Adobe Photoshop

I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2 to design this logo. Many swear by illustrator, but I believe for the purposes of making a tutorial, it’d be best to use photoshop as it will cater to a wider audience. More people have used photoshop than Illustrator. Besides, I’ve created 95% of all my logos in Photoshop, so take what you will.

Let’s Start : The Project

A buddy of mine runs a gaming website, bluelaguna.net, and he has wanted a new logo for some time, so I agreed to do it for this tutorial. So let’s take a look at the current logo:

(Note: The image above isn’t a logo, it’s an entire header. The actual name bluelaguna.net along with the slogan is the actual logo. I thought it would be a good idea to show the entire header though to see how it reacts with the overall design.)

One of the most important things this logo lacks is readability. When a user visits a web site, or visits any medium in which a logo is displayed, the first thing that hits them should be the logo. And for some reason or another, the first place us humans look is the upper left hand corner of a site. The current logo is placed in the middle of the header and the small font and the dark blue in “BLUE” is hard to read.

There’s also nothing exciting with this logo. For a logo to be effective, it has to “brand” an image, it needs to stick in your head. All this logo is is times new roman on caps lock.

Now that we’ve gone over why their current logo is not suitable, let’s begin with the actual tutorial.

Gathering Information

It’s important to always know the specifics of what you or the client is looking for before you start. Generally for most projects, I only need to ask the client 5 questions:

Pretty straight forward, now we know what we have to work with.

1. Setting up your Document in Photoshop

• Once you have photoshop open, go to File -> New. Then specify the name of the logo, and a width of 600 and a height of 500.
• Then click “OK“ (Refer to the screenshot below).

2. Experiment with Font Selections

As a starting point, I always experiment with a font that I think will work well with the logo. You have to develop an eye for what font will or will not work, with the specifics of the project in mind. Since for bluelaguna we’re trying to focus on a serious yet gamer’ish feel, a serious font selection might be the best bet. Having yourself an arsenal of fonts is very important. I have several thousand myself.

Select the Text Tool on the left menu: (As shown on the image to the right) Adjust the settings on the Text Properties at the top to match these settings: In the character window to the right, set AV to -60 as shown below: (This simply shortens the space between each separate character, I like starting out with this setting, I don’t know why Type “BLUE LAGUNA” in the document space (First, be sure that the background is white, you can use the fill tool for this. And I’ve decided to go with all caps to start out with, since all caps is generally deemed more serious). With the type tool selected, and layer 1 selected, select the font list menu (where it says Arial): You can do this next section in either three ways. - Hit the “Down” arrow to change the font view of “BLUE LAGUNA”. - Hit the Down Arrow of the Font List to see the list of available fonts with a tiny preview of the font. - Download a font viewing program. I personally just use the first method, although I sometimes use a font viewing program. Our goal here is to find fonts that might work with the logo. Once you come across a font that looks like it could work, you should Duplicate the layer in the Layers Window to the right, and then hide the previous layer (The layer you right clicked and selected “Duplicate” from. This way, you’ve saved that font selection (the hidden layer), and you have a new layer to find more fonts from):

3. Good and Bad Font Selections

Since our goal with this particular logo is to be serious, we need serious looking fonts. It simply takes time to develop an eye for what is serious and what isn’t.

Here are a few examples of bad font selections for this project: The first logo (the top), has a very laid back, fun / unprofessional tone to it. The second logo is simply “goofy” looking, and it’s generally always bad to select a logo that has an inherent shadow. The third logo is way too “ragged” with its frills all over the place, definitely a no go. Calligraphy logos are generally outdated, especially ones with weird “drops” coming from them. The last logo you can hardly even read. Remember, a logo should be easily readable.

Here are a few examples of good font selections for this project: All of these logos with the exception of 4 and 6 are pretty much similar. #1, 2, 3 & 5 are all very simplistic and serious in appearance. Logo 4 still appears “serious” even though it is significantly different from the rest. I chose this just in case I want to experiment with piecing together fonts for the word “Blue” and “Laguna”. Logo 6 is a very bold / italicized logo that says nothing but serious.

4. Finalizing a Font Selection

Once you have some possible font selections, each in their own layer, you further analyze them and see which works. With logos that have more than one word, most of the time it is good to separate the appearance of the words from each other. Since this particular project has two words, “Blue” and “Laguna”, we’re going to want to separate them by possibly choosing two different fonts. You can also separate words from each other by keeping the same font, but changing the color. So I’m going to experiment with the 6 good font selections above.

