Articles by Month: July 2009
PhotoKeys for iPhone
PhotoKeys for iPhone [iTunes App Store link] is an interesting app. In short, it turns your iPhone into a small touch screen to access the Photoshop tool palette—Move, Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand and so on—as well as other common functions…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
80’s Style Design Using Photoshop
The 80’s have always had an iconic impact on Pop Culture. I have been seeing a lot of 80’s inspired designs on the internet, but never found a tutorial. So, here’s a simple tutorial inspired by the 80’s. This is…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Graphic Design, Photoshop
Arsenal: T-Shirt Templates, Vol. 2
This second volume of the Go Media Arsenal T-Shirt Templates comes in response to popular demand and features natural, hand-created drop shadows & HDR photography for smoother shading layers. Files are in PSD format w/ layers and masks, pixel dimensions are…
Photoshop Quick Tip: Finding Layers Quickly
Quickly find the Photoshop layer an object is located on by enabling an option on the Move tool.
Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity
So you’re a visual designer who wants to suck up to a certain front-end hat guy. Wouldn’t it be a great gesture to clean-house and organize your file so the slicer doesn’t ‘slip’ and accidentally butcher your brilliant work? Some…
Photoshop Tip: Sharpening with Photoshop’s High-Pass Filter
Need to give an image a little boost? Whether it needs a bit more contrast, or needs to be sharper, Photoshop’s High Pass filter can add a dynamic result without spending too much time.
Lineform 1.5.1 (Mac Vector Graphics Software) Released + Discount Code
Freeverse has just released Lineform 1.5.1. Lineform is a low-cost vector graphics software program for the Mac, for those designers out there on a budget. Here’s the new stuff: Fixed Undo to include function names Fixed text fill editing bug…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
10 PC Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers
A great roundup of 10 excellent time-saving utilities for PC-based graphic designers. These run the gamut from graphics software specific tools to general Windows utilities any creative types out there will find useful for their day-to-day PC usage. Boost your productivity and have more time to create with this extensive list from Go Media’s Adam Wagner.
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Win A Free License For Photoshop Brush Management App Brush Pilot!
Go Media is proud to offer up 3 licenses for the awesome new Photoshop brush manager for OS X, Brush Pilot. Download the demo, give it a whirl and let us know in the comments what your favorite Brush Pilot…
Introduction to 2.5D Compositing Tutorial [Video]
I am sure that all of you at one time or another have experimented After Effects’ 3D world, and for beginners it can be quite the concept to wrap your head around. Along with being able to animate in 2D space, you can actually manipulate, move and place objects in Z space as well as the X and Y plane.
- Categorized: Tutorials
Brush Pilot: Quickly Browse Your Photoshop Brushes
For all you brush junkies out there: Brush Pilot is a brand-new piece of Mac OS X software for previewing Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe Photoshop Elements Brushes (.abr), Brush Pilot allows you to instantly preview your brushes without having to load them into Photoshop.
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
Quick Tip: Find Files On Your PC Fast With FileBox Extender
One little app that I couldn’t live without is FileBox Extender for Windows. Fellow Go Media designer @Adam_Wagner originally introduced it to me last year. It’s a free, lightweight app for Windows that I use to quickly access frequently used…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Goals: Ready Aim Fire
Have you ever heard that incredibly cheesy saying: “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it.” Well, I disagree. You won’t hit “nothing”, you’ll surely hit SOMETHING. Unfortunately it will most likely be something other than what you truly want.…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text
I tag all my artwork posted online with a minimum of my website URL, and usually with copyright info. I wanted to set up an easy way to add this in Photoshop to each image without having to go to…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop
Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange
Here’s a quick tip for all you Adobe software users out there: The Adobe Exchange. What is it? The Adobe Exchange (which seems to have recently been renamed to the Adobe Marketplace & Exchange) is a community resource to share…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe