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Do you find yourself spending way too long fiddling with the formatting of text and headings in Microsoft Word? Do you work with longer documents and find it difficult keeping your formatting consistent across the document? Do you find it time-consuming and repetitive when you need to update your formatting? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then you would probably benefit from using styles in Microsoft Word. Continue reading “Styles in Microsoft Word”
Illustrator, Adobe’s drawing and design program, can be used to design and create anything from a simple logo to complex illustrations including text, but underpinning all of that is the notion of the vector-based image. This is in complete contrast to the raster-based world of Photoshop (where everything is made of pixels), because in illustrator our images are object-based. Continue reading “Raster and Vector Graphics Explained in Illustrator”
Everyone knows that Photoshop is an extremely powerful program which can be used to create a rich variety visual of materials for the web, print, animation and 3D. However for first-time users it can seem a bit of a monster, far more difficult to operate than other programs they have used. For starters, you might ask why you can’t just simply click on the things you see in a picture in order to select them? The reason is that, while the majority of programs used by most people on a day-to-day basis are vector-based, Photoshop is a raster-based, or bitmap program. In order to tame the beast, you need firstly to understand what that means and how it makes working in Photoshop different. By the way, the words Raster and bitmap are synonyms and thus can be used interchangeably. So what do they mean? Continue reading “Bitmap Graphics in Photoshop”