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Design Prospective

I find it confusing at times to know whether someone is talking about her (specfic?) design craft or a design “strategy.” When talking about design we often use “big D-Design” as a way to distinguish the formal definition of design from the craft or discipline of one particular field within design.

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Blank Color Swatch & Style Library

I keep a Photoshop color swatch and style library for each project. It makes the design process easier and more accurate. It also allows someone else to come along during production or maintenance and easily use the same colors. Photoshop doesn’t come with nice clean libraries though. The defaults looks like this: I’ve never used…

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Firefox Color Variations In Copy vs. Save

I’ve run into an issue while copying images from Firefox (on a Mac) and pasting them into Photoshop, the color is off. Way off. The image loses a noticeable amount of vibrance. The solution is simple. Save the image from Firefox onto the computer and then open it in Photoshop – OR – copy the…

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