In the previous post in my How to market yourself series, I described how to set up a website on a host's server. Here I will tell you how to set up a WordPress blog on that server. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. This article is about how to set up WordPress manually. If … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #2: How to set up a website
This is the second post in my How to market yourself series, a personal account of the best marketing techniques you can employ for yourself or your business. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. There are three things you need to do when setting up your website. Decide on … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #1: Introduction
I have successfully been on the first page in Google for freelance graphic designer for a few months now and I'm quite pleased with this. Marketing yourself is one of the most important things any professional or company will do. For this reason I'm going to write a number of articles about … [Read more...]
American flag inside country map outline
A while ago I did an article explaining how to create a country,s flag inside its map outline and I used as an example the Australian map and flag. I've since had a lot of interest from Australians who wanted to use the image so I thought I'd do one for Americans as I get a lot of visitors from the … [Read more...]
How to put one image inside another image
There is an ad campaign in London at the moment for Portuguese tourism. You can see 48-,24- and 16-sheet adverts in the tube with giant portraits of famous Portuguese celebrities (Cristiano Ronaldo, José Mourinho) with a landscape showing through the image. Something similar to this effect that can … [Read more...]
Simple design idea for corporate marketing
I was asked to come up with a visual to portray a corporate bank's image. This was one of the largest banks in the world, one that prided itself on coming up with intelligent solutions and, whilst it wanted to evoke reliability and gravity, it also wanted to be known as innovative. The tag line … [Read more...]
How to design a 3D crystal ball in Illustrator
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 the shift key. Fill the circle white, with no stroke. Next, select the Gradient Mesh Tool (U) and click four points … [Read more...]
Freelance graphic designer and SEO
The primary objective of this website is to attract clients to my design business. The two ways I try to achieve this are: Get other good websites to link to me with my desired keywords as the anchor text. For example, freelance graphic designer, designer in London, UK design services, are good … [Read more...]
Improving photos with Photoshop by a Graphic Designer
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 and altering the colour, brightness and contrast. I first thing I did was to copy the photo to a new layer (Cmd/Cntl-J) I then use my … [Read more...]
How to design a montage in Photoshop
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. Layer masking with a brush I sized the cityscape image over the picture of the girl and played around with layer blend … [Read more...]
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