Discovering Photoshop

Following up on previous live training on the various Photoshop features given in an Ycademy session here are some fun examples of  testing some of the features.

My sweetheart using the  Ellipse Border.

Using a simple graphic  and playing around with the Kaleidescope feature this new fun graphic was achieved:

Kaleidescope Fun

Photoshop Tutorials by Ycademy

There will be many more Photoshop tutorials following up on the basics that have already being learnt. As you go further into Photoshop you begin to realise that there are endless possibilities and you are only limited by your own imagination.

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Images that Create Empathy

An important function of Images is to Create Empathy in the viewer, meaning an emotion, a feeling, something that resonates and as such carries our message across and – as a consequence – triggers a reaction.

In Advertising, this reaction is carefully calculated and anticipated.

Images that Create Empathy

Images that Talk blur the lines between us and ‘the other’ – in other words the sender (say the artist) and the receiver (the audience) and they are always images that Create Empathy – Empathy translating basically into feeling and our capability to underestand and share someone else’s emotions.

Heinz Kohut put it like this: “Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.”

What counts for us as Web Graphic Designers when it comes to Websites and Blogs is that our Artwork reflects what we want to express at a given moment, for a specific reason… which is mostly articulated in text format. As such Web graphics amd Images are much more than a decorative element of a website; they have a very clear goal: to captivate peoples’ attention and to mobilize a desired reaction.

Google has recognized the increasing importance of Images and gives us many ways to tag them and give our posts an additional boost to reach top level rankings.

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Astir Beach Framed in Photoshop

My by now famous Astir Beach Image which can also be found on Google Top 10 was the sample for last night’s Ycademy session where we were experimenting with frames and borders. Here some more results after yesterdays Session Preview:

Astir Beach – Vouliagmeni with Frames and Borders

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Glass Frame

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Backlight

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Smokedglass

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Whiteglow

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Whiteglow 2

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Steel ripples

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Steel frame

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Pits

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Yellow

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Gold

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Dali Melt and Drip

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Chrome

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Vouliagmeni Astir Beach, Black Glass

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Photoshop Borders Ycademy

Tonight’s Ycademy call will deal with creating Borders in Photoshop. After the session about round corners, we will today look at some other types of borders which can be created with just a click of the mouse or two.

We will create elliptic borders, ripples, sunken and raised borders, capsules, buttons and so on. Be there at 7 pm London.

Photoshop Borders

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Astir Beach 1

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Astir Beach 2

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Astir Beach 3

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Astir Beach 4

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Astir Beach 5

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Astir Beach 6

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Astir Beach 7

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Astir Beach 8

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Astir Beach 9

… and of course you can mix the border filters :-).

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Happy Birthday Bianca

Happy Birthday Bianca, and may you get a Penny in a Second!

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A Penny a Second

? Man: God?
? God: Yes?
? Man: Can I ask you something?
? God: Of course!
? Man: What is for you a million of years?
? God: A second.
? Man: And a million dollars?
? God: A penny.
? Man: God, Can you give me a penny?
? God: Wait a second.

Enjoy and make it another Great Day!

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Optimization Website

Website Optimization is the most important – yet almost invisible – part in professional Web Design and Website Development.

If done correctly, it ensures that our websites and blogs perform well on search engines like Google. However, as things are constantly changing, like for instance Google’s algorhythm – there are no guarantees that what worked yesterday will bring the same results as today. Not at all! We better be flexible and accept that we have to bend to a temperamental online scenario; it won’t happen the other way around. This demands from us to monitor, observe and be aware of how our articles appear once posted – just as we watch how our racing horses and jockeys perform at a derby – and draw the necessary conclusions for possible changes from there.

Google Top 10 for biancagubalke.com on Semiomantics

Optimization Website

This morning, we wrote an article under the headline “Online Communications Market Research Analysis” – and as at Web Design Consulting we focus heavily on ‘Optimization Website’ based on our high performing Semiomantics Scripts as well as Captivating Web Graphics by Bianca Gubalke for the visually attractive aspect, let’s look at our result in Google Top 10 ranking terms after just a short hour!

