Fishing Hole Report

All right, so you’re a passionate about flyfishing, and you want to create a great website to show the world your brilliance. Or you’re expecting  to sell your special flyfishing products or to market your skills in your region as a flyfishing guide. Whatever your reason for wanting to  create a site, there is one thing you really need to dress it up: a flyfishing header graphic that sticks out from the rest. There are two  primary ways to get one: hire someone to design a beautiful unique header for you, or create it yourself.

The Hiring Route

If your talents lie more in fishing than in art, you probably should go ahead and hire a pro to design your flyfishing header. Start with  getting an idea of the specific graphics you want: do you have pictures, or do you want a more animated look? Is there a focus you  need to promote your business, or are you open to ideas? Is it just a header, or are you looking for something that goes up one side  and across the top, hugging your content?

Once you know what you want to see, it’s time to find your graphic designer. You can look in dozens of places: Elance, for instance,  provides you with freelance graphic designers for hire at reasonable prices. RentACoder is another excellent site to hire freelance talent,  or GetAFreelancer. At these sites, you can either put your job out for bid, and choose the freelancer you like the best, or you can look  through hundreds of portfolios and solicit a freelancer directly.

If money’s not a problem, locate some sites with great looks - not just fishing sites, but other action sites as well - and email the site  owner, asking him to recommend the artist to you. It’s rare that they will turn you down.

Consider, though, if you’re going to have someone create your graphics for you, that you may save some money in the long run and end  up with a really great looking site if you hire them to do an entire theme, with buttons and smaller versions of your flyfishing header  graphics, instead of just a flyfishing header.

Do It Yourself

If you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person and you do have some artistic talent, there are some excellent programs out there that you can  use to create your flyfishing header graphics. Start, though, by charting out exactly what your header should look like, using graph  paper to keep you in line. Once you have a clear vision, start shopping.

For photo-realistic results, you can’t beat Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Either has great graphical capabilities, optimize images for the  Web, and Paint Shop Pro has a phenomenal utility called a picture tube that drops series of images on your canvas for you. You can find  great pictures at sites like istockphoto or stock.xchng, or you can find free GIF images at places like gif.com to use in your header. With good planning, you may be able to design a flyfishing header that suits your purposes just fine.

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