16 Mar 2012 |
QA Points of View
This week, we’re going to look through the eyes of our Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Svend. Whether you work in a QA role, manage projects, or own a business, we know that you will benefit from considering these tips.
When testing a piece of software at either the Alpha or Beta stage, it is important to keep certain questions in mind. These questions will help you identify areas where…
17 Feb 2012 |
An Overview of Photoshop’s Brush Tool
Many working artists nowadays use Adobe Photoshop to create digital paintings and illustrations. This week, we will be exploring the Brush Tool and its various options.
Photoshop’s Brush Tool seems simplistic at first glance. You choose a color for your brush using the color palette or color picker. As for the shape of the brush, Photoshop provides plenty of brush presets for shapes and…
27 Jan 2012 |
Do You Have Klout?
Klout, one of the more recent and prominent additions to the social space, is a network worth checking out.
Another social network– I know what you are thinking. Hear me out.
Klout is unique in that it attempts to determine your social influence across a myriad of other social networks. Each user is assigned a Klout score between 1 and 100 based on their…
20 Jan 2012 |
The Value of Twitter Chats
Remember message boards? In many ways, they were the predecessor to twitter chats.
If you’re already on twitter, you should be familiar with hashtags, designated by placing a ‘#’ symbol before a word or string of text. Do you use them? How often do you click on threads to see what others are saying? Not only can you find yourself deep in a whirl of conversational pings, but using…
13 Jan 2012 |
Line Art: An Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
Happy New Year from Second Avenue! After taking a couple of weeks to enjoy the end of the year holidays and festivities, we are back with another Technique of the Week. In this installment, we will be returning to the creative side with tips on how to create a black and white line art piece using Adobe Illustrator. (NOTE: You should be familiar with the Pen Tool prior…
22 Dec 2011 |
Are You Connected?
This week, we’re thinking social. That is, the importance of plugging into the social media sphere. We’ll delve deeper into specific platforms here on the blog in future installments, but for now we’ll keep it high level.
Where to start? An important first step (before you debate the merits of facebook versus twitter) is to determine your primary audience. Find your niche. It’s possible to participate in the social…
15 Dec 2011 |
Technique of the Week: A Festive Art Tutorial
‘Technique of the Week’ is an ongoing series where the art and development teams here at Second Avenue will dish out some quick, useful, and hopefully fun tips and techniques. We will try and provide some insight on the skills that allow us to realize our projects or observations about works that inspire us creatively.
With this being the inaugural ‘Technique of the Week’ post, I wanted to kick…
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