Playing About With Photoshop

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Tonight i spent a few hours trying out different brushes and fonts and trying to get to grips with a few of the features that are in photoshop. I am not too good when it comes to the likes of photoshop, i know design is a very big part to do with building websites. If you can go to someone and quote them a price for a website you want to be able to say i can design and code it for 'X' amount of money. You dont want to have to say well i can code it but you need someone else to design it, sure it would be ok to do that but it would look better if you could provide the full package when choosing to build a website for someone.

This is why i want to be able to use photoshop, so i can slowly learn how to do a few simple things that would really help out with the appearence of a website, such as nice glossy logos or banners. You can in fact design a full website template using photoshop, this would require a lot of work.

I went looking for some nice fonts and brushes tonight and found a few good sites with loads of different font types and brush types to choose from.

For some really great brushes i went to a website called Brusheezy, they have loads of brushes and patterns that you can download for free.

And for fonts i went to a site called ReFont.com, this site has hundreds of different fonts that cover a wide variety of categories from horror and retro to gothic and calligraphy and a lot more, its great for getting loads of free fonts.

I am at the moment trying to design a header for TheEntertainmentClam, that will not only be a logo but will have a full background of images that will suit the content on the website also.

Tweaks

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 13th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Over the past few days i have been tweaking my website, trying to get everything back to the way it was, i have managed to do this but i could not fix my rss feed, it would not work for me. Everytime you would click the rss feed it said invalid, then when i tried setting it up on feedburner it told me that my website URL did not exist, but obviously it did because it was working.

So after a while i thought that maybe something might have gone wrong with the installation that lunarpages done when they installed Wordpress onto this blog, so i still had the files from wordpress on my old server so i decided to copy some of them over to this server, so the folder i decided to replace on this server was called wp_includes, so i began to transfer the files over which took a while, while i was transferring the files over my website went down because of syntax errors, but i let the transfer finish and when it finished my website went back up so i was happy it went back, and by replacing that folder with the old one i managed to get my rss to work again i went over to feedburner and signed the rss feed on my website up and it worked perfectly so i am happy with that.

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First Attempt At Logo Designing

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

I spent some time yesterday trying to edit a logo for my new website, i did design a logo but it will not be the one that i will be using because i don't think it looks good enough.

As you can see i used the idea of the bubble from the youtube logo, but on youtube its red. I think that its not a bad attempt on designing my first logo but i will have to put more effort into the next one.