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Print Your Photos Like A Pro At Home by: Granny’s Mettle Even with the lowest pixel available in your digital camera, you too can produce photos and prints at home that can look better than those made in photo labs. Digital photo printing has come to a point where everybody is given the choice to [...]
Printing a Panorama at Home by: Granny’s Mettle When you choose to print your photo panorama-style yourself, here are a few suggestions to help you: You can use paper larger than your printer specs The size of the paper depends on the size of the slot in the printer. For most home printers, this slot [...]
When Good Color Goes Bad… by: Granny’s Mettle Even with the popularity of digital technology, and the availability of equipment and software associated with it, many printing firms are still slow to make the changes needed to upgrade their business. More so when it comes to digital photography. More often than not, most typical printing [...]
Scrap Booking Online: Word Perfect or Corel Graphics Suite? by: Granny’s Mettle Scrapbooks are very popular these days. I think that almost everyone wanted to capture family histories and stories in any which way they can. And with the onset of digital technology, scrap booking has even extended to newsletters and journals with photos and [...]
10 Seconds Is All It Takes… (How To Grab The Attention Of Your Audience With Your Web Site) by: Granny’s Mettle FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary. FACT: People who use the internet are [...]
Anti-Aliasing for Great-Looking Text Graphics by: Granny’s Mettle Macromedia has a wonderful software application that helps users create great-looking text graphics by using anti-aliasing capabilities. In Fireworks MX 2004, artists and designers can create readable and attractive text graphics by substituting shades of the font color around the lines and curves, which otherwise can be [...]
Postcards: Effective Marketing Tool by: Granny’s Mettle When you’re having a hard time choosing which print media to use for your products and services, then think of postcards. Postcards are one of the marketing tools that can effectively deliver your message to your target clients. So why postcards? Here are ten reasons to market with [...]
Questions To Ask Yourself To Prevent Costly Errors On Your Printing Jobs by: Granny’s Mettle I remember having to write about an article on how your graphic designer can cost you money. Sure, your graphic designer can have all the blame when you find out later that your material cannot be run through the press [...]
5 Basic Rules on Typography by: Granny’s Mettle Whenever you get projects for designing graphics for different media materials, there are certain rules you need to know before venturing to the complexities and elaborate world of graphic design. One of the elements considered in graphic design is typography. This is how you utilize and create [...]
Starting Your Desktop Publishing Project At The End by: Granny’s Mettle The only place where you can find the beginning to start at the end is during a typical desktop publishing project. As one designer would relate, for all practical purposes, the process of culling information starts at the end in the printing process. These [...]