There are couple of things to consider, for instance your client engaged in a restaurant. You should foresee with the aim of having a tasteful and elegant design that will empower to catch the attention of the customers.
1. USING FONTS
To effectively improve your design skills, first approach is to choose the best fonts, place all the wordings, the content and the descriptions on it.
Once you’ve placed the appropriate wordings, make necessary efforts to include in your content special fonts like: Monotype Corsiva, Script, and many more.
To help you further in hunting for more fonts, below are list of links that will redirect you to the font websites. You may download these fonts for free.
dafont.com
find-greatdeals.com
1001freefonts.com
creamundo.com
webpagepublicity.com
urbanfonts.com
searchfreefonts.com
astigmatic.com
bvfonts.com
chank.com
fontdiner.com
highfonts.com
wantedfonts.com
websitetips.com
Note: Please look at the read me-files in the zips or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt.
TIP:
Do not use Fancy Fonts
Even techno Style font if you’re making
casual design, it will seem to be
uncomfortable to the reader’s eyes.
TIP:
limit the style of your font to
at least 2 to 3 kinds.
2. CHOOSING THE RIGHT COLOR COMBINATION
Of course the client has their own motif color, so you have to stick with the color as close to their website or logo that they have. You must base it on their website or if you think their color wouldn’t fit with the concept you have in mind. You can ask the client and talk about it so that they are aware what could be possibly the outcome.
Provided below are some links you can acquire some color combinations.
colourlovers.com
colorcombos.com
3. IMAGES OR PICTURES
Much better if the client provided high resolution images. It would be a big problem if they did not. But on the other hand you can find and download free stock photos from the other site that really accommodate to the needs of photographers, designers, and other artists even though they’re donating their photos for free.
Below are the possible links to get free photos for your design.
sxc.hu
morguefile.com
photolib.noaa.gov
amgmedia.com
free-photographs.net
fotogenika.net
stockvault.net
unprofound.com
freerangestock.com
pixelperfectdigital.com
photorogue.com
imageafter.com
freestockphotos.com
photorack.net
davidniblack.com
abstractinfluence.com
geekphilosopher.com
freepixels.com
freeimages.co.uk
freefoto.com
freephotosbank.com
openphoto.net
designpacks.com
freemediagoo.com
mayang.com
texturewarehouse.com
woophy.com
cepolina.com
Or if clients don’t need any pictures for the layout you can do some
Vector artwork, just be sure to be creative!
4. THE CONCEPT OF YOUR DESIGN
You can look for inspiration on the web. Below are some inspirational links that may guide you in creating design.
bestwebgallery.com
chemist2dio.com
adsoftheworld.com
deviantart.com
smashingmagazine.com
designdiary.org
faveup.com
mojizu.com
screenalicious.com
bittbox.com
ilovetypography.com
logopond.com
drawn.ca
veerle.duoh.com
View and understand some tutorials like:
psdtuts.com
tutorialoutpost.com
photoshopsupport.com
good-tutorials.com
pixel2life.com
abduzeedo.com
tutorialman.com
photoshopsecret.com
And you can download video tutorials in these links.
Small 2-minute movie tutorials for Photoshop. (.mov files)
You can download these movies and view with QuickTime 7.
Some of them are really nice and worth the watch! (Also check the archives)
Listen and watch podcasts
These Podcasts I think are the excellent way to learn Photoshop and Illustrator.
5. FINALIZE YOUR DESIGN
Before presenting it to the client much better that you don’t have any errors to amend like the spelling and alignments. The client will be satisfied and put a big smile on your face if there is nothing to change in your artwork. Certainly, a job well done!
TIP: after you’ve made your design, try to upload it online where every one can see your Artwork it can also help you promote your work and others may have a comment on it.
TIP: save or bookmark the links of the site you think will be useful for you in every design your doing.
You can upload your portfolio’s here
Tip: to make your work more enjoyable, try joining forums in any site so that you can gain not only knowledge but you can have some friends online as well.
And if you want to earn money try to join online contests.
Below are links to contests online.
worth1000.com
photoshopcontest.com
sitepoint.com
psdtuts pays you for each tutorial you write and then publish it if selected.
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This is best for beginners, and hope it can help also to the advanced users or amateurs.
Hoped you’ve had a great time. Any comments will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
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