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5 Factors To Consider When Choosing Fonts For Your Website

July 9th, 2010

5 Factors To Consider When Choosing Fonts For Your Website

Choosing a typeface is one of the most challenging and enjoyable aspects of web design for Denver branding firm founder and all around typegeek Kandra Churchwell. Here are 5 tips to help you choose and effective one for your web design project.

.CR2, .CRW, or Just Plain Annoying

February 22nd, 2010

.CR2, .CRW, or Just Plain Annoying

So you just bought a fancy $500 digital camera. After gleefully taking enough pictures to fill up your memory card, you upload them to your computer. Now, of course, you want to take a look at your photographs. But guess what? You computer won’t open the files! They’re all .CR2’s – whatever that means.
The Problem
.CR2’s [...]

Scaling an Image with Adobe Illustrator

February 16th, 2010

Scaling an Image with Adobe Illustrator

One of the beauties of Adobe Illustrator is the power of vector art. Since vector art is resolution independent, art created in Illustrator can be re-sized for nearly any use without being concerned with the resolution (aka quality of the final reproduction). With the wide use of appearance effects and transparencies in Illustrator images, it [...]