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Color Theory in 5 Minutes
Color theory is a part of design that transcends any particular discipline. It's as important when decorating a house as it is when you design a website. Knowing how to apply color theory is an almost guaranteed way to make things look better and more professional. Here are some of the basic fundamentals of color, just enough to get you started. The color wheel that most of us have seen since we were in elementary school, was invented in the early 1700s by Sir Isaac Newton. It is still used today as the basis of color theory.
read moreTurn Handwriting Into a Font
Typography is an important art that has made its way into many forms of design. One important principle of good typography is choosing the proper font for the task at hand. And while there are several great type foundries that make incredibly beautiful fonts, sometimes you just need a more personal touch. Maybe you’re making a comic and you want to add the text digitally or you want to add a more authentic look to a “handwritten” part of a design. The bottom line is that you want to turn your handwriting into a custom font
read moreRevive a Dead Laptop Battery
Recently I’ve had to use my laptop without being connected to an outlet. I found that just minutes after I turned on my laptop, it would shut down. I thought that that constant draining and charging had killed my battery, but I found out that there was another cause. I thought that using the laptop so often on an outlet with the battery attached, plus the constant discharges and recharges from constantly putting my laptop in sleep-mode had killed the battery life, but I was surprised that the battery only lasted about 10 minutes. I went...
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