Archive for January, 2011
Art Direction Trend Coming To 1WD: Foundations And History
1STWD Editorial
Excellent Ideas to Having a Positive Outcome to Your Website
riza_gamutanA business owner loves to put up a website. In fact, this is the way to reach millions of people in the market to buy your products and services. But the problem you might encounter once you have the website is how people or online visitors will discover it. Whether you have a big or small company, having a website makes a difference. In prominent search engines, so long as your site is ranked on the topmost pages, you have every which way to compete with big online stores like Amazon, Microsoft and eBay.
5 Crucial Photoshop Tools For All Photographers
Rachel ArandillaPhotography is a technical and practiced form of art. It’s not an easy form of fascination, since several aspects are at play in a photograph: lighting, focus, composition, subject and more. Post processing is just as important as the photo shoot. No matter how good a photographer is, everyone needs to tweak a few flaws and emphasize details. Glamour, landscape, events, micro and portrait photographers need a handy photo editing software to improve their photos. Adobe Photoshop is a must have program for designers, artists, art students and now photographers as well.
Why Make Effective Networking Part Of Your Freelance Job
Being a freelancer is no regular job to do. It takes a lot of hard work to become successful in this field. And as a freelancer, it is essential to build contacts for your business work. You need sufficient references – people who work out as your clients. You need people to help you deliver expected results. So what drastic steps should you do in establishing contacts for your business? This is where effective networking comes in. Networking simply means the act of creating, extending and maintaining personal connections with different types of people in the business. It is a way to seek sources for opportunities like extending business to more clients and how to gain technical expertise.
Please All Types of Clients: Guide to Choosing Color Combinations
Every graphic designer knows that choosing the color combinations is among the most important parts of the design making process, on print or on the web. There is no universal color combination that will please all types of clients. For some designers, it is a matter of trial and error. But trial and error means you wasting plenty of precious time. Time is an important commodity in the graphic designer's fast paced world. Through proper research, sense of style and good common sense, you can eliminate the long time of experimentation.
Simple Ways To Sharpen Your Freelancing Skills
Most people find themselves working eight hours a day, five days a week. They could be connected to a small business or work in a prominent establishment where income is manageable. However, working on a daily basis makes you burn-out and want to work on your own with no boss watching you around. Why freelancing is right for you? These days, seeking regular 8-5 jobs seem impossible to find. Employment seemed to have decreased over time with the current recession. Because of this, you find many people out of work. This then calls for a freelancing job where you can maximize your own time. But remember, you need to have the quality skills to become a successful freelancer.
Can Free Design Resources Be Exemplary?
Jared LatigoAs designers we’re always after some good resources for inspiration and even for design elements to help us when we have a mental block. But the thing is that there’s not very many GREAT resources out there that give FREE stuff away. You have inspiration sites like Dribbble and DeviantArt (deviant does give some things away) but there’s a new community emerging where the resources are not only free, but also outstanding. Let’s take a deeper look into this new community called DesignMoo.
The World’s Best Corporate WordPress Themes You Can Actually Afford to Buy
Rean John UeharaSince the boom of Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, many websites started offering free and premium pre-built and made-to-order themes. The market was doing great on its own until it became oversaturated. Oversaturated how? There now exists tens of thousands templates and themes for these CMS, the problem lies in the quality. Many will agree that majority of the themes and templates available are lacking in quality. This affects the whole community, even Theme Forest.
Learn How To Create A Detailed Portfolio Layout In Photoshop
Michael John BurnsHello there everybody! I really enjoy spending time writing web layout tutorials, as such here comes another one. Are you ready for another PSD web design tutorial here at 1stwebdesigner? Today we will create a Detailed Portfolio Layout. A few techniques discussed in this tutorial include the use of proper spacing, patterns, typography, and colors. Stay with me till the end so that you will not get lost in the process, everything is important so do not skip!
Be Amazed With These Unbelievable Optical Illusional Photos
Charina TorresPersonally, I appreciate photos so much especially when they have illusion effects. Photos with illusions amaze me a lot. What could we get with these illusions? First, let us know the definition of illusion. Wikipedia defines illusion as:
"A distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. While illusions distort reality, they are generally shared by most people."Illusion tricked our brain and eyes when seeing something that is not really there or something that is not really happening.
