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Making A Greeting Card In Adobe Photoshop
This is part 4 of a four-part blog series on working with fonts in Adobe Creative Cloud. In this article we’ll look at creating a simple greetings card from scratch in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Fonts (formerly called TypeKit) is a…
3 Excel Features for Accounting & Bookkeeping
Even after the emanation of automated bookkeeping software and technologies, Excel is still widely used for accounting and bookkeeping purposes. Many businesses and entrepreneurs continue to use Excel to record, store, analyze and manage their records. This is because Excel…
Logical Functions in Excel – Individual Breakdown
If Computer Science were your major in High School, you would know how powerful logical functions can be. And if it wasn’t, then this guide is all you need to become proficient in the logical functions in Excel. The details…
How The Eisenhower Matrix Can Help You
Have you had the feeling that there is more on your to do list than you can accomplish in a day, a week or even a month? This article looks at the Eisenhower matrix, a very popular time management strategy. …
All About Timeboxing
“If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take 30 days. But if you give yourself 3 hours, it will take only 3 hours.” Elon Musk Allocating appropriate but relatively aggressive amounts of time to a…
Adobe InDesign: How to change the bullet character on bulleted paragraphs
You can very simply bring character to your lists by using different bullet characters. Good clear design will make your documents more memorable and stand out for readers. Customising bullets, fonts and the like on our InDesign course for complete…
Adobe Fonts: Creating Ligatures & Colour Alternates
Before you start this tutorial, make sure you have the following as before: FontSelf Extension for either Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop or BirdFont is you are using a free alternative. As mentioned before, this is a four-part series of…
Adobe InDesign: Understanding Panels
There are so many settings in a document that you may want to access quickly. InDesign provides you with a vast number of panels that you can display in the document window. A panel will display as a group of…
10 Ways Technology Can Raise Your Creative Game
How technology and creativity brings better and more innovative opportunities for creatives. What most people fail to realize at first glance is the role of technology in the exponential growth of creative ideas. Technology has made it a lot easier…
The Pomodoro Technique: Everything You Need to Know
Procrastination and distraction are the enemies of good time management. The Pomodoro technique is a tried and tested time management technique that deals with them very effectively. As ironic as it may sound, it significantly improves your efficiency by capitalising…
All About The Adobe Pen Tool
The Pen Tool is very basic but a very important tool in Photoshop and InDesign. This tool will be used by all levels of user and needs to be properly understood to be successful! This guide will tell you all…
Adobe Photoshop: How to change someone into a zombie!
In this Adobe Photoshop article, I will show you how to change you are one of your friends into a zombie. The more advanced gradient and layer techniques that we discuss below are covered in our Adobe Photoshop training courses.…