Tag Archives: Design

Photoshop Tip: Set Print Design Work to CMYK

Applies to Windows XP / Vista.

Just a quick tip. I have just designed my new business cards and needed to ensure that the artwork was correctly set to the CMYK colour space needed by my printers.

There are two areas you need to check, ideally before you complete your work else there is probably gonna be some colour correction required.

  1. ‘Edit’ -> ‘Color Settings’ and ensure your working spaces and color management settings are setup correctly. If you are not sure about this, contact your printers.
  2. ‘Image’ -> ‘Mode’ ->’CMYK Color’.

Easy eh?

BenBishop.me.uk Redesign: Refracted

In the three years since I last redesigned benbishop.me.uk, my personal blog, there have been significant developments in web design. From CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) frameworks like The Blueprint, JavaScript library’s like jQuery to development WordPress themes like Sandbox, all have been designed to decrease development time from concept to implementation.

‘Refracted’ is the product of three years experience with commercial clients and the implementation of many of these techniques.

Design

I had the idea of the logo image in my head for a while and was quite determined to go with a light and vibrant design. Contrasting significantly with the previous ‘Satin’ theme, a light text on dark background theme, I wanted ‘Refracted’ to feel like a change from the old.

FreeStyled is now Live!

I am pleased to announce that FreeStyled has gone live. Profiling the best soccer freestylers from across the globe they are aiming to be the no.1 freestyle site on the web.

Using the latest web standards and methodology to design and code the site, Freestyled taps in to the social video site YouTube (utilising the api) adding a depth of content unavailable years ago. Take a look.

freestyled.co.ukĀ