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Case study: Free Power Boards

29 May 2007

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Case study: Free Power Boards

We are going to inaugurate a section that i think it might be interesting, it’s about real cases of orders we did in our beloved SOSFactory. In this case we are going to see the design we did for the header of Free Power Boards, a content management system for forums based in PHPbb which [...]

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Start freelancing in just 7 steps

24 May 2007

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Start freelancing in just 7 steps

In this article we are going to talk about what you need to start your freelance designer job without dying in the process. Of course your designs must have a good quality, and you must want to do this job perfectly… but what else do you need? As you can see, this is a guide; [...]

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Free stock images

24 May 2007

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Free stock images

Every designer needs to use great photographs to emphasize its design, if you are a begginer photographer and you are interested in making some extra money this can help, here you have a couple of photo banks, normally all of them have a free material section, for others you have to pay a very affordable [...]

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Get a super girlfriend… with Photoshop

17 May 2007

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Get a super girlfriend… with Photoshop

Why spending thousands of Dollars for a photographic session in a studio with a top model when you have your neighbour, a digital camera and Photoshop? Here you have a little work i did a couple of days ago. This is the original photo: What do you think about the neighbour? The girl is not [...]

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Extract the lineart of your comics in Photoshop

17 May 2007

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Extract the lineart of your comics in Photoshop

This is a Photoshop action (that is to say a set of automated commands) to extract the lines of your black and white drawings. The idea of having the lines in onw layer and adding the colors in other layers below, this works like some kind of guide. There are two procedures to color comics; [...]

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How to make your Photoshop files 75% lighter

17 May 2007

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How to make your Photoshop files 75% lighter

Photoshop seems to me like a marvellous software, in my opinion isby far the best out there… is the most powerful, versatile, the greatest. But it still has a problem since previous versions, the weight of the files is huge, we could think that for the information it has the size is reazonable but… Did [...]

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Kuler: color scheme selector

15 May 2007

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Kuler: color scheme selector

This post is to share with you a great tool I found browsing the net, I really think is great… its a online aplication developed by Adobe genius, its a color scheme selector specially useful for web or graphic designers. I think its great because its useful, but take a look to the design of the [...]

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How to optimize your images for the web

15 May 2007

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How to optimize your images for the web

I have use 2 characters like examples, the one Sosfactory designed for realvideosite (mascot with gradient and lot of colors) and the main character of relaunch of POG games, designed by Sosfactory for Funrise Toy Corp . Click on the imagen if you want to see the Photoshop videotutorial to learn how to save for [...]

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My design process when designing by order

13 May 2007

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My design process when designing by order

In this article we are going to skip the designing tools and focus in the procedure we follow in SOSFactory when creating a Design by Order (for example a mascot design). We do everything via internet, communication, payment, sending files… this is our business model, the one we will be talking about here. Contacting the Client [...]

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Learn to draw in Photoshop with vectorial tools

6 May 2007

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Learn to draw in Photoshop with vectorial tools

This tutorial is for beginner Photoshop users, so we will explain everything in detail; you’ll learn to use the vector drawing tools of Photoshop using our mouse… for now we won’t be using a digitizer tablet. To start, the best thing to do is having a good sketch on paper; the size of the drawing [...]

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