5. Adding in a symbol

Sometimes logos work well with only the use of fonts, but most times adding in a relevant symbol of some sort will really make a logo stand out. When I say “symbol”, I mean any part of the logo which isn’t actual text. So let’s start with the first font selection from above:

Now here is where having an eye for design and experience is a really big help. We need to begin contemplating ideas of what exactly we can add to this logo to make it awesome. So, the first thing I do is just sit there and stare at the font selection and think of what exactly the product/service/site is all about. Well, BlueLaguna.Net is about gaming, more specifically speaking, it’s a site that offers RPG media (Role Playing Game) media. Therefore, we have two things to work with: RPG and Media. What exactly can we associate with both RPG and Media? Well, we don’t necessarily have to convey both RPG and Media through the logo (if you try to get too complex, the logo will become cluttered). We can choose one or the other if we want. I think it’d be most logical to focus on the whole RPG aspect, as you can find media all over the place and it isn’t an entirely unique concept.

So let’s do some research on Role Playing Games. We need to figure out a symbol which can really represent RPG. The current BlueLaguna.Net features a 3d female, perhaps that has something to do with RPG? Well, let me do a search on images.google.com for “RPG”. The results turn back a few different female characters, Hmm! The first few results, keeping in mind the 3d female character on the current header of bluelaguna.net, seem to suggest that depicting a female in the logo might be the best bet. It also seems that weaponry / mystical environments are associated with RPG as well.

Now that I know what I can associate with RPG, I can come up with some possible ideas for a symbol. I think maybe featuring a face of one of these RPG’ish females with maybe a hint of mysticism.

The Pen Tool is your Friend

The most important tool when it comes to logo design is the pen tool. If there is one tool to thoroughly understand, it should be the pen tool. The pen tool allows you to create any shape(s) you want, and maintain vector format (which is very important if you ever want to size your logo up n’ down (for professional print or whatever.)

It’s always good to draw your logo by hand without copying over a picture (vector tracing), but if you aren’t very talented and don’t have much experience, it might be your only option. So for the sake of making the biggest impact on this tutorial, I will teach you all an awesome technique for creating great looking symbols for you logos.

Finding a suitable picture

If you’re going to trace, I always suggest using a site like istockphoto.com to find the image and pay for it. This way you won’t be using copyrighted images to trace over. Or taking your own picture to trace over. Unfortunately though, istockphoto has nothing with RPG or “anime”. So I just went on images.google.com and found a picture which I think is suitable, here it is:

When I came across this picture, I got the idea that I can vector trace over her face and hair to create what I want, and then integrate it along with the font selection in some unique way. So once you’ve found the picture you want to trace (if not the same one), save it to your hard drive, open it up in photoshop, CTRL-A, CTRL-C to select it and copy it, and go back to your main logo document and CTRL-V. Now you’ve imported this picture into your logo document. Once you’ve imported it, with her layer selected, you can cut off the bottom half of her body. (Select the first tool in the upper left corner of the tools menu, Rectangular Marquee Tool), select the bottom half of her body and hit the delete key. Your screen should look something like this by now (You can hide the text layers behind it).

Vector Tracing

Now select the magnifying glass in the tools menu and select around the girl, it will look like this zoomed up to about 400%:

Make sure that the foreground color (the black square at the bottom of the pic to the upper right —^) is the same dark blue color of the text we specified.

In the layers window to the right, select the little round circular > icon on the upper right corner of the window, and click on “Create New Layer” in the window that comes up. Hit “OK” and then in the layers window, with the new layer selected, change the Opacity to 0%. We do this because once we start tracing over the image, we don’t want the dark blue color hiding the picture of the girl below.

And with the pen tool selected, click a point somewhere on the outline of the hair (at the top), and then click to make another point somewhere on the hairline where the line will begin to form. You can hold down and “direction” the angle of the line to create a certain type of curve. It takes awhile to get the hang of, but it’s very easy once you get the hang of it. After plotting points of an entire section of hair, yours should look similar to this: (Note: I’ve lightened the opacity of the girl to illustrate what your lines should look like so far)

(opacity 100%)

It’s not perfect, but for now it’s a good start.

