One of the best things you can do when planning a site is to get the client involved. Forcing them to confront, and iterate, their expectations can save you time (and money) down the road. The best way to do that is to listen to them. The following is designed not to be a hard-and-fast checklist, but a tool to stimulate thought, and, from that, to stimulate conversation.
You can either give it to the client to fill out in advance of a meeting or simply use it as a guide while you talk to them. It is best for small- to medium-sized projects.
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Today I’m going to walk you through the steps to create a StickyNote paper with realistic shadow using Photoshop CS3. This tutorial will work with any version of the Creative Suite too, you’re tools may be located slightly different however. I also have the Photoshop CS3 file for download at the end if you’d prefer to work on the original.
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Categories: Photoshop, Tips / Tricks, Tutorial Tags: adobe, Creative Suite, cs3, Download, how-to, Photoshop, Photoshop 101, Realistic Shadow, Sticky Note, Template, training, tutorial
I recently searched for a Polaroid Image template to use for a project and found a tutorial for creating a collage of Polaroid images from one stock image. This gave me an idea on how to integrate their idea within my design.
I quickly lost interest in the tutorial as it was overly complicated and spread across 5 pages with little visual aid. Having lost interest in their way of creating this effect, but still wanting to do the effect myself, I set about figuring out the fastest way of achieving the same result.
Below is the final result of my tutorial; click through after the jump to learn the process and download the final PSD file if you prefer that way.
Freelance Folder has a great article for Freelancers on how to minimize or even eliminate Scope Creep (work not agreed upon in an original agreement) from their clients.
This article by Laura Spencer offers some great insights, be sure to read the comments after the article for more suggestions and dialog!
The article lists The Five Steps to Controlling Scope:
1. Know how much time you are spending on your project–Far too many freelancers don’t keep good records of how they use their time. You won’t notice scope creep if you don’t really know how much time you are spending on a project…. READ MORE ->
I have noticed that my post a while ago about how frustrating CS4 can be has been one of my most popular articles to date. I took this as you folks have some questions about CS4 and Illustrator in general.
Recently, with the help of Media Militia, I put out a call for your questions to be answered here. I’d like to personally thank everyone who sent in an email with questions. If you have a question that you’d like me to answer then send me a note; I’m happy to add you to the list for Round Two in the future
Illustrator CS4 Questions/Answers Round One
Here are 2 simple ways you can dramatically reduce filesize of your Illustrator production files:
Step one:
Before exporting your Illustrator file to another more universal format (such as EPS), or even if you are sharing the .ai file you can remove unused swatches, brushes etc from your document; these unused components add to the size of your document!
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