There are many websites out there that could help you learn more about Photoshop. One of the most useful ones are brushes, patterns, and other presets. When it comes down to this, I always check these 10 sites below for some useful and interesting presets for my work. I use these sites because it has many new brushes and patterns being released for FREE. Its also the most safest I trust when downloading. If you ever decide you want new brushes or experience with other people's presets, check out these sites below!
DeviantArt.com
Brusheezy.com
PSbrushes.net
BrushLovers.com
DesignModo.com
FreePhotoshopPatterns.com
PhotoshopTextures.com
CGtextures.com
Fbrushes.com
PhotoshopBrushes.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
10 Photography Composition Rules
Rule of Third
Divide your image with 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines into 9 equal segments so that you can aim your subject with any of the four intersected lines. This will give your picture a better balance than just taking it straight on in the middle.
Leading Lines
Use lines to guide your image. It draws the focal point in the shot so when viewers are looking at it, their eyes follow along till it reaches the main subject like guiding their way to your whole piece.
Framing
You can use your surrounding atmosphere to framing your subject. Trees, mountains, buildings, etc. are great things to use for framing. It's great way to focus your subject!
Diagonal
Divide the image in half diagonally and try to align objects close to the line. This gives dynamic to your photo instead of straight on photos. Remember if theres a horizon, keep it straight while aligning the object.
Simplify
Don't try to compact everything all in one photo. It's sometimes good to keep your subjects background plain or boring. That way you wont lose your subject in the photo.
Filling the Frame
Get up close and personal with your subject. The best way to focus your subject is to move your feet or zoom in to fill your shot. That way, you wont have any other information that you would have to worry about.
Depth
When framing, having your foreground, middle, and background would make your shot look interesting and have depth. It's best for landscape photos because, viewers would focus on the whole piece.
Watch for Limbs
Watch out for things you don't want to cut out. Sometimes when cutting off someones arm or legs could pull attention away from your subject. If you're cutting off limbs that are in awkward places would make your subject look like some strange alien.
Angles
Taking pictures from unexpected angles would create an interesting, unexpecting piece. Instead of shooting straight on, try different angles. Either from up high or down low, it could exaggerate your subject really well.
Rule of Odds
When grouping things together in odds, it almost always make your shot interesting. Like shooting three rocks instead of two. This will make your subject easy to focus on.
Divide your image with 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines into 9 equal segments so that you can aim your subject with any of the four intersected lines. This will give your picture a better balance than just taking it straight on in the middle.
Leading Lines
Use lines to guide your image. It draws the focal point in the shot so when viewers are looking at it, their eyes follow along till it reaches the main subject like guiding their way to your whole piece.
Framing
You can use your surrounding atmosphere to framing your subject. Trees, mountains, buildings, etc. are great things to use for framing. It's great way to focus your subject!
Diagonal
Divide the image in half diagonally and try to align objects close to the line. This gives dynamic to your photo instead of straight on photos. Remember if theres a horizon, keep it straight while aligning the object.
Simplify
Don't try to compact everything all in one photo. It's sometimes good to keep your subjects background plain or boring. That way you wont lose your subject in the photo.
Filling the Frame
Get up close and personal with your subject. The best way to focus your subject is to move your feet or zoom in to fill your shot. That way, you wont have any other information that you would have to worry about.
Depth
When framing, having your foreground, middle, and background would make your shot look interesting and have depth. It's best for landscape photos because, viewers would focus on the whole piece.
Watch for Limbs
Watch out for things you don't want to cut out. Sometimes when cutting off someones arm or legs could pull attention away from your subject. If you're cutting off limbs that are in awkward places would make your subject look like some strange alien.
Angles
Taking pictures from unexpected angles would create an interesting, unexpecting piece. Instead of shooting straight on, try different angles. Either from up high or down low, it could exaggerate your subject really well.
Rule of Odds
When grouping things together in odds, it almost always make your shot interesting. Like shooting three rocks instead of two. This will make your subject easy to focus on.
Monday, January 24, 2011
10 Ways to use the Web to Promote your Business
1. Create a profile in social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
2. Make commercial or any videos about the business for sites like YouTube and Flickr.
3. Create a blog.
4. Engage with your customers by replying back to comments or chat in your built-in chat system on your site if you have any.
5. Update your blog and website often. Having new things keeps your customer not so bored and could also draw in more crowds.
6.Register with search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Ask.
7. Make it easy for people to find your website and blog. Use good meta tags and key information in your content for search engine to bring your website up.
8. Bring your customers and audience together in let them get involved with each other and discuss things.
9. Come up with good titles for blogs. The quality of your title determines how well your article will be found.
10. Submit your name to many website directories to advertise your business.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Effective Online Marketing Campaign
The web is the best place to go to for marketing campaign because everyone surfs the web. Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, and Twitter are very common sites where people go on and businesses can take advantages of these sites. On Facebook, you can create a group for the business and start posting ads or other things and also put it out there for everyone to "like" by sending out requests and let them no you are there. You could also create a Twitter account and post up things like discounted items or special offers. Users love it. Same way goes to blogs, special offers and also thoughts here and there. Then there's Youtube. Make a video ad and put it up…you'll eventually have to if you want the business to succeed!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
10 Reasons to Hire a Professional Designer
1. Saves you time. A professional designer is professional for a reason. It's their job to design so you could save time frustrating in designing something corny.
2. Not only will you get just a beautiful work but it is professionally done too!
3. Save money instead wasting extra money for print companies to redo a design rather than having a designer fix the problem and have it "print ready" file in the first place.
4. They know how to use professional design software properly and quickly.
5. Having great and unique designs and ideas can help your business get more recognized from others because it looks different and interesting.
6. A professional is trained to have an eye for detail and design layout.
7. Designers could help you solve some problems. If you want to describe something about your company through brand, they could help come up with ideas and design it.
8. They know how to properly communicate your message by organizing your information into one simple thing.
9. They could design a website and program them into search engines to be able to be found in sites like Google.com.
10. You just suck at designing...
10 Pitfalls to Avoid in Web Design
1. Spelling Errors - Always reread your whole content for spelling and grammar errors. It would be embarrassing and would make users think you are pretty bad business because of bad spelling. This shows quality.
2. Flow - Make it obvious for users to know how the site will flow to each page.
3. Hit Counters - Nobody cares how much hits you have. This could hurt you more than it can help.
4. Long Pages - If the user needs to scroll down forever in order to read your content, they will probably just skip it altogether. If that is the case with your website make it shorter by adding bullets and tables.
5. Overuse Images - You don't want your user to wait for those 50 images that you placed in the content. That would actually cause users to leave because they are not interested. Keep it simple with less image as possible.
6. Fancy fonts - They are nice, but are they even readable? Better yet, do some of these users even have the same type of font as you do on the computer? Just play it safe and stick with common and easy to read fonts.
7. Music - Sounds on a website is such a failure and annoying. Also, like overuse images, a longer loading time too which is not good, as explained before. But if you must use it, let them start it themselves.
8. Harsh Colors - Don't use harsh or bright colors. Bad contrast could strain users eyes and give them headaches after staring at a certain amount of time.
9. Intros - Do not force the user to watch or read something before they can access the real content. This is annoying. They will stay only if the intro is really unique.
10. Under Construction Signs - Don't tell your site isn't ready yet. This just shows how lazy you are and its very amateurish.
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