Well, I’m sure that every young designer out there wonders what is the secret to become successful and rich by designing. Now I’ll tell you a short story of a young Chinese Boy: The boy’s father took his son to the best mechanic of the city and told him: ” I want you to make my son a mechanic ”. The great mechanic a...

And here comes another great opportunity at GFXer. You can show you design works at GFXer for free. You’ll get a single article writing about you as a designer and where all your best works are included ( logos, signatures, site design etc ) You’ll also get a link to your site/portofolio and all these are for free ! To partecipate just ...

Let’s take a look at layer mask conventions and terminology, beginning with a couple of housekeeping points: The Background layerthat layer that most Photoshop images start out withdoesn’t support transparency and thus can’t support layer masks. It sounds worse than it is: to add a layer mask to a Background layer, take the ...

Smart Objects are the latest development in the evolution of Photoshop layers. Working with pixel-based media, we are inhibited by the rules of resolution. Photoshop allows us to stretch and scale our images as if they were Silly Putty, but if we take too many liberties, we irrevocably damage our images. Not anymore. Smart Objects let us scale...

Yes that’s totally true! This special thing will be avaible till the end of July. You can request every kind of Photoshop tutorial for free. I’ll try to find it and I’ll post it. To request a tutorial please comment in this post. You’ll have your tutorial in max. 48 hours ! Hurry up and profit from this. Only on GFXer.net &#...

After some hours of hard work I can proudly say that GFXer is far better than it was before. I upgraded the whole thing to a newer version and installed some addons and other stuff. I’ll soon design a new logo that will be nice (already have something on my mind). I’ll post as many tutorials as I can in the following days and weeks. I h...

Layer Comps is a great productivity tool. A snapshot of the state of your Layers palette, a layer comp lets you experiment with multiple versions of a layout in a single document, saving time and disk space, but most importantly freeing you from worrying about what layer went with what on which version, and what its exact opacity and blending ...

With blending modes you commonly arrive at fantastic results that are unexpected and unintentional. One of the great things about using layer blending modes and opacity sliders is that there’s no penalty for experimentation. Blending mode and opacity changes are nondestructive so you can experiment to your heart’s content without ha...

Many design newbies start the design thing for pleasure and no other objectives. With the passage of time, surfing over Internet, they notice that design can be much valuable than only for pleasure. There are many things that a designer wich knows well PhotoShop and Illustrator can do to earn money. Here’s a short list: Logo design Uncoded ...