In this article it’s supposed that you have already have a portofolio with some work. Check here on how to fill your portofolio. These are the remaining steps to being a successful design that is making lots of money online. Advertising to clients This is the most important bit, getting the clients. The whole point of getting in clients is n...

After some work on GFXER’s CMS we made some small but important changes. As we’re a designing blog we thought that a rating system on the articles would be a good idea. That’s why we installed a plugin for it. Now everyone can rate a post from 1 to 5. The rating will display in the post, in the info box at the top of the post. Als...

Well, I’m glad to announce that we have joined a very popular blog’s competition: Blogging Idol 2. It’s a great contest ran by Daniel Scocco. This is a new blog and we’re not even hoping to win because there are many great other blogs out there, aged and with better content as us. Anyway, I think this is a great way for pro...

Although the great features that WordPress offers to make your blog decent you need some Wp plugins that are free to download. Here are some of the most useful and needed ones: All In One Seo Pack :   It’s a plugin that makes instant SEO to your blog post. The post are optimized in Search Engines and submitted very fast. FeedBurner FeedSmi...

Well, I know that many new designers have trouble finding work to do because they don’t have any portofolio with previous works. I know a very good way that everybody can use. It’s simple and in 1-2 months you can be one of the best designers out there. Here is what you have to do: Post a thread at DP or other webmaster forums offering...

In this next example we’ll see how painting in shades of gray allows you to introduce transparency effects: Darker grays conceal more, lighter grays reveal more of the layer. Or put another way, the closer you move towards black, the greater the masking effect; the closer you move towards white, the more the revealing effect. 1. O...

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...

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...

Every designer has difficulties in finding various photos to put in his work. There is a perfect place for that. i always visit their site to grab photos. The link is iStock.com . It has every kind of photos in great quality. There is a negative side: you must buy the photos to get the watermark removed. Anyway, you can get the photos and cut them....