In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a printer icon, suitable for both the web and print. We’re going to be basing the icon on a Canon printer/scanner I use on a daily basis, the MP610. We’re going to be creating this icon in Photoshop – although it won’t be fully scaleable, we’ll be creating the icon at a reasonable size, therefore it should be big enough for most (if not all) purposes. Illustrator may be the obvious choice for a lot of people when it comes to creating icons, but Photoshop offers that little bit more flexibility when it comes to creating realistic mock-ups due to its powerful tools.

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One of the most debated issues about color is whether black is truly a color [...]

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There is something gorgeous in aesthetically pleasing, visual representation of data. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to put some style into graphs generated in Adobe Illustrator.

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1. The importance of the sketch
Any professional logo designer starts their work firstly by interviewing the client(s) and secondly by searching the Internet for similar works as their project. After completing the ladder they will continue with the most important step, namely: sketching. Most of the amateurs skip this step leading to a grave error. [...]

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