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Tutorial: Turn Your Sketches Into Clean, Sharp Vector Art

By Georgia Otto | Published: 03.25.2009
When you scan a sketch into your computer, the lines are often light and have fuzzy edges. Resizing the scan blurs or pixelates the image. You can use Photoshop to darken the lines, but they’re still not going to be as clean and sharp as if you vectored the sketch. Vectoring your scanned sketches is great [...]
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Design Spotlight – Feb ‘09 Winner – Now Accepting Entries for Mar ‘09!

By Georgia Otto | Published: 02.27.2009
Congratulations to the folks at SimpleBits for winning the February 2009 Locus of Control Design Spotlight Award for the Foamee logo (be sure to visit the Foamee site and mouse over the logo to get the full effect ). This was the first logo-specific design spotlight contest. A total of 31 votes were [...]
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Design Spotlight – Jan ‘09 Winner – Now Accepting Entries for Feb ‘09!

By Georgia Otto | Published: 01.30.2009
Congratulations to Alan Houser for winning the January 2009 Locus of Control Design Spotlight Award for his design studio’s website, Creative Component. A total of 22 votes were collected for 4 nominated websites. Creative Component won by a margin of 2 votes. Details of the original nominations can be found here.
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