As an owner of a small business, whether it be a retail store, wellness center, or consulting firm, you always are seeking ways to increase your profits. You could choose to raise prices, cut back on costs, or opt to draw in more customers/clients.
The virtual world is similar to the real world in more than a few ways, though probably not when it comes to size, because here the smaller, the better! When the World Wide Web was born, images were restricted to Polaroid scanned images or horizontal flowery bars whipped using Paint (ah the wondrous prime years), but as the internet grew, so did the quality and the quantity of images.
Today images are probably the most important components of a web page, and where there’s an image, there’s an issue of size. These five online image optimization sites should help you make your images smaller without much loss in quality. So fire up that chainsaw, we’re gonna crunch some images!
I cannot express enough how valuable good quality brushes can be. When you work for a company big enough to employ an entire art department that supplies everything you need for your project, you are quite fortunate. However, a large number of us working in a marketing department with limited resources or those who are independent contractors are not afforded the luxuries or the time. This also applies to those who do artwork for their department or school making posters, newsletters, and even reports. Saving time without compromising quality is important to all.
With that in mind, we would like to share with you a variety of abstract brushes for use in Adobe Photoshop. These brushes are available for download at the artist’s website. As you appreciate the quality and the long and hard hours put into making these brush sets, please read and adhere to their requested conditions and give appropriate credit to the author.
Motion tweening in Flash CS4 is different from CS3 and previous versions. In the previous versions of Flash, there were two types of tweening, shape and motion. You had good flexibility with them and now you have even more. Flash CS4 features three types of tweening, shape, motion and classic. Shape tweening is the same and has not changed. What users once considered motions is now called classic tweening. The new motion tweening has a very powerful tweening engine that allows you to easily update your animations. It is also the feature you will use to animate your 3D objects in Flash.
If you own a computer, likelihood is you’ve used Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw, GIMP, or a comparable program to some extent. Aside from GIMP, each of these design and editing programs cost a reasonable amount of money. Even when you do purchase the full package, it’s likely only on one of your computers, and there are probably times you wish you had it even to do a quick editing job.
Enter Picnik.com, “photo editing awesomeness, online, in your browser. It’s the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eyes, or apply effects to your photos.”