Now I’m simply going to continue creating more shapes, like the facial features. After 15-20 minutes or so of creating the different facial features and the face itself, here is what I have come up with:

As you can see, I specified a different color for the face (light blue). And by now I have around 15 different layers. There’s a separate layer for the top portion of each eye, the bottom portion of each eye, the middle, and the small glare. There’s also a layer for the face background, and the ear. So let us continue and add some shading…

After about 20 more minutes of shading, this is what I’ve come up with: There are a total of 3 different layers for the hair. It’s somewhat of a tedious process to do hair shading simply because there’s a lot of strands of hair! But you have to just condense them and get the general idea of the shading and it will work out well. Then I did some light shading work on the face and the neck. Now I consider the actual draft of the symbol complete. Let’s make our initial text layer visible and see what we can do to integrate the symbol with the text.

First, you will want to select the very last to the very first vector layer that you created (you’ll have a couple dozen or more), hold down the shift so you can select them all. Then in the layers window click the little circular round button and select “New Group From Layers”. This will put all of the layers of the girl, into one easily manageable layer group. This way, you can move around the one group and it will keep all of their positions together so it won’t break up her face.

Now this actually doesn’t look too bad, in and of itself. But the proportion of the anime head is too big, in relation to BLUELAGUNA. So we will want to scale down the head. Let’s try moving it over to the left, and adding the slogan + the “.net” text. This is what it looks like:

Now it looks pretty damn good eh? The only other thing I did, was with the pen tool, I added a white shape over the “B” in “BLUE” so that the face doesn’t collide with the B.

Unfortunately I messed up and didn’t design this over the dark blue’ish background that the bluelaguna.net has. So I’m going to change the colors of the logo to fit a background of an appropriate header for the site.

As you can see, simply changing colors around can really change the look and feel of a logo. I’d consider this logo a winner.

6. Conclusion

I can pretty much guarantee you that if you’re a first time user of the pen tool or photoshop for that matter, it won’t turn out so pretty like mine did. It takes some time and patience to really get the hang of it. It’s all about getting a little creative and working at it for awhile.

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Step: 1
Create a new Blank Document with white background of minimum size 1024×768. If you want a wide screen wallpaper then you can go with other resolutions.
Step: 2
Firstly go to the bottom of the layer tab New Fill and select Gradient with two colors from White to #b4ecf8 with Angle -45 Degree.

Step: 3
Create a new layer, select color #3da9ee and fill the top-left area of the document using a big radius brush as shown in the screenshot.

Step 4:
Now do the same in the Top-Right corner using color #9be1fb shown in the screenshot.

Step 5:
Again also do the same thing in the Bottom-Left side of the document with the color #aadaee using same that big size brush.

Step 6:
In this way using different color try to make it look like given in the screenshot.

Step 7:
This is the most important step to create the spark lines:
1) First of all take Brush Tool and got its preset menu and select the 1Px radius with smoothing.
2) Now select Pen Toll and go to its properties and check Rubber Bend.
3) Draw a line using Pen tool as in the screenshot and then right click on the document and select Stroke Path using Brush. Make sure you have selected white color for white lines.
4) Now go the Blending Options of that layer and check Outer Glow and just set these settings
Mode: Normal
Color: White
Opacity: 50
Spread: 5
Size: 5

Step 8:
Just do the same thing using new layer. Now keep both of the layers in a Group Box and named it 100%.

Step 9:
Now just create some more lines randomly and again keep them in a group box and set its opacity to 70% and also name the Group Box 70% for better understanding.

Step 10:
Create some more lines and the same in a Group Box and name it 25% and set the group box opacity 25%.

Step 11:
Now we have to create green lines for that first of all select green color and using the Pen tool make the lines from bottom right to the middle of the document as in the screenshot.

Step 12:
Now select custom shape tool and Append All the shapes after that you can see all the shapes.
Select the leaf and flower shape and just try to create the same as in the screenshot and adjust it like it is branched to one of the spark lines. Using the Transformation you will easily get it.

Step 13:
Again select the shape tool and select the Bird, make sure you have selected white color and draw as in the screenshot.

Step 14:
The next step is to create cloudy area in the bottom right now with a new layer. Select Brush and set its radius 300px and create some cloudiness using white color. Now reduce its radius with 50% and spread the white color little bit outside the corner.

It will look like this.

