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How To Chrome Plate Your Cherries

DesignCrowd - Thursday, February 16, 2017

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will guide you through the steps for chrome plating cherries. Learn how to adjust the layers, colors, and shapes to create a metal finish to the fruit. Visit blog.designcrowd.com/tag/tutorial for more helpful hints and tips to boost your designer skills. Read more

How To Turn Tom Cruise Into An Alien Photoshop Tutorial

DesignCrowd - Thursday, February 9, 2017

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will guide you through the steps for turning actor Tom Cruise into an alien. Learn how to adjust the layers, colors, and shapes to create a freaky face-off image. Visit blog.designcrowd.com/tag/tutorial for more helpful hints and tips to boost your designer skills. Read more

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Chocolatize a Skull in Photoshop

DesignCrowd - Thursday, February 2, 2017

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will guide you through the steps for creating a chocolate covered skull. Learn how to adjust the layers, colors, and shapes to create a creepy dessert choice. Visit blog.designcrowd.com/tag/tutorial for more helpful hints and tips to boost your designer skills. Read more

How To Create A Great Navigation Menu Bar Design

Jane Murray - Thursday, January 19, 2017

The navigation bar, or nav bar, is a crucial element of web design, as it literally lets the user navigate through your site. Here's a bit of guidance on how you can get the most out of this often overlooked design feature. Read more

What Is Brand Collateral? How To Present Your Best Designs To Clients

Divya Abe - Thursday, November 24, 2016

Do you want to communicate your design entries to customers as effectively as possible? It's time to be strategic about how you frame your ideas to give you the best chance of winning a contest on DesignCrowd. Read more

Learning From Other Crowdsourcing Designers

Jessica Walrack - Thursday, November 17, 2016

In order to achieve design expertise to help you win contests, you need to learn from other crowdsourcing designers. When looking for design inspiration from other people's work, it is important to look at these elements. Read more

How to Come Up with Creative Ideas (5 Step Creative Process)

DesignCrowd - Thursday, November 3, 2016

In this blog post I'll explore a 5 Step Process to Producing Creative Ideas (with examples) that is intended for use by designers and other creatives (but I hope there are some insights for business people also!). Read more

How designers find jobs on DesignCrowd

Jo Sabin - Sunday, October 30, 2016

Learn about all the different ways you can find design job opportunities on DesignCrowd, earn money, improve your skills and have fun. From traditional crowdsourced design contests where an unlimited number of designers compete for the budget to working exclusively 1-on-1 with clients.  Read more

How to promote your design services and make it rain

Jo Sabin - Thursday, October 27, 2016

Do you want to sell more design services at a price you set and define the deliverables? Yes! "My Design Services" is a feature in MyAccount that allows clients to purchase specific design services directly from your portfolio for the first time or as follow up work.  Read more

A Designer's Guide To Using Grid Layout In Projects

Jessica Walrack - Thursday, October 13, 2016

Want to create quick and balanced designs? One trick is understanding grid layouts. The importance of grid layouts allows your designs to have a structure. Read more

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