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Tutorial: How To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5

Posted by Eoin McGrath on October 19, 2012 · Comments Off

Care to make a cross-platform mobile game with HTML5? No need to dabble in Java or Objective-C? Bypass the app stores? Sounds like an instant win! A handful of game developers are pushing the envelope of mobile HTML5 games at the moment. Check out the likes of Nutmeg and Lunch Bug for some shining examples. The great thing about these titles is that they work equally [...]

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Tutorial: How To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5

Posted by Eoin McGrath on October 19, 2012 · Comments Off

Care to make a cross-platform mobile game with HTML5? No need to dabble in Java or Objective-C? Bypass the app stores? Sounds like an instant win! A handful of game developers are pushing the envelope of mobile HTML5 games at the moment. Check out the likes of Nutmeg and Lunch Bug for some shining examples. The great thing about these titles is that they work equally [...]

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Video Tutorial: Reviewing Adobe Illustrator’s Extensive Gradients Toolset

Posted by Adrian Taylor on October 3, 2012 · Comments Off

While vector based artwork lets designers take advantage of small file sizes and lossless scaling it can also be limiting when trying to add depth and richness to a design. Adobe Illustrator offers a plethora of gradient tools that can help artist produce more organic and vivid pieces. This extended video tutorial covers a wide variety of topics including basic [...]

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Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques

Posted by Adrian Taylor on March 9, 2012 · Comments Off

The creative process is not a linear one. As artists and designers, we often set off in one direction only to decide that the proper solution lies somewhere else completely. Unfortunately, many of the creative software packages we use (Photoshop in particular) can be pretty unforgiving when in comes to making changes late in the game. Sure, we’ve got “Undo” [...]

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Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

Posted by Christian Heilmann on December 27, 2011 · Comments Off

A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic example of a tutorial resulting in very happy readers who will go out and cause a [...]

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Exporting From Photoshop

Posted by Marc Edwards on November 23, 2011 · Comments Off

Congratulations. You’ve just completed a pixel-perfect mock-up of an app, and you’ve gotten the nod from everyone on the team. All that’s left to do is save the tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of production assets required to bring it to life. It’s [...]

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An In-Depth Study Of Symbols In Illustrator CS5

Posted by Tara Hornor on September 16, 2011 · Comments Off

For drawing and painting digital illustrations, Adobe Illustrator is a favorite among designers for many reasons. One of the reasons is some of the amazing time-saving features that come with it. The Symbols feature in Illustrator does just this: it saves valuable [...]

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Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles

Posted by Thomas Giannattasio on August 12, 2011 · Comments Off

Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu. Its beauty lies in our ability to create an effect and then copy, modify, export, hide or trash it, without degrading the content of the layer. Below we present, [...]

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Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools

Posted by Tara Hornor on July 28, 2011 · Comments Off

Adobe Illustrator is one very useful program for creating vector artwork. The tools and features available in Illustrator make it easy to create digital illustrations, whether from scratch or by tracing a photograph. But this is not all Illustrator can do. Businesses can create impressive graphs using Illustrator’s Graph tools. Marketers can use the impressive [...]

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Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop

Posted by Dirk Metzmacher on March 25, 2011 · Comments Off

Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite useful for your workflow. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. We have had articles on various tools in Adobe Photoshop but this one is focused more on the techniques rather [...]

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