Graphic and Web Designer London UK

I’ve done many articles about Photoshop in this blog. And many of them concern photo montage where a composite photograph is created by joining two or more other photographs.
However, this article has come from something I’ve seen in studying my Google Analytics. An awful lot of people arrive at my site having typed the [...]

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I did this montage to illustrate marketing material that was highlighting Africa as a young and emerging economy.
I had a photo of an ordinary seedling growing out of earth in someone’s hands. I created another layer of this picture (Cmd/Ctrl-J) and cloned out the seedling using the Rubber Stamp Tool (S). I then went back [...]

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H’mm, well, I’m not going to explain everything about print advertising in one little blog post. However, having just supplied a page ad for a magazine I thought I’d explain a bit about the process I went through from the initial ideas to supplying the final artwork.
Supplying initial ideas
Some designers will tell you that they [...]

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I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with this notion from the Dragons’ Den TV show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea.
I would do [...]

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This is was a Photoshop image I did to illustrate how Chinese national oil companies were active in Africa.
I’d tried recently many vector flags and country outlines solutions to similar illustrative quandaries and I thought this time it was nice to do it all in Photoshop.
I created the mask of the outline of Africa by [...]

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This is an illustration I did for a business card which I designed and created in Illustrator and Photoshop for a motorsports development fund.
Rather than the standard old 86.6 mm by 53.98 mm rectangular thing they asked for a graphic representation of a Formula One steering wheel. It’s great when clients come up with brilliant [...]

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The problem
Err, sorry, the challenge. How many times does this happen? You have an otherwise beautiful design and your client insists on including pictures of people who’s images weren’t taken by one of the world’s best photographers.
This is a reoccurring hitch; we have to include pictures of the CEO, the MD, the whoever, but there’s [...]

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Web 2.0 in design and marketing
This is an image I made to try to explain the digital grapevine: A network of users that interact to answer questions, solve problems and have fun or the trend in the use of the internet and web design that enhances creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users that has [...]

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