The art and design of photoshop

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Art & Design in Photoshop

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A vintage bottle, indeed, and one you’d be proud to hand over at a dinner party: this is clearly quality stuff

O Red and yellow are the colors we associate with food, probably because they represent cooking flames. You’ll see these colors used in fast food logos more than any other because they work on a subliminal level: they suggest the idea of eating.

One spray from this can and your home will certainly be bug free

How much difference does a wine label make? All the difference in the world. Most people buy wine based on how impressive the label looks, and that’s especially true of champagne – particularly when we can’t afford the more expensive brands. The use of the stencil font for the bug spray can suggests military strength: and the choice of black and yellow for the product name is reminiscent of nuclear warnings. Both of which make us think of killing power, which is what this product needs. The burger bar uses a plump, juicy lettering to convey the meatiness

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O Blue and green are both good, solid scientific colors. Perhaps it’s because they’re cool, dispassionate, detached. They suggest an antiseptic environment as well, which is why hospitals so often use shades of blue and green in their floor and wall coloring.

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Check out the lettering used by McDonald’s, or Burger King, or Wendy’s, and you’ll see fat, thick lettering – albeit in a variety of different typographic styles.

Full, fat, plump: all you can eat, and all you need

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