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 all know, Christmas is very near. Last time we gave you that Quick And Cute Christmas Greeting Card Featuring Santa, and today we’ve found over 30 nice gift box tutorials that we want to share with you. Make this Christmas special by giving it a personal touch. All these tutorials are fairly easy to follow, although there are some harder ones too. Materials should be easily accessible because they are mostly made of paper, card board, and plastic. Whichever gift box you choose to make, we are almost certain that you will succeed. All you need is a little bit of patience, and some of that nice Christmas spirit. Have fun.

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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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How many times have you seen a professional portfolio of a famous designer, or photographer, which had a nice, and pro looking slideshow right in the middle of it? And how many times have you wondered how did they do it? Well, in order to make some of those, you’ll probably need to learn how to code, but there is also an easy way out. Using tools like PhotoSnack you can make pro looking slideshows in minutes. And no, this is not another advertisement for PhotoSnack. That’s just the way it is.

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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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Since today is Thanksgiving Day, and we are very grateful to all our guests here on PrintRadar, and since Christmas is very very near, we made this quick but cute Christmas greeting card ahead of time, so you can prepare yourself for the upcoming holidays. If you like it you can download this greeting card in PSD format and use it and modify it however you want. This is our very small gift for all of you today, and although it is not much, it comes straight from the heart.

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We all know that sometimes our CSS style sheets can really get big, especially if we are coding large websites with lots of pages and sections. Nice coding habits like comments and code separation are useful at development stage, but that also contributes in a negative way as style sheets usually get even bigger. When CSS files are big they eat up bandwidth and slow down website response time because more time is needed to process them. That’s where CSS compressors jump in to optimize them properly, but keep in mind that they are not always the best solution although they can really help at some cases.

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If you need to find out primary and complementary colors for your image, then this tool might help you do just that. Whats Its Color is an image color processor that will process images and give back primary and complementary dominant colors. And not only that. It will also give information about how many visually unique colors are there in the image, which are the top ten visually unique colors, and which are the best suited color palettes straight from Adobe kuler.

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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 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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We all know that there are virtually dozens of online generators for almost every possible task you can think of. Amongst those tools, we also have stripe generators which are often easy to use and give quick results. If you need a background image with stripes, and you need it quickly, there is probably no better and faster way to make it than to use one of those generators. So, without further ado, we present you with seven stripe generators that you can use online at any time of day.

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