#28592
It's not hard to persuade a designer that color matters. But persuading Fortune 500 companies? You might be surprised. Color consultant Leatrice Eiseman has carved out a major career in helping companies 'make correct choices in colors that sell.'
Eiseman, Leatrice. Design, Typography and Graphics (2006). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design>Color
#22324
This tutorial will show you some ways to select areas of your images using the variety of selection tools available in Photoshop. First we'll talk about why selecting part of an image is so useful, and then we'll examine the various selection methods in Photoshop: the Marquee tools; the Lasso tools; the Magic Wand tool; the Color Range tool; and the Quick Mask mode. Finally, we'll look at ways to modify and fine-tune your selections.
Elated (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#30094
Seven Things You Should Know About Data Visualization 
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information. Information technology combines the principles of visualization with powerful applications and large data sets to create sophisticated images and animations. Representing large amounts of disparate information in a visual form often allows you to see patterns that would otherwise be buried in vast, unconnected data sets. Data visualizations offer one way to harness infrastructure to find hidden trends and correlations that can lead to important discoveries. Visual literacy is an increasingly important skill, and data visualizations are another channel for students to develop their ability to process information visually.
Educause (2007). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Visual Rhetoric
#25048
Showcase Images with Nested Frames
Circle meets square as Sandee Cohen nests frames inside frames to accentuate images in Adobe InDesign.
Cohen, Sandee. Adobe (2004). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design
#25185
Sizing Images for Print in Elements
This reader wants help sizing images to gang print onto single photo paper sheets...
Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#21843
SVG is fun, sophisticated, and full of possibilities - and one day it'll change the way we view the Web.
Blatner, David. Adobe Magazine (1999). Design>Graphic Design>Standards>SVG
#25500
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
Tthe usual approaches for preventing hotlinking (hijacking) images have a couple of side effects. This system works much better.
Scott, Thomas. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Security>Graphic Design
#20687
The Society for News Design (formerly the Society of Newspaper Design) is an international professional organization with more than 2,600 members in the United States, Canada and more than 50 other countries, divided into the 19 regions shown below.
SND. Organizations>Graphic Design>Journalism>Technical Illustration
#21926
To promote and stimulate interest in the art of illustration, past, present and future, and to give impetus generally toward high ideals in the art by means of exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, social intercourse, and in such other ways as may seem advisable.
Society of Illustrators, The. Organizations>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
#22524
Soft-Proofing and Printing with Profiles
Many photographers today print directly from Photoshop to photo-quality inkjet printers or send images to a lab to have enlargements made on LightJets, Lambdas, or the Fuji Pictography and Frontier systems. All of these devices are capable of stunning, photo-realistic output. However, if you do not employ color management effectively the output from these devices will not match the image you saw on your monitor. At best, you will waste some time, ink and paper making reprints. At worst, if you are sending images to a lab, proofs and reprints to get the image correct can become costly.
Hagadorn, Matt. Nature Photography (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Prepress>Color
#28047
How to open SolidWorks technical illustration DXF files in CorelDraw.
Broz, Donald. Broz and Dian (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
#29334
Some Graphic and Semigraphic Displays
Graphs and semigraphic displays are made for purposes. Different purposes usually call for different graphs.
Tukey, John W. Edward Tufte (1972). Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Charts and Graphs
#26375
Can sound and motion illustrate the personality of color? The Animation class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design set out to discover the answer.
AIGA (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
#21449
Spatial Representation in Two Dimensions: The Why and How of Projection
The perspective representation, which is also referred to as stereogram, is used when an object needs to be reproduced in a particularly descriptive and plastic way. In contrast to the technical drawing, which is defined in DIN 6 (ISO 5456-2) and divides the object into several independent views, the technical illustration combines all three sides of a workpiece in one representation. These advantages become especially evident, when the possibilities of digital photography cannot be applied for technical reasons. This happens, for example, when the object to be depicted is still in development and does not exist, yet.
ITEDO Software (2001). Articles>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
#30452
Spec Work Can Damage Your Business
Speculative work, or free pitching, 'spec' for short, is considered unethical among leading graphic design associations around the world.
Airey, David. DavidAirey (2007). Careers>Freelance>Graphic Design>Contracts
#21858
Lossy or lossless? No, the subject isn't baseball, it's file compression. Understanding it can improve your image.
Fleishman, Glenn. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing
#22566
The quest for seamless file exchange in the graphic arts continues. Graphic Arts Monthly takes a look at what CGATS is doing to develop file format standards.
Strashun Whitcher, Joann. Graphic Arts Monthly (2003). Articles>Graphic Design>Standards
#24306
Judging from the work of fellow Help writers, the value of graphics in online Help is subject to debate. Of the more than sixty Help systems reviewed for this session (including the suites from Corel, Lotus, and Microsoft), fewer than half featured significant use of graphics. Even the Help systems of some graphics applications consisted mainly of text, broken only occasionally by utilitarian screenshots of tools and buttons. Yet, even though we have had only a few years of experience in designing graphics for online Help, many of the Help systems revealed a wealth of good ideas worth adapting for use in your own systems.
Elley, Frank. STC Proceedings (1998). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Online
#27440
'Step-and-repeat' is the term used for the process of duplicating an object and spacing or transforming the duplicates sequentially.
Bauer, Peter. Planet Photoshop (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#21839
Twelve Photoshop tips for the Web that'll make you a speed demon.
Peck, Wendy. Adobe Magazine (2000). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#32066
Stop Stealing!?!? Affordable, High Quality Photos are Within Your Reach
Are you a designer and wonder where to find high quality images? Are you using unlicensed pictures and images because you don’t know what else to do? High quality images aren’t nearly as expensive as you think! Some very talented photographers are leaving mainstream outlets and submitting their photographs to sites that sell directly to the end user. Artwork, photographs, images, background… every type of graphic you need are available in multiple sizes and file types.
Robbins, Kyle. ReEncoded (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#31241
Anyone can relate the facts of an event, just like anyone can hold a camera up to a scene and document it. But bare facts and badly composed images make for poor communication. It takes skill and talent to write a good story, one that will inform and entertain. The same is true for photography. Images have always been storytellers. A good image can relay large amounts of data in a format that is pleasing and quickly absorbed by the viewer. That makes photos potentially more influential than a massive amount of words.
Salvo, Suzanne. Communication World Bulletin (2007). Articles>Graphic Design>Photography>Visual Rhetoric
#23090
The Successes and Challenges of Visual Language
Discusses efforts to create manuals that rely entirely on pictures for communication.
Hofmann, Patrick. Intercom (2004). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric
#28289
Gradients: a nutritious part of your Web 2.0 breakfast. Wouldn't it be swell if you could get all that goodness without opening Photoshop every time you needed a little gradient bliss? Matthew O'Neill explains how you can.
O'Neill, Matthew. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#26478
Jedan kratki tutorial na bosanskom jeziku, a moze i hrvatskom jebiga.
Emir, Isovic. Superemir (2000). (Bosnian-Croatian) Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