As you see on the screenshot above, we grabbed position 2 on 14 million search returns within that short period – which is totally amazing!

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Creating your own Web Graphics is great fun if you have:

• a Digital Camera,
• Adobe Photoshop,
• good step-by-step Tutorials and
• ideally some professional personal guidance as is regularly provided in the weekly YCADEMY Workshops and monthly YCADEMY Seminars.

Nothing is more elating and satisfying than seeing results one never thought being capable of producing!

"Improvisation Dali" by Bianca Gubalke

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

One of our eminent Ycademy Members, Laetitia Paris from Auvergne in France, is eagerly following our Adobe Photoshop Tutorials on her CS4 and delighted by her attractive result following the step-by-step instructions and screenshots on “How to Combine Color and Black and White in an Image” just a few days ago:

CONGRATULATIONS Laetitia Paris!

Learn Adobe Photoshop at Ycademy Workshops

You are invited to learn Adobe Photoshop at today’s Ycademy Workshop at 7 pm London in our private Microsoft Conferencing Center.

Time permitting, we will continue with our Web Design Consulting Blogs and look into the WP Best eShop created at the recent Ycademy Business Building Seminar.

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Online Communications Market Research Analysis

A thorough and constant Online Communications Market Research Analysis is fundamental for the success of any website or blog on the Internet, especially where products and/or services are being sold that depend on a high visibility on Search Engines and in Social Networks.

Online Communications Market Research Analysis

Setting up an attractive website and positioning it on Google Top 10 is just the beginning of any project we manage at Web Design Consulting .

The important point now is to keep the position and continuously build and expand the authority and web presence of the website concerned within its targeted online market niche.

This goes far beyond simple Website Maintenance and Support; this is one of the secrets of our high performing Semiomantics Network and based on constant Awareness and Online Communications Market Research Analysis to spot new website developments and trends – and accordingly integrate new features, change scripts or adapt and accomplish whatever it takes to stay ahead of the competition.

Awareness

Awareness is the word!

Again, Nature is our best teacher – it’s so simple and we have it all within us! See the incredible ‘look-out’ I spotted yesterday… right amongst the wild proteas in my garden… with three long-tailed sunbirds watching in all directions on a high strategic position … to see and warn the entire clan! You can’t ask for a better example… and consulting with Wiki to get the official explanation: “Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something.

In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human’s or an animal’s perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event.”

Equally, we as Web Designers  have to always stay tuned and close to what’s happening, where the masses are moving and how we have to adapt to bring our products and services in front of them – if that’s our target.

With Semiomantics Scripts we endeavour to not only ride the wave but be a little step ahead of it. . . just watch what’s happening at our WP Best eShop… a project in development!

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Who is Cy Ford

Cy (Cyril) Ford is a Painter living and working in Notting Hill, UK, who has decided to share his work online. His new WP Best Gallery has been set up by Semiomantics. Felisa Ryan, will take care of the content management.

The new site at cyford.com is up and running and already indexed by Google.

Cy Ford Online Gallery Images

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Sunset by Cy Ford, Acrylic

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Flowers and Candles, Still Life by Cy Ford

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Seashore, Drawing by Cy Ford

Note the changing site backgrounds, which are images of works by Cy Ford. The selector projects randomly a different background with every page view.

Look out for more.

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Photoshop Tutorials

Being new to Photoshop, but not entirely new to image editing, I have enjoyed following Biancas Photoshop tutorials and tips.

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Bianca is providing some superb Photoshop trainings at the Ycademy training sessions as well as tutorials on her blog that you can follow step by step.

Photoshop training ~ How to create rounded corners

Having attended the live, learning online  training session provided by Bianca on ‘how to create rounded corners’ I learnt so much and much more than just that. Photoshop has so many of these little features that one can use to adjust any image and create a completely new effect. It’s fun trying out the features and  becoming accustomed to how they work, and the effect  that can be achieved.

Here is the result from the training session.

From this:

to this:

Learning Online at Ycademy

There are many live, learning online training sessions provided byYcademy. Throughout the year the training calls provide extremely valuable information and training courses for anyone running or learning to run a home business online.

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