Telling A Client “No”

You’re the expert, right? You’ve spent four years in design school and have a few years of real-world experience, right? You obviously know all there is to know about design and clients are just dumb and uneducated. You force your…

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The Brads: Just Google It

Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Kaleidoscope for Mac is an interesting new file comparison utility. It looks to be a great tool for both web developers as well as designers, and as far as I know it’s the first utility of it’s kind to do…

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Adobe Digital Publishing Platform

Today Adobe announced their Digital Publishing Platform, which in their own words is “a platform which consists of applications, technologies, and services that allow publishers to cost effectively author, produce, and distribute groundbreaking content to the broadest possible audience on a…

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Blank Canvas: Personal Projects

For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media is interested in hearing about your forays into the analog world. With so much design work being created and used online and in digital format, it’s easy for a creator to only…

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Defy The Hand You’re Dealt: WMC T-Shirt Giveaway

You may have heard about this little art, film, and music festival that I’ve been planning this year. It’s called Weapons of Mass Creation Fest and it’s happening THIS weekend here in Cleveland. I wrote this letter to the fine…

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Tutorial: Death Metal Logo

Blank Canvas: Flash vs. HTML5

Recently we published a post regarding Apple’s stance on Flash and their iDevices. The gist of the situation is that Apple has decided they don’t want to be reliant on a third-party plugin for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch…

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Video Tut: iMac Illustration

Go Media contributor Andre Silva shares a detailed, 17-minute walkthrough video tutorial on creating an iMac in Adobe Photoshop. Here’s a preview of the final artwork, scroll down to watch the video in it’s entirety.

Solo To Studio

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…

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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.…

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Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

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…

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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…

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Adobe Creative Suite 5

Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?

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…

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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…

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Acorn: Impressive Pixel Editor for Mac

Photoshop is the workhorse of the design industry. It’s an industry standard. But even Photoshop’s biggest fans will admit it can be quite daunting for basic tasks. So what to do for either users who don’t need the full version…

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Ten Ton Photoshop Winner Announced — And Some Killer Free Training for Everyone Else!

Well I hope everyone had fun entering the drawing for a free copy of Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials! I gotta say, it was great reading about your favorite commands, your Photoshop war stories, some memories from versions gone by. I…

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Anatomy of a Band T-Shirt

The “band t-shirt” project can be quite enticing for designers and illustrators. Want to