New Tutorial - Plus Future Projects!
Time for another update!
I know that I keep talking about upcoming projects, yet none have launched yet… Typically I’ve put quite a lot on my plate and am trying to complete several projects for launch asap. One of these ventures is moving into the photoshop tutorials field in a more serious way. I’ve found that my tutorials at Push Standards have received great success and drawn a lot of traffic, and I really feel that there is a great market potential for high quality Photoshop tutorials. There is also a lot of traffic to be drawn from very little effort.
My aim is to stop posting my tutorials on this site and create a separate site purely for Photoshop tutorials. This way I will be able to target my audience more specifically rather than diluting my tutorials with other content. I can’t say exactly when this site will be launching but I’m estimating the start of June (merely because I have exams fast approaching to conclude this year at University).
However, that isn’t to say that in the mean time I’ll stop writing tutorials! I’ve actually been hired by Michael Dunlop of Retireat21 to write Photoshop tutorials for his new website WebDesignDev. Both sites are excellent, and I highly recommend them. It’s very exciting to be involved over at WebDesignDev, and I feel privileged that Michael was interested in my services. He’s already getting a lot of traffic to the site and has some big names in the Photoshop industry involved.
He published my first tutorial today, a lesson on how to create a travel blog design from scratch. Don’t worry about the author being ‘Michael Dunlop’ currently, I’ll be receiving my own author account soon. You can see the finished result below, so please click the image to be linked to the full tutorial!
Check back soon for more updates. I’m currently developing my BIG project for the summer with my partner, and am also planning the marketing campaign for the music website that I mentioned a couple of posts ago.
Great work Tom
We will work on the author page today! 
Thanks Michael, I appreciate the author page, and I’ll get another tutorial done for you soon.
I absolutely love your Photoshop tutorials. They incorporate lots of techniques to learn the software and some creative design ideas (like the RSS bucket). It gets my head thinking about what’s possible and I appreciate that . Yours really are some of the best I’ve seen. I also really like that they have an application, rather than just being a cool wallpaper.
This may not be an interest of yours, but I’d love to see you do a post comparing Photoshop Elements to the main software. So many of us read PSD tutorials and would love to try it all out, but we’re not web designers and would love a good application that can still do a lot.
I also don’t know if this is in your job description, but I’d be so interested in seeing the next step, of how one adds code to the page … or maybe the other way round, meaning how to begin with the functionality/navigation and THEN AFTER, how to incorporate those thoughts into design.
I’m in the process of going through all your archives. There’s some great stuff.
Thanks so much for the kind words Christine! I’ll take everything you’ve said on board, but unfortunately won’t be posting any more photoshop tutorials until I launch my photoshop tutorials website (psdfan.com) which will be coming hopefully in about a months time.
I’ll consider code tutorials also, but this may be part of a separate website that I’m launching with a friend.
I really appreciate hearing from you though, it makes it all worthwhile
You’re busy, dude! I just read your About page.
- you’re Scottish !! Do Podcasts ; there’s no better accent than Scottish, as long as you’re not from Glasgow because a few folks (like me) might not understand you.
- why are you studying English?? not computers or design ?
- I’m Canadian, and female at that. Beer?Ale? I thought it was the same.
-just to say something more clearly, though I’m sure you took my meaning the first time - code tutorials are good; but when you did the front page for the tourist site, you must have had some navigation and link-locations in mind before you started with Photoshop. That’s what I’d like to hear more about - the pre-planning and then the execution.
Yeah I’m so busy! After exams are done though I’ll be able to work a lot harder on my online stuff.
I’m not actually Scottish, I’m English, but go to University in Scotland. Fraid I don’t have the cool accent
Canadians are cool! For the record - Beer=lager. Ale=warm, unfizzy drink. (but they’re similar).
I’m doing English as a good solid degree, plus I enjoy it. I like doing the design/entrepreneur stuff as a job though, it’s good fun.
With regards to the tutorial, do you mean planning for the layout structure etc…? I’m quite interested on what you think makes a good tutorial as it really counts as research for when I launch psdfan.
Lager? I’m familiar with beer and draft. I’m a red wine lover myself. Hopeless about beer.
Yes, planning the layout beforehand. Do you draw the navigation on paper? or even the whole thing, like a mood board? Do you try several boards before you sit at the computer?
What effect does the appearance of the navigation (dropdowns, vertical, color, etc) have on the way you customize the picture? The appearance and function must be pretty tightly associated for the thing to look great and work great. So, for instance, you’re planning a sidebar here or a tag cloud here, or you want such links in the picture itself, so how does it influence the picture you design?
Might have to break it into a few posts. But functionality and appearance cannot be mutually exclusive.
Looking forward to seeing where you go with your new site. I’m sure it will be excellent.