome poster from your spray paint, charcoal, or watercolor illustration.
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