Hi, I’m David Pix and this is the first of my tips on Photography and Photoshop for you. Over the coming weeks I’ll be writing and posting some really simple tips that will improve your photography and help you to deliver a higher percentage of great photos…
These tips can be used by the absolute beginner up to advanced.
So let’s get started…
Good evening everyone. As I have been sat here working for far too many hours, I thought it was time to take a break and have a little fun.
I believe every designer should take some time out by having some relaxing but creative fun, as it can lead to many fantastic ideas and inspiration. As creative professionals we should never try to force creativity, it must come naturally and this is why some of our best ideas can often take the longest amount of time to come forward.
Any way, enough of me rambling on, I have work I need to be getting back to, but during my little break I have written my own designer prayer and would like to share it with you, I hope you like it.
Following on from our list of the Top 15 Freelancing Websites which offer hundreds of freelancing jobs every day, we thought it would be a good idea to now list the best blogs available to freelancers. Whether you have chosen to become a spare time freelancer or you have decided to become a full time freelancer, you will gain loads of useful tips and resources from the 10 freelancing blogs we have listed below.
Almost every freelancer we have spoken to have told us how isolated and lonely the role of a freelancer can sometimes become. This is because, as a freelancer most of your time is spent working from home. Continue Reading »
As the new year is almost upon us, I thought I would write a post which will hopefully make you smile and look forward to the future. Being honest with ourselves is what keeps us prepared and ready for anything the future may have instore for us.
This post is meant with humor, but if you are easily offended or your name is “The Client” you may wish to look away now.
Can you just imagine the world without typography? It just wouldn't be the same and I can imagine it as being quite boring. As a designer I always feel that it is my choice of font which gives my design work it's finishing touch, but what is typography?
Typography is the use of typefaces, and it is the decision of the individual typographer how he/she will use each typeface. This includes how to select the most suitable typeface for their current work, the size, and how the typefaces will be arranged in general. In this blog post we are taking a step back in time to look at the history of typography, the anatomy of type and some of the most inspirational typography blogs on the net. Continue Reading »
If you take blogging seriously you will already know how time consuming the simplest of tasks can seem. Over time all bloggers will pick up on tools and add-ons which can make some of their blogging tasks easier and less time consuming. Most of the time we come across such tools and add-on through the blogging community and learning from other bloggers.
As a designer I have received loads of helpful advice from other designers who love to blog just like me. Continue Reading »
Social trends change and we need to get used to different etiquette rules to survive in the jungle of social media. People either get to like us or we simply annoy them, like with any other form of communication. We may offend people and put them off by not following some basic rules of polite behavior on Twitter.
Below I have listed my own practical tips on how to use Twitter in a way that will avoid irritating our potential valuable followers. I hope this list will make things easier for all of us.
A Christmas gift for my readers. A FREE social media icon set! which comes with 10 icons. You can freely use these really cool and special social icons for both your private and commercial projects.
However, the icons may not be offered for free downloading from websites other than Kaplang.com, if you would like to share these icons with your readers, you may share a link back to these icons from your Website/blog only. Use the download link below to receive the full source files for these icons. Continue Reading »
The Internet can be a really beautiful place when you are looking in the right areas, but it can also become a very repetitive place when you stumble over the same pre made template design over and over again.
For your design inspiration we have put together our top 40 design blogs. These are all original designs, so they are one of a kind. It truly is amazing to see what a designer can produce when taking the time to design something unique and original. Continue Reading »
We see so many designers these days simply following the latest trends and maybe taking a pinch of inspiration too much from other designers work. The world would become a very boring place if we all produced the same designs, and without the odd daring designer who will create something completely new, how would new trends ever be produced?
Just think, how would you feel if your next design sets off a whole new style which other designers will try to follow.
