Edukris: 2012

New year wishes

Corel Draw 10 Must Have/ Free/ Macros/Pluigns

1. Oberon Color Replacer for CorelDRAW/Corel DESIGNER :- This macro allows you replace one color with another quickly. (free)

2. LimitColors Macro Module:- to limit the number of colors used in a drawing.(free)

3. Copy To Adobe Illustrator - This CorelDRAW/Corel DESIGNER macro set allows to easily exchange graphics between CorelDRAW, Corel DESIGNER and Adobe products such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and others(free)

4. CropMarks module:- to create cropmarks, registration marks, densitometer scale and other prepress marks around selected object(free)

5.GDG Doc Font Lister for X5 and below : -Free macro that creates a list of fonts used in the document.(free)

6. GDG Globe Maker by John for X5 and below :-A simple macro that creates a cool 3D looking globe. Options for longitude and latitude lines count as well as position.(free)

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7. GDG Monogram Round Font and FREE Macro for X5 and below :- This is set of 3 fonts that include letters that can be arranged to make a round monogram design or logo.

8. GDG Selection Saver by John for X5 and below :- A great macro for saving selections in a page. You can close document and selections will remain saved. Very handy for those who do not use layers.

9. GDG Round Text by John for X5 and below :- Quick and easy way to Round text above and below a shape or circle.

10. GDG Multi Text Changer by John for X5 and below Quickly change artistic text strings. Also includes a numbering function. Works in text with effect and multiple text selections, and on multiple pages, all at once.

top/Best/Must have Indesign Plugins/Script

1. Extreme BarCodes allows you to create barcodes directly in InDesign.

2. Badia Exportools:- automate the process of saving document pages as individual files

in several popular formats, like EPS, PostScript, PDF, Rich or Plain Text, and JPEG.

3. Claquos 2 :- Pie Chart Builder for InDesign

4. Wordalizer 1.25:-Create Word Clouds in InDesign

5. FontGazer:-This free Mac/Windows InDesign plugin can tap the Fonts.com library of more than 150,000 fonts.

6. the PatternMaker :- For creative postscript pattern making.

7. PDF2ID:- Convert PDFs to editable InDesign files. Convert XPS to InDesign files.

8. Q-to-InDesign Batch 2.0:- automatically convert your old PageMaker and QuarkXPress files into InDesign format.

9. Catalog Extreme 4.0:- automate the catalog making in indesign.

Adobe Illustrator best/Must have Plugins

1. Fold Up 3D - to convert package layout to 3d packet.

2. DGI SignSymbols for Adobe Illustrator CSthrough CS6 :- official signs/Symbols - great for web sites, brochures, posters, or environmental graphics.

3. Code Zebra TechSymbol libraries : - very useful technical symbol library.

4. Multiple Page 4.:- Help you to create easly multipage document.

5. GDS Drop3D:- Help you to 3d object library and import and place 3d objects in illustrator.

6. Phantasm CS version 2:- Color adjustment plugin for illustrator work like photoshop

7.SubScribe Designer:- is a great addition to Adobe Illustrator providing essential design control

8. Andrew’s Vector Plug-ins Collection:- Great collection for pattern,Filters, shapes etc

After effects Best/Must have Pluigns

Element 3D:- the 3D Object based particle engine.Best for creating animated motion graphics using 3D text and models.

MAGIC BULLET SUITE:- Powerful color & finishing tools for filmmakers everywhere

Trapcode Particular:- The industry standard particle system for After Effects

Primatte Keyer 5.0:-The industry-loved chromakeyer for fast, automatic keys

ToonIt 2.1:- Turn video into a cartoon or stylized look with a click

Holomatrix 1.2 :-Get the look of sci-fi holograms & digital distortion

Trapcode Suite 12.1

Master layer in corel

Master layer is a great feature of coreldraw that help us to implement a master design to all the pages. Like header with book name to all pages.

student face a common problem in corel that the master layer remain on top of all the page layers to solve this problem you have to just put any of the page layer above the guideline layer of same page.

or go through this tuts

Step 1:- open a new file.
goto window menu>Object manager(layer of coreldraw)

Step 2: on master page right click and create a master layer.

Step 3:Create a master design like background and a footer in this tutorial. Add pages by clicking on page icon in status bar. You will see same design on all pages.

Step 4:Now on page one layer type your name. you will see after deselecting this text will hide to the master layer.

Step 5:To solve this problem just drag the page one layer just above guide layer.

Web Designer Portfolio contains

Web Designer Portfolio

1. Web Templates at least 3 done in software like Photoshop.

2. Any one of the created template converted into Website.

3. At least 5 page website like Home , About us, Contact, Product/Services, Gallery etc

4. Animated web banners done in JavaScript or flash for same templates

5. Intro Animation for any of the same website

6. Contact page must have form validation done in JavaScript/php

7. Different kinds of menubar/ Navigation done in css.

8.One PSD to HTMl work(as they are currently in demand).

3d pen in illustrator

Follow the step in the attached image to create 3d pen in Adobe illustrator

Using Place command place the pen image

Using pen tool trace the half part(profile) in parts like

upper part

main body

lower part

Niddle

Align them

Fill them with the

midtone color(

not very dark or very

light of the same image)

Apply 3d Revolve

effectson all

Change from left to

Right

All rotation to zero

Change light setting

indide more option to

this

trace the clip

Change color to
Grey and Apply
edtrude to it

(sample image is downloaded through google search)

Best Photoshop Pluigns

These are the best Pluigins for Photoshop.

1.Topaz Lab Bundle:- Every product is good. But these are the best
photoFXlab
DeNoise
Detail
DeJPEG
Clean

2.Vertus
Fluid Mask 3 :- I have used this pluign. After using this pluigin i hope you will never need to use channel masking.

3.Virtual Photographer :- Good pluigin for photographers a bit like adobe light room.

Vector Character tutorial in illustrator/Corel Draw

Follow the Steps shown in image below to create Vector of any character in illustrator

Callout and their Meaning

Movie Poster Designing Concept

After a long Observation on different Movie poster and their layout.These are the main point we must keep in mind while designing movie poster

attached movie poster is downloaded through Google search and is here just to clear the point mention here

1. Movie Name in a font which talk about movie theme(Royal fonts for epic movie, Rock solid font for action movies etc)

2. Matte/ Composite image of movie which must give hint of story line

3. Punch line/Slogan/ one liner :- a single sentence which can summarize movie.

4. Producer name.

5.Production house/ Music house name/logo.

6.Releasing date.

7. Name of Story writer, Music Director, Lyrics Writer, Screen play .

8. Name of main cast.

new website layout for arena animation Netaji subash place

www.arenansp.com

http://www.arenansp.com/index.html
giving our center site a new look

http://www.staritsol.com/

Now supporting staritsol for its web works.

Basic For all Advertisement

¨Concept(Memorable)

¨Focus on Product(image or text showing clearly the product)

¨Target Audience(color theme and planning should be as per audience)

¨Slogan/Punch Line

¨Name and logo Of brand must be visible

¨Information related to Product.

Simple Flash Gallery from folder Image

Hi, Follow the folling steps to create a simple and good image gallery.

Step1:- In gallery folder place 10 image with serial name like image1.jpg, image2.jpg etc.

Step2. start flash take as3 file.

Step3. on layer 1 type the following script.

var a=1;
var xpos:Number=200;
var ypos:Number=200;

var loader:Loader=new Loader();
var defaultimg:URLRequest=new URLRequest("gallery/image1.jpg");
loader.load(defaultimg);
loader.x=xpos;
loader.y=ypos;

addChild(loader);

btn_nxt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,fn_next);

function fn_next(event:MouseEvent) {
removeChild(loader);
a++;
var nimg:URLRequest=new URLRequest("gallery/image"+a+".jpg");
loader.load(nimg);
addChild(loader);
loader.x=xpos;
loader.y=ypos;

}

btn_pre.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,fn_prev);

function fn_prev(event:MouseEvent) {
removeChild(loader);
a--;
var nimg:URLRequest=new URLRequest("gallery/image"+a+".jpg");
loader.load(nimg);
addChild(loader);
loader.x=xpos;
loader.y=ypos;

}

Step4. on layer 2. create 2 buttons change their instance name as shown in image

Button next instance name:-btn_nxt

Button previous instance name:-btn_pre

Step5:-save flash file outside the gallery folder and run it as swf..

