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Infographic Tutorials How to Make a State Grid Map in R Something of a cross between a reference table and a map, the state grid provides equal space to each state and a semblance of the country to quickly pick out individual states. How to Make Animated Line Charts in R Sometimes it's useful to animate the multiple lines instead of showing them all at once. Blog.SpoonGraphics How To Create Digital Particle Waves in Adobe Illustrator The blend tool in Adobe Illustrator is often used to create abstract wave graphics, but I’ve been experimenting with some additional adjustments and discovered some handy tricks to create sci-fi inspired digital particle waves. This kind of imagery perfectly complements hi-tech interface designs with colourful data visualisation effects, or it could be used to create abstract art in its own right. We’ll create the initial effect in Adobe Illustrator, where I’ll show you a few options for randomising the result, then switch over to Adobe Photoshop for some extra colour enhancements to really boost the vibrancy.

Cinco webs de cursos y tutoriales que debes conocer Con la revolución de la fotografía digital a mediados de la década pasada y el nacimiento de redes sociales como Deviantart y Flickr, donde cada vez más aficionados y artistas podían interactuar de manera rápida entre ellos, es normal que el crecimiento de las webs didácticas y de distintos resources para fotógrafos, como por ejemplo las páginas de donde descargar presets de Lightroom gratuitos de las que te hablamos hace poco, fuese igual de rápido que el desarrollo de la disciplina en sí. Como fotógrafa amateur que soy, y completamente autodidacta, tengo probablemente más que agradecer a Youtube y sus partners que a cualquier otra persona. Desde tutoriales de iluminación básica para mejorar tus fotos de la manera más sencilla hasta complicados tutoriales fantasía para crear efectos digitales completamente increíbles.

How to create mood boards: 40 pro tips and tools When trying to convey a design idea to win pitches and get an early sign-off, moods, feelings and visions can be difficult to communicate verbally. So designers will often use mood boards: a collection of textures, images and text related to a design theme as a reference point. Mood boards help others to 'get inside our heads' as they show what you're thinking and feeling about a creative idea and your intended vision for a piece of work. The freelancer's guide to cash flow management An ex-freelance writer, I appreciate how infuriating the financial side of freelancing can be. At times your flush, at others you’re crushed, forced to turn over settees and flail around for cash. A lack of marketing, a loss of a client, mere bone idleness on your part - there’s a number of things that can fuel a famine in your finances, but, more often than not, poor cash flow management will shoulder most of the blame. In-house at an accountancy firm for just over a year now, I’ve seen how integral good cash flow management is to a freelancer’s success. So, drawing upon my own experiences and some of the office expertise, here’s a brief course in cash flow management for any of you freelancers being crippled by a lack of cash...

90 top-class typography tutorials The web is brimming with typography tutorials, but many are low quality and others are very out of date. So we’ve trawled the internet to uncover the diamonds in the rough, in the form of 50 top-quality typography tutorials, to bring your knowledge and skills up to speed. Get Creative Cloud 45 Rules for Creating a Great Logo Design Posted September 30, 2008 / Reading time: 3 minutes This list is an exploration of design principles used in some of the world’s most famous logos. At the same time, the list was created as a way for designers to question themselves and the creative techniques they use when creating a logo design. Forcing the reader to reflect not only on the actual list, but also on their reaction to each listed insight, the last rule is the most important.

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