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In the case of chocolate chip cookies, more is always better because what’s a chocolate chip cookie without the chips? Design Speak: In Photoshop, the Clone Tool allows you to copy one area of an image onto another area. Usually it’s used to remove unwanted elements in an image — like covering a blemish — but you can also copy a group of pixels and paste them over another group of pixels. The result is that the retouched area blends in seamlessly with the rest of the image. – Easy-to-digest design lessons prepared & served by @cosmicdesigners ☕️@starbucks

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What season is it? Well, yes, it’s Fall but it’s also the season for all things Pumpkin Spice! It’s a flavour that you either love or hate but the more difficult decision is whether to get it with or without whip cream. Luckily, the mask function in Photoshop allows you to have it both ways. Mask in or out, the good, the bad – and the spice…y. . Design Speak: The Mask is a layer in photoshop that allows the designer to hide or reveal parts of a layer without changing the contents of the layer. So if you’re feeling a bit indecisive about whether you want it with whip or without, remember – ’tis the season for oversized, cozy sweaters..😉 . – Easy-to-digest design lessons prepared & served by @cosmicdesigners ☕️@starbucks

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Design is a collaborative effort between the designer and client and a project can go through multiple iterations before it's finished. From the initial blossoming of an idea, the piece grows through many stages to final touches before it's ready to be consumed by the masses 🌸🍓🍫

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Celebrate 2017 by cheers-ing with some bubbly, no matter the glass shape. Champagne is champagne!

Design Speak:

When a design of a website is responsive, it refers to the flexibility of the design. The content – copy, images, design elements – is composed into a layout that adjusts to fit the platform it’s viewed on in terms of screen size, orientation, user behaviour, etc…

Whether you’re viewing the site on your phone or on a desktop computer, the content remains the same but is just arranges differently. It’s acts like liquid, fitting to the shape it’s put in, whether it’s in a long, elegant champagne flute or a short, wide whisky tumbler.

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Don’t take chances with your knowledge about colour theory and play the Wheel of Colour! The colour wheel creates a “logical structure” to understand how it is used and the context.

Design Speak: Primary Colours: Red , yellow + blue These are colours that cannot be created by the mixing of other pigments but all the other colours are derived from these.

Secondary Colours: Green, orange + purple The colours that are created by mixing the primary colours

Complementary Colours are colours directly opposite from each other on the colour wheel. Im combination, they create the most contract as well as stability.

Triadic Colours are evenly spaced apart on the colour wheel. The result is a very vibrant palette so one should be dominant while the other 2 hues be used as accent.

Warm Colours are made with orange, yellow and red. They appear to come closer or advance

Cool Colours are made with blue, green and purple. They appear to recede and create space.

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Easy-to-digest design lessons prepared & served by Cosmic Design.