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Download lineart and practice your coloring skills with Photoshop

28 November 2009

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Download lineart and practice your coloring skills with Photoshop

Time for another exercise, this time let´s practice our digital color in Photoshop over a profesional lineart made by SOSFactory. If you do a try, please email me a JPG of your final image, if you are interested I could post your image here and give you some tips to improve your coloring skills. Here [...]

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Mascot design: fish and fish

21 November 2009

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Mascot design: fish and fish

Hello buddies, at last Friday!! I´m getting ready for my monthly flight to Berlin but before I leave I want to share some pics. I just finished a project I was working on lately, this time I did a ton of character design for a non released yet dating site. Here you have several of [...]

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How to integrate a mascot design in your website

16 November 2009

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How to integrate a mascot design in your website

Mascot design for webs is one of my specialties, in the last few years I’ve been designing dozens of corporative characters for webs. Clients are usually very satisfied with the design, but they don’t know how to make the most out of it. Sometimes they have to use them at very small sizes, sometimes they [...]

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How to receive payments online and save fees

13 November 2009

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How to receive payments online and save fees

PayPal is the standard online payment system for both selling and buying. It is very convenient, instantaneous and secure, that’s why it is expensive. It can cost us up to 3.4% out of the money we receive depending on the country where you live, plus a 2.5% to convert the money to your local currency, [...]

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Pros and cons of Illustrative Logo Design

8 November 2009

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Pros and cons of Illustrative Logo Design

Theory says that a good logotype must be simple, clean, economical, versatile, etc, etc. This is a very pertinent principle but, is it still valid? In my opinion, it is partially obsolete. The advance of impression techniques, the evolution of the consumers overburdened with publicity and the evolution of the mass media (Internet, Television, mobile [...]

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Best of the Web – October 2009

2 November 2009

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Best of the Web – October 2009

Every month I will spend my time looking for the very best articles posted on the blogosphere during the last month. If I missing anything please suggest a link using the contact form. News Photoshop CS5 is coming! Iphone: Pantone In Your Pocket Fun stuff 30 Stunning Apple Concept Designs 25 Photomanipulation mistakes The Bizarre [...]

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