All that glitters is not gold: Common misconceptions of SMBs about designing their logos

Designing a logo affects the business for time to come; it defines a company for potential consumers, and is the first thing needed to draw a customer in. It has to match the product being sold, appeal to the masses, and be cost effective for small and medium scale businesses. There are often misconceptions when it comes to logos, whether they are about the design, the importance, or how to design them. The most common ones, however, have simple solutions.

 

Photoshop Holiday Tutorials

These have been volleyed all over the internet by those "20 best" tweeters, all taking credit for the tutorials. However, we've dug a little deeper and found the actual original authors. While these are billed as "wallpaper" -- large images to fill the background desktop -- in reality they are works of art regardless of what they're used for. Photoshop is a tool for professionals to create design, layout and Photo editing for clients. However, it can also be a personal toy for creating art just for you.

Tell us about your favorites, whether you created them, or just found them on the web.

Frosted Snow Scene Wallpaper

Frosted Snow Scene Wallpaper

 

Creating Contrast in Photoshop

In this tutorial, Scott Kelby shows you how to create contrast using the Targeted Adjustment Tool (or TAT for short), which lets you click-and-drag right on the image, and the tool will tweak the right part of the curve for you automatically.

This free chapter is from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers,

Photoshop Madness for the Holidays

PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is a state of mind where you cannot control your urge to surf the web in search of outstanding Photoshop work... and all of a sudden it's dinner time! So we go surfing today to find some goodies, and we've indeed found quite a few.

Be careful what you click -- beware of malware and phishing sites We remind you, however, especially Windows users -- be careful what you click. There are malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you'll be okay.

First, we'll introduce Andrea Austoni...