How would you like to be able to create your
own professional mini sites in just minutes starting from now... even if
you have absolutely no prior graphic design experience, or have failed
art class before?
And how would you like to spawn your own countless mini site designs
instead of paying a hefty fee of $97 - $197+ per mini site package to
other designers?
Or better still... acquire the skills to charge other busy webmasters
and kick start your online career as a freelancer?
I'm not going to dive into a long sales pitch but I trust you probably
know that designing your own graphics is NOT necessarily easy. Depending
on how fast you learn, it can take weeks - sometimes even months - to
get this new skill down pat.
"Not Everyone Has The Luxury Of Free Time."
You might be a busy Internet Business owner on a budget and prefer to do
everything yourself at the moment.
Or you're prospecting the opportunities of earning a part-time income as
a freelancer but you're not equipped with any skills to make your own
dough just yet.
But if you believe in learning through seeing is the best and fastest
form of education then you're going to be in for a breakthrough. Because
finally, you don't have to spend painful weeks - or even months -
learning by trial and error
Forget sacrificing sleepless nights staying up to learn the ropes of a
new trade. In these step-by-step videos, I show you how to get your own
mini site designed even in as early as under one day (or at the most, 2
days). As long as you follow my video tutorials religiously, you will
break the steep learning curve almost instantly and have your first mini
site designed by tomorrow.
..Even if you have not used Adobe Photoshop before and even if you have
failed in Art classes!
In the Graphic Design Masterclass video series, you will learn how to
design simple yet professional looking minisites, and virtual covers
using Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia, and GIMP (free tool) even if you
aren't good at art creation!
Follow this easy to under video series step by step to create your own
minisites and before you know it your friends and customers will ask you
"Who'd you hire to make those minisites?!"
Video Series 1: Adobe Photoshop
For Newbies (8-Part Video Course)
- Video #1: Understanding Adobe
Photoshop Features You Will Use
- (9 minutes and 38 seconds)
Adobe Photoshop can be a complex tool only because you can do so
much with it, however for in this video series, we're going to keep
it as simple as possible. In fact, in this video you'll see an
overview of the few tools and Adobe Photoshop features we will use.
When you see this video, you'll see how you can do so much with so
few features, but you'll learn how to use them in depth in the
future videos.
- Video #2: The Importance of Royalty Free Images and How
to Find Them - (7 minutes and 39 seconds)
When you create your own minisites, you'll need to have access to
professional photography to make your designs look great for
whatever subject matter. Well, in this video, you'll learn the
importance of using Royalty free images and how you can find them to
fulfill your needs.
- Video #3: How to Use the Adobe Lasso and Crop Tool
- (7 minutes and 35 seconds)
The Adobe Photoshop lasso and crop tools are the tools that you'll
use to take people and objects out of regular pictures and put into
your minisite designs. I'm sure you've seen headers with people or
objects in them right? We'll that's where the lasso tool and crop
tools come into play. So you'll learn what they can do for you, but
most importantly how to use them correctly.
- Video #4: How to Work with Layers to Make Art Creation
Easier - (5 minutes and 40 seconds)
Layers are the big secret to making photos come to life. In
Photoshop you can take several photos and merge them together to
make it looks like it's one picture. At the same time, layers will
make your life as a minisite creator so much easier, you'll save
lots of time. In this video, you'll learn how to use layers to your
advantage.
- Video #5: How to Understand the Art of Balancing Your
Designs - (7 minutes and 59 seconds)
Do you remember looking at a picture and saying to yourself, nice
picture, it's looks right. Or maybe you thought, "that picture
doesn't look right". We'll this is when balancing your designs comes
into play. If you learn how to balance your headers, footers,
ecovers, and more correctly you'll learn how to make your minisites
look right when people look at them.