Finally completed http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/aboutus.html

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/holidays.html

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/religioustour.html

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/specialoffers.htm l

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/contact.html

MygoodLuckTrip.com is a leading indian travel agent and tour operator company.We provides the best tour travel packages that perfectly suit the budget of traveler and holiday seeker.We offer the best deals in flight bookings, hotel bookings and holiday packages. Best Indian destinations like Goa, Kerala, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, parts of North East India and Ladakh are amongst our main focus. We serve thousands of tourists traveling to some of these destinations.We have the best Honeymoon packages.You can easily book/cancel IRCTC train tickets on MygoodLuckTrip.Creating happy and satisfied travellers is our motto!

Working on Website Mygoodlucktrip.com

http://www.mygoodlucktrip.com/index.html

http://createsk8.com/about/
http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/35-free-abstract-illustrator-brushes
http://www.melsbrushes.co.uk/?cat=209
http://www.designzzz.com/adobe-illustrator-brushes-free/
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/30-beautiful-illustrator-brush-and-symbol-collection/
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/10/illustrator-brush-sets.html
http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/a-huge-compilation-of-60-free-illustrator-brushes/
http://inspirationfeed.com/graphics/brushes/50-beautiful-free-adobe-illustrator-vector-brushes/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/illustrator-brushes/
http://designm.ag/resources/adobe-illustrator-brushes/
http://www.graphics-illustrations.com/free-download-adobe-illustrator-floral-brushes

Web Directories

Graphic Design Portfolio

Graphic design portfolio

Many graphic designing student have query what a graphic design portfolio contain?

The answer is your best work .

1. for a virtual company.

For Example-

1. Brochure

2. Visiting card

3. News letter

4. Leaflet

5. News paper add

6. CD/DVD level and packet

7. Packet of any product

8. Banner/holdings

9. Pocket Calendar

10. Catalog/Booklet

11. Calender

12. Bottle Label.

13. Carry Bag design

14. Greeting card

15. Web Banner

16. Web Template

also it must contain

2. a Brand Identity. of company

3. Works using Standard Size.

4.Typographic

5.Maximum original contains

Free Fonts

For Typography and to give feel to your content you need suitable style of fonts.These are some site which offers free fonts.

http://www.ffonts.net/
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Hindi:-
http://www.angelfire.com/pop/top4/fonts/
http://www.ffonts.net/Hindi.html
http://www.hindityping.com/free-189-hindi-fonts/

Graphic Design Portfolio

Many students ask query what type of portfolio they need to create.The some good example of portfolio:-
http://justcreativedesign.com/portfolio/

http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/15-good-graphic-design-portfolios/

http://www.spoongraphics.co.uk/portfolio.html

http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/portfolio/print/

http://sagemedia.ca/foliodigital.php

http://www.india-designers.net/business-card-design.php

Corel Draw Tutorial Sites

http://www.advancedartist.com/
http://coreldesigner.wordpress.com/tutorials/
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022690654&cid=1047022692504
http://designrfix.com/inspiration/60-hot-tutorials-web
http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/CorelDraw.aspx
http://www.entheosweb.com/tutorials/coreldraw/floral_logo_design.asp
http://www.cyberdesignz.com/blog/category/graphic-design/
http://designer-info.com/Writing/corel_draw_12.htm

Edukris

New year wishes

Corel Draw 10 Must Have/ Free/ Macros/Pluigns

top/Best/Must have Indesign Plugins/Script

Adobe Illustrator best/Must have Plugins

After effects Best/Must have Pluigns

Trapcode Suite 12.1

Master layer in corel

Web Designer Portfolio contains

3d pen in illustrator

Best Photoshop Pluigns

Vector Character tutorial in illustrator/Corel Draw

Callout and their Meaning

Movie Poster Designing Concept

new website layout for arena animation Netaji subash place

Basic For all Advertisement

Completed first freelance E-learning project

http://thefilmmakerzworldwide.com/

Simple Flash Gallery from folder Image

starhometutor.com

uninavheights.co

illustrator free brushes sites

Photoshop Pattern Free Download Sites

Just completed aadityacomputer.com

Completed Innovationwindows.com

Free download photoshop shapes

free Photoshop brusheses

Graphic Design Portfolio

Free Fonts

Graphic Design Portfolio

Top Photoshop Tutorials sites

After effects tutorials Site

Corel Draw Tutorial Sites

Things Web Developers Must Include in Their Portfolio