This is the series where we show you simple, but effective tips, tutorials, and tricks related to designer tools. Today we show you how to take advantage of background eraser in Photoshop. This tool is often overlooked, but it can really do wonders sometimes. We are sure that many of already spent hours on making perfect selections in order to separate background and objects of interest in different photos. Next time, you might use this tool.

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As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories and resources, from our colleagues, which you probably should check out. Selected stories were published in the past week and were found amongst many other great stories. We made this a traditional Monday post where we point out those that we think were inspiring, helpful, and even funny to read. Of course, they are related to what we do here and that includes design, inspiration, resources, and everything else in between. One for each day of the week. Enjoy.

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This is the series where we show you simple, but effective tips, tutorials, and tricks related to designer tools. Today is time for a short tip where we will show you how to arrange shapes in circular paths in Adobe Illustrator. It is pretty easy and you’ll wonder how I didn’t know this before for sure. It can be used for various things like making flower illustrations, ornaments, patterns, etc. Try it and give us feedback if it helps you in your daily routines and work.

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Last time we talked about the red color and how it influences the advertising field through consumers. Today we are going to talk about the green color and how it reflects on consumers, what are the feelings and moods that green color produces, and how can we use that in design. What are the main groups of products that mostly utilize green color packaging, what are the trends, and what are the expectations. Think positive, think green. In a good way.

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Making comic books and strips is always fun. Well, probably not always if you do that for a living, but surely if you do it just to satisfy your passion, or make other people laugh. Today we bring you 19 online places to make your own comics just by using predefined templates, button clicks, sliders, or even your own artwork. Some of those places are so easy to use that you will create your comic books and strips in minutes. With that part being so user friendly, what is left to do is to think about the next good story.

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This is the series where we show you simple, but effective tips, tutorials, and tricks related to designer tools. Today is time for a short tip where we will show you how to resize your images, and maintain sharpness at the same time in Photoshop. It is very simple and quick one, so anyone can do it, and what is actually needed is one simple selection change. Okay, enough with the talk, and lets dig into the process.

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As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories and resources, from our colleagues, which you probably should check out. Selected stories were published in the past week and were found amongst many other great stories. We made this a traditional Monday post where we point out those that we think were inspiring, helpful, and even funny to read. Of course, they are related to what we do here and that includes design, inspiration, resources, and everything else in between. One for each day of the week. Enjoy.

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Macro photography is something truly amazing as it lets us see something we could never see with our own eyes. Amazing details and sometimes really strange, or even scaring images always make you wonder and respect the mother nature. As we are fascinated with them, and sometimes we can’t stop looking at them, today we picked out the ones which really look back, and keep you in sight all the time. Keep that in mind while you look at these photos, but don’t be scared away on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Enjoy.

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We must admit that authors of this place have a good point. Really, how many times have you lost your photos, or videos, due to computer crashes, scratched disks, power loss, even fires, and floods? We are sure that there are many of you like us out there, who have already experienced similar situations. So, what can we do to prevent that from happening again? Well, one of the options is to upload them to some of the online services. Yes, Smiling Moments is not the only service of this type as we all know, but we think it has a cute and technically interesting approach to the situation.

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It seems like PrintRadar is all about series these days. And yet, we are starting one more today. And guess what? It will be about designer tools and some killer quick tool tips on making your work stand out. We will also try to make your work and life easier at the same time. In order to start this series the easy way, we’ve chosen one really quick tip. We’re gonna show you how to give your holiday, or any other photos, a blurred make up.

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