Professional Designing Tips For Newbies

Well I had been thinking about writing this down for all my Juniors there, who are not able to prove themselves in the designing competitions online, due to weird kind of designs they are usually submitting, MOSTLY PRE-MADE TEMPLATES.

Now I agree guys most of you won’t have much knowledge on how to design in Photoshop or Fireworks, so you tend to move to Logo Designing Softwares. There’s nothing wrong with that seriously. Even I use one sometimes to obtain graphic images for my designs, but there’s something called tactics that you need to adopt to design professionally out of nothing at all. Have a Glimpse at this Logo I recently Designed.

At first glance it may appear like a very sophisticated logo, but it isn’t really so. You can use any text at all, but I used ‘Neuropol Bold’ for main text, and simple ‘College Regular’ for Tagline. The art is just to arrange the two fonts in such a way to make them look professional and photoshop quality. Like for e.g the whole text above is made uniform, with an ‘E’ that is different from the main font. This ‘E’ will signify the forum when the whole text is not in use.

Freelancing – A more technical money making approach

Are you wasting your precious little time, sitting on your computer, waiting for someone to sign-in, so that you could proceed with a chat or maybe too much pooling at yahoo is wasting those years out of your age for no good. Well why not make the best of this time and do some freelancing.

The oppurtunities on the internet are endless, and by endless I mean endless. Every heard of Mark Zukerberg? Well I am sure you have, the famous Facebook CEO. Well he started working on a simple social networking site back in 94, and look what he’s making today. There are even more younger people out there who have made credible bucks on the internet, due to their skills and talents.

Do I need to be a Computer Geek to earn anything?
Actually No, (Sorry about the Geek Term, no offense to anyone, just a figure of speech) you don’t have to know anything major except for just some basic handling of your computer.

‘Everything costs alot on the Internet’ – Really?

Ok I started off as a newbie some years on the internet, much like anyone’s first time. I was amazed at the price quotes I used to see everywhere.

Domains – $6.99 Paypal, Hosting – $47/6 Months, Download Full Version of this Software for $80.00

‘I could never afford that’! But then I found alot of things that I would like to share with you guys that proved helpful.

Post 2 Host Forums – They give you Hosting just for posting in their forums. The packages aren’t too nice, but you they prove reliable and ADs free in most cases unlike Freebies.

Learning Simple Flash

Today we’ll be talking about designing a very simple flash animation from scratch.

The Software in use is Flash CS3. 

1. Moving Objects with Mouse

      I created a simple circle out of the Oval Tool in the Toolbox on the Left.

Place it on the Stage and Convert it into a Symbol (Right Click on Object>Convert to Symbol).
Right Click on the Image again and Goto Actions>Global Functions>startDrag.

In the Option Check the Option ‘Lock Mouse to Center’.

Play the Movie – Ctrl+Enter
The object will move with the mouse. You can experiment with this effect and create your own curson in the flash movie.

2 Important Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers.

Some of the most important plugins one should have, if you are a Web Designer.

ICO Support for PSD Recovery for Photoshop – D O W N L O A D
The ICO Support Plugin adds support for exporting your images in .ico, and the other enables you to recover layers in your PSD and extract layers separately.

The Plugins are Free and Photoshop Release.