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...]
Increase Facebook Page Likes 2x In One Month With These Image Quotes
I am a Facebook novice. And yet I've organically increased my Facebook Page Likes by 100% in the last month due to the strategic use of image quotes. I started my Facebook Page in 2012 and vaguely posted my latest articles and left it at that. The organic increase in Likes was painfully … [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...]
Free Download: 2014 Calendar in PDF, Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD) Format
It's never too early to plan ahead! I'd like to wish whoever's reading this all health, luck and happiness for the coming year, 2014. And, as a token of my appreciation, dear website visitor, I'd like to offer you a gift of free 2014 calendars in PDF to download, plus the files that created them in … [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...]
How To Make A Favicon For Your Website
The "halo effect", as I mentioned in an article about why I'd never use cheap website builders, suggests the way we look, dress, speak and the sort of homes we live in influence other people,s impressions of us. This is why, when you're designing a website for yourself or a client, you should … [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...]
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