Step 15:
For the small circular white spot again select the brush tool and randomly create white spots with different opacities.
Finally you will at there.

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As everyone knows that the creativity is there with each and everyone, but the use it in an different ways. So in the old post i was mentioning some of the tips regarding graphic designing and web designing. Now i m here to give some of the best experiences which i want to share with my readers and subscribers. When we move on with an designing work the main thing which blocks us is the lack of creativity and focused details about the project. So after a lot of revisions only we get the final masterpiece which we need. To over some of these problems let me tell you some best methods to use while designing.

1. Initially get the maximum information regarding the projects from the clients

2. Analise the project in your own method which is comfortable according to you.

3. Get some information regarding the projects and keywords related to the project from the internet.

4. Plan a simple prototype that is an hand drawn work.

5. Next decide the color to make the design pleasant (Fresh and New Look)

6. After completion of the project try to make it attractive using different way of presenting it to the client.

In order to design a logo with visual effects. It must exhibits certain features related to the brand name or company name. The Identities are the major thing which explains about the company without any eplanation. So that the logos plays a major role in realizing the company by the customers. o to develop the corporate identity we should be talented in deciding the concepts as an design. In particular there are things to be remembered while planning a logo. The most important things to be followed are

1. Shape
2. Presence
3. Weight
4. Contrast

Characteristic 1: Shape

A distinctive logo (or icon) has a recognisable shape, so that it is still recognisable from its outline. Your brain loves to use shape to identify things, because it can do it very quickly. (Note: this is also the main reason why

Characteristic 2: Presence

Your logo has good presence if it fills much of the available space with shapes that carry meaning (e.g. words, recognisable symbols). This makes it bolder and clearer, and hence more recognisable. The more space you fill with elements that don’t either help recognition or add meaning, the less presence your logo will have.

Examples of good presence

Examples of poor presence

The key elements “FTL” are too weak to draw the focus. The FTL letters are lacking white space to differentiate them and suggest that they are significant. The strongest forms are the spiral line and the dark oval, but neither is meaningful.

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Characteristic 3: Weight

Good weight means that a logo (or icon or logotype) does not rely on fine (slim or light) features in order to be recognisable. If a logo is bold, it can be effective in more environments. The best logos have a weight of presence are recognisable when viewed alongside other strong images. (see Picadilly Circus)

The use of colour is vital to getting a clear, bold logo or icon. Too many colours, gradients, 3-d effects and complex patterns can be detrimental to your logo’s weight.

Tip: Try to use as few different colours as possible.
Remember, the more colours a logo has, the harder it is to reproduce in different formats.

Tip: Avoid gratuitous 3-D effects – your logo must work without them.

Examples of good weight

In IBM’s logo, the horizontal lines are a secondary feature to the main shape. The logo is still recognisable without them.

Strong weight, colour and shape make Dell’s logo recognisable.

Examples of poor weight

The text is way too light, as is the other visual clue (the palette shape). The 3-d emboss effect on the text also reduces contrast and readability. What has a farm got to do with a painter’s palette?

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Characteristic 4: Contrast

Contrast aids shape-recognition by making the edges between elements clearer. Good logos (and icons) have lots of contrast on the edges of meaningful visual elements.

The squint test is great for checking contrast. Also consider that users may be colourblind. Another helpful test is to try desaturating your logo in a graphics application, and check whether it is still clear and recognisable.

Examples of good contrast

(See also all good logos above).
The RockShox logo uses both colour-on-white and inverse (light-on-dark) contrast together, to good effect. Great presence and strong colours make this impactful and highly recognisable.

The McDonald’s logo has less tonal contrast, but the perceived contrast between strong, flat colours makes the shapes clear. Note the clear space around the text.

Examples of poor contrast

The logo shape behind the text is too light to see clearly. Also, the important “venture capital” text is too weak in light grey. On the squint test, you are quickly left with only the strong single word “Mobius”, which may not be meaningful.

Text has too little edge contrast, as it’s less bright than the highlight from the 3d effect.

Text is too thin for so little contrast against background.

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The Graphic Designing is an domain which gives the pleasure while working over the projects. The designers have different criteria and different styles of creating the designs. As i said earlier the Graphic Designer has a very good opportunity working as an Freelance designer at Online. There are wide range of marketplace for the freelance designers to work . So to be a freelancer there is an minimum requirements required.

