Get paid to design t-shirts! Merch by Amazon is Amazon’s print on demand platform. You upload a PNG and Amazon does the rest (prints the t-shirt, delivers it to the customer, takes care of returns, etc.). You get paid every time one of your t-shirts is sold. Get over 50% OFF my new course on … [Read more...]
The 9 BEST Alternatives To Photoshop That Are Either FREE or Cheap
Photoshop is so expensive! Do you really need this behemoth of a program to carry out your daily photo editing tasks, your social media graphics or your wacky picture manipulations? Thankfully the answer is "NO". Here are 9 of the best alternatives to Photoshop that are both FREE and … [Read more...]
Comparing Photoshop and GIMP for Web Design
The financial barriers to entry to most online pursuits are extremely low. It should never cost more than a few dollars to set up and maintain a website. Web design is the same – you can edit code, HTML and CSS using free text editors. However, there is one expense that stands head and … [Read more...]
Whether To Use Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign?
Adobe's Creative Suite of programs includes some heavy-weight applications that are mainstay tools for millions of graphic designers all over the world. Everyone knows what Photoshop does – it's the photo-manipulation software. It's forced it's way into the English language. You hear kids … [Read more...]
Free 2013 Calendars as PDF, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop files for Download!
Hello there! I want to wish you good health, good luck and happiness in 2013! Free 2013 calendars PDFs to download Here is a PDF of a 2013 calendar all on one page. You may prefer to right-click and save the PDF to your computer rather than clicking on the link and have it appear in your … [Read more...]
Create a Free 3D E-Book Cover
If you would like to publish free e-books or even sell a premium e-book, it is a great idea to show a beautiful 3D image of it as a physical book. Even though the book does not physically exist, the image of a real book creates more of a desire in your website's visitors or your potential … [Read more...]
Removing Backgrounds and Cutting Out in Photoshop
If you spend anytime designing, you'll know that a Photoshop cut out shape or image is more interesting than a square or rectangular image. Have a look at the two flowers below, which one makes the most impact? Cut outs look great. Just do a Google image search for "product" and you'll see … [Read more...]
How to Improve Picture Quality in Photoshop
Every designer knows that sometimes your clients will give you awful photos to work with. But when this happens there are many things you can do to improve the picture quality in Photoshop. http://www.youtube.com/embed/zmpJAfBEQrk Images can be improved by increasing contrast, increasing … [Read more...]
Styling a WordPress Child Theme with Genesis
In my last post and video I explained how to make a child theme for the Genesis theme framework in WordPress. In this article I explain how to start styling the Genesis child theme. Here you can see where we left off last time with the Genesis child theme only just set up plus an image of the … [Read more...]
How to design and code a beautiful web button
The internet is daunting, disorganized and idiosyncratic. Web designers should try to make the user's journey as simple and as pleasant as they can. What's more, there are certain actions that webmasters would like visitors to perform – to go to a page, to submit some information, for example. For … [Read more...]
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