- Video #6: How to Create a Minisite Header - (11
minutes and 14 seconds)
Here's the fun part. You were shown videos 1-5 for a reason, that
is, to help you understand the basic fundamental concepts before you
got started creating the actual designs. The best part, is that you
can take videos 1-5 and apply them to other things besides just
minisites! So with that said in this video, you'll learn how to
create a professional minisite header using the tools Adobe
Photoshop and what you learned earlier.
- Video #7: How to Create a Minisite E-Book, DVD, E-cover
- (9 minutes and 47 seconds)
Just as it says, you'll learn how to take the header you designed in
the previous video and create an ebook or dvd ecover. You see,
creating the header first allows you to understand how to easily
transfer the designs to the ecover and balance it out.
- Video #8: How to Create a Minisite Background and Footer
- (6 minutes and 41 seconds)
Lastly, you'll learn how to create the final touches of the minisite,
which is the background and the footer. These two are very easy to
create, because you can use your learning experience from videos 6
and 7 to transfer those ideas to video 8.
Video Series 2: -
Create Your Own eCover Graphics! - (8-Part Video Series)
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Video #1 - Getting Started Creating Your eCover
From Scratch.
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Video #2 - Creating The Front Image For Your
eCover.
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Video #3 - Creating The Front Of Your eCover Part
II.
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Video #4 - Creating The Side Graphics For Your
eCover.
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Video #5 - Making The Disc Image For Your eCover.
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Video #6 - Making The eCover Box And Disc Image.
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Video #7 - Making The eCover Box And Disc Image
Part II
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Video #8 - Using eCover Software And It's
Functions
Video Series 3: - How To Create Web 2.0
Graphics Using Gimp! - (7-Part Video Course)
- Video #1: How to Download and Install GIMP
GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software that is like a scaled down version of
Adobe Photoshop, yet of course it's easy to use. You'll be shown
where to download GIMP and how to install it.
- Video #2: Understanding GIMP's Features and Tools
Just like any software, knowing and understanding the features you
will be using in the future videos is a must, so you save time
trying to figure them out later.
- Video #3: How to Make A Web 2.0 Shiny Buttons Using GIMP
It's the new trend of graphics, graphics that come to life. So,
every wonder how people make those shiny buttons that come to life?
We'll you'll learn just that in this video.
- Video #4: How to Create Image Reflections and Shadows
Using GIMP
Have you noticed how companies create ecovers and screenshots and
they have cool reflections and shadows that make them look like
you're staring at the real thing? In this video, you'll learn how
easy it is to actually take any picture and create a reflection and
shadow with this free tool, GIMP.
- Video #5: How to Create a Shiny Badge Using GIMP
You've seen those shiny badges people use on their sales pages that
announce special sales. Creating badges in GIMP is very
straightforward. You'll learn how to manipulate the shapes GIMP
gives you to create a professional shiny looking badge so you can
start adding them to your sales pages like the professionals.
- Video #6: How to Create a Web 2.0 Text Logo with a
Reflection Using GIMP
By now, you've probably realized that when people say Web 2.0
graphics, what they mean is new style or new look graphics are being
given. Well, long long ago, text logos looked bland and normally
were made up one purely one color, no gradients and no shiny look.
In this video, you'll learn how to give your text logos a cool shiny
gradient look, as well as a reflection. This is something many
designers create nowadays.
- Video #7: How to Create a Cool Web 2.0 Striped Style
Header Using GIMP
Don't know how to draw and don't have a sense of creativity? Don't
worry, we'll take everything you've learned so far and create an eye
catchy Web 2.0 header that has stripes. You can use these headers on
the top of your sales pages, or even any other landing pages.
You'll Also Receive Photoshop Secrets
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It doesn't matter if you're a Photoshop Technophobe!.. with this
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You'll learn..
- How layers are used in Photoshop images
- Why it's important to create a copy of a layer when creating an
image in Photoshop
- What happens when you edit a layer
- How to create a new layer
- How to get rid of a layer
- How styles interact with layers
- What adjustment layers are used for
- and much much more..
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