Do you ever struggle to find those elusive perfect colors for a graphic design project? What do you do?
There are many color theming sites out there, like Adobe Kuler and Colour Lovers, but not all of the themes people put together actually work with a real project and there are a lot to dig through.
Are there any “old reliable” color themes you always go back to?
When it comes to choosing a font for a project, it’s difficult to find the right style, not to mention worrying about whether or not it will print properly!
You’ve probably heard terms like PostScript Type 1, TrueType and Open Type, but what do they all mean for you?
If you don’t want to read why, I’ll just tell […]
In case you missed it up top (or you only read Creative Curio through your feed reader), a new graphic design glossary has been posted! A lot of effort and research has gone into this glossary; I have tried to define everything as accurately and extensively as possible. If you see something that could use […]
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d show some appreciation for some of my favorite posts over the past couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy these as well! Creative Curio will be back to the regular posting schedule (M, W, F) next week.
Have you seen Vector Magic yet?
There has been a bit of buzz around this new online program that takes a raster (pixel-based) image and converts it to vector shapes. I thought I’d test it out to see how it held up.
Results on Photography
I took the following flower image and tested it at both medium and high photo settings.
I think […]
Hi Readers, I just wanted to let you know I’m moving hosts. If you’re reading this message, you are accessing the new database on the new host. Yay!
By the way, it’s pronounced pieka, as in pie, not pika. Please, no pika.
A quick recap from the last post:
1 inch = 6 picas
1 pica = 12 points
1 inch = 72 points
Why Use Points and Picas?
The thing that I like about using the pica system for page layout is that a US standard 8.5 x 11 inch (known as […]
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