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Understanding & Using Color in Branding

Monday, May 16, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: How are you feeling right now? What are you thinking? Are you suddenly excited and passionate, yearning for adventure? Or did a Zen-like calmness just pervade your being? Maybe your mind is on money. Or, if not that, you’re considering your health and how you can live in harmony [...]

Pantone In Your Pocket

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Pantone has recently released myPantone, a new color guide app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The $9.99 app allows you to choose from these PANTONE color system libraries: PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (coated, uncoated and matte) PANTONE Goe (coated and uncoated) PANTONE Pastels (coated and uncoated) PANTONE FASHION + HOME [...]

Quick Global Swatches In Adobe Illustrator

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Quick Global Swatches In Adobe Illustrator

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Global swatches in Adobe Illustrator: they’re awesome. If you’re not aware of the power that is a global swatch, they are special color swatches that are applied like regular swatches, but when the swatch is changed, all vector objects using that swatch are also updated. Similar to Symbols in [...]

Full Color Rollovers in Flash

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In this tutorial, we will create a Flash file with a simple, yet eye-catching effect — a black & white photo with full-color rollovers. We will initially edit the photo in Photoshop, then import and complete the file in Flash. I wanna send a shout-out, and special thank you [...]