How to market yourself #7: How to write and design a WordPress page or post

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Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here’s the “how to” for those new-ish to WordPress… There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make your text scannable! [...]

Turn your client’s photos into beautiful images

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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, [...]

Changing an image to match your design’s colours

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You have a great photo. You have a great design. One problem: the photo doesn’t “go” with the design. The solution is to change the image in Photoshop to more accurately match the colour scheme of the design or, more commonly, to match the client’s or brand’s colours. In the above example the final image [...]

Box packaging designed for music software

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This is a sierra box for a music software company that I did some work on. I did the photo montage of the DJ. This design will also be rolled out onto the amaray cases (DVD case), DVD or CD disc labels, a manual cover and advertising. I loved doing this work. One, it was [...]

Two tips for design inspiration

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Keep it simple Steal Keep your designs simple OK! This is easier said than done but this is paramount. If you want to live a happy life, keep it as simple as possible. If you want to do a good design… you get the picture! Take this photograph of 60s fashion model Twiggy by Barry [...]

Improving photos with Photoshop

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This is about the very basics of improving landscape photography. For years I’ve been taking rather bland photos of both natural landscapes and cityscapes and then pushing those pixels to bits in Photoshop. One of the most important things to learn in Photoshop is selecting areas of pictures. For example, in the Tower of London [...]

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