12 Tips for Freelance Web Designers that Will Bring You to Success

It would really be satisfying if you could handle your time, express your creativity and still be your own boss. You might want to do some freelancing job as a web designer for it could give you these benefits. You might even earn more than what you are recently earning. Many freelance web designers even love this job more than being employed. But not everything about freelancing is good. There are still certain aspects in the job that is challenging like promotion and marketing. But still, with the right practice, being a freelance web designer can be truly fulfilling. In this post, we will give you 12 tips to that will help you succeed...

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6 drawing tips from leading illustrators

Inkygoodness’ creative director Lisa Hassell asks six of her favourite illustrators to tell us how to get the most from drawing with real pens and pencils Am I Collective Pencil line work (such as above) can be a great tool for creating tone through manipulating pattern and texture. You don’t always have to work tone into the line itself. Rather, consider how repetition and accumulation of lines describes the form and shape. Giving specific personality to your line work is a good way to add character to an object. amicollective.com Barnaby Purdy The base for my Visitants characters is an intaglio ink. This doesn’t really...

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Master masks and selections in Photoshop

Derek Lea reveals ways to make compositing layers using layer masks, vector masks and alpha channels a doddle. Add masks to groups In Photoshop, each layer can have a single layer mask and a single vector mask. However, if you place a bunch of masked layers inside a group, you can add additional masks to the group. You can then edit the group’s masks without affecting the masks of individual layers. To take this even further, you can put this group within another group, add that to another group and so on, masking each group individually. Mix your masks As each Photoshop layer is allowed two masks, using them in conjunction with...

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Website Design Ideas and Trends of 2011

There are various ways to make a website look captivating and stunning. There are also different design trends in creating them. Since websites are used by many people for their businesses and by others to get information, it is important that the design is appealing. It wouldn’t be nice to be staring for long towards a website that is poorly designed. One thing, once you own a website, you will certainly see to it that it has a professional design and it could achieve your purpose in creating it. Today, we will give you web design ideas and trends used this year in creating most websites. For sure, most of these could...

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Take control with colour in digital art & illustration

Illustrator Dan Stafford shows how balancing colour is the key to amazing compositions. Three golden rules Colour is a slippery creature to wrestle, and there are three principles to be aware of when attempting to tackle this pig. Firstly, remember that individual colours aren’t as important as their relationships with surrounding colours. That’s what creates chemistry within an image. Secondly, juxtaposing colour with breathing space is essential for a well-balanced image. And lastly, a game of colour-picker-lucky-dip can sometimes yield fantastic results. Choose a reaction, then a colour Always remember that colour elicits a...

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Web design Ideas and Tips in Using Circles

When you were a kid, you were taught different shapes and various examples of each shape. You really know how circle was associated with the sun, a balloon, a smiley and others. Now that you have grown up, you make use of circles in different manners as you saw various usage of it. As a graphic designer and web designer, your use of circles even levelled up. You now use it to make great designs not just for your own use but for your clients. Well, circles are just one of the many shapes that can be applied to a web design. As you look at the showcase of sites that uses circles, you will certainly be amazed on how well it...

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