Post By Debora Parentes

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Most logical step… Once you have the image, open it in PS.

Step 2:

Go to Filter > Vanishingpoint
From there you should see your image. The function of this filter is basically to create an isometric or 3d plane.

My image already had a blank businesscard in it. Start by selecting the 4 corners of the businesscard.

In the above image you’ll clearly see what i meant by having a good reference. The image already had some sort of blank businesscard in it, taken from an angle that i liked. You could also use an image of a table without the businesscard, but making a 3D plane without this reference is not easy.

After selecting the 4 corners, you should have your 3D plane. The only thing is, this plane is very small.

Now you should see several handles which can be used to transform the plane.

Step 3:

Drag the handles that are not on the corners, but on the sides. By doing this, you will increase the size of the plane. I like to make the plane larger than my actual canvas so i have all the freedom.

Step 4:

Open up your finished bizcard files in PS.
Select all and CMMND+C or CTRL+C.

Step 5:

Go to your image and make sure to make a new layer above the original image. With this new layer selected, once again go to
Filter > Vanishingpoint

CMMND+V or CTRL+V and you should see something like this:

On the left sidebar: select the Transform Tool. You should have a little black arrow. Now simply drag your pasted image to your desired location. You are free to transform the pasted image. You can rotate and resize it to your likings as it adapts itself to the prespective that is created by the 3D plane.

Remember: the image is only a reference. Don’t get mad at this point where you might find yourself frustrated, because your bizcard doesn’t “fit” on the bizcard in the image.

One of the best things to solve this, is to take two pictures. The first one will have the blank businesscard for reference and the second one should be without the businesscard. Where ofcourse the camera should be at the same spot, with the same angle. Using a tripod or something works best.

Another solution is to “fill” the layer below your bizcards with an image of a tabletop. I found a table texture on sxc.hu:

Here are the results, where i used my bizcards to cover up the original blank one:

An alternative, with the texture i found:

A close up, with a faked focus blur:

Tutorial by rawkid

Having your portfolio showing flat versions of your best work can many times become very boring to the person viewing it. Especially if you are looking to impress a new client or employer.

A great (and easy) solution is to take photographs of your work. You don’t need to have a professional camera. You can use any camera (even the iPhone camera does a good job!) and modify your image in Photoshop for that professional look.

If by any chance, your project did not get printed, or was an online version only, I would recommend for your to print it on your home printer and then take a picture of it. It does sound like a lot of work, but trust me, you will be impressed with the final results.

Don’t want to photograph or print your files? Another great solution is to mock-up your designs in Photoshop. How? Using blank templates. Graphicriver offers a great variety of templates for a very affordable price. You can also find free templates all of the web.

You can also find many PSD templates on this blog free for download. Many of these templates I used on my personal portfolio.

How to Photograph your Artwork

Mock-Up Files Templates

DAP Blog Mock-Up Templates

DAP T -Shirts Mockup Templates

More T-Shirts PSD Mockup PSD

PSD Mock Up usiness Cards

Free iMac PSD Mockup by~nrmb

PSD Corporate Identity MockUp

Corporate Idendity Mock includes CD

iPhone Mockup

iPhone GUI PSD Mock up

Shopping Back Mockup

Mettalic Can Mockup

Website PSD Mock-up

DVD Plastic Case MockUp

DVD Case PSD Mockup

DVD Cover Template

CD & CD Case Mockup Template

Business Cards Mock Up with Hand

I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new and improved website for my online portfolio at www.deboraparentes.com.

The upgraded and updated website is the result of four months of design and programming. This website offers many of the same great features as the previous site; only now with a more user-friendly layout as well an updated look and expanded portfolio database.

Please take a moment to visit www.deboraparentes.com.

What is Silverlight?

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. Initially released as a video streaming plugin, later versions brought additional interactivity features and support for .NET languages and development tools. The current version, 3.0, was released on July 9, 2009.^[1]

Why Silverlight?

Flash and AJAX do almost the same things as Silverlight does. But Silverlight applications are created with our favorite language C#. You can use any other language which is compatible with the .NET Framework, too. With the power of XAML you can create great design scenarios.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines. This means that doing SEO to your site will make it more indexable and more people will visit it. Here are a few of the rules which you should stand by in order to do the best SEO:

1. the <title> tag should contain the most important information about your site
2. the most significant content should stay in the beginning of the page (after the <body> tag)
3. all image tags (<img />) should define the alt tag – this is the only way for the search engine to understand what an image ‘says’

Do I need to do SEO to my Silverlight applications?

This is a question with no explicit answer. If your website is one Silverlight application and you need search engines to index it, you definitely need to think of a way how to do SEO. I strongly suggest not to create the whole website using Silverlight. I prefer using it only for animations and displaying data in an unusual way (charts, graphics, etc). If you need a special Silverlight application that performs something, you won’t need to do SEO in most of the cases. Do not forget that Silverlight is running in the browser, so everything is going on locally.

What is the problem with RIAs and SEO?

Rich Internet Applications are great thing, but they work dynamically. What does it mean? It means that when you load the page, you do not see static text but an application (except AJAX, which works with HTML). You can work with application the same way you work with a desktop one. But no matter what you do, when you reload the page the initial text will be shown. The idea is that you are working offline. Everything you do goes locally, on your computer only.

An Internet user can see these applications, but the search engine won’t see them, because they cannot read them. So this is the main problem when using RIAs in your site: how to show the search robot what is inside your Silverlight application. In this article I will show you a few solutions of this problem. None of them is perfect but you can see how you can “open the eyes” of the search robot.

Conclusion

In my opinion there is no best way when it comes to RIAs and SEO. If you want SEO – just use static content. Do NOT put significant data in your Silverlight applications. Use it mainly for animations and data visualization and leave everything else as a static text surrounded by HTML tags. Moreover, search engines do not only look at the text, but they get the HTML tags and relations between them.

Article from silverlightshow.net