News
Firstly I would like to apologies for the delay, I have been super busy with another project and as a result have hardy had time to think.
OK, to the important part — the Winners of Win a Custom 125×125 Design, 1000 Entrecard Points and more… are as follows.
First prize goes to: Jo
A Free Custom 125×125 design and a 1 month advert slot here on 125Cards.
Second prize goes to: BinaryWolf
1000 Entrecard points.
Third prize goes to: FOOL
A 1 month advert slot here on 125Cards.
Congratulation to the winners, I will be contacting you shortly, and thanks to everybody who entered.
I am thinking of running another similar give-away next month. If you run a similar website/blog and would like to donate a prize, please get in contact as the more prizes there are the bigger the competition will be.
Written on 28 February, 2008 by David Churchill
News
You have one day left to enter the 125Cards.com Leap-Year Give-Away special.
At midnight on the 29th February, I will close off the comments on the Give-Away post and then shortly afterwards announce the winners.
So hurry, there is still time to enter and win a custom 125×125 design, 1000 Entrecard points and a month advert-slot here on 125Cards.
Take to the competition NOW!
Written on 26 February, 2008 by David Churchill
Design Ideas
Creating your own 125×125 advert artwork from scratch is great, but sometimes you just need an image quick — and preferably it needs to be free — but where can you find quality royalty free images and photos fast?
Although there are now hundreds of such websites, I tend to gravitate towards two, Stock Xchng and Fotolia. Both offer royalty free images and also have very reasonably priced pro images that can be bought for only a few pence/cents.
Bare in mind that some images may have restrictions, but you should find that you can usually contact the owner and get permission to use the images for almost anything — be it personal or commercial work.
Reader Feedback: Do you use royalty free images in your adverts or on your website?
If yes, what sites do you use and why?
Written on 23 February, 2008 by David Churchill
News
Roll up Roll up, the 125Cards Leap Year give-away has started.I am giving away 1 Free Custom Designed 125×125 Advert with 1 month free advertising here on 125Cards.com. I am also giving away 1000 Entrecard Points, and another separate 1 month of free advertising here on 125Cards.The Prizes (Gifts).
- A Free Custom Designed 125×125 Advert (You tell me what you want and I will design it for you) + 1 months Free advertising here on 125Cards.com
- 1000 Entrecard Points - spend them on whatever you like!
- 1 months Free advertising here on 125Cards.com
To take part, all you need to do is Subscribe to 125Cards.com (by email or RSS). Once you have done that, post a comment below to say hello, hi or whatever you like.
- Subscribe to 125Cards - either email or RSS
- Leave a comment below
The Competition will run for 7 (Seven) days and finish at 12 midnight on the 29th February 2008 (GMT time).3 winners will be picked at random and announced shortly afterwards.Right, let the fun begin…
Written on 22 February, 2008 by David Churchill
Design Ideas, Templates
Stuck for ideas? Feed up with the same old pictures and colours?
Why don’t you try something simple like a silhouette, or a black and white photo? Give it a tweak, maybe boost the Brightness and Contrast and then you will have something a little bit different.
How many colours do you need? Sticking to a single colour or similar colours can have a striking effect - and although there is a little bit of yellow in my example, you can see that using the same colour range can make for an interesting change.
Talking of changes - on the 23 Feb 2008 I will be kicking off a 7 day completion that has some great prizes, so make sure you pop back tomorrow to enter the leap-year special!
Download today’s Photoshop samples - Silhouette (96k) and Green Earth (132kb).
You can also download the Anderson Fireball X font which is used in the Silhouette sample. Other free fonts can be downloaded from the 125Cards download page.
Don’t have Photoshop? Would like a template in another format?
Leave me a comment and I will see what I can do.