Here Is the Basic Requirement Require To Be A Graphic Designer.

#1  Personal Computer.

A Personal Computer with an minimum configuration is required. Because the software which are used for the Graphic Designing as well as illustration purpose are in a need of high buffer memory and a very good graphics memory. So here is an basic configuration to be a good tool for the designer.

Windows

• 1.8GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024×768 display (1,280×800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Mac OS

• PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024×768 display (1,280×800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

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#2  BroadBand Internet Connection

The broadband internet connection is required in order to upload and download the work files as well as the references files. The image files with pretty high resolution will take more time to download at slow internet connection. So due to this i recommend to go for Broad band internet connection(Unlimited Plan is recommended).

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#3  Software Programs

The most commonly used software programs are

1. Adobe Photoshop (Any Version)
2. Adobe Illustrator (Any Version)
3. CorelDraw X3 To X4
4. QuarkExpress…etc

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#4 White Board

Having a whiteboard on the wall can be very handy if you wish to write something down very fast, or suddenly have an idea.The white is a n major gadget which is needed while planning an corporate logo designs or an identity design. The white board is used while showing the client rough work.

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#5  Glass Desk

You want a desk that looks good and has enough room for all your stuff. Now this doesn’t have to be glass (this is just a recommendation), but glass desks do look good.

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#6  Notice Board

Having a notice board is a great idea to post notes on, and important information that you don’t wish to store on your computer or online.

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#7 Sticky Notes

Sticky notes are good for reminders. Like Skype conference at 8 with Ron etc. They can just sit at the back of your workstation for when you need them.

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#8  A3 Printer & Scanner

Designers often need to print out briefs, or large designs. An A3 printer is great to have, and also with a scanner on top is just an extra bonus.

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#9  Stationary Pot & Holder

You need something to hold all your stationary in. Keep it neat and tidy with a stationary holder on your desk

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#10 Cool Business Chair

You need to have a chair that’s comfortable, because after all you will be sitting there most of the time when using your workstation.

The freelancer jobs are now a days are very common because these are self supporting jobs which can support us by providing a handful of income which we earn through our own skills. A freelance programmer earns his income by programming the applications for the client and he decides the time and schedule according to his own wishes. Like wise the freelance designer earn the income by doing the projects which the clients order him. So other than the individual clients work order there are market places where there are more number of jobs posted in an common place. So we can select the projects according to our wishes and work it according to the clients requirement and final get paid for the project.

Here is an list of Freelance Designers Market Place.

99designs.com

This is an market place where the projects are dropped by the clients and the designers choose the projects and work on it and exhibits their work so the best one will be selected by the contest holder and will be awarded the cash prices.

http://www.99designs.com

crowdSPRING.com

This is an market place where the projects are dropped by the clients and the designers choose the projects and work on it and exhibits their work so the best one will be selected by the contest holder and will be awarded the ash prices.

FreelanceDesigners.com

Here the projects are posted daily. So the designer have to signup with this company and post his valuable profiles within this site. So the can select the project according to his wish and the client will select you if your work and the rates are reasonable for his project. This is based on your unique profile in this site.

Odesk.com

Here the projects are posted daily. So the designer have to signup with this company and post his valuable profiles within this site. So the can select the project according to his wish and the client will select you if your work and the rates are reasonable for his project. This is based on your unique profile in this site.

Elance.com

Here the projects are posted daily. So the designer have to signup with this company and post his valuable profiles within this site. So the can select the project according to his wish and the client will select you if your work and the rates are reasonable for his project. This is based on your unique profile in this site.

Web Designing is one of the out growing job which any one who has the creativity and patients to write coding can do. So at present the web designing has outbreak the rules about how the design of the website should be. This led to the rapid increment of the world wide designers. So even the school going kids are now a day designing websites which has the similar looks comparing with the professional designers. So the web designing does not limits any age or the qualification. So to get an handful of money one of the best method is web designing. Now let see what are the steps to become a web designer world wide.

Maintain a Website

If you maintain someone else’s website, the owner may spread the word about your services. You could maybe ask for a small link at the footer of their site, linking back to your site, which will gain some exposure.

Create a Blog

Creating a blog can bring in loads of traffic, and maybe even clients. If you write great content, other people will link back to it, and it will rank higher in search engines, so its a win win situation.

