Sunday morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, my neighbor sets the barbeque on fire and me my brain. My thoughts are wandering. My son uses to say: “Oh I am thinking about this and that!” Pretty unspecific and right in a certain way. So next weeks schedule comes to my mind, I get a certain desire for fresh buns and then: “Who gave me flowers last time?” Read the rest of this entry
Traditonally May 1st in my family started with the words “Good morning, it arrived!” My dad used to greet us this way. Even after we knew what he was up to, we had to ask: “Who?”
With a bright green he used to say: “May – it has arrived!”
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Once a year there is a bookfair in the lovely town of Leipzig. We at Helz-Design have a great experience in typesetting books. We layout books in the traditional way for printing but we also produce e-books. Therefore it was close enough to make a trip to the bookfair in Leipzig.
Saturday March 16th we took the train to Leipzig. We also planned to visit a friend in Leipzig, who spontaneously offered couch and bed. Hurray a weekend-trip. Read the rest of this entry
Wallpapers for March.
It started with a flower. In Germany we call this flower “Pril-Flower”. Pril is a dish soap and used to advertise with this kind of flower somewhere in the past. Read the rest of this entry
Just a few more days … Read the rest of this entry
I really believe we are going to have a white Christmas here in Berlin.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Understand typesetters, media designer and printers.
Today I would like to talk about bleed. Don’t be afraid, there is no bleeding involved.
Bleed is an area, which is set up around the document. This extends the actual printed area. After printing the job will be cut to the correct format. If you want to print a color up to the edges nobody will be able to cut directly at the edge. So we establish a kind of safety zone for cutting. That’s our bleed. Read the rest of this entry
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Understand typesetters, media designer and printers.
Computer graphics are basically composed with very small unites, called pixel.
Therefore lines or curves could appear jagged. You might get the idea of stairs or saw tooth. Read the rest of this entry
I am going to play a bit with some quotes and fonts I think are appropriate for the very quote. My target is to create some more nice timeline-covers.
Basic is always to use the image-processing program of your choice, in my case Photoshop.
Timeline covers are 850 x 315 pixel, you need a resolution of 72 dpi, since we are going to produce for web. I usually start with a file which has a transparent background.
Make sure that you always work with different layers.
Today I play a bit with the quote: “Princess in Training” …going to make a lovely timeline cover for a girl.
After opening my file I choose a foreground color in the pink range … #c714dc. I chose the tool “gradient” and the so called “Angle gradient” Read the rest of this entry
