LinkedIn is a business and professional networking website that has been one of the biggest internet movers and shakers of recent years. It launched in 2003 and passed the 10 million member mark in 2007.
Since then its rate of growth in membership has been astonishing. In late 2010, the site claimed over 85 million members in over 200 countries with members from every Fortune 500 company in the network.
We are very used to cartoons from Disney, Warner Bros, etc., but cartoons can be very varied types of art and illustration. A cartoon was originally a preparatory sketch or drawing for a piece of art – particularly paintings and tapestries.
Some artists use existing concepts, such as films, TV shows, console games, etc., and some take characters from their own imagination, drawing inspiration from children, pets, fantasy, etc.
Life as a freelancer can be hard. Freelancers are responsible for all aspects of their business. They have to find clients, market their services, and handle all financial records and other paperwork in the business, as well as actually performing the service they are hired for. That is why many freelancers are always looking to make things just that little bit easier or more efficient. And this is precisely where life hacks come in.
There are some up and coming trends for 2012, but none seem to have taken quite such a hold as the use of ribbons in web design.
You can see ribbons used for navigation menus, as part of the brand logo, as title banners, as date tags and in many more ways.
Some designers have combined the new ribbon trend with other new trends such as using a background image, and some have incorporated ribbons with die-hard trends such as minimalism and grunge.
Facebook have introduced their new timeline profile, which will eventually be applied to all users. Should this concern us?
Well not really, it gives us more control over what is seen by who, but it’s not just a quick swap from the old to the new. You will have to find or create a cover image, and you will have to work through your past posts and photographs to organize your Facebook.
If you want to learn to create text effects with Photoshop then you should read this article where I list some great tutorials.
On this article I decided to list a selection of Adobe Cheat Sheets. These Cheat Sheets can help designers improve their skills when working with Adobe applications.
If you want to start learning Adobe Illustrator or improve your skills we have selected 20 great Illustrator Tutorials that will help achieve your goal.
Tutorials like the ones we list below will help you become a better designer and at same time learn different techniques to achieve a specific goal.
With Photoshop Star (my other site) publishing tutorials every week I had to start creating one strategy to get more exposure and more traffic to that content.
With all the electronics that have become a ‘necessary’ part of our everyday lives, it has become essential for consumers to consolidate their gadgets as much as possible. Perhaps the most useful consolidated gadget available is the modern smartphone. In addition to functioning as a PDA, music player, and e-book reader, the modern smartphone doubles as a decent digital camera.
