Student: David Walley (09004726)

Student: David Walley (09004726)
Chosen blog: Web Design Blog http://free-web-design.co.cc/
Chosen post: Movie-Like Sunset in Photoshop Tutorial (http://free-web-design.co.cc/movie-like-sunset-in-photoshop-tutorial.html_

My comments on blogs:
http://free-web-design.co.cc/how-to-make-a-vintage-retro-picture-tutorial.html#comment-765
http://free-web-design.co.cc/movie-like-sunset-in-photoshop-tutorial.html#comment-762http://free-web-design.co.cc/ultimate-list-of-photoshop-tutorials-to-design-a-website.html#comment-763
http://free-web-design.co.cc/breathtaking-dreamy-vintage-photoshop-tutorial.html#comment-766

This blog is run by a Romanian graphic and web designer named Roman Alexandru. He gives little personal information about himself, describing himself as a “design dude, freelance superhero, and blog magician.”

Each topic is in some way related to Photoshop and graphic design. A list of most popular tags can be found the right hand side of the page. These tags include “photo editing”, “istock”, “illustration”, and “freebies.”

This website is updated sporadically. It has been updated three times since September 30. The majority of site updates are links to resources to help enhance graphics or they contain images to give the user ideas for their next graphic. Recently the blog owner has been posting many tutorials to show users how to achieve certain effects.

This blog’s target audience are graphic designers and those who want to learn how to go about creating eye-catching and impressive images on Photoshop.

The language used on this blog is relatively straight forward as it aims to be understood by advanced Photoshop users as well as beginners. As each blog post contains a large amount of graphics, the graphics featured in the layout are kept to a minimum. The layout of the page is very clean and easy to navigate. A thumbnail representing the latest updates are shown in the left hand column, while a blog roll and links are found in the center and right hand column.

There is a large amount of communication on the blog between readers and the author. The author responds to questions about where to find certain resources and often thanks people for pointing certain mistakes in the tutorials.

I chose this post because I was greatly impressed by the finished result and wanted to learn how to go about achieving this for myself.

This tutorial is very straight forward and easy to understand. The author goes through the process in step by step detail, using a Print Screen of each step to make things even simpler for the user.