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Using Stock Images Wisely

Hamza Shams — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:42:45 +0000

You must have in your life, been forced to use a variety of stock images or clip arts in your designs, but never wanted your buyer to know about it. This is exactly what I’ll teach you in today’s discussion. The Free images available on the internet, are all too bogus to be used, and the ones [...]

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Photoshop CS2 and Flash CS3 – A Perfect Combo

Hamza Shams — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:31:23 +0000

I never knew designing a website, would be so easy in flash. Flash CS3 and Photoshop CS2, make a perfect combination when it comes to designing ‘SIMPLE’ Flash websites, with great looking pages. If you don’t know how to work with flash, then lets get started on how its done. First design your website in photoshop, [...]

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Simplifying your Work, by choosing the right things

Hamza Shams — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:36:20 +0000

Today I’ll be telling about your things, that you should have on a MUST TO HAVE basis, installed in your PC to fulfill all your designing needs. Adobe Illustrator. For those who are good at drawing and wish to design characters, scenarios etc. Illustrator seems to be the best one out there. There are other Paint Shop [...]

Tired of designing for Free with no luck in winning any competitions on the internet, or do you hog your computer often and want to get paid for it. Visit my blog, I'll teach you how to do that.

Your Portfolio, Your CV

Hamza Shams — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:55:53 +0000

Please take sometime to visit our Sponsors on this Page, Navigating to the page won’t take you away from here. For a designer, your Portfolio is your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and believe it or not, a good portfolio pays well. Most designers are not much keen on working on their portfolios (like me ) and they prefer [...]

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8 Quick Tips – Designing Emphatically in Competitions

Hamza Shams — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:29:31 +0000

Ever been a participant of one of the many designing contests that are taking place on the net? And was never able to win anything, because the competition was tough. Believe me for professionals that is just an excuse. Today I’ll be telling you on how to eradicate your flaws to make your designs emphatic over [...]

Tired of designing for Free with no luck in winning any competitions on the internet, or do you hog your computer often and want to get paid for it. Visit my blog, I'll teach you how to do that.

Professional Designing Tips For Newbies

Hamza Shams — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:07:04 +0000

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 [...]

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Freelancing – A more technical money making approach

Hamza Shams — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:16:39 +0000

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 [...]

Tired of designing for Free with no luck in winning any competitions on the internet, or do you hog your computer often and want to get paid for it. Visit my blog, I'll teach you how to do that.

‘Everything costs alot on the Internet’ – Really?

Hamza Shams — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:13:00 +0000

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 [...]

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Learning Simple Flash

Hamza Shams — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:16:53 +0000

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 [...]

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2 Important Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers.

Hamza Shams — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:41:56 +0000

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 [...]

Tired of designing for Free with no luck in winning any competitions on the internet, or do you hog your computer often and want to get paid for it. Visit my blog, I'll teach you how to do that.