Christmas Cards Personalized

The yearly returning Christmas Season offers a nice opportunity to create personalized Christmas Cards. Here below some samples from our friends who either created a card or personalized an existing design.

Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger, Switzerland

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Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger

Building Authority, trust and confidence is a permanent effort we carry over into 2010.

Christmas Card Personalized by Laetitia Paris, France

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Christmas Card personalized by Laetitia Paris

Campaign on Laetitia’s personalized Christmas Card … simply a Must!

Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler, Germany

Seasn Greetings on Ute Schaedler’s website:

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Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler

Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa

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Christmas Card personalized by Bianca Gubalke

Personalized Christmas Card by Bianca Gubalke using her Photoshop skills.

Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

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Personaized Christmas Card Hack by Yorgo Nestoridis

From the Sphere to the Cube:

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Hack 2

Hack 3 based on Toni Leuenberger

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Hack 3

And while it’s so nice:

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Christmas Card Hack 4

Laetitia Hack:

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Hack 5

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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More Chrome Fonts for your Corvette

Shiny Chrome effects are nice, however their effect depends on the Font used. Here below a few samples for the name chrome of Larrie Perkins, Ute Schaedler, Bianca Gubalke, Hanno Coetzee and Zo Nicholas.

Chrome Fonts

Chrome Fonts

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Web Design Workshop by Ycademy

The Web Design Workshop by Ycademy helps participants to customize their web sites and to express them-selves with code poetry. CSS style-sheet editing and basic image editing are this week’s topic.

Here below is the status of some of the test sites:

Web Design by Ute Schaedler

Nice harmonious color scheme on Ute Schaedler’s site. Let’s look forward for the background test.

Web Design by Gene Line

Smashing as is Gene :-). A crazy color combination which makes a lot of sense and which is quite attractive in spite of the diversity. A fine design for a car paint shop …

Web Design by Bianca Gubalke

Nice clean graphics. Interesting the background which takes the texture of the header graphic. The soft, uniform and light background allows transparent post presentation. Light and lean as Bianca Gubalke likes it.

Web Design by Toni Leuenberger

Nice and clean by Toni Leuenberger. How about adapting the forrest picture as a background? Could be nice for a seasonal autumn look.

Web Design by Larrie Perkins

Larrie, I had to look twice to believe what I saw and the mind test goes as follows: what do you see first in the header, Sandra or the Corvette? – Gene and I see  the same :-). Nice shot with a combined Neon.

Web Design by Felisa Ryan

Felisa Ryan’s integration of the Marble Stadium adapted to the color scheme of the site. Nice, harmonious and it provides depth due to the blur.

Web Design by Zo Nicholas

Clean, nice, a bit timid. This needs to break out of the box and I am sure we will get a surprise shortly.

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To give some ideas for fancy fonts headers I have prepared some files you may download and use as the case may be. They consist of a 1024 x 200 pixels Photoshop file (which can be edited in GIMP as well). Please download and install the fonts before editing.

1. Fancy Header Fonts

Some Fancy Fonts including Cats Alphabet, Zebra, Lost World, Amadeus, download HERE.

Unzip and place the .ttf files in Windows/Fonts on your main hard drive (C usually).

Fancy Header Fonts

2. Samples of Fancy Font Headers

Some applications with the above fonts.

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3. Ute Schaedler Special Fitness Font

I have the sneaky suspicion that these fonts, at least some letters could also interest Gene Line .

4.  Download Photoshop Header Files

The PSD files can be downloaded from HERE.

Unzip and open with Photoshop or GIMP.

Miss Garden Route 2009 in Web Design

The Miss Garden Route 2009 contest has been a nice reason to create some nice graphic designs during the Ycademy Web Design Seminar. Hanno Coetzee (Lalakoi) has beamed in some pictures featuring the finalists:

Melissa Maritz (18) from Mossel Bay, Jeandre de Villiers (19) of Oudtshoorn, Alzan Nel (19), also from Oudtshoorn, Louise Muller (18) from Mossel Bay, Isobel Imbrailo (25) from Groot Brak, Lilian Jonker (18) from Albertinia and Jody Calitz (24) from George, Liandry  Jordaan (21) from Wilderness, Nathalie Graaff (23) from Mossel Bay, Marli Marais (24) from Wilderness and Tracy-Anne Buckley (22) from Mossel bay, Nicole Scholtz (23) from George.

here below some of the Graphics created:

Miss Garden Route 2009 by Ute Schaedler

Ute Schaedler comes in with 6 pictures on her Miss Garden Route Gallery.

Miss Garden Route by Ute Schadeler

Miss Garden Route by Felisa Ryan

Felisa Ryan paints her Miss Garden Route on the Wall:

Miss Garden Route by Felisa Ryan

Miss Garden Route by Bianca Gubalke

Bianca Gubalke from Noordhoek, South Africa has picked her choice early. The brushed up images reflect advanced graphic design capabilities and show her professional sense for beauty, effects and mise-en-scene.

Exceptional graphics with effects can be found on Bianca’s recent post HERE.

Miss Garden Route by Bianca Gubalke

Miss Garden Route by Larrie Perkins

Larrie Perkins from Florence, Alabama shows his Miss Garden Route Gaallery in a Photo Album.

Miss Garden Route by Larrie Perkins

Miss Garden Route by Gene Line

Gene Line drifts off into the world of fantasy, wishful thinking, dreams and toys … he remains the big boyz Walt Disney – and I am a big boy .

Miss Garden Route by Gene Line

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Social Media require a good input of time. Be it Blogs, Social Networks or any other Web 2.0 platform where personal involvement is required, the time factor plays an important role as in any human relation based context.

Marketing involving social media requires therefore a good dose of planning and a solid concept.

Social Media allow targeting based on internal search tools. Searching means: you have to know to know your targeted keywords, login, search and then invite people to join your list. It’s an active push approach.

This approach takes too much time, namely when you are involved in multiple networks.

The second approach would be: be open to anyone who wants to join your list and make yourself available under the search terms corresponding to your goals.

This is a passive, pull approach.

When targeting actively, we do the screening when typing our keywords and phrases into the search tool; when targeting passively we are available for all those who are searching for the keywords linked to our profile. In this latter case the screening is done without our personal active  involvement and we don’t need to have a case by case approach.

Automated screening, where our profile attracts interested people via the internal search engine is my preferred method as it does not require any additional tasks to be added to my daily work load once I have set up my account on a social networks.

Once we are available via the search engine, we then have to offer to interested people what they are looking for. To make the pipeline efficient, we need to make sure that we offer the shortest possible link to what people are searching for, and that’s a link to our web site, blog, online publication outside of the social network.

Our website allows readers to comment and subsequently we can follow up on those comments as the case may be. Or we offer an opt-in to our newsletter which allows yet another way to follow up or we just offer a contact form and or a call me button and the communication hooks are thus in place.

YORGOO Press has added and implemented this week-end its new Social Media Marketing Module. The occasion was the Ycademy Online Seminar which allowed to test the resulting automated communication streams. The results are smashing.

You post an article to your YORGOO Press. the post triggers a Twitter entry to your wall and all the friends walls you post to. It then triggers an entry into facebook, becoming available to facebook prospects and friends as well. The concerned entry is a 140 letter Twitter format entry with a link back to your original article on your YORGOO Press.

In social networks, people can find the entry and click on the link and visit your site straight away.

Or, they can comment on facebook or Twitter, which will trigger an feed back to your YORGOO Press or any other site of yours, which created there a new blog entry you can now comment or react to…which in its turn triggers again a Twitter entry and a facebook entry … and you have just created the perpetuum mobile. In my case I use for SN returns my U Q Me Site.

YORGOO Press is an attractive website with exciting features providing visitors with an interesting surfing experience. We have added a media viewer which allows to view images, videos and listen to music on a fast opening overlay based media viewer without reloading the page which allows to view images in original size without the usual limits imposed by web site layouts. Spectacular views Guaranteed. Click on the thumbnails below at the bottom of the post for a demo.

YORGOO Press links directly to Social Networks such as facebook and Twitter and generates automatically the above described streamlined Communication Flow.

