Posted on 01 September 2010 by DzineBlog
Every photographer has their own choice of essential photography accessories to bring in variety of shooting events. For beginner, at least there are 5 essential photography accessories. In the future, DzineBlog.com will start to cover photography topics. Personally, I am getting interested to photography. Many readers recently also emailed me, to add more posts about photography. Do you think Dzineblog.com should talk about photography? Feel free to share your thought in the comment below.
Posted on 01 September 2010 by DzineBlog
If you are searching for free stock photo databases, there are quite a few sites on the web that do that, and even at high quality: there are sites that are made by artists or designers for other artists and promote sharing their creations, there are also others which have a double policy, offering both photos for sale and for free, in distinct sections, and there are also sites which offer exposure to new talented photographers who are willing to collaborate.
In any case, there are huge resources of free stock photos on the internet and this article means to help you get to some of the best sources available online at the moment.
Posted on 31 August 2010 by DzineBlog
Everyone loves his brand new camera. However, most beginners have no idea what some features actually mean. Let’s take your SLR camera for instance. On the display you’ll come across some letters.
ISO is a feature that stands for image sensitivity to light and speed film. It comes from International Standards Organization and it has the power to slow cameras down, or make them work faster.
Posted on 30 August 2010 by DzineBlog
The irony of any website design is that the name of the designer is relegated right down to the bottom of the page and that too in small font sizes that are barely legible. And in some cases, the name of the designer is simply not there or is taken over by the client. Designers spend days and months designing websites for their clients and what they get in return, most of the time, is payment for their work.
So, how does a designer like you show the world what you are capable of? There is a simple but highly effective method to brand your work – enter a design competition. Using the popular search engines will give you an enormous list of design competitions that can help you getting hunted by prospective clients rather than you hunting for them.
Posted on 30 August 2010 by DzineBlog
There are thousands of designers like you out there trying their best attract the attention of potential clients. In this highly competitive industry, it could be rather difficult trying to beat all of them and landing a lucrative web designing contract. For this purpose, a portfolio website is one of the best tools to showcase their work.
Creating a portfolio website is a must for any designer. No one out there will know about you unless you market yourself as a brand. And this is precisely what a portfolio website does for you. You can easily design your own portfolio website if you are an artist. What really is more important is marketing your portfolio website.
Posted on 30 August 2010 by DzineBlog
Everyone should bear in mind that designing a good business card does portray a good sense of your client’s business. A good business card must be devised with great care to obtain as well as get the attention of new clients to purchase the item you are selling as well as use the assistance you are providing. A good business card should not be taken for granted as an item for announcements, to connect with your clients or a way for you to obtain connections. Business card is a form of self promotion and relays the information about you and what you do or rather what your company is all about. If your business card doesn’t provide you with sales or make your business stand out, this just proves that your business card isn’t effective at certain level.
A lot of individuals think that business cards are the sole advertisement method that is effective; though this thought is mostly common among people who are just new comers in the world of commerce. The general method of idea is that a business card is easily thought up as well as generated from the comfort of one’s house or one’s desktop and that is sufficient enough for new business associates to get recognition or sales from clients. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Posted on 20 August 2010 by DzineBlog
Have you ever wandered what is the font used in the DzineBlog logo? Have you ever had a client requiring you to do some graphic design for some banners, brochures or for a specific web-page with a specific font, and asking if you could take it from a .pdf file? And have you ever got some text for a site, blog or newsletter written with CAPITALS, with incorrect spacing and badly formatted?
For all these problems or for other everyday font-related tasks there are online type tools and using these tools, you can save hours of searching, typing, testing and coding, and the most important thing: the tools are all free!
I know some of you already know some of the tools above or at least have similar tools installed on your computers. But imagine you are not home and you are working on a computer where you don’t have any of these installed or that you are somewhere and you just feel creative.
