For my magazine redo, I did not have too much to fix. On the cover page, I moved around the text to make it farther away from the image and then aligned the date. For the 1st spread, I pulled the green from the image and made it the type color for the sub headlines. For the 2nd spread I did not have anything to fix. And for the third spread, I added a picture of Karl Lagerfeld to the “sidebar” part of the page and added arrows to direct it towards his obsessions. I got rid of some of the obsessions as I did not want the page to be too cluttered. I think I cleaned it up a lot and made everything neater. I hope you like it and have a nice holiday!
We didn’t spend as much time in Illustrator as we did with the other programs such as Indesign and Photoshop this semester. Here’s an article that features seven short tutorials that reveal some hidden tricks that Illustrator has to offer. As always, click on the image to head to the site.
Click on the image to go to a useful design blog. This guy is a designer himself, and he constantly posts tutorials that have helped him, as well as tutorials that could help beginner designers. I’ve found that a lot of blogs are more inspiration based, but this one is more tutorial based – so it’s very helpful.
Some of these effects are really cool, even if you’re just fooling around in Photoshop. My favorites are the sunglasses reflection and the age progression effect. These are the types of effects that just look really cool, even if you would not usually use them in a professional project. I think it’s still worth appreciating though.
For those of you using fireworks for your web design project, here are some tutorials that you can use to help you with your project. I looked at some of them and they seem really cool, I’m sure they’re helpful as well. Enjoy
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Here is a website I found when I was designing a layout of my magazine. It shows you how to wrap the text around an image you want and cool ways to do a pull quote all in InDesign.
I have a friend who is really into photography and uses a different program to process her photos. She adjusts the color/light to create this really beautiful, signature look to her photos. If you’re interested in adjusting your photos for your magazine, here are some tutorials for how to create a few different vintage effects on your photos.
As I am looking around the internet for ideas for our next project, I came across this website where it has all of these tutorials on how to make cool text in illustrator. Hope this helps you guys too and maybe even get ideas for a cool way to represent your name!
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/illustrator-text-effect-tutorials/
This website, as it claims, is a one-stop resource for any web designer. It not only includes links to photoshop and fireworks tutorials, but even flash and professional site builders. If you’re still having trouble with your web design, this site could be a good reference for whatever you need.
See my common theme here? I’ve been posting tutorials that I have been using for my poster. Guess what? My poster involves a lot of smoke – so expect more of these. The thing with these tutorials is that they take a little bit of trial and error, so you’re first attempt might not look as good as your third. Usually by your later attempts you get faster at doing the effects though. Click on the image for the tutorial.