YORGOO Press provides users automatically with quality content articles from authority authors which are automatically imported and can then be edited for publishing purposes to match the publishers requirements, targets and objectives. The module drags content from a large article data base 9hundreds of thousands of articles to choose from) into YORGOO Press. the selection is made via a category selector. The import is based on a timer and allows up to 10 articles to be imported per day.

Automated Google Map integration with just one mouse-click is now possible in blog posts and static pages.

YORGOO Press has advanced to the finest publishing framework online, making ultimate technology accessible to ordinary people achieving extraordinary things.

Test articles posted during the seminar had immediate impact as well as on social networks as on search engines. Interesting progress we noticed namely on the sites from Larrie Perkin, Joe Cettina,  Alejandra Neri and Zo Nicholas.

We also noticed, that our South African friends were somewhat neglected by Google and the indexing of new content took longer than for Europeans or Americans. This concerns namely Bianca Gubalke, Hanno Coetzee and Eileen Cupido. In fact connection problems in South Africa prevented Eileen for hours to log on to the seminar.

Ute Schaedler as as usual: Speedy Ute!

Boruch Rappaport from Israel had a surprisingly good line yesterday and Felisa Ryan just consolidated her Google number 1 position.

YORGOO Press basic version remains at $ 67. The upgrade installation of the new module is charged $50. A new complete YORGOO Press install costs $127. Please contact Bianca for more details at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

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Here some more Apple Touch Web Clips based on Ute Schaedler’s design:

By changing the bevel and adding a second channel layer we came to the above.

Now let’s add the Gloss to see what Apple might do with the Touch Web Clip:

How about some fun?

Contrast:

Monochromatic:

On the iPhone 4, the look has improved:

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Semiomantics XO 2011 in Christmas Mood

Subsequent to the Ycademy November Seminar, participants have been working on developing a Christmas skin for XO 2011. After just a few sessions, the results look great and demonstrate the flexibility of XO 2011.  The below are screen-shots of work in progress.

Bianca Gubalke’s Christmas XO 2011

Blue and Gold for Christmas by Bianca Gubalke.

Ute Schaedler goes Red in Red

Ute plays Christmas Tunes from a built in Jukebox.

Gene Line’s Christmas XO 2011

Music, Christmas Mood and Red … Gene’s Christmas Theme for WordPress.

Laetitia Paris working on Green Christmas

Salutations from Auvergne, France.

Christmas Theme for WordPress by Semiomantics

Some more ideas:

More sites are under construction and we are looking forward to the final results :-).

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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Ute Schaedler on Semiomantics Team

Finally – Ute Schaedler from Germany has made it to the Semiomantics Team! Click on the image below to see it enlarged!

Ute Schaedler on Semiomantics Team

What is Ute Schaedler on the Semiomantics Team all about… onlinewise that is?

In fact, she was the first to deliver her collection of Semiomantics Web Design screenshots, ranging from Health & Fitness and her favorite subject: Flowers (especially in soft yellows and purples) to PLRs, Ebooks and the many things she offers in her Semiomantics Shop. Just not that top photo that was needed… and that took a little while to produce and to prepare. But now Ute is ready amidst her favorite topics!

Besides her love for beautiful images and her precision due to her background in bookkeeping, Ute has a good command of what happens behind the visible scenes of website development – the html, the php, css and whatever code it takes to produce a smashing website, be it Semiomantics XO or Evolution.

She is the perfect partner for the German speaking community – be it from Germany, Austria or Switzerland: Nicht verzagen, Ute fragen!

Semiomantics Flame in Germany

So the Semiomantics Flame has travelled from New York across the Atlantic Ocean and all the way to Northern Germany… where will it go next?

We will know soon :)

Calibrate and recover a Maximum of Data

The purpose of this exercise is not to reach a final result but to prepare the image for editing and post-editing. When calibrating, we try to correct systematic shortcomings of our camera. When we edit, we try to drive a maximum of data out of our image, namely because the camera delivers jpeg files which compress away quite some data of which some can be recovered.

Once we have the best possible set of data, we can apply filters and presets with a foreseeable result.

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler

The Original

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler original

Edited Version

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler edited

BW Version

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler edited bw

Post-edited Version

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler post-edited

Enjoy!

