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Post cards are one of the most useful direct-mail pieces available to designers today. Creating a direct-mail piece that creates action takes skill and a firm understanding of the steps to designing an effective postcard. These five key steps will help you create a postcard design that will provide the ...

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  A business card is a compact, effective way of giving someone your contact information. Many cards go beyond the basics of contact info, to help sell product or services. Your card does some of the marketing work for you, making it an effective tool that no freelancer should be ...

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  When choosing the best graphic design blogs to follow, it’s important to choose those which offer the most useful and pertinent information to today’s graphic designers. Narrowing down the list can take some time, but once you’ve figured out which blogs are your favorites, you can get busy commenting, ...

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In today’s digital world, hard-copy marketing materials may seem obsolete, a thing of the dying paper age. Hard-copy marketing, however, is as effective today as it has ever been and serious business owners will recognize the value of paper advertising that can be held in one’s hand, in addition to ...

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Adobe Photoshop tutorials litter the ‘net. Today, we’d like to share five of the best from 2012 to add to your collection. We’ve included the five most-sought-after effects and tutorials. Fish-Eye Spartan Scene This cool tutorial teaches you, with step-by-step directions, how to create a very dramatic scene with a ...

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Ever since Facebook bought out the photo-sharing site, Instagram, there has been a furor on the ‘web about how the site might change. The noise users are making over the acquisition, both in favor and against, is a fair demonstration of its popularity. In short, Instagram and sites like it ...

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Before you can hang out your shingle as a graphic designer and think about the design you want to include on your business cards, it might be a good idea to begin your career with a degree from an accredited school of design. But which schools are the best? Today, ...

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  High Dynamic Range Photography is one of the fastest-growing trends in image manipulation today. HDR Photos are clearer, with more depth, than standard photos, making them breathtakingly crisp and clear and bringing out an almost 3D quality in the image using a greater range of shadows and tints to ...

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Royalty-free stock images are an important tool in any designer’s box.  Stockvault.net is one of the web’s premier sources of high-quality stock photos, offering over 2,000 images in the construction category alone.  From brand-new architecture to vintage buildings, StockVault has it all. Whether you need a photograph for a design ...

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So, you’ve decided to go out on your own as a freelance graphic designer? First, you should know that competition is fierce. Like, animals fighting over the puddle that used to be a water hole after a month-long drought in the Serengeti fierce. If you want to survive, you’ve got ...

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