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Photoshop Ycademy

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:02:37 +0000

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

Bianca

Bianca's Book

Brenda Baker Tourism in NZ

Gene Line

Gene Line's secret passion

Laetitia Paris Hit Parade

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Larrie Perkins Best

Nikos Advertizopoulos Ycademy Head Master Course

SquYYYze Page

Toni Leuenberger Computer Security

Ute Schaedler Affiliate Bible

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.

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:38:19 +0000

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website

You may wonder why I change my website … again. As my site serves as a prototype and sandbox for new Semiomantics developments, I need to adjust some design features to anticipate WordPress 3.0 features as well as to experiment with advanced media handlers.

Also, and this is not a joke, I am no longer happy with the performance, since I have built into our recent customer sites a device which outperforms my own script and which cannot run on the present framework.

The Look of Semiomantics

The look of my personal site will not change substantially; it will be essentially black and gray on white with some rare and mostly invisible touches of red or blue.

The main change concerns the Home Page which will follow the trend of our recent WP Best developments: short page with just a few highlights and a dominant featured image leading to an important editorial.

From a design point of view, I will keep it minimalistic as usual in order to put the content into the center of the development, as you can see from the screen-shot below, where the image of Vouliagmeni is the visual center of attraction.

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Site

The Fonts and Colors

I will play with different font combination and redesign my labels and banners using professional fonts on photoshop. As the site is extensively widgetized, there are about 15 places where labels and banners can be placed, right into the framework. Using different sets of banners and labels, designed in different styles, the site can change face with just a few mouseclicks without the need to touch anything which impacts on the performance.

While the site will remain in the black to white scale with some touches of red or blue, the banners and labels will fit in like skin elements while still being utilities.

For the time being I am still loading script elements. Tomorrow I will take care of the front page content.

See you then.

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How to use Photoshop Actions

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:51:13 +0000

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How to use Photoshop Actions

Do you know Photoshop Actions and how to use them? If you think that we may be able to share with you some new actions, join tonight’s YORGOO call at 9 pm London Time.

We will show you, how you can quickly and with just one mouse-click transform your images to have the same look as the samples below.

Photoshop Action Scripts to increase productivity

The few samples below show day to day actions you may come across and which can be reduced to just one mouse-click: tonight is the night to learn all about it and to get started with our first small Action Pack.

See you there, tonight at our Web Design Photoshop Workshop.

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Action Frame for Bianca

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PS Action Frame for Bianca 2

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Photoshop Action Recognition for Bianca

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PS Action Script Rounded Corners

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PS Action Drop Shaddow

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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:48:47 +0000

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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Learn how to create Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop at this week’s Ycademy Pro calls.

Additional optional Materials: $10, free for Ycademy Pros, get the coupon from Bianca.

Advanced pack: $30, discount $10 for Ycademy Pros.

(Information about the content of the packs at Monday’s YORGOO call.)

Professional Presentation of your e-products

The presentation is of the utmost importance when you sell a product. Creating clean wrappers and marketing materials is a must. Today’s screens render images with a high resolution. For this reason you won’t get away with images from second zone. The same applies to marketing materials.

Photoshop quality is a must.

At Ycademy we will this week dig into an important application of Photoshop: create Book covers and Jewel cases with Photoshop to present your digital products.

Please find here below two examples of the quality you will be able to produce after this weeks trainings. To keep white clean is the most difficult task; the samples below demonstrate quality, even if you look at them with the magnifier.

The Ycademy Trainings

Sure, we will show you step by step how to create a book cover right from scratch using your Photoshop skills. But there is no reason inventing the wheel; we will focus on learning how to use one of the most popular plugins to create efficiently professional looking wrappers. For this reason we have prepared two packs of commercial action scripts for Photoshop which you may grab for as long as available.

Check it out at the YORGOO Pro Shop.

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Ycademy E-Wrappers Basic

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Ycademy E-Wrappers Pro

Ycademy DVDs

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Ycademy Seminar DVD

Ycademy Books

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Ycademy Books

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WP Best Town Project

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:11 +0000

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WP Best City or Town Theme

How to build a local website, focusing on your town or city? WP Best City or Town Theme by Semiomantics is the answer! WP Best City or Town is not really a theme, it’s a concept for people who want to bring their town and activity to the internet. Semiomantics builds module based Town or City Blogs and CMS in function of the needs of the user.

