Invest your time this Saturday: Be Inspired III

Invest your time this Saturday: Be Inspired III - Inspirational YOU's Leadership, Enterprise and Personal Development day. It's my personal recommendation, Join Sonia Meggie and top panelists. Check out the promo trailer produced by me for Inspirational You for the tireless work they do encouraging enterprise and personal development.

http://inspirationalyou.co.uk/events/upcoming-events/83-be-inspired-series-3-29th-june-2013-at-birkbeck-univerisity

21secs to Flow: "Think Out of the Box" animation

"Think Out of The Box" to think freely, not bound by old, nonfunctional, or limiting structures, rules, or practices.

A 3d animation with an abstract message shamelessly promoting my motion design graphics services

Who Remembers Quark Express!

All change in design world Adobe's new revenue model

I'm sure this model will trickle down to your business especially if you sell digital products (ie audio, pdfs, video training etc)

Who remembers Quark Express?... giving away my age there... Adobes photo shop cost £500 + but everyone bootlegs it (not me and you of course), so they've adopted a subscription based model for a small monthly fee you can download any or all of the Adobe products (illustrator, indesign, etc). It's incredible. 

The Cloud working in teams and revisions

It's part of Adobe whole transition to the cloud thing where files can be updated by designer or customer in cloud... no more emails back and forth getting confused as to which was the latest version... very much in transition phase but along with "Google Drive" everything is heading into the cloud! 

Free Programs for Webdesign

"Adobe Muse" great for small business or in house non designers to do micro websites sites (even full websites) with out any coding skills

"Adobe Edge" lets you do animations to your websites without flash or any programming both are free full working trials

set up a free account here: 

http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/

Kompozer Another Great Free Web Design Programme

Ohh also came across this free website editor program, it's excellent you make changes directly on the layout and saving then uploading (can't believe it's free).

http://kompozer.net/

Business Motivation Mark Hughes founder of Herbal Life

And Lastly you know I'm big on personal / business motivation, you'll love this 12 minute snippets from Mark Hughes founder of Herbal Life on sales mindset and good business principles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Gd4ucc70c

If you haven't already had a melt down, let me know if this was useful

Thanks again.

Ash

Coming soon future newsletters!

• Function vs Form... achieving the balance between getting your message across, making a sale and a fancy design
• Logo appraisal... what message is your logo out, what's your brand id? can people tell what you do instantly?
• Newsletter Design and Mailing (still learning it myself, I'll let you know how I get on with mine lol)

Hard lessons in Photoshop lol - flyer design

Time seems to slow down in Photoshop, the program has become a legend....Over 15 years of dabbling has come this lol, using  liberal amounts of shadows, masks and overlays. Who remember when Photoshop version 5 was the big thing, this was before the CS series...

My first cut out, (didn't even know about the Path Tool)... the lasso tool was king, if you made a mistake going round an object you had to start over lol, saved only by the feather tool lol, the end result looked like something my son would bring back from nursery.... 

Budding designers, digital artists, creatives you've heard it before, my tip is learn about composition, perspective, how light falls and texture by hand first, you don't have to be fantastic just understand it (if you want realistic or even surreal images that jump of a 2d flat surface) or if your stubborn like me do it the long way round and dive straight into photoshop.

Most of my time is spent observing real life objects, and trying to get my 2d photoshop work to draw the viewer in and make it believable... it's always a work in progress, can't wait look back on these in 10 years. Ash K

Photoshop: Before and After with UK Hip Hop Artist Poni

This is what happens when I'm procrastinating lol