Pimped Google+ Profile
Last week we published our guide to customising your Google+ profile with a stylish tiled image effect using our Photoshop template.
We’ve been really pleased to see that loads of you are downloading the template and pimping up your Google Plus profiles with some really creative uses of the images.
So – we’ve showcased our favourites below.
WHAT’S MORE… we opened this up to the public vote with an amazing* prize for the winner
*The Prize
Don’t get too excited – we’re not going to give away an iPad or anything!
The winner will receive (drum roll please)…. a £25 Amazon Voucher!!!! (that’s about $40 for those over the pond)
OK – its not a life changing prize – but it’s easily enough to buy this great t-shirt or 8 copies of X&Y by Coldplay
PLUS – the winner will have the kudos of being known as “Silicon Beach Training’s Favourite Pimped Google+ Profile”
Candidates
Here’s our shortlist of Customised Google+ Profiles…
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Posted by Aaron Charlie in Competitions, News, Social Media on July 14th, 2011| 9 Comments »
How to Customise Your Google+ Profile Page: Tiled Images
Check out our gallery of the most creative Google+ Profile designs!
Download Template
Download and unzip our Photoshop Template
Step 2:
Open up the template in Photoshop. We’ve left the images of my face in the template so you can see how it all works – but if you don’t want to see my face (and I can sympathise with your position if you don’t) then either hide or delete the “Colin” Layers!
Next you’ll want to import the image (or images) that you want to use in your own profile.
To do this, select File > Place and select your image file.
Drag and resize it so its in the correct position, and hit enter to place it:
Click on the image for full size version
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Posted by Aaron Charlie in News, Photoshop, Print Design, Social Media on July 9th, 2011| 14 Comments »
The web is alight with Google+ fever at the moment, and it seems that Google might have come up with a Social Networking concept that will truly challenge Facebook.
Like everyone else we’ve been getting to grips with how to get the best out of our profiles.
We’ve also devised a natty method for customising your Google+ profile design using tiled images.
pimp your-google+ profile
And what’s more we’ve put together a Photoshop Template to make it easy to implement for anyone who knows a bit of Photoshop (for those that don’t – we run a great 2-day Photoshop course here in Brighton!)
We’re sure you can all come up with some brilliant and creative ways of using the method to customize Google+ profiles that really stand out – we’d love to see the results – so if you use our template please post a link to your profile in the comments section so we can check out your work.
If you’re on Google Plus – follow us in the following places for all our goodies: Andy Trainer | Heather Buckley
Here’s our step by step guide to customize your Google+ Profile using our PSD Template.
NEW – Check out our selection of the most creative Google+ profile designs!
Posted by Aaron Charlie in News, Social Media on July 6th, 2011| 16 Comments »
