Freelance Graphic Designer London

I used this image as a title slide in a PowerPoint presentation for MasterCard, one of my clients. It was a great excuse to do a reflection and transform [...] Continue Reading…

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Article filed under: Photoshop on December 31st, 2007 6 Comments

“Reflections are the new drop shadows!” If that’s the case, here’s how!

Copy the text layer – or layer – that you want to reflect (Cmd/Ctrl-J). If the layer that [...] Continue Reading…

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Article filed under: Photoshop on December 31st, 2007 5 Comments

This starts, as most tutorials start, with something very easy: draw a circle. So, select your circle tool and drag diagonally to preferred size, not forgetting to hold down [...] Continue Reading…

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Article filed under: Illustrator on December 30th, 2007 2 Comments

The best kind of logo, in my opinion, is one which relies on an image or shape to convey the company or brand. I would call it archetypal communication.

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Article filed under: Games & fun, Logos on December 30th, 2007 9 Comments

The primary objective of this website is to attract clients to my design business. The two ways I try to achieve this are:

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The above picture is one of my snaps taken very quickly at the end of clearish autumn day. I have improved this picture with Photoshop by selecting certain areas [...] Continue Reading…

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Article filed under: Photoshop on December 2nd, 2007 9 Comments

Here, as promised, is a short tutorial about creating montages. Here is a montage of three different images which gel together without having to laboriously cut anything out.

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Article filed under: Photoshop on November 27th, 2007 8 Comments

I was asked to come up with a logo for Toby Beresford an application developer that specialises in third party apps for Facebook. The client wanted something neat, simple [...] Continue Reading…

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Article filed under: Logos on November 24th, 2007 6 Comments