Network Online

Use online social networks such as facebook, twitter and digg to promote your blog articles, design work, and do personal networking with other designer.

Create An Email Signature

Putting a signature in all your outgoing emails can generate alot of traffic, especially if you send alot of emails.

Purchase And Design Business Cards

Business cards can generate alot of business. If you have a nice eye catching design, and something that is unique, there will be more chance of people looking into your services than if you had a plain business card design.

Create a Portfolio

If you put up all your work into a nice online portfolio, clients will be able to see your work, and websites will link to your work if its of amazing quality.

Participate In Forum Discussions

Participating in forum discussions can generate buzz. If you have a clear standing opinion to many forum threads, people will begin to look into who you are, what websites you have etc. The forum threads will be in search engines, thus giving you long term promotion.

Get Personal

If you are personal and unique with your designs, people will see you as unique.

Volunteer

Contribute to open source projects / non profit online organizations. It looks great on your portfolio.

Create A Forum Signature

If you put your website link or even an image in your forum signature, and it looks eye catching, people will click it. Then you just have to post more threads, and reply to them, and it will get your link all over the forum.

Buddy Up

Get another web designer as your buddy. You can work together, give each other work and help each other out. Win win situation.

Blog Comments

Participating in blog discussion, by commenting on other peoples blog entries can give you traffic back to your blog. If you post a good comment that many people are likely to read, then you will get clicks.

Guest Post

The Internet is full of opportunity. Many bloggers big and small go on holiday, and love to take breaks. They might like you to guest post on their blog, and this means you can post link backs to your own site, when it says article written by. Especially if its a big blog you are guest posting on, you will gain loads of exposure.

Participate In Design Competitions

Don’t be shy. There are many websites such as 99designs and digitalpoint forums that hold design competitions. This can give you opportunity to showcase your work, and show people what your design skills are like.

Word Of Mouth

Tell people about your website and the services you offer. Your friends and family are sure to tell other people about you.

Get Yourself / Website In The News

Do something to get your website or yourself in the news / talked about over the blogosphere. Sponsor a charity event, turn your website upside down, it will work!

Trade Ads / Link Swap

Web Designers can help each other out. You can trade links and add them to each others blogroll, or even trade image ads such as 125 x 125px.

Develop A Relationship With All Your Clients

If you develop a personal relationship on a one to one base with all your clients, they will respect you and maybe even come back for more work or better yet, refer you to their friends.

Submit Your Work To Web Galleries

Web Galleries love great design work. Some web galleries online are immensely popular, so if your work gets on the front page of them, you will receive thousands of clicks back to your work, which means more clients.

Hold Contests On Your Website

If you hold contests on your websites, people will tell other people about the contests if it has a great prize, and it will generate alot of online buzz.

Valentine’s Day is coming and it’s time to gather a collection of vector images and files. I present to you a collection of 120 + Valentines Day Vector Graphic Set. Use it and enjoy. These vectors set are exclusively used for the graphic designing purpose of the valentines gift card and Ecard, greeting….etc

Valentines Day – 11 Devil Hearts

11 vector hearts with and without devil horns. AI format (Adobe Illustrator).

Winged Heart

1.1 mb file in AI (Adobe Illustrator) format with preview. Description: illustration of winged heart.

2 Hearts With Curls

2 vector EPS files with some curls and leaves.

Vector Valentines Day Card

Vector EPS Card for Valentines Day

Free Valentine’s Day vector

AI (Adobe Illustrator) and EPS vector heart from createsk8.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Vector set of free 8 AI (Adobe Illustrator) graphics with hearts.

14 St Valentine’s Day Vector Icons

Set of 14 vector icons in eps format for Valentines Day. Love boxes, flowers, presents…

10 Free Valentine’s Day Vector Symbols

Set of 10 vector symbols in AI format for Valentines Day. Letters, cards, kisses, hearts…

9 More Free Valentine’s Day Icons

Collection of vector icons for Valentines Day in eps format. Vector hearts, cakes, letters, flowers…

8 Free Vector Hearts

Set of 8 vector hearts for St Valentines Day. Free for download.

50 Love Heart Vector Icons

One of my icon sets with 50 Valentines Day vector icons with hearts only… enjoy =))

42 Love Heart Vector Graphics Pack Download

Another set from freewareme. 42 vector graphics for Valentines Day.

