Erin's Tips and Tricks to make your photos POP!
There's a lot you can do these days with a photo in Photoshop, or any other photo editing program (Lightroom, Aperture, Etc.) There's HDR processing, textures, cross-processing and tons of other ways to heavily manipulate an image. But sometimes knowing how to tweak an image just a bit, to give it that edge over a straight out of the camera shot is all it takes to impress your viewer. In my daily editing I use a variety of techniques, and listed below are 2 standbys! First up: Lighten and Brighten! (It's all about the Curves) Curve Tool: Keyboard Shortcut - Apple+M (Mac) or Control+M (PC) or

Are There No Women in Web Design?
Huh? There are no women in web design? But—scratches head—am not I a woman? Well, that would be a yes, however, if you attend one of the many web conferences or read about the "rock star" web designers—Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, Dan Cederholm—often women aren't mentioned or included. If they are, it is one of the same handful always mentioned—Veerle Pieters,

How to Write a Magnificent #$%&ing Tweet
Twitter is 140-character chunks of immediacy written by people that matter to you. Your friends, famous web designers, favorite directors and actors, or even childhood heroes. The oldest content on Twitter's homepage for me, right now, is one hour old. The oldest. The most recent tweet was written two minutes ago by some designer I've never met who lives in Canada. It reads:

A Must Read
One of the three known "perfect vellum" copies of The Gutenberg Bible, is owned and displayed at the Library of Congress. It is important to understand its impact, not just in the history of graphic design and typography, but as one of the most significant documents in the development of western culture. It was a remarkable typographic and technical achievement, Gutenberg had to overcome a variety of difficulties to produce the t

Adding wireframes to the mix.
A wireframe is very simple design that lays out the essential elements that go on each of your web pages. Why wireframe? I have always used wireframes as part of my development process. Whether it's a rough sketch up or an extensive digitized version, I feel that wireframes help properly structure the design and are invaluable to projects. If wireframing isn't part of your initial design process yet, you should definitely try it out! By laying out wireframes you can visualize without worrying about the colors, graphics, typography, alignment and other aesthetically pleasing details until later on. Instead you are able to focus on con