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 »
Simple Border Tutorial
Nov 3, 2007 PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Videos
Here’s a tutorial on how to make a simple border around your picture:
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Content, appearance, usability & visibility are the basic web design principles & aspects which should always be kept in mind while preparing a commercial web design. Once you are over with this phase, you should search for a best domain host for registration of your website that is providing services compatible to your requirements. Usually it is included in the package provided by webhosting net companies. Apart from this, on line website building, free blogs and forums, e carts, free email accounts are also offered by these web hosting services providers. Due to increasing competition in the market more or less all of them are giving cheap web hosting services.
Action Script In Photoshop?
Sep 9, 2007 Graphics, PS Action Scripts, Photoshop, Tutorials
Someone emailed me and asked what is action script for Photoshop. So I made this video to show how action scripts work in photoshop and how these scripts can save your time and effort…
Want to create your own action script?
Blur Loterina
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How To Create Realistic Looking Pins
Aug 31, 2007 FREE stuff, Free PSD, Graphics, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Hope you enjoy the video below…psd also provided
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.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fms7PFC-vig[/youtube]
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 »
No Cost Website Builder & Video Tutorials
Jul 31, 2007 FREE stuff, Graphics, Templates, Tools, Tutorials
If you plan on building your own sites, you’re going to need a webpage editor.
Ewen Chia just released a great WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) webpage editor to build your own webpages. So even if you don’t know html, this could be useful especially for newbies.
And as an additional bonus, you’ll also be given a 77 page complete user guide and 1 hour 20 minutes+ of step-by-step website creation video tutorials are absolutely FREE. Most webpage editor out there does not even come with video tutorials, even if you did, you’d have to pay for it.
What so special about this webpage editor:
* Comes With Over 100+ Professional Website Templates Included FREE!
* Equipped With Convenient Built-in FTP Software For Instant One-Click Publishing!
* Certified 100% Clean With Absolutely Zero Spyware, Adware Or Malware
But that is not it. What I like about this offer is that it comes with a one-time special offer “Ultimate Website Graphics” Mega Package of 4,735 professional website graphics which was created for thousands of dollars…
- 918 Bullets And Attention Grabbers!
- 298 100% Secure Logos!
- 105 Attractive Ecovers!
- 33 Guarantee Frames!
- 942 Guarantee Seals!
- 707 Order Buttons!
- 1,178 Price Stickers!
- 493 Scribbles!
- 41 Stickies!
TOTAL: 4,735 Website Graphics + Bonus 20 Headers & Footers!
You can instantly grab it for an extremely low (and worthwhile if I may add) investment of just a one-time $37 immediately as Ewen Chia WILL be raising the price very soon…Anyway this is just optional, you could just scroll down to the end of the page and skip to the webpage editor download page.
Download the free software here
Photoshop Video Tutorial: Corner Peel Image
Jul 20, 2007 Banner Ads, Banner Designs, Cool Stuff, Graphics, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized
I’m just so crazy with the flip corner or the “Dogear” image such as the Page Peel as you can see on the top right corner of this site, so I’ve made my own photoshop video tutorial on how you can create a corner peel image or banner that will look like below:
Here’s the step-by-step ‘Corner Peel Image‘ video tutorial.. Read the rest of this entry »
