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Architecting web sites is similar to architecting buildings. They are complex disciplines, which impact several areas including visual design, user experience, navigation, visitor flow, accessibility, construction cost, and maintenance costs...
read moreA toolkit of a few basic patterns (or models) that describe solutions to common IA problems. One or more of these patterns will naturally apply to many information architecture problems. These may serve as off-the-peg solutions, or as helpful descriptive shortcuts during the design process...
read moreAfter 10 years of web site architecture and design, conventions exist to solve nearly every navigation problem. This page provides a toolkit of common IA and navigation conventions...
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The crop tool is a tool that any beginning Photoshop user (and advanced) should definitely know how to use. This is basic image editing at it's pure essentials. When I was learning (teaching myself) I didn't use the crop tool, I used the method of marquee and then copy/cut and paste...
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Here is a demonstration of the background eraser tool. This tutorial will also morph into how to use it to get a selection. First duplicate the background layer by dragging it to the new layer icon...
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Get the polygonal lasso tool from the lasso menu on the toolbar. Open up an image of a nice easy to select shape with a few straight lines such as this oriental heating duct. To use the tool just click at each corner point and drag in a new direction...
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The note tool can come in handy as you get further advanced in using Photoshop. You can easily write down note, thoughts, remember techniques or create notes for clients or other users on how to fix the file up...you get the idea. Select the notes tool and just click somewhere on the image...
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Now that you have the foreground subject on top of the pixel stretch background you can easily spice things up with some layer effects. To apply a layer effect you can go to the lower left icon on the bottom of the layers palette and choose specifically which effect you want to apply...
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Here's how to use the singular marquee tools; yes they actually do serve a purpose. Use them when you want to select just a single pixel wide or long across the entire document. You must be on an active layer (that you want to copy from) to do this...
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From the previous tutorial, now you have a duplicate on its own layer that you have created by using the lasso tool and layer: new layer via copy. With the moVe tool you can move this new layer around. Go to edit: Transform and choose scale...
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