Promote Your Blog Posts
Oct 7, 2008 Advertising Materials, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
As a blogger, you always look for more traffic isn’t it. One of the ways to skyrocket your blog traffic is to have your blog visitors to submit articles from your blog that they think are good to bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious and others. The more people that bookmark your blog pages and the more bookmark sites your web pages are bookmark at, the better the chances are that other people will be able to find you.
To get the votes, you can add badges and mini icons of different bookmarking on your blog.
Here are the sites that offer social bookmarking buttons and badges: Read the rest of this entry »
AdesClrPIcker – An Excellent Color Picker
Sep 5, 2007 Graphics, Photoshop, Tips and Tricks, Tools
Do you want to know what color codes does a website use and want to capture the colors
so that you can use them on your website or design?
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
Photoshop to load anymore. It is small and very fast color picker tool. It installs into your systemtray on your desktop and just with a single click of the mouse it captures the colors anywhere on the screen.
For full features, visit AdesClrPicker tool Read the rest of this entry »
Click & Drag The Easy Way
Aug 30, 2007 Cool Stuff, E-Cover, PS Action Scripts, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Templates, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Uncategorized
Ok, you download an e-cover action script, load it to your photoshop. You spend 2 hours try to design killer e-cover but all you get is an ugly e-book cover. Well, Max is going to teach you the secret to creating stunning ecovers, he’s also going to give you all the action scripts, ready-to-use graphics and text, ecover samples and much more. You can just click and drag each of these elements into your own designs in second. The result! incredibly professional e-cover that you could create in just 15 second!!
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:
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Where he get his stock images from.
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Where he get his fonts.
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Where he get his ideas for designs.
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A cool place to get hundreds more layer styles, patters, brushes, textures, and more.
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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;)
Method To Speed Up Your Internet Connection
Aug 28, 2007 Cool Stuff, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Uncategorized
Lately, my computer was crawling at a snail’s speed, though I have a lots of memory and constantly defrag my hard drive and clean up all the unnecessary stuff. It takes a while to open any program especially Photoshop. I was not able complete my clients projects on time. I almost give up and wanted to throw it out of the window!! But luckily I found a way to solve this.
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I bought Kris Mainieri’s E-book, “PC Secret Formula“ – on how to speed up your computer. The practical steps are very easy to apply and it works!!
I print it out, bind it and keep it next to my computer as reference. Why not check it out yourself and speed up your computer’s performance.
Best Regards,
Part-time Designer
Create You Own Professional Ecover Graphics
Aug 21, 2007 Cool Stuff, E-Cover, FREE stuff, Graphics, PS Action Scripts, Photoshop, Scripts, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
Professional ecover graphics can and in most cases will help you sell more copies of your digital product (s). I searched over the internet and found two action scripts for making your own super fast, beautiful and professional looking ecover and box.
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: Read the rest of this entry »
Get R0boform Pro (for free)
Aug 11, 2007 Cool Stuff, FREE stuff, Tips and Tricks, Tools, Uncategorized
As a graphics and web designer, I have to remember a lot of password. So by installing Roboform, I had no longer need to remember all my passwords and it really helps me to keeps track of many different sets of passwords with just one click. Roboform is free but there are features disabled after 30 days. I recently stumbled to a blog that showed how you can get the official Roboform (no cracks or keygen) from the software vendor. Here’s how:
1. Open new gmail account, just for this
2. Download Roboform 30 day full function trial version here, using dedicated gmail account.
3. After 30 day trial, take the option to sign up for an offer they pose, rather than to pay.
4. They will send a bunch of CPA offers.
5. Look for “sign up for EBAY account.”
6. Accept this offer, sign up for an EBAY account, use the gmail address you used to get Roboform
7. You have to make a purchase on EBAY. Search for 1 cent offers. Find one you like, and buy it. There are thousands. Will cost you nothing or 1 cent at most.
8. You will get a serial from Roboform for the software, the same as if you paid $30. You have legitimate copy of the software and with upgrades. Ebay doesn’t care if you have more accounts, as long as they have different email addresses.
