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1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago

Watch out for a new tutorial soon..

Create a new action by clicking on the Create New Action Button located at the bottom of the palette. Then, make a set by clicking the Create New Set button on the Actions palette. A dialog box will appear. In here, you must type a specific name for every set. In the Action dialog box, you should assign an action to a particular set, define a function key and apply a color.

Next is to record the action. Photoshop automatically records your steps. Every step you take will be recorded as well as the settings. If you made any mistake, you will be able to correct them later.

If you are through, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Action palette.

Check the Action so that it will function well. Make sure that it lives in a Set. It must contain at least one command. Every command must have settings associated with it and a check mark next to it.

An action can be edited. You can reorder commands, delete commands, reset a command setting, add a command in mid-stream, insert a stop, record again and troubleshoot it. To reorder command, in the Action palette, grab the command with the cursor and drag it up or down. In deleting commands, just select a command and press the Delete key. Double click on the Command in the Action if you want to reset it. To add a command in mid-stream or anywhere in the action, select the command and click the action button. Inserting a stop will allow you to apply settings to a step. To Record Again, simply select Record Again on the Actions Palette. Photoshop will allow you to reset the settings. Photoshop has a sort of diagnostic tool that will help you see what was causing the trouble in your Action.

You can play the Action in three ways. You can play it from the palette, just set your file up and click on the Play button. You can also use function keys. The dialog box will allow you to assign a function key so that you will be able to play the Action by simply pressing the key. You can use the button mode that is selected from the Actions side menu.

If you have any question or have made your own action script, please share with us. I’m also selling 942 action scripts mega pack, check it out…

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Part-Time Designer

All you have to do is open your Photoshop, wait it to load, press Ctrl+PrintScreen on your keyboard to capture the screen, paste it into Photoshop, select the color picker and hover it to the color you want on the image. So everytime you want to capture colors you need to open photoshop and do the same things all over again. This seems like a lot of work.

Why waste your time? there’s another easy way of capturing colors. With AdesClrPicker tool, you don’t have to wait for
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Part-Time Designer

I create a new video tutorial today. I saw a tutorial at Veerle’s Blog on how to create pins in Illustrator. So I’d thought maybe I could create a video tutorial on how to create realistic looking pins in photoshop.
Hope you enjoy the video below…psd also provided

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What will you get with the Click and Drag Graphics Package:

1. Starter Templates

These “starter templates” are simple blank templates with a few subtle “effects” that spice them up. Even though these templates are simple, they look very professional with their subtle effects.

You get starter templates for headers in 3 different sizes (650, 700, and 750 pixels wide) and each cover shape (ebook, box, cd, report, ezine, member card, etc.). With all these different variations, you’ll be getting hundreds of templates to choose from.

2. Click And Drag Objects

This module is what makes this package so easy to use and so unique. No other package offers anything like these Click & Drag objects. With these Click & Drag objects you can literally create a professional and eye catching design for your site in minutes.

You get all kinds of Click & Drag objects to choose from like:

Text – already preformatted with the proper font, size, and layer style effects. Just drag it over to your header or cover, change the text to your own product or site name, and you’re done.

Text Bars, Squares, Circles, Stars, and Corners – these are the little shapes that go behind your text to make it stand out more and give it emphasis.

Horizontal Bars – These go across your whole header or cover to divide them into portions or to give that finishing touch.

All of these objects come on their own layers and are completely customizable. So you can resize them, rotate them, change their colors, change the text to what ever text you want, etc.. You can customize them to your liking.

3. Layer Styles

Layer styles add an effect to your layers with one click. So if you want your text to look “cool”, you can add a spicy effect to it by simply clicking on one of the layer styles. Just type your text, click on the layer style button, and your text will get an effect. Max has compiled and created all of the cool text effects you can find on all of the popular designs out there.

4. eCover Action Scripts

Max has recorded the steps he took to turn 2D covers into 3D covers. So all of the distort, resize, and other commands got recorded and can be played back with just a few clicks, and turn a 2D cover into 3D in seconds.

So basically, you start with a blank template or a “starter template. You then create your own design. And finally you play the eCover action of your choice and the cover turns into 3D right before your eyes.

5. Other Templates

In addition to the Starter Templates in Module 1, you will also get templates for all kinds of other mini site graphics like order buttons, footers, backgrounds, and even simple HTML mini site templates. So you’ll be able to create all the graphics for your mini site with the packag.

6. Video Tutorials

This package comes with easy to follow, step-by-step, screen capture video tutorials. Everything is broken down for you in simple terms, so even if you’re a complete newbie you’ll be able to get started right away.

7. Graphics Swipe File

You’ll get over a hundred of Max own favorite designs that he has done for his clients (covers, headers, order buttons, footers, and backgrounds). This swipe file will save you countless hours of frustration and “being stuck” for ideas again.

8. Resources

Max will be sharing with you his favorite design related resources like:

• Where he get his stock images from.

• Where he get his fonts.

• Where he get his ideas for designs.

• A cool place to get hundreds more layer styles, patters, brushes, textures, and more.

• And much more…

This resource module will save you hours of trial and error time trying to locate all of these places on your own.

And MORE..

This is a complete design package. I highly recommend for newbies in graphics design to get this package as you can experiment with the graphics, use it in your design and plus, your clients will be impressed;)

Go to Click and Drag

These scripts will do the job for you automatically. Just follow these steps:

1. Download the script and unzip it.

2. Open your photoshop. Then press Alt + F9 on your keyboard. This will open the the action box.

3. Click the small arrow on the right and choose load actions.

4. Find the the action scripts and press load.

5. You can see the script is in your action box.

6. Expand it by clicking the small arrow on the left and select step 1. Then select ‘play’.

7. A template will open. Design your ebook (add title, pictures, color..yadee..yadaa…) anyway you like..

8. The final step is to select the step 2 and click play..and wait for a sec and walla!…your new ebook cover:)

Download the free action scripts below:

1. Box cover
2. Ebook cover

Anyway if you are too busy to design the ecover just hire a designer. Click here to find Affordable E-cover Designer for your digital products.

or check out my design below:p

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Part-time Designer