A resource guide to duotone for artists and designers

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A resource guide to duotone for artists and designers

Resources

Key quotes:

  • "Chinese Version here — 中文版 Get inspired before starting the design process! These are the websites where the world’s top design talents share their works and ideas Behance Dribble Awwwards Mobile UI Design Patterns UI Sources (Real App Interaction) Bestfolios Muzil Design Inspiration Pinterest (Image Search Engine) http://www.pinterest.com Follow my Pinterest here: https://www.pinterest.com/jeffreyleehk/ Pick color for you design has never been an easy task."
  • "Adobe Color Color Tool — Material Design Muzil Color Palette Generator Colorable (Color contrast tester) ColorBox Web Gradient Brand Colors Color Hunt Drawing illustration could be time consuming, why not start with these template and use it as a draft/underlay and build your design on top of that?."
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Key quotes:

  • "Here is some advice, as printed in Publish Your Photography Book, Revised and Updated by Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius D."
  • "For color work, digital files provided in RGB format will need to be converted to CMYK format for printing."
  • "The photographer would need to provide either just the prints for scanning or just grayscale high-resolution files."
  • "Black-and-white work is often printed in duotone or tritone, and these files can not be proofed digitally."
  • "The only difference now is that those 4 x 5 transparencies are digitally scanned to produce files used for reproducing the photographs."
  • "Chickey: If an artist can produce a set of prints at the scale they will be used in the book relatively easily, that is ideal."
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Key quotes:

  • "In short, UI·UX design is ‘a scientific process through which we solve problems regarding functionality and the display of information under certain constraints.’ For instance, the following is a UX Design Problem: UX Design Problem: If the Client is selling 120 different types of mattresses, each a variant of the other, it is foreseeable that the customer will not be able to distinguish between product #119 and product #120."
  • "(3) Creative Directors These are designers who actively find solutions to design problems, however they are capable of working in teams and leading a project (actively participating throughout even the development phases) to its completeness."
  • "Understanding the product and how design manipulates people into making purchasing decisions is important in the 21st century."
  • "Designers must analyze what functionality is included within each section, and make sure that the functionalities don’t contradict each other (e.g."
  • "if the service includes a reward point system, it must be redeemable at the checkout section) For instance, take a look at the Netflix video streaming page on the left."
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Key quotes:

  • "There are hundreds or thousands of UX resources, this is my compilation, probably you know a lot of them, hope you find something new."
  • "Just in one sentence: With hard work and love dedicated to my 7K friends: Alba Díaz Díaz, Guillermo Pinto, Marta Boixo, Octavio, Ana Sobrino, Alberto Corroto, Guillermo Alcocer, Víctor Manasé, Ruth de la Torre and Virginia Aranaz."
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Key quotes:

  • "This month’s roundup comes with some amazing freebies for you to download and try out; including line icons, material design assets, gesture icons, mobile app presentation kits, a restaurant menu template, branding stationery mockups, watercolor illustrations, device mockups, stunning web and mobile UI kits, fancy fonts for all purposes, PSD templates, and landing page themes for WordPress and Bootstrap, stacks of development tools, a terminal formatting tool, and much much more."
  • "Picnic is a cool restaurant menu template that was designed in a lavender theme color featuring pastel colors it comes available in Ai, InDesign, and PSD format files."
  • "A minimal style UI kit containing several items ready for eCommerce purposes available in PSD format and 6 nice colors for its product card, drop-down menu, postcard, icons bar, text inputs, and all other elements."
  • "Colorado is a clean UI pack that features a minimal style for its 3 shadow-drop and variation of elements presented in base tone colors available in both PSD and Ai format."
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