The WP City Concept by Semiomantics

Every town is different and yet, they all have many common aspects when it comes to presenting and promoting the town, it’s business, events, local market and more. Surfing Google and looking for town sites, you will notice that many towns exist only through rather boring, sterile tourism related directories or politically hyper correct official sites and blogs. Nothing you really want to look at. There are exceptions of course, but chances are that your town is lousily represented on the internet and the people of the town are simply neglected in the equation.

At Semiomantics we have developed a strategic concept to bring towns or cities in front of an interested audience. At present we are testing the concept targeting the community of Vouliagmeni in Greece.

Main Site: WP Best Town Blog

To start with, we use a basic destination CMS and Blog based on the WP Best Destination script by Semiomantics.

This allows us to post editorials about the Vouliagmeni, it’s people, things to do in Vouliagmeni, events, business, shopping, photo galleries, videos and so on. It’s also designed to offer visitors to Vouliagmeni compelling information about the best place on earth :-).

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My Vouliagmeni Main Site

The main site is tuned for high visibility and performance on Search Engines with the clear ambition to play a role on Google Top 10 under any Vouliagmeni related keyword.

Have a look at My Vouliagmeni Main Site.

Add-on Module: Real Estate and Property

The real estate market deserves special treatment. For this reason we have optimized a real estate module for high performance and built it straight into the main site.

A sample is here.

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Vouliagmeni real Estate Module

Add-on Module: Classifieds Directory

Directory scripts are known for limited performance compared to Semiomantics scripts. We have therefore developed the WP Best Classifieds Directory with Semiomantics. This is a stand alone CMS which can be visually integrated and strategically linked with the Main site.

Have a look at the Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory.

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Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory

Add-on Module: Shop

The shop concept is based on the WP Best Shop script from Semiomantics. The shop could sell Vouliagmeni related souvenirs, branded Tees or other accessories and more.

More about the shop later.

More Add-on Modules

More add-on modules are under development at Semiomantics. We will keep you posted.

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Special Offer

yougobiz — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Special Offer

Vouliagmeni

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:12:42 +0000

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Vouliagmeni

The new Vouliagmeni site is built on the WP Best Destination Theme by Semiomantics. The purpose of the site is to Guide visitors through Vouliagmeni and to allow an attractive surf through categories such as Real Estate, Accommodation or Restaurants and Tavernas. The Who is Who section will feature people from Vouliagmeni and an Events section will report about the hot stuff happening in our town.

The Style of the Vouliagmeni Site

Vouliagmeni is a town where tradition and posh lifestyle meet. I have opted to use one of my preferred color schemes, the black – white – beige scheme.

Vouliagmeni Home Page Top

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Vouliagmeni Home Top

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom

I like the see-through glass barrier.

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover Easter-egg

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Easter-egg

Enjoy and have a look at the real thing here.

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Best WP Design

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:06:11 +0000

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Best WP Design

Image handling for advanced visual effects is a difficult task for any coder since the first ambition remains to provide clean and valid code. Best WP Design by Semiomantics is experimenting with different solutions which are seen on static pages to integrate them into the dynamic frameworks of WP Best Themes from Semiomantics.

WP Best Design Carousel

The below presentation works fine on dynamic content. Use the mouse-wheel for fat image scrolling (place the cursor on an image). The presentation can be combined with zoom effects for magnification of individual images. This WP Best Design element can be used for product galleries, people galleries or any image. Enjoy.

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Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory » Web Design

Photoshop Ycademy

Contents

Photoshop Ycademy

Book Covers, CDs, DVDs and more

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website

Contents

Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website

The Look of Semiomantics

The Fonts and Colors

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How to use Photoshop Actions

Contents

How to use Photoshop Actions

Photoshop Action Scripts to increase productivity

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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Contents

Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Professional Presentation of your e-products

The Ycademy Trainings

Ycademy DVDs

Ycademy Books

Read also:

WP Best Town Project

Contents

WP Best City or Town Theme

The WP City Concept by Semiomantics

Main Site: WP Best Town Blog

Add-on Module: Real Estate and Property

Add-on Module: Classifieds Directory

Add-on Module: Shop

More Add-on Modules

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Special Offer

Vouliagmeni

Contents

Vouliagmeni

The Style of the Vouliagmeni Site

Vouliagmeni Home Page Top

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover Easter-egg

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Best WP Design

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Best WP Design

WP Best Design Carousel

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