Ronald Bien

Tips for a Designer’s Better Work-Life Balance

Feeling overworked? It is time for you to have a better work-life balance. Do not allow work to eat up all your energy and time. You have to allocate some for yourself in order to have a good life. If you feel that you are rushing all the time and you are no longer happy, assess yourself and do something about it.

As a designer, you always have a lot of work to do and you spend most of your time in front of a computer. Of course, there would be times that you feel so exhausted that it makes you irritable. Learn to have a better work-life balance so you can be happyno matter how much load of work you have. Everyone deserves to be happy. You can be happy, too.

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30 Free Sparkle Photoshop Brush Sets

If a designer, both web and graphic who’s really into the use of Photoshop gets to concentrate on brushes, there could be more than enough to collect but only a few deserves to be chosen. Photoshop Brushes are essential in making an appealing design. It is in the discretion of one on how to make an artwork look attractive and full of life. In achieving these, you’d need to have the patience and the creative eye to choose what’s best especially when the need arises..

In this collection, we have Enormous Sets of Sparkle Photoshop Brushes to let your designs shine just as effectively. Make your artworks exude among colors and feel free to download these brushes too!

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30+ New Collection of Cool Photoshop Tutorials

In a designer’s creative mind, there still has to be a room for learning. Even when you are already a Pro, there’s still much more to learn. Since change is the only thing that’s constant in this world, one must learn how to adapt to such. There’s always an update as to what’s new… May those be new techiniques or ideas. Photoshop has more and more updates to look forward to. Cool things would just come out through Tutorials. When you’re really into it, you’ll take time to learn… Who knows, you may already create your own to share with others!

For today, we share with you various ideas from different talented artists who took their time to make these Helpful and Fresh Photoshop Tutorials we’d get a good grasp from. This post aims to inspire and provide a room for learning for those enthusiasts…

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30+ Cool Collection of Abstract Wallpapers

When you say it’s “Abstract”, what comes first into one’s mind is that it has a deep meaning. It has its own language of conveying an artwork’s message to the viewer. Abstract is a composition of lines where it has its own degree of independence as said to be coming from visual references in the world. It gives one the chance to imagine… to explore. That is abstract. Like any other artwork, it catches one’s attention deeply and maybe you’d want to just be caught with the thought that you can have a bunch of Abstract Wallpaper Creation stored for your desktop!

It doesn’t mean to say that as Abstract departs from reality, or the usual, it totally does… There are mere instances when the representation may be slight or even just partial or even complete.For today’s post, we’d like you to enjoy choosing from among these 30+ Meaningfully Cool Abstract Wallpapers to fit in your desktops…

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Tips in Designing a Great Brochure

Brochures or pamphlets are types of leaflet that is seen in racks or stands featuring various information. It is frequently used to give information to tourist, to advertise products, to give health advices and many others. There are times when it is given to people who attended a seminar or a convention to give them information in a capsule. A brochure can be a single-sheet that is bi-fold or tri-fold. Bi-fold brochures have prints on both sides and are folded into halves. Tri-fold are also printed at both sides but are folded into thirds. Other brochures are “Z-folded” or “C-folded”.

An effective brochure can educate the customers, give a good identity and credibility to the company, expand the market and encourage customers to take action. For graphic designers, creating a great brochure is a challenge. In this post, we will provide you simple techniques to help you design a great brochure.

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A BIG Thanks to Our Supporters (July 2011)

To our valued readers, it has always been a pleasure to give you high quality design related articles that you can learn, use and benefit to your daily activities for free. But we can’t make it this far without the help of our sponsors. So today, we would like to thank all of them and give some love in return.

Below are the sponsors between July 01, 2011 – July 31, 2011. Feel free to check these cool companies and Maybe you’ll find a service or product that can do a good use to you.

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How Can You Stay Fit and Healthy as a Designer?

No matter how busy you are with work, for sure you still want to be healthy and fit. For sure, there are some things that you would like to improve in your body. Although, most people overlook this part. Many people claim that because of their busy schedules, they could forget to do some exercise and others enjoy eating food which they thought are healthy. It is important to keep your bodies in good shape for if you get sick, you wouldn’t be able to work and you’ll lose a lot of earnings.

Graphic designers experience back pains, headaches, anaemia, cough and other illness due to the nature of their work. Spending time sitting in the front of the computer can even be stressful at times. It is not good to be sick and stressed out because it can lead to more serious diseases like heart problems. Since no one would like to get sick, you need to take some steps to stay healthy.

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Effective Freelance Business Planning Tips for Designers

Even a freelance business needs proper business planning in order for you to be successful. Freelancing is of great advantage to many for it provides flexibility for the workers. A freelancer can have control over how much he or she wants to earn and on what particular time of the day he or she wants to work. There are various fields or discipline included in freelancing and one of them in graphic designing. There are thousands of freelance jobs that one can choose from. It is indeed amazing how the internet gave jobs to millions of people around the globe. Many people choose freelancing over other types of job.

Well, like every business, there are some things that you need to put into consideration before you start freelancing. Even building your own identity could be a challenge for you. Hence, to help you make your venture into the freelance business world successful, we have given you some tips that could help you. This might answer some of your questions on how to have an effective freelance business planning.

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Announcement: Winners of the TN3 Gallery Pro License

It is now time to announce the winners of TN3 Gallery License from TN3Gallery. As promise, we will choose 5 winners via random generator and will have a chance to get a Pro version of the said prize. But before we end up this giveaway, I would like to thank TN3Gallery for making this contest possible. Feel free to check them anytime guys and see their other versions of this image gallery. I also would like to thank the participants who have joined the giveaway.

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