Have you ever finished a logo that you thought was high quality for a client, only to have it rejected? I know I have! That’s what happened with the Taconic Valley logo that you see above. The good news is, just because it didn’t fit with your client’s needs, doesn’t mean it can’t be perfect for someone else.

I have recently switched my advertising from handling everything myself to getting some help from BuySellAds. They provide MyInkBlog with a larger marketplace, automation, good stats, and an added degree of professionalism.

Wow! I can’t believe I’m already putting together the best of July. These months absolutely fly by. The blog is gaining steam, I’m loving the progress. July was stacked with more great articles, tutorials and freebies. Here’s a look at the best of what was in July ’08.

I don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but I really want to emphasize a sense of a design community at this site. My latest attempt to help with this is to create a Flickr group for the blog so you can showcase your work and be inspired by others.

A couple weeks back I got a great suggestion from one of my readers to present a list of my favorite Photoshop brushes. Although it was tough to limit the list, I’ve put together this collection of 15 of my favorites.

I just added a contributions page to the site. I really want MyInkBlog to become a community of like-minded graphic and web designers that help each other out. It is my hope that we can get a few more contributors to this site.

I’m always looking for new ways to drive traffic to my site. I’ve found the best way to increase your readership is to publicize like crazy. If you are a Photoshop tutorial writer, you have all sorts of options, but digging through these places can feel like a black hole.

I went to write a quick post today about Using Zoho Services, but when I went to place an image using the media buttons in Wordpress, they were gone. The first thing I try whenever I’m having this sort of problem is perform a quick Google search to see if anyone else has suffered the same fate.

Zoho is an online service offering a bunch of different apps to help you be more productive and organized. Many of their services are free of charge. I’m already addicted to using Zoho Sheet and Planner to manage my advertisers and daily tasks. They offer an invoicing service which is also quite handy.

Every Photoshop tutorial writer should have a space explosion effect in their arsenal. It’s kind of like a right of passage. This is my interpretation of a space scene. The fun part about working with a space scene, is that you can let your imagination go crazy. Please use this tutorial as a guide, but don’t feel limited by it.

I’m finally switching my hosting companies, something I’ve been meaning to do even before I wrote an article about why I hate my hosting company. Please excuse any bugs or downtime that may occur for the next day or two as the switch happens. I’m switching to Eleven2.

I’ve found the best way to grow your blog is to be consistently plugging away at it. I’m not saying you have to write a post each and every day; sometimes that’s just not possible. But, it is wise to do something for your blog just about every day.