Jennifer Wills

Jennifer Wills is the co-founder of W+W Design. She received a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and practiced architectural and interior photography in Philadelphia, later becoming a designer and art director in San Rafael, California. Prior to co-founding W+W Design, she spent six and a half years as production manager at McDill Associates in Soquel, California. Jennifer specializes in package design, production and printing. She has developed asset management systems to track and help update artwork for packages, and is expert at managing color for print. An accomplished photographer of products, people and locations, Jennifer’s sense of photographic composition shapes her graphic design.
  • How-to: Add Multiple Strokes to Editable Text in Photoshop
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on January 4, 2013

    Have you ever tried to add more than one stroke to text using Photoshop’s Layer Styles panel? You can’t do it the traditional way. There is a workaround that involves making copies of your text, each with its own stroke of a different size, but it’s laborious, especially if you need to edit the text after you build up a couple copies.

  • Add Scrolling Images or Text to a Tablet App
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on November 9, 2011

    Sometimes you want to show more content than will fit on one fixed screen of a tablet publication. I was faced with this situation when highlighting the work of a prolific newspaper designer for a sampler edition of InDesign Magazine. In that case, I wanted to show many visual examples. A similar problem is when you want to fit lots of text into one fixed frame that seems too small for the text.

  • Photoshop How-To: Merge Two Images for a Custom Collage
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on July 24, 2011

    Few projects have the budget for a lot of custom photography. Yet if you use too much stock photography, you risk looking like everyone else. The answer is to merge two or more images into something unique, and the best tool for that is Adobe's Photoshop.

    In the following tutorial, I'll show you how to composite individual photographs into a new image. To follow along, merge your own images or download the photos below by clicking on them.

    Here are the images to collage together:

  • Print Can Be Interactive Too
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on June 27, 2011

    Trish Witkowski of FoldFactory.com points out in the current "60-second super cool fold of the week" video that interactivity isn't just for the screen anymore. You could call it, " Interactive Designers Wanted: Must Have Print Experience."

  • iPhone Apps for Photographers
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on April 20, 2009

    Most photographers love gadgets, which is why most camera bags have more than just cameras in them. Now you can add the iPhone to your bag. There are hundreds of applications for photography in the App Store. While many of these iPhone apps center on taking photos with your iPhone, I'll restrict this article to the ones that help you shoot with a separate camera. Unlike most camera gear, iPhone app prices are low -- about $1.99 on average -- yet they can turn your iPhone into one of the best assistants you've ever used.

  • Review: Alien Skin Blow Up
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on January 8, 2007
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    Does this sound familiar? You used a high-quality, 10-megapixel SLR to shoot a series of products for an 8-1/2" x 11" catalog.

  • Tiger Springs Onto the Scene
    Features: Written by Jennifer Wills on April 29, 2005
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    Today, Apple Computer officially releases Tiger, also known by the more prosaic title Mac OS X 1