Articles by Month: April 2010
Flash, Floppy Disks & FreeHand
Apple’s Steve Jobs just posted a long open letter on the reasoning behind the decision to exclude Flash support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Jobs lists six major points surround the decision, but wraps…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe
The ArtCast Network
This one goes out to all you illustrator types. Children’s book illustrator Dani Jones was an early adopter of using online video such as YouTube and live broadcast video service Ustream to share her tips, techniques and talents with others.…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: illustration
Color Management: Calibration and Profiling
Introduction Welcome to the second post in our color management series. Be sure to check out Part One if you haven’t already done so. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of calibrating and profiling your input & output…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Graphic Design, Adobe
Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM
“Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe, Photoshop
Create Glossy 3D Text using Xara 3D & Photoshop
I am going to show you how to create 3D text in Xara 3D and render it in Adobe Photoshop. I’ll share basic Photoshop key shortcuts that really help speed up production. As a final touch I’ll use the pen…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe, Photoshop
Adobe Creative Suite 5
It’s that time of the, um 18-month release cycle again. Time for a new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite. This time up: version 5. For this initial overview, I’m just going to talk about the new stuff in Photoshop and…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Graphic Design, Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator
Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?
It’s that time of year again fellow creative types. Well, actually that time of the 18-month release cycle for Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade. I know many users out there have a feeling of “didn’t I just upgrade?”, but in fact…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator
Fave Font: Knockout
We all have our favorite bunch of typefaces we use on a regular basis. When I first started out I was a font-a-holic downloading every free font that I could get my hands on. Over time, perhaps I’ve become less…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
New Arsenal Release: Wacom Illustration Video Tutorial
Go Media owner and veteran illustrator Jeff Finley shares intimate details of his illustration and design process in his two hour video tutorial “Wacom Illustration Techniques”. You’ll learn the process for manipulation and compilation of photos for reference, secrets of…
- Categorized: News
- Tagged: illustration, Photoshop