An Analysis of Comic Sans
Comic Sans | Type Set The bane of most typographers, the “dreaded” Comic Sans. Why is it so polarizing a font and how did it come about? Well let’s dive deep into Comic Sans and discuss what it is and how to use it effectively. Origins of Comic Sans Comic Sans was developed by Vincent Connare and is categorized as a “casual” script typeface featuring non-connecting letters. Taking inspiration from comics, the font was designed to be used in informal documents and child education. Connare had previously developed fonts for applications with [...]
Create a Custom Crop Aspect Ratio in Adobe Lightroom
Create a Custom Crop Aspect Ratio | Adobe Lighroom Tutorial With the release of Adobe Lightroom 4.3 in June 2021 Adobe released a new feature called the Custom Crop Aspect Ratio. While not that exciting, this new feature allows users to quickly enter an aspect ratio to create an image crop natively within Adobe Lightroom. Also, users can select from their list of previously used aspect ratios once everything has been entered. So if users need a certain ratio for a set of images, the preset can be made efficiently. Creating custom crop aspect ratios is [...]
Creating Multiple Versions of Different Edits
Creating Multiple Versions of Photo Edits | Adobe Lightroom Tutorial With the release of Adobe Lightroom 4.0 in October 2020 Adobe updated a feature they titled Versions from the 3.3 release with Auto Versions. Versions allows photographers and editors to quickly preview multiple variations of edits across the same photo. Creating Versions as well as working with Auto Versions is simple and the following 7 steps contains all the information needed to use the feature efficiently. The Problem Before, if you closed out of the program Lightroom would not create [...]
Why Create Mockups? The Importance of Mockups
Why Create Mockups? The Importance of Mockups You may ask yourself, why create mockups? Imagine this scenario as it has happened to many designers, including myself. You labor over a series of designs for hours on end. Tooling and whittling away the design to perfection. You send the client the design, and they don’t see your vision and in turn hate it. Now they may hate it for a number of other reasons, however odds are good they never saw your full vision. That leads me to the not so shocking conclusion that mockups are just [...]
What are the Basic Color Schemes: An Overview
What are the Basic Color Schemes: An Overview Color Schemes are an important part of visual design. In our third part of our series on Color Theory we will cover the basic color schemes. This is more a general overview than a deep dive into the various iterations and their histories as understanding and experimentation are key components to creativity. These aren’t hard and fast rules but rather different recipes for baking a cake. Check out part one or part two if you missed those articles. Monochromatic A monochromatic color [...]