63 Vector Hearts Set

Good set of vector images with hearts for Valentines Day.

And some more Valentines Day graphics from Freewareme:

Free 19 Valentine’s Day Backgrounds

2 Valentines Day PNG Cards

Valentine Day Vector Clipart

PSD template – Love hearts

Valentine Background Download

Love Vector EPS

Valentine’s Day clipart – icons – PSD – brushes 2
Valentine’s Day clipart – icons – PSD – brushes 1

The Logos are the important identities which shows about the company or the corporate company. According to Chinese 1000 words can be easily shown through a single illustration similarly the meaning or the complete process of the company can be represented using a single identity those are the Logo. So here are some of the best collection of similar identities and you can even check the details which the logo itself explains you. So if you are interested to get one such logo designed to your own company or organization or for personal use please inform us through our service order form. Click Here

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To become a Graphic Designer you don’t need any degree but the willingness to learn something , creativity and continuous use of illustration and illustration tools. Now a days the Graphic Designers online get the highest payment other than the full time jobs. So decide your own schedule and rewrite your career by get a job which completely is under your own control. Your are the Boss as well as you are the Worker. So here i just provide some of the best websites which offers free online graphic designing tutorials.

1. Sessions Online School of Design – DesignMentor Training (sessions.edu)

• Illustrator CS2 Live Trace Tutorial
• Color Correction Tutorial
• Adobe Bridge Tutorial

The Sessions Online School of Design recently started offering free graphic design tutorials written by class instructors. The online tutorials can be accessed from the site without registration and include step-by-step instructions, screen shots and more.

2. Designer Today Magazine (designertoday.com)

• Paint Shop Pro Colorizing Tutorial
• After Effects CS3 Tutorial
• Flash Button Tutorial

Designer Today Magazine offers a number of free computer graphic design tutorials online to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Tutorials include step-by-step instructions, project files and images. There are up to 30 new tutorials published every month, so finding a topic of interest shouldn’t be a problem.

3. Adobe Online Training (adobe.com)

• Free Adobe Sample Courses

Adobe offers a number of sample courses for graphic designers that can be tried out for free online. Course options include Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements. Registration is required.

4. QuarkEd (quark.com)

• QuarkEd Training Course

QuarkEd offers QuarkXpress training for beginners and old hands. Training is broken down into individual lessons that can be downloaded one file at a time. Registration is not required, but you will need QuarkXPress 7 to complete the modules.

5. Planet Photoshop (planetphotoshop.com)

• Animated Transitions Tutorial
• Pen Tool Tutorial
• Color Theory 101

Published by KW Media, Planet Photoshop is a huge website dedicated to everything Photoshop. There are hundreds of tutorials, videos, reviews and resources. You’ll also find a blog and a forum for graphic designers who want to exchange ideas and information.

6. Tutorial Man (tutorialman.com)

• Rain Effect Tutorial
• Coloring Artwork Tutorial
• Color Balancing Tutorial

TutorialMan.com is a wonderful resource for free Photoshop tutorials. The site includes a searchable database, as well as links to other sites with free graphic design courses and online tutorials.

7. W3Schools (w3schools.com)

• Full Web Building Tutorials

W3Schools is an educational resource that is free for everyone. The W3Schools site provides full web design tutorials in addition to ‘for-a-fee’ certificate courses.

8. About Graphic Design (about.com)

• Basic Graphic Design Course
• Business Card Design Tutorial

About.com provides an endless supply of graphic design courses, tutorials and how-to’s. Many of them are accessible straight from the site, but there are a few that are delivered weekly via email.

9. Web Design From Scratch (webdesignfromscratch.com)

• 3D effects in Graphic Design
• Logo Design
• Web Page Layout

Web Design From Scratch was started by web consultant Ben Hunt and is published using the shareware principal (meaning it is free of charge). As the name suggests, the site focuses on graphic design for the web. There are hundreds of tutorials available; all can be accessed directly from the site.

10. Absolute Cross (absolutecross.com)

• Photoshop Tutorial: Audio Interface
• Flash Tutorial: Revolving Text
• Paint Shop Pro Tutorial: Transparent GIFs

Absolute Cross bills itself as a one stop resource for professional and aspiring graphic designers. The site provides free tutorials, graphics and website templates. You’ll also find a ton of free downloads and links to other helpful sites.