This is an excellent read for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Really gets you thinking.. This is an excerpt of the article originally published on Sitepoint.com by Andrew Neitlich
Here’s a 10-second quiz to tell if you think small when it comes to your business:
- You’ve set puny, easy-to-achieve goals for your Web design business and finances. Or, worse, you haven’t set any goals at all and are taking a passive, “wait and see” approach.
- You say you want to take your business to the next level, but never develop a plan to do it. You live in “someday.”
- You keep doing the same things, hoping to get different results. You aren’t willing to learn about and try new approaches
- You complain about outsourcing, or the economy, or whatever, instead of taking 100% responsibility for the results you’re getting.
- You don’t think you can find 30-60 minutes more per day for additional marketing.
- You won’t invest money to learn more about marketing and sales, or test a new marketing tactic. You think and act as if marketing were an expense that follows sales, and not an investment that generates sales.
- You are building a business that is dependent on you, instead of a business that you can build and sell.
To continue reading this article, click here to go to Sitepoint.com
Photoshop Tutorial: Turn your iPhone Snapshot into a Holga Look
You can still get this Holga look via photoshop in a few easy steps. Here is a tutorial that will make your snapshots look just like a Holga photo. How cool is that? I teach a black & white photography course where one of our…
Glamorous Glowing Model Effect on Your Image
Remember reading a magazine and wishing you could somehow apply that glamorous glowing look on the models to one of your photo? Well, now with photoshop..you can.
How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
The idea behind this work was to create a fantasy world. You will learn how to work with a few images and create a really interesting photo manipulation.
Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color
In this tutorial, you will work with a few images you chose and you will create a nice looking illustration. The idea behind this illustration was to create a war between reality and line art. I tried to make this one simple, but at the same time to make it look good. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own tools and stock.
How a Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
Tiled backgrounds are great for both website backgrounds and in all kinds of Photoshop work. They are particularly useful when working with textures where you need a larger overall background than the small image you have to work with.
A list of cool Photoshop tutorials.. These are all external links, so click at your own risk (though I have checked them all out before hand 
Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Grunge Street Sign
That’s it for this tutorial! I have included a zipped file for the resources and a copy of the final Photoshop file for your reference. Remember, the key to creating great artwork is experimenting…you don’t always have to follow the
How to make a soft glow in photos: Photoshop Tutorial
Here is a Photoshop tutorial on how to make a soft glow and change the lighting of your photos. It’s really fun and easy to do. 1. Open up your photo in Photoshop. I’m using a photo of Fiona’s foot for this tutorial
Photoshop Tutorial – Understanding Curves
My initial forays into the curves filter in Photoshop intimidated me, but I finally shook myself and made a determined effort. In the following tutorial you will find some easy lessons that will allow you to master this technique
Brain cells effects
I welcome you in making brain cells tutorial. In this tutorial we will (actually) create a happy looking interpretation of brain cells. We will use multiple gradient overlaying and a lot of transforming as
Making of Shipyard
The idea for the image came during my visit in a Army Museum where I saw the ship model, from whom i made a few photos. Once the idea nested in my head, all i need to realize it, where the photos for the other elements
Broken Pieces Photo Effect
At times the images available for publishing in your blog maybe very appalling in terms of clarity, smoothness, art effect etc. But image editing gives a better hand to modify the images as per need to create impact about the post. Attractive designing can easily seize reader’s concentration and your blog may stand out alone in millions. So checkout this quick & easy ‘Broken Pieces’ Photo Effect tutorial using Photoshop
Using Gradients to Make Light and Shadow – and a Coffee Cup!
In this tutorial, we’re going to use some simple circles and gradients to make a cup of coffee viewed from above. The end result isn’t that useful, but the process is interesting nonetheless
This week’s cool collection of Photoshop tips and tutorials. Feel free to send me any Photoshop tips, tutorials or ideas you’d like to see in upcoming posts. The following tutorials link to external sites, click at your own risk.
Whitening Teeth & Eyes
Setting a Book on Fire
How to Create a Classic Guitar from Scratch
Peeling a Hand in Photoshop
Creative Christmas Cards
I came across this cool collection of Facebook style icons available in vector format. They were also highlighted on Smashing Magazine and can be downloaded at deviantart.com
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