My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.

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Posts Tagged ‘graphic design’

Photoshop Shortcuts (PC)

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image preview of photoshop shortcutsLearning keyboard shortcuts helps you improve efficiency and performance in any almost any program. I find this especially true for Photoshop since much of the design process is done with a mouse, it helps to train the other hand to use shortcuts and type in small amounts. In posting this, I hope to reference it myself to memorize and learn these shortcuts, and hopefully others will bookmark and reference this page as well.

Market Yourself: Research

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Clay doing homeworkI started off my series in Marketing Yourself with a little self-discovery. After a decent amount of feedback, I realized that not many people understand or know some basic principles of effective marketing such as researching geographic, demographic, and psychographic data. Hopefully this post will give a little insight to what these terms mean and how to use the data for marketing.

How to Design a Logo – Pt2: Price

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For some reason, clients always think that logos should be cheap. Dirt cheap in fact. I’ve had people ask me if I could do a logo for $50, which I decline, no logo that I can design in an hour is worth associating my name with, so why bother. Rather than posting a long article about logo design and branding, I figured it would be best to share some links of people that have already hit the nail on the head:

How to Design a Logo – Pt1: Branding

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Many people want to know how to design a logo from start to finish. Let me address first, that logo design is not something that should be taken lightly and doesn’t come cheap. Not everyone can be as fortunate as Nike and get an effective logo for only $35. In fact, designing a highly effective [...]

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