Forget about actions as being those beginner tools you played with when you first started to learn Photoshop and you just had to have that dripping blood text on your home page.

These Photoshop actions will save you a serious chunk of time (and effort) in your day to day design work.
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Swarm describes the behavior of an aggregate of animals of similar size and body orientation, often moving en mass in the same direction. "Swarming" is a general term that can be applied to any animal that swarms.

The term can be applied to insects, birds, fish, various microorganisms such as bacteria, and people.

The term applies particularly to insects. "Flocking" is the term usually used for swarming behavior in birds, while shoaling or schooling refers to swarming behavior in fish and herds or groups to larger animals.
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Design is an integral part of our lives! This is very visible when we turn out to be more observant about the things that happen around us.

There is design in the way we live…it could be in the way we dress or design our homes!

The power of design thus can never be ignored!
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Being a freelancer is challenging for everyone. Not only do you have a lot of responsibility in a variety of areas, you're also having to coordinate everything. For many, this part can be hard to deal with and may lead to deadlines not being held.

In this article, I would like to share some tips that can help you plan for a more successful day as a freelance designer.
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Online rich-text editors present a ‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) interface for editing rich text within web browsers.

Internet Explorer was the first browser to add a ‘designMode’, which allows formatted parts of a document to be edited using a cursor. Mozilla followed, and most browsers have now implemented this facility in some capacity.

The technical capabilities needed to implement an online rich text editor are still not covered by the W3C specifications for HTML4. However, services such as Gmail and WordPress rely on rich text editing as their main user interface.
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As 2009 came to an end and online business is evolving very fast nowadays, designers continue to push forward either by following and re-interpreting a trend that came out in the previous year or by moving on to a new undiscovered era.

2010 is already here and we are trying to follow a set of design trends that are leading us in the web design field.
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As an inexperienced graphic design graduate, finding a job within the industry proved more difficult than I could have imagined.

Thankfully the amount of resources and information on the World Wide Web has been inspirational enough to motivate me to pursue the almost unbearable journey of rejected job applications and unsuccessful interviews to find 'that needle in the haystack'.

Given the opportunity I would love to be able to give back to the community and share my experiences of getting that first job as a graphic designer.
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Everyone knows the importance of a good, functional and informative resume or CV, and that is not under discussion in this article.

Here we are taking a look at creative and very individual resumes, mainly designed to be viewed on the internet by prospective employers/clients.

The individuals we are showcasing here have stamped their style on their resume – which is obviously part of the ‘sales pitch’.
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Some say creating a website is an art and may be complicated to master while others feel that it’s just child’s play.

There are certain degrees of creating a web design that may include psychological, testing, creativity and other factors that determine a good web design.

Today, I am not talking about the philosophy of web design instead I’m touching on the front end of it, more in layman’s terms, so to speak.
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What makes a wedding party perfect? Beautiful decorations, excellent service crew, awesome lightings and last but not least, the presence of the newly-weds.

All these can be done using a wedding planner but who would be there to record these symbolic moments?

Wedding photos are essential to every wedding. Wedding photographers can capture these special moments and let the pictures tell the story themselves.
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