[download_box]Calibrate and Edit Presets used in Lightroom[/download_box]

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke

A somewhat more difficult sample in the sense that this image is not ideal for calibrating because of the color range and because it’s zoomed (114 mm in 35 mm equivalent). The image is therefore not at maximum sharpness or detail.

However, it’s a nice bird, worthwhile to spend some time on :-).

The Original

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke as shot

Edited Version

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited

Edited Version 2

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited 2

Edited Version 3

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited 3

Post-edited Version

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke post-edited

No comment, let the yellow bird tweet!

[download_box]Lightroom Presets used[/download_box]

More later.

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Editing xml text is not all that difficult … once you get used to the format. In Semiomantics Evolution you can edit straight HTML code into the text tags, which makes it a Sunday walk.

HTML editing

Ute Schaedler has used plain HTML to edit her about page:

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Using HTML allows you to embed … pictures … for example :-).

Play with transparencies

Your image and text backgrounds can be modified easily by adjusting the Alpha values to taste. The Alpha values concern transparency; setting Alpha to 100 means no transparency while the value 0 (zero) would mean full transparency or no visible background layer.

An example of 0 values: Click HERE

On the home page there is a suite of images on the right site which are set on a zero transparency layer.

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The same applies to the showroom: you may place transparent png files on a more or less transparent background.

Try and enjoy the results.

I am looking forward to tonight’s session at 8 pm London time.

PS: More smashing stuff is under construction!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Ute Schaedler builds a Flower Site at the Ycademy Seminar

Building a flash website for the purpose of offering the ultimate surfing experience to visitors is the goal of this month’s Ycademy Seminar. Ute Schaedler is focusing on flowers, presenting spectacular views on spectacular backgrounds. A real pleasure to surf Ute’s Semiomantics Evolution Website already after 1 day of work:

Ute’s Semiomantics Evolution under Construction

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Ute Schaedler's Flowers

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Ute Schaedler's Showroom

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Branding your Printed Matters

Using Microsoft Office, it is a relatively easy task to brand your printed matters. The most recent Ycademy Seminar dealt with the various features provided by Office 2010 and this weeks calls will apply the branding concepts further.

Business Card Design

Starting from a template in Microsoft Publisher 2010, we can adapt the templates to the style and design of our websites.

Here some examples from last night’s workshop:

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Business Card Design

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Business Card Design by Ute Schaedler

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Business Card Design by Felisa Ryan

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Business Card Design by Hanno Coetzee

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Business Card Design by Zo Nicholas

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Photoshop Ycademy

When 10 days ago we started the Photoshop Ycademy for YORGOO and Ycademy members, the program outline looked like a huge task. Today we see, how much can be accomplished within little time by ordinary people making extraordinary efforts. Tonight’s training will be a clean up session to finish up with some basics and the implementation of more action scripts, namely to accomplish more day to day tasks.

Book Covers, CDs, DVDs and more

Last night’s session was dedicated to product wrappers; it’s all about the look! Great stuff was created and I am looking forward to see some of it on Google Top 10 Images. While we have shared with participants some impressive actions, we are preparing two Photoshop Packs containing some interesting stuff I have on my computer and which I find useful for professional use of Photoshop. Here below a gallery of some sample images I did in just a few minutes; hope you enjoy! See you tonight at 7 pm London at Yorgotalk!

Yorgotalk

Yorgotalk

Bianca

Bianca's Book

Brenda Baker Tourism in NZ

Brenda Baker Tourism in NZ

Gene Line

Gene Line's secret passion

Laetitia Paris Hit Parade

Laetitia Paris Hit Parade

larrie1

Larrie Perkins Best

Nikos Advertizopoulos Ycademy Head Master Course

Nikos Advertizopoulos Ycademy Head Master Course

SquYYYze Page

SquYYYze Page

Toni Leuenberger Computer Security

Toni Leuenberger Computer Security

Ute Schaedler Affiliate Bible

Ute Schaedler Affiliate Bible

Healthy Eating with Ute Schaedler

Healthy Eating with Ute Schaedler

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Fine Art by Yorgo Nestoridis

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.