When you work as an independent web or graphic designer, you can get projects on the basis of your resume and portfolio. However, when you run a website design company, you have to show your business skills, besides creative skills, to secure new designing projects. You must create an impressive business proposal to convince your clients and beat your competitors. Here are 12 secrets to write an effective business proposal. Meet Your Client- Before you write the business proposal, meet your client and ask him all the necessary questions. Make a short questionnaire and give it to your client. Once [...]

Many people believe that videos games are exclusively about eye-catching graphic design and Flash animation (2D/3D). This is, however, not a right concept. Apart from great visuals, an interesting video game should also contain a good story. In fact, with the help of creative writing, a video game can make players experience various emotions and thus, offer wholesome entertainment. If you are planning to write video games, you should be aware of the fact that the process of writing involves three crucial aspects. These include developing the plot, creating various characters, and putting together the storyboard. We discuss in details [...]

For majority graphic and web design professionals worldwide, Adobe Photoshop is the de facto image editing tool. Photoshop is used for a variety of design projects – creating web graphics, photo retouching, graphic design, etc. With each new release, Adobe has given Photoshop a number of features and toolset to retain its usability and popularity among its users. Recently, new features of Photoshop CS 6 (version 13) beta were leaked online, causing design professionals immense excitement. Photoshop CS 6 will be released in 2012 as part of Adobe Creative Suite 6.0. Adobe has opted for a darker interface for Photoshop [...]

Designing a website may not be as time consuming as it was a few years back owing to the advances in web technology, but catering to the user’s requirements can be daunting for the web designers. A website design company needs to have the expertise to delve into the psyche of the internet users and understand the need of the individual clients. With time the internet users are becoming more demanding and they expect websites to be more dynamic and interactive. The web designers need to be particularly careful when they are designing websites for the clients whose revenue gets [...]