Design Software & Strategy

Design Software & Strategy

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Adobe Color Explore
Adobe Color Explore
In this tool, you can search for colors or moods, and see how those are applied to design and photography. Try searching for two opposite moods, such as "calm" and "energetic". What patterns do you see in the color palettes for each mood? How does each mood's color differ?
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Adobe Color Explore
Adobe Color wheel
Adobe Color wheel
This tool can help you pick color schemes based on the harmony rules we talked about today, and help you understand how the rules of color harmony work. Try moving one of the color circles on the color wheel up and down the white line to adjust its saturation - how much of the current color is being added to the mix. Then, drag the color clockwise around the circle. Notice how the other colors adjust in relation to your current color. This is the "shape" that color harmony rule takes on the color wheel. Try this with several color schemes, noting the differencYou may also want to try changing the color mode from RGB to HSV, which is more intuitive to work with.
·color.adobe.com·
Adobe Color wheel
The Politics of Design
The Politics of Design
Modern examples and study of cultural and political ramifications of visual communication worldwide. Case studies of how Western design principles do and don’t apply in other cultures, and how to avoid major pitfalls in global design. Easy read, lots of great examples. Recommended for students who plan to go into visual communication professionally or who are interested in anti-racist design practice.
·thepoliticsofdesign.com·
The Politics of Design
Student Show
Student Show
Behance Student Show is a portfolio of design student work. See what other students like you are doing and get inspired for this semester!
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Student Show
How to Wrap a Texture or Pattern around an object in Photoshop CS6 - Australia Unwrapped
How to Wrap a Texture or Pattern around an object in Photoshop CS6 - Australia Unwrapped
How do you wrap a texture, pattern, or logo around an object? The answer is called a displacement map! Displacement maps are a special kind of distorting effect you use to change the way an image maps to geometry. It uses grayscale values to determine how close (or far away) a part of the distorted image should be. You're going to see some familiar key concepts in this advanced tutorial, including layer masks. You can find tons of different displacement map tutorials here.
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How to Wrap a Texture or Pattern around an object in Photoshop CS6 - Australia Unwrapped
Joyce Walsh Graphic Design Essentials Download
Joyce Walsh Graphic Design Essentials Download
A project-based primer on graphic design, Western graphic design history, and the Adobe Creative Suite, and the basis of this class. Recommended for students who are new to Adobe, graphic design principles, & design history, or who learn best through reading and following tutorials.
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Joyce Walsh Graphic Design Essentials Download