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I am really excited because today I came across this fantastic FREE download of Web 2.0 gradients for Photoshop. As a web designer, these are a huge time saver and very useful.

Gradients are one of the most important aspects to be considered while designing a Web 2.0 Site. Even if a simple button is of a gradient. So here is a cool set of Gradients put together in an Adobe Photoshop Gradient file (.grd).

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There are many successful logos out there. Recently while creating a logo for a client I was doing some research, and started to take notice of the most common properties of a successful logo. In my opinion a Logotype is the most common in regards to the most recognized logos in the world.

In basic design, there are 3 types of logos. Symbol, Logotype and Combination.

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I have some great advice for any Graphic Design student, or anyone coming into the industry. These are in no particular order, just things that I wanted to share that have helped me.

- Get your personal portfolio online. The sooner you buy your dot com and throw a splash page up there, the better. It helps to at least get you ranking with Google, that way when you are ready to put you final site up, you already have a base.

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Just wanted to say Happy Valentine’s Day to all my Graphic Designers out there.

Yesterday Apple released an update. No big deal, right?

Wrong. Photoshop CS3 has been giving every designer I know, trouble. It freezes when applying blending options, dragging in Smart Objects and pretty much anything that seems to use a moderate amount of RAM. This results in many wasted hours of design time, when you need to Force Quit Photoshop once an hour, all day long.

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I have a great tutorial for you here on turning an image into a mosaic using Photoshop.

There are a lot of different ways to do this, each with a different result. I’m not saying mine is the correct one, or even the best. It just has a really cool screen printed look when finished, which I really like.

Start of with the picture of your choice, then follow these steps.

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I have a great tutorial for you here on creating a good looking page curl using Photoshop. I think it looks especially good if you use a black and white photo to start with.

This is one of my favorite things to use when doing web design, or a brochure design. You can also take it a step further by putting a tack or piece of tape at the top of the image.

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