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What is the Safari Lounge Designer Class?
September 1, 2009 by Monja
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Have you always wanted to make your passion your occupation?
Here is your chance to learn how to design from scratch.
On August 28th Digidesignresort.com launched the designer classes – a place in our forum where newbie designers are able to learn how to create their own elements and papers and learn all the necessary things you usually learn by trial and error.
The Safari Lounge is a place where designers will mentor you, give tips and tricks, where you can ask questions and get feedback – and all this will beam you into the next designer level you would otherwise have learned in many hours of hard research or even worse – by making mistakes and maybe even damage your business.
Once subscribed you have access to the part of the forum where you can ask questions, watch our videotutorials and learn – you can even request new tutorials and we will create them for you or explain everything in detail.

Here is what you get:
Learning without any pressure – fits perfect into your schedule!
If you like to know what you can expect – go to the Safari Lounge blog. Due to the opening not everything is ready of course but still you can read some testimonials and sign up for the newsletter there – the surprise will come later, as soon as we are ready. But I promise it will and it will be a CU freebie!
Go here
Our Designer Classes offer you:
a lifetime subscription to the Safari Lounge for just one time fee!

you can watch our videotutorials unlimited

you get a summary from each tutorial

you get store coupons from our designers for selected products (CU items!!! e.g. Papierstudio Silkes Soft Art Actions – 35% off, Carena´s Designs – 35% off, Digidesignresort Grabbags (as many as you want) 50% off)

you are mentored by designers, everything you create will be quality checked by us

you can ask each question you want and we will always be willing to help you

we are willing to tell you all the tips and tricks and little secrets from the beginning

you get on the opening weekend a VERY special introduction price!!!!

If you want to sign up – go here
YOU WANNA KNOW IN MORE DETAIL WHAT YOU LEARN? HERE IS A LITTLE EXTRACT…
THESE TUTORIALS ARE THERE AND A LOT MORE ARE TO FOLLOW!
All you need to know (Mixed)
Copyright and Terms of Use

Do you want a serious business? Then you need to spend money.

Risks and chances of buying CU products

Design Skills
Introduction to Photoshop
Install brushes, styles, actions… in PS

Make your own style

Center objects in PS

Short overview of the Photoshop Workspace

What are layers?

Color Swatches

Design Skills
Quality Check

Clustering – get creative and make new elements from what you already have

Get creative! How to get inspired by layouts, colors, a Google search, pictures, other products (inspiration, no plagiarism!) à choose a theme and make a color palette

How to make textures

How to make overlays

Use CU papers and Overlays to make a new paper with single/multiple colors

Make papers with scenery and styles (like my art of nature paperpacks)

Use CU papers and add a gradient

Use styles and shapes to create your first elements/ Center your objects in Photoshop

Make your own shape and create an element

Basic extraction with pen tool to make elements from photos/basic extraction with masking

Market yourself
Free Advertising

Your Product Portfolio à use the free homepage at DDR as your portfolio

How to get into your first store: What do store owners want?

Your product: Preview and Description

Find your identity (create a label & preview)

To Freebie or not to Freebie

Managing your business
How to set up your own Wordpress Blog

How to use ACDSee Photomanager to manage your business

Beside that – all the included coupons are already worth the money.
Go here and sign up NOW
Photoshop is NOT required. You can use any graphic program you like although we have used Photoshop to create the tutorials. But there´s always a way around and we will guide you through that. Also – you can grab a 30-day trial version from the Adobe homepage.