11/24/2008

Top Ten Websites to find Graphic Design Jobs

1. Coroflot
Corflot hosts over 80,000 graphic design portfolios and currently has over 700 job listings. Jobs are organized into a variety of design related categories. You can even subscribe to their job listing rss feed and get personalized job alerts!

2. Behance
The Behance job board is new, but growing fast so be sure to check their listings before the competition gets even rougher! I’ve seen some hidden gems hiding in their graphic design job board.

3. Authentic Jobs
Authentic jobs lists hot new graphic design jobs every week, both full-time and part-time.

4. AIGA Design Jobs
The AIGA’s reputation speaks for itself and its design jobs section is a great place to find some amazing job opportunities. Many large and well respected companies look for new and or experienced designers here.

5. Krop
Krop is one of the largest and most well known websites to find graphic design jobs. It has been around for a long time and new jobs are listed often by top agencies and design studios.

6. design:related
design:related showcases many great listings, including design management jobs, interactive jobs and many other design jobs requiring varying experience.

7. Freelance Switch
The job board over at freelance switch is another growing job listings website that has a variety of design, development, illustration and flash jobs.

8. Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine a large design related blog, also has a job board with design and development jobs. The listings are organized into full-time and freelance positions for easier navigation.

9. Fresh Web Jobs
Fresh Web Jobs tends to lean more towards web design related jobs, but there are jobs for graphic designers on this site and you don’t want to miss any listings!

10. Simply Hired
Simply Hired is a great site to check because it shows design job listings from many different websites. It also has filter options so you can easily weed out listings that do not appeal to you.

THE 100 GREATEST MOVIE POSTERS

You can find here a huge collection of the best movie posters all over the world.

Number 1
The Sin of Nora Moran
Number 2
American Beauty
Number 3
Pulp Fiction

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11/04/2008

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

Color adjustment tutorial
This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.

Vector Polishing Techniques
This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.

Advanced Black and White Conversion
In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3’s new improved Black and White features.

Actions Tutorial
Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones

101 Hidden Tips & Secrets

An overview of professional suggestions, tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.

Using Actions to Automate Tasks

While Adobe Photoshop has a host of automation tools, one of the most versatile and powerful of them is called an action. In fact, some of the other automation commands, such as batches and droplets, derive their functionality from actions.