Posts Tagged ‘Design’
Inkscape – How to Draw a Curving Chain
Inkscape is a wonderful FREE vector drawing program, almost as powerful as Adobe Illustrator. If you are a commercial artist working for a Madison Avenue advertisement agency the chances are you’ll need Illustrator since it became the industry standard. However, if you are a technical writer generating relatively straight forward illustrations, you can create amazing…
Read MoreHow to Draw with Illustrator: FILL and STROKE
© Ugur Akinci TOOL 4: Fill and Stroke Every Illustrator object is made up of 2 parts: Fill and Stroke.Or the INSIDE of a shape (Fill) and its BORDERS (Stroke). In the case of a line, there’s only stroke and no fill. If a line does have a fill, it actually becomes a very thin…
Read MoreHow to Draw with Illustrator: SHAPES and ARROWS
© Ugur Akinci TOOL 3: Shapes and Arrows Click on the Shape Tool to display the various shape-drawing tools available: In the tool bar, the last-used tool is displayed. Tip: After selecting the tool, if you click on your canvas WITHOUT drawing anything, you’ll display the measurement dialog box. For example, here is the one…
Read MoreHow to Draw with Illustrator: GUIDES
© Ugur Akinci TOOL 2: Guides You need to use guides to position objects correctly relative to one another and precisely on an Illustrator grid. SNAP ON guides are a delight to use since objects snap to them like iron fillings snap to a magnet. CREATE the Guides by first turning on your RULERS. Click…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – 7 Time-Tested Principles to Design a Cover For a Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci If you are a technical writer working for a company as a payroll employee, you might be working with corporate design guidelines that define what you can and cannot do to design the cover of your technical document. But what if you are a “lone writer,” an independent contractor working out of…
Read MoreHow to Draw with Illustrator: LAYERS
© Ugur Akinci Add the title “Technical Illustrator” to your job title in a hurry and earn more! Adobe Illustrator is a bottomless well in terms of its capabilities. But you can’t postpone drawing forever until you learn “everything” that Adobe Illustrator can do. You can take so many classes and read so many books.…
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What is an “Effective Megapixel”?
Introduction There are a number of digital cameras marketed this year according to their “effective megapixels.” So what the heck is an “Effective Megapixel”? Definition of Effective Megapixel Effective Megapixel is the number of megapixels that a camera sensor has to produce an image of a given size. The term “megapixel” is used in photography…
Read MoreBook Covers Created in Inkscape
© Ugur Akinci Inkscape is a free open-source vector drawing program, similar to Adobe Illustrator. I am aware that nothing can match the vast capabilities of the Illustrator. But for my own purposes Inkscape is doing just fine. I have for example created the following book covers for my new report on Article Marketing, executed…
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