1. Express Your Creativity
Probably the most important benefit of being a graphic artist is the ability to express your creativity, while still earning a great living. Many artists are moving towards graphic design because it’s easier to make a living as a graphic designer than it is in areas such as fine art.
Today’s free Photoshop brush set is full of cool shapes to use in your design projects. The shapes are a great way to create cool backgrounds and add some life to your Photoshop designs. Simply download the brush files below, upload them to Photoshop and you are ready to go!
Tutorial submissions are the article submissions of the design industry. Every niche including graphic design has special ways you can market yourself online. One of the ways designers can gain exposure and new business online is via Photoshop tutorials. Not only can you submit your tutorials to get traffic, but some blogs and sites will even pay you to do Photoshop tutorials, which is a great way to make extra money.
UPrinting.com has recently launched a pretty cool new promotion for bloggers called the Blog Sponsor Program. The program is basically geared towards helping blog owners promote their new blogs and business ventures and its also a great way to attract new visitors to your blog. Giveaways are big in the design community especially brushes, free vector art, textures and so on and now you can get free printing, which is extremely useful and valuable.
Designers can now have a complete, professional Flash site up quickly without knowing any ActionScript. Warm Forest offers super-customizable Flash Templates made specifically for designers. Easily customize all aspects of the site – from adding your own logo to changing all the colors – without even owning Flash. All sites are designed with a strong focus on typography, grids and usability. The ActionScript source code is included so designers with an interest in Flash can learn how a professional, best practices following Flash site is put together.
There are a lot of things that can turn an exciting new design project into a nightmare for a graphic design business. Many graphic design businesses have experienced these issues below, including myself. The best way to avoid stress and problems with clients is to educate yourself about what can go wrong ahead of time and take steps to protect your yourself.
1. About Us Page
Clients will feel more comfortable working with you if they know a little bit more about you as a person or company. Let people get to know you instead of appearing as a distant entity with no emotions or history. You don’t have to tell them what you eat for breakfast, but let people know who you are, what you are about and how your business can benefit them.
Designers can now have a complete, professional Flash site up quickly without knowing any ActionScript. Warm Forest offers super-customizable Flash Templates made specifically for designers. Easily customize all aspects of the site – from adding your own logo to changing all the colors – without even owning Flash. All sites are designed with a strong focus on typography, grids and usability. The ActionScript source code is included so designers with an interest in Flash can learn how a professional, best practices following Flash site is put together.
While doing my usual design gallery browsing for cool new artwork I noticed a resurgence in rounded corner business cards designs, which inspired me to create this post. I have always been a fan of rounded corner business cards because of the feeling you can achieve with them. The rounded edges can give your card a more friendly vibe and the rounded edges are perfect for any web 2.0 businesses, which tend to have bubbly, roundish, design elements.
Grunge has always been popular and I don’t think it will ever go away so here are some more grunge brushes in honor of this long-lasting design style. The brushes are free to use, easy to upload and are prefect for grunge backgrounds or adding grunge elements to your design projects.
Have you ever thought why some websites are more attractive and memorable, some are irritating and others are completely not memorable. There are dozens of reasons for this the main one being color. Color is a powerful tool that has huge impact on the way we conceive things. There are psychological reasons behind this. Below are 7 exceptional web designs inspired by color with some brief description of the messages their main colors give us.
In a recent post we talked about how you can Optimize Your Site to attract local search engine traffic from Google. One of our readers mentioned Google Local Business Center as another option, so I thought I would expand on this useful comment.
Today’s Monday brush giveaway is a cool set of fingerprint style Photoshop brushes. These brushes can form great background textures, or even be the central focus of a design related to some sort of mystery. I could see the brushes being used in a cover design for a mystery novel or even on a poster for missing children. The possibilities are endless, hope you enjoy the free brushes and stay tuned for more! Once we are done with volume 2, we will be introducing more tutorials to You the Designer as requested by many of your readers.
Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your site to rank better for certain keywords such as ” Business Card Designer ” in search engines such as Google. Many designers overlook this online marketing tactic and if your site is not optimized for keywords you could be missing out on gold mine of business opportunities!
Yes its Monday again and that means another free brush giveaway! This Monday’s giveaway is a free set of crack brushes, which are perfect for grunge designs and old style designs. You could even get creative with these cracks and turn them into design elements such as lightning with some Photoshop adjustments. Hope you enjoy these free brushes, if you have any suggestions for a type of brush pack you would like to see please let us know, thanks!
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