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Graphic Design: General Tools, Techniques and Tidbits
- AIGA - This is the professional association for design and is committed to advancing design
as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force.
- Layers Magazine - Layers online equips creative minds with up-to-the-minute tools. The Layers magazine website is brimming with tutorials for Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Flash—all the Adobe applications that design professionals need to quickly and easily produce dazzling results.
- LinkedIn Learning - Learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional
goals. Join today to get access to thousands of courses. This is a fee-based website.
Some local libraries offer free access so check out your county's website for information!
- Owl Design It! Pinterest Page – Connect with Professor Johnson’s Pinterest page where she pins lots of design ideas and tutorials.
- SPD - The Society of Publication Designers is dedicated to promoting and encouraging excellence
in editorial design. Our members are art directors, designers, photo editors, editors
and graphics professionals.
- The Comms Spot - Dr. Curtis Newbold is a fantastic visual communication professor who shares tips,
tutorials, infographics and more on his super cool website!
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Finding Great Images in a Click
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Always credit the author of images! Permission and image credit are not the same thing.
Also keep in mind that Google images typically have very small dimensions and will
look pixelated. Try a few of these sites to get started today.
- Flaticon - Free vectors and stickers.
- Flickr Creative Commons - This site gives full copyright to images without needing explicit permission from artist. Make sure to credit the author.
- Flickr regular site - All Flickr images available to the public. 99% of them are not for commercial use and must have permission from the author. For this class, image credit under the photo is sufficient.
- Graphics Wall - This site offers free vector graphics (mainly patterns, textures, badges).
- KSU Stock Photography - Images on this website are for use on KSU-related website, PowerPoints and printed
materials and are copyrighted by Kennesaw State University. They may not be reproduced
without prior, written consent from the Office of University Relations.
- The Noun Project - Icons and icon packs for presentations, websites, user interfaces, and more.
- Pixabay - Find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are published under Creative
Commons Public Domain deed CC0.
- Pexels - Free stock photos.
- Unsplash - Free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.
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- Adobe Color CC - Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations
from the Kuler community.
- Paletton - This site helps you choose a color palette based on an image or what kind of color
schemes you'd like to create (analogous, complementary, etc.)
- Pantone Color Finder - Looking for a specific Pantone color? Use the search bar to locate color options
in just a few clicks.
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- dafont.com - Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
- fontsquirrel.com - Font Squirrel scours the internet in search of FREE, highest-quality, designer-friendly, commercial-use fonts and presents them for easy downloading.
- urbanfonts.com - Features more than 8,000 free fonts, premium (paid) fonts and free dingbats.
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- Kern Type - This game allows you to test your kerning ability. It's fun, but also a bit addicting!
- The Font Game - Test your knowledge of font appearances and knowledge.
- Pen Tool Video Game - This game helps you practice clicking and dragging to make line segments with the
Pen tool.
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