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If you design for print, and specifically for materials that will be printed on traditional offset lithography presses, you either already know about Total Ink, or really should know. In offset lithography, your designs are replicated on paper by little dots of ink of various colors (typically, Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black, or “CMYK”, and “spot” colors). These little dots of ink hit the paper in what is known as a halftone pattern. If you bust out your loupe and take a look at anything printed this way, you will see the halftone patter. It looks sort of like this:

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Without going into too much gory detail, anti-aliasing is the term used to describe how the edges of shapes get rendered with pixels. With anti-aliasing turned off, pixels are either just “on” or “off” and you see jagged edges. As we will see later, in some scenarios turning off anti-aliasing is the best option. With anti-aliasing on, the edges of shapes have semi-transparent pixels applied to give a smoother appearance.

But as you can see in Photoshop, anti-aliasing isn’t just “on” or “off”, you have options:

Strong, Crisp, Smooth….. But which one is best?
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In this day and age, it’s not just graphic designers and programmers who really benefit from having a simple online resume, it is anyone on a serious job-hunt. (Although, if you are a designer or programmer, you should really have one.)

Here’s why:

1. It shows you go the extra mile

Potential Employers are definitely looking at all angles of you when you apply for a job. Having a personal website, however simple, is a sign that you take some pride in yourself and that you take things the extra mile. Anyone can type up a resume or fill out a form, but less have the skill and confidence to say “want to know more? You can check out my personal website.”
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Band of Horses

VISIT SITE
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Having a template for your estimates is a must for any freelancer.

Here’s why:
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1. Open your Opera Browser

If you don’t already have a copy of the Opera browser, you can download it for free from the Opera website. We’re going to need Opera here because it caches files while browsing in the cleanest way of all the major browsers.
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Jeff Bridges

The whole site is done in a handwritten style with tons of white space. Very unique and interesting.
VISIT SITE
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