Dare to Dream?

I “might” be good at many things - but when it comes to designing with a mouse, I’m absolutely pathetic! One major reason for this being I lack the patience to sit in front of the PC and keep iterating over - and over again - on the same image - design and modifying it each time till that wow thing happens! Top that up with my (almost) color blindness to any other color than RGB - and you can understand how my designing skills might be

Anyways, this week, I was seriously trying to break that jinx. Reading a ton of Photoshop tutorials (Smashing Magazine has a pretty nice collection!) and trying whatever I could.

This was not a sudden liking - but rather a revelation.

Of all the parts that form the web development process, designing is a major part of them. If your stuff is not visually appealing, all the logic behind it would never go mainstream because your users would never come in the numbers you expected. WYSIWYG works most of the time! - specially when you are forming those first impressions…

Also, over the time, I had started to realize that I’m being dependent on others for each and every graphic design related task. Even a small change & I had to bug my friends to help me out.

So thought - lets change all that. Lets learn some Photoshop over the weekend!

These are a few designs I made for ApnaBill.com - our Beta Launch!

This was the very first design I created this evening for ApnaBill - the blue dot was pretty odd though…

This was next in line! This turned out to be more wider than I had imagined it to be…

Another quick one…

The original logo - just modded with that Beta badge…

And while I was upto this, I did managed to freak out on some glyphs! Check this out…