Just found this really cool video about some great Photoshop tools I never really knew about!!
Will definitely make my photoshopping much more effective and professional looking!!

I have just won a competition on freelancer! Am just a tad excited, overwhelmed...no definitely excited! I have been a member for a bit over a month now and have entered quite a few comps, so to win one is great!! I will have to find out if I am able to show this design in this post (a small thumbnail) and my portfolio!!
If you know of anyone who needs anything done from small jobs to bigger ones, why not hire me! Just click the button to the top left!

~Sarah

I've been designing my little heart out on the freelancer site I joined- I got burnt with one comp though...took part in one that didn't have the 'guaranteed' sign on it- the lady gave me 5 stars on my designs (Check out the Tourism- Live it Up designs) and now hasn't been heard from for over a week n half - so there's $290 I'm probably not gonna see... could have come in handy too, seeing as the screen on my galaxy just got a massive crack in it! Oh well I suppose! ...

I've been just plodding along making sure now everything I enter is guaranteed only, as much as I'm in it for the experience, I'm also in it for some cash! If you know of anyone who wants some business stationary (Business cards, letter heads, with thanks cards) let me know and we can work something out :-). I'm entering my last year of my degree in Graphic Design, so it's a very exciting time! I'm also going to be finishing it through USC...so majorly excited! Very disappointed with my current university (CSU) and if I had my time again I definitely would not be choosing CSU that's for sure!

Take another look at My Portfolio and my FlickR site, as I am constantly updating my stuff! I am going back through all my university work and slowly getting it all up to, to show what I can do :-)

Another thing I'm excited about is the fact I have been able to attach the 'Hire Me' button to the left!! So that way if people see what they like on here they can hire me on Freelancer, pretty cool huh?

Cheers x

I've updated my work on my portfolio on Flickr HERE, as I have been entering many contests on freelancer.com so check them out! I have quite enjoyed playing around making logos and design solutions for clients. I feel its giving me 'real world experience' in a way, so I'll keep at it :-)

I've joined this site called freelancer.com and I am overwhelmed at the potential to earn money by doing what I love! I have no idea how it was that I have not found it earlier...I really don't know how it is that I did not know about the site! Basically you go on there and join (for free) and then you bid on assignments or partake in contests with your designs to win money...sounds pretty cool right? It is! So far I have entered 2 comps and submitted a bid- the comps aren't finished yet but the bid didn't make it- surprise surprise it went to a very high rated person on the site- but I am determined to persevere with this! If nothing else I look at it as though I am simply building my portfolio!

Done and dusted...for now anyways...I have initially created this site for an assignment, however I am going to keep it running as my personal website...so if you need any work done or know of anyone please let me know, either by email or on my contact me page.

So I was looking around on Youtube and found this really cool video with typography, its music from the Movie Chicago and type to go with it...check it out!

I love Gruen Transfer, not just for Will Anderson's funny wit and charm (just a lil bit!). But there "Pitch' section is really cool! I quite enjoy it!

I really liked this one- how to make facebook uncool!

I found Photobucket really annoying to get my head around, so I've instead decided to choose a Flickr Account- it seems a little easier to access when it comes to adding widgets and the like to this website- so we'll see how we go!

So Besides the fancy zoom I have been trying to add to my site, everything seems to be working for me! I am slowly getting the Portfolio up and running! Hopefully all will be done this arvo and the site will be fully functional!

I have added a Contact Me page- so if you have enquiries about anything you can contact me via that, or you can email me

So I've been having quite a hard time with this assignment and getting everything to work for me! Hopefully though I am on the right track with the help of the Vorpal Sword blog to guide me through!

I've managed to add Twitter updates to the page- that is kinda cool! Although I was hoping to get like an RSS feed so that it was not only my tweets, I wonder if this is possible? Will have to look into it, at this stage I have created two other pages, my Profile Page and my Portfolio Page.

Typography

So I've just been victim to the typography thief, I had styled my page quite nicely with fonts and now they are all different, because I'm on a different computer...crumbs! So I'm investigating the Type kit, and trying to work out how on earth to use it!

I just changed web browsers and reverted to Firefox and all my fonts are now back!! woohoo... but Im still persisting with Type-kit! Watch this space!

Starting Off

So I've started this blog, I am doing this for GRP225 (a subject at uni), however I have done this before (a few years ago) and I want to really push it this time! I am learning how to incorporate Twitter, Photobucket, Wufoo, and Typekit. I have been wondering about this social networking thing and am really interested in the web and multimedia side of things so I am hoping that I can learn a few things!
Watch this space for more to come!