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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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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Creating and designing a successful product advertisement, or any kind of successful advertisement, is not an easy task. It requires years of experience in the field, but it also requires a great deal of knowledge. No, we are not talking about technical knowledge here. Anybody can learn how to use Photoshop, or any other tool pretty fast, but it takes years to learn how to successfully transfer the message, grab the attention, or provoke the reaction. That’s where colors play the important part, because people react to colors in a predictable way. What we will do here today, and within following weeks, is not something revolutionary or new, as it has been done countless times before. We will merely provide you with a simple guide for each commonly used color, how people react to it,  and hopefully give you some good examples along the way.

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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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Right as I was in the middle of collecting material for PrintRadar’s newest list article, I bumped into a serious rant from the guy who made the CSSVault long time ago. The target, Smashing Magazine, and pretty much the rest of the community and bloggers who accepted the Smashing Magazine “way”, and that means lists in general. So, what’s with this amazing Battle At Kruger title? Well, all that kinda reminded me of that event, with lists being the buffalo who was caught in between the attacks of the lions and alligator, with the late support from the pack, if any. Oh yes, and the reporters to document all that. Silly, I know.

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