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  • Page-Peel

    Quick and Easy Page Peel Drop Shadows – Photoshop

    Quick and Easy Page Peel Drop Shadows – Photoshop from Ryan Quintal on Vimeo. Ryan Quintal from QuintalDesigns.com show you how to make the stylized page peel drop shadows in Adobe Photoshop in about 5 minutes.

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    Design Sanity Tip: Let yourself enjoy something

    A couple of days ago, a client approached me who was a friend of a friend. As opposed to being cynical and snarky at the idea of helping them with their design needs, and having a small phone chat, I allowed myself to actually get...

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    Multiply, Screen, and Overlay – Blending Modes in Photoshop

    Three Blending Modes in Photoshop that I love using are the Multiply, Screen, and Overlay modes. I decided to take some time to create a mini-quick-tip for these blend modes to show people a real-world example of how these would work in their photos.  Check...

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    Design Sanity Tip: We all make mistakes

    I like to think that when I design an email, that it puts me a little further into the loony bin. The complete lack of web standards in some of these awful email clients (I’m looking at you Outlook), has made me go a bit...

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    Starcraft – The Complete Video Story

    Starcraft 2: Terran – Wings of Liberty hits the shelves at midnight tonight, and before you run out and pick up your copy, make sure you get the full experience by knowing the entire story thus far. If you haven’t seen my unboxing video, check...

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  • Cookies

    Getting serious about web transparency

    Recently, on a trip to All Things Digital I stumbled across a completely refreshing notice called “A note about tracking cookies” outlining what tracking cookies are, how the website was using them, describing their relationship with their advertising partnerships, and educating the user on how...

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    Illustrator for Photoshop Users — QD Live

    If your next project requires you to use illustrator, and you’re a photoshop power user, This session is going to discuss the finer points of using the Pen tool, how to handle layers, and an overall overview of Adobe Illustrator

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  • Northern Lights

    Create a Dazzling Aurora Borealis – Video Tutorial

    It’s time to create some Northern Lights. Ryan from QuintalDesigns demonstrates how to light up the vector night sky in this video tutorial. Using gradients, blur effects and more you will learn how to create a vector Aurora Borealis in Adobe Illustrator.

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    The Skills Every Designer Needs

    So you want to be a designer! Great! Welcome aboard the Enterprise, Number One. The truth is when you’re considering a college, or wanting to peruse this on your own outside a formal education, or you are even starting a budding interest in high school...

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  • iMockups for iPad

    iMockups for iPad – Review

    Today, I took a full fledged spin of the Application iMockups for my iPad. I have to say I had a lot of fun creating these wireframes for my portfolio website RyanQuintal.com that I’m working on for School.

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