Check it out, it’s pretty cool and neat!

Read this post on the site: iStockPhoto Panel for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

I’m a big fan of the Calvin and Hobbes comic series because they so accurately make fun of what is usually relevant to my life. This one, I hadn’t seen until just a few days ago and it is spot on as ever.

Do you also wait until the last minute or can you get things started early?

Read this post on the site: Calvin & Hobbes on Coming Up With Creative Ideas

It’s been a fun day and I wish I could stay a bit longer, but alas, duty calls! A shout out to Mariah and Johan at Adobe Nordic too for making the day as lovely as it was.

Don’t miss their other tour stops throughout this and next month. Thanks to Terry for the photo!

Read this post on the site: Adobe CS6 Launch Tour Comes to Stockholm

Over the past years though, search has begun to play a bigger role. With Google Chrome integrating the search field with the address bar, users sometimes run a search instead of typing the URL, a practice that’s now more common than ever.

This sparks a new necessity on our websites. A clear and easy way to search. On some of the sites that I’ve recently re-designed for clients, placing a search field in a clearly visible location has increased their conversions as customers find what they want. Of course, this requires a good search system.

Whether we like it or not, search is beginning to get deeply implemented in our fundamental behavior for how to browse the web. As a designer or someone who has a website in general, we might use it to our advantage right?

Share your thoughts on search in the comments! Do you search more than you use navigation links when you get the option? Which do you prefer?

Read this post on the site: Search. How We Find Things On Websites.

What amazed me after having put in each months income in a big spreadsheet and segmented it in projects and hourly jobs, I found that the hourly jobs makes up between 40-50% of the company’s income in any given month. That to me is impressive and helps me find time for that and not feel obligated to rush after as many projects as possible.

Cherish the little things because they add up. On the other side of the coin, don’t forget to charge for the little things too. Even though it’s easy to say: “I’ll just take half an hour…“, don’t! Spend five of those half hours a week and add it together and look at the income figures. Over the course of a month, it’s not insignificant.

How are you doing and handling it with the little things?

Read this post on the site: The Little Things Add Up In Business

The tour stops are all free to go to, just register in advance at the respective websites. I’ll be in Stockholm myself on Thursday for some CS6 fun! Here are the Nordic dates:

8 May 2012 Copenhagen @ CineMaxx
9 May 2012 Helsinki @ Finnkino
10 May 2012 Stockholm @ Rigoletto
14 May 2012 Oslo @ Main Stage/Aker Brygge

There are a few more events too later this month in other cities than the capitals if you can’t make it to these ones. They’re not with all the Evangelists though, but check out your local Adobe site for them too.

PS: The Creative Cloud is shipping on Friday so don’t forget to check that out. The full CS6 version is available today, including the trials.

Read this post on the site: Don’t Miss The Nordic Adobe CS6 Launch Tour

One of my everlasting topics that I keep thinking about is the subject of photographers and other creative professionals that do their (your) own websites. I’m probably not alone in spending some time thinking about this as the general consensus from the design industry is that this is bad practice. I disagree, but there is a but!

If you’re not a web designer you should definitely still be able to build your own website. The tools today make it even simpler too. There’s just one thing that I think anyone should do when venturing into a field that isn’t their comfort zone: Ask for advice!

Simple enough, there are many web designers that you can ask for advice. While many choose to do their own sites to save money, it is cost-effective to say, pay for an hours worth of consulting to get advice on how to improve your site from any standpoint.

Keep doing it yourself but don’t forget to ask for some advice because that’s a quick and cheap way of improving, isn’t it?

Read this post on the site: Asking For Advice And Doing It Yourself

Go check out what’s going on at D2WC this year and register for the conference. It’s going to be so much fun! Once again, thanks to Dee for inviting me.

Read this post on the site: Catch Me At D2WC in Kansas City, May 16-18

Hey folks. I wanted to share a quick Photoshop tip that is very useful to me when designing. Often times I want to rotate text or transform it somehow and instead of leaving the type tool and go into Free Transform, you can do it directly from the Type Tool. Isn’t that cool?

Read this post on the site: Quick Photoshop Tip: Free Transforming From The Type Tool

Read this post on the site: Mark Your Calendars for CS6 and Creative Cloud on Monday