Being a web/graphic designer is not easy. You need to study by yourself, explore the world of Internet, communicate with the clients and compete with other international web/graphic designers.

You should think that you are not the only web/graphic designer in this world! There are lots of designers who are into freelancing, not only you. Always think that you are not the BEST one! You should know that the clients are not inquiring only from one designer. They are also inquiring from other designers and dealing with the best price and quality of design. Yes, they need to compare you from the other designers. That is what we called, “may the best designer win!” That’s why you need to try your best so that the client will choose your quality and price.

Here are some websites where this techie girl started her  freelance job. For those who want to try web/graphic design freelance job, these are my recommended websites.

For the newbies, here is the best site for you.
* DigitalPoint – Discussion related to search engines, including optimization, marketing, tools and other technical aspects.

For those  well experienced web/graphic designers, here is the best site for you.
* 99designs – Need something designed? Crowdsource it to our community of thousands of designers. Choose a winning design from hundreds of concepts created for you in under a week.

For those  professional web/graphic designers, here is the best site for you.
* Freelancer – Global outsourcing solution and freelance jobs website. Here you can find freelance coders, writers, programmers, designers, marketers and more. You can also outsource projects and save a lot of money in the process.

Not only on these sites, you can also try to communicate with the clients via private e-mail. It’s better if you check his/her profile. If there’s a lot of designers, then there’s a lot of scammers too! Always think of that! Do not look on how well they can communicate with you. Again, do not think that you are the BEST among the other designers. Be humble and friendly.

I hope this post helps you on how to make money online. If you want an advice, do not hesitate to approach me Thanks for reading!

This is for those who want to learn on how to make a quick and easy logo design for their projects, freelancing and self logo for blogging. And also, this might help your freelancing activity especially to those who are new to freelancing.

I wanted to share the way I design a logo, yup, this is my specific way of designing a logo And I hope this is a big help for you to make your own creations.

Now, we are going to create a logo for Digdesignz. I want it to be simple, readable, good looking when black and white version and the most important is easy to remember by the audiences. I categorized this as a Website logo not a Food logo, Clothing logo or etc.

Quick Logo Tutorial

Requirements:
* Adobe Photoshop (Any version can do. I am using CS3)
* Own Idea.

Step 1 (click the image to enlarge) Use the Horizontal Type Tool to make a text on your screen. Now, start typing the 1st word in logo.	Step 2 (click the image to enlarge) Again, by using the Horizontal Type Tool, type the 2nd word of your logo but in other color. Make sure your chosen colors are compatible.	Step 3 (click the image to enlarge) This is optional. If you want to include your domain extension name, you can do it like this Perhaps it’s cool if you transformed it in counter clockwise. Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 Degrees CCW.
Step 4 (click the image to enlarge) Now, we are going to remove the dot from letter ‘i’ without rasterizing the text. Select the layer of the text you want to remove a dot, and click the Add Layer Mask from the layers palette. And then, use the Eraser Tool (press E on keyboard) to remove the dot from your selected layer.	Step 5 (click the image to enlarge) Do the same thing on step 4 for the 2nd layer of your logo.	Step 6 (click the image to enlarge) Using the Custom Shape Tool (press U on keyboard) with a shape of ‘Star’, locate it above of letter ‘i’. It’s your own choice of colors

And that’s it Simple right? This is how I design a quick logo. Do you want to see my PSD file? Then you can download it here

Tips:
* Use 2-3 color combination.
* Think of a good font that may fit on it’s theme and name.
* Styled it like giving a drop shadow or just a slight gradient effect.
* Try to experiment on what is the best object to include on your text logo. Like what we did, star might be cute for my logo.
* Bevel emboss is not recommended. But if you designed a 3D style of logo, why not?

Note: This is just an example of logo making. This kind of steps can be use if you want to design a quick logo design from your projects.

Congratulations! You can now make your own logo design for your projects at school or even online I hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial and tips from me. Good luck!

And this is great! I am very thankful to ABS-CBN Interactive family for their care and support. Nag-text pa talaga yung boss ko. Salamat ng Marami! ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya continues to serve. Babangon ulit tayo!

I’m very sorry. The designer is currently busy on her 9 working hours at office so she don’t have too much time to respond on your comments. But I am really trying my best to give time to respond

Okay that’s enough, here’s the newest tutorial for this month, not a tutorial actually. Just a guide

Oh! Before I forgot, I’m one of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 Finalists under Best Blog Design Category. Congrats to all! We’ll just wait for the announcement of winners. I thought the awards night is supposed to be at Cebu? Hm… More Power!

Now, we will be going to draw a plain circle and will turn it into cool graphic design! On this tutorial, we will draw an eyes of a monster or let us say unknown creature. Ready?

Create an illustration by the use of re-shaping the circles.

These are the two of my output

Download 1280×1204 Wallpaper Download 1600×1200 Wallpaper	Download 1280×1204 Wallpaper Download 1600×1200 Wallpaper

Requirements
Adobe Photoshop in any version (I am using CS3)
Creative mind

Congrats! You must have something like this.

This is new! It’s my first time to share you my PSD file. Do you want it? Download it here

Hey, you can do this also on the other way. You can do a plain circles of monster eyes or even just a rectangle, anything you want. At least you got my idea on how to create an objects that may give you a nice graphic illustration, ayt? Okay, I’ll see you soon! That’s all for now I miss you all! Have a great day guys!

Designing a poster is the most in-demand in advertising agencies nowadays. I know some of you really want to be a graphic designer especially those teenagers who are taking so much time to stay in front of their computers/laptops. I have some very young friends online, and I know that they really want to enhance their talents in designing. Yes, you might belong to them. My target readers are those teenagers who wants to be a graphic designer in future.

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