Tips, Tools & Tutorials
Check out these great tips, tools and tutorials to add to the arsenal of information you receive with Graphic Design Success! Get on the fast track!
Tips
Graphic Design Tips
http://www.thedesignerslife.com/tips/graphicstips/
Direct Marketing Design Secrets
http://www.thedesignerslife.com/tips/designsecrets/
Microsoft® Word for Windows® Tips
http://www.thedesignerslife.com/tips/wordtips/
Brochure Design Tips
http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/brochuretips/
Direct Mail Tips
http://www.usps.com/directmail/
Photoshop® Tips & Tricks
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Tips/index.html
Tools
Marketing Tools
http://www.fuel4arts.com/
Fonts.com
http://www.fonts.com/
Fonts.com is the Internet’s number one font resource. On fonts.com, you’ll find the Internet’s best selection of fonts for preview, purchase and immediate download. Fonts.com is also the place to find the latest typographic news, tips, and typeface releases. Thousands of creative professionals rely on fonts.com’s resources every month.
Pantone®
http://www.pantone.com/
Pantone, Inc. is the world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color. The PANTONE Name is known worldwide as the standard language for color communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer.
Colorcom®
http://www.colorcom.com/
The right color is worth a thousand words. Color is the most powerful component of all visual imagery. The right colors communicate meaning and please the eye. The wrong colors can be unpleasant and even unsettling.
As a marketing tool, color can be a subliminally persuasive force. As a functional component of human vision, color can capture attention, relax or irritate the eyes, and affect the legibility of text. All things considered, the right colors empower and contribute to the success of a product, a service or even an interior space. The wrong colors can be a costly mistake.
ColorMatters®
http://www.colormatters.com
Color Professor J.L. Morton welcomes you to the world of color.
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
Clipart
http://www.clipart.com/en/
Welcome to the largest collection of royalty-free clipart images, photos, Web graphics, illustrations, fonts and sounds offered by subscription on the Web.
Tutorials
About.com
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/indesigntutorials/index.htm?terms=indesign
About.com has many great tutorials on, layout programs like InDesign, QuarkXpress, Photoshop and graphic design in general. The link to the InDesign tutorials is provided above.
Adobe®
http://www.adobe.com
Adobe offers free tutorials online and you can also download free trial versions of their software:
Adobe also has User to User forums on their site to exchange ideas and ask questions:
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html
Photoshop®
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
Photoshop Café is my favorite site for Photoshop tutorials and tips. It gives you step by step instructions on how to do really cool effects in Photoshop. Enjoy!
InDesign®
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/
Then there is the InDesign User Group that offers tips and tricks on their website.
Corel®
http://www.corel.com
Corel regularly holds free webinars on Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint.
Design Programs
http://www.graphics.com
This site has useful tutorials for various design programs.