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As you may know, Photoshop World 2011 is occurring in Orlando, Florida right now. Photoshop World is an event that is held twice a year on the east and west coasts of the U.S. One of our authors, Stephen Petrany is attending the event and just sent in a couple videos of some of the new features that are coming to Photoshop. The videos are short and don’t offer a much detailed information but they do offer a bit of insight into what Adobe is working on at the moment.
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We’re very proud to announce the release of Freelance Confidential, Rockable Press’s newest book on freelancing. This book aims to provide the hard numbers on the biggest issues of freelancing and advice on how experienced freelancers can improve their business. More than just another single person’s view on freelancing, Freelance Confidential contains contributions from the Editor of FreelanceSwitch, Amanda Hackwith, a panel of 10 expert entrepreneurs, and 3,200 freelancers worldwide.
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Hello everyone! Today, our friends from UPrinting are sponsoring yet another giveaway on our site. This time, by offering 2 free 24 x 36 posters to 5 lucky Psdtuts readers, with a twist. One of the posters that they will be giving away will be artwork provided by Psdtuts author, Ed Lopez from his latest premium tutorial, Glacialis. The second poster can printed with any artwork of your choosing. UPrinting is an online printer that offers all sorts of online printing services. They do everything from business cards, to, of course, poster printing. To enter, all you have to do is answer the following question correctly:
Update: Congratulations Josh Allen, Felix Finger, Silviu Stefu, Dustin Rhodes, and Pam Wolfe! You have all won a free print by Ed Lopez from UPrinting as well as a print of your choosing. We have forwarded your contact information on to the people at UPrinting and they should be in touch soon. Thanks so much everyone! We really appreciate your participation.
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Clients often approach designers with a problem that they would like us to help them solve. Often, they ask us to build them a website or produce a special graphic or illustration. The purpose of these projects is typically to help them sell a product or service, or reach out to a particular audience. Designers, look at these sorts project through a special lens. We ask questions like “Who is the user?” “What is the best design for this project?” “What is the proper context for this project?” This lecture from Allan Chochinov at a Creative Mornings event in New York City talks about some of the questions that go through a designers mind when speaking to clients about a particular project.
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Are you looking to take your design skills to the next level and land the design job of your dreams? At Psdtuts we understand the importance of continuously improving your skills. We know that designers who consistently work on their technique are far more likely to land the best jobs and to hang on to the ones that they’ve got. Our premium program was designed with that in mind and only includes our best and most advanced content. Over the last few years our premium program has grown like crazy with tons of exclusive content from some of the best professional and amateur designers. Please take a moment to view some of our premium content below. If you like what you see and want to take your design skills to the next level, you can Join Our Premium Program for just $19/month, probably less than your weekly budget for coffee.
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A couple months back I had the opportunity to review an HP EliteBook 8740w Workstation laptop for HP. HP sent me this computer for free and asked me to unbox it, use it, and then give my honest opinion of it in a review. If you follow my personal account on Twitter, you may have seen some of my tweets about it. I put my computer through the ringer. Played a lot of video games and really pushed this laptop to its limits. I had a lot of fun doing this and overall, really liked this machine, even though it was a PC and not a Mac. With that said, after I finished reviewing the machine, HP agreed to give another one of these machines away to one lucky reader of my website.
Update: Congratulations to Tom Semple! You were selected as the winner of a free HP EliteBook 8740w Laptop! We have forwarded your information on to the people at HP and they will be in touch soon. Thanks to everyone who participated!
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As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials and articles to choose from so please take a moment to review our favorites from February 2011.
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Hello everyone! Today, our friends from UPrinting are giving away 250 die cut business cards to 3 lucky Psdtuts readers. If you have been around the design community for a while, chances are, you are already familiar with UPrinting. UPrinting has been offering online printing services for a while and is a frequent sponsor of design websites. We are very excited to partner with them on this giveaway. To enter, all you have to do is answer the following question.
Update: Congratulations Mark Anderson, Michael Trang, Jake Ullom! You have all won 250 free die cut business cards from UPrinting! We have forwarded your information on to the people at UPrinting and they will be in touch soon! Thanks everyone for your participation!
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In the design industry there are meetups, conferences, and lectures occurring every day in just about every part of the world. We know that our global audience can’t attend every event so today we are posting a speech from the Creative Mornings lecture series held on January 1, 2010 in New York City by Michael Bierut of Pentagram where he discusses the subject of clients. Enjoy!
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The right text effect can be one of the most important elements in any illustration, composition, or advertisement. Unfortunately, text is also one of the most neglected and forgotten about elements in most compositions. Why? Because a good text effect can be difficult to achieve and time-consuming to perfect. In this session we will present a number of text effect tutorials and inspirational articles to help you achieve the perfect text effect for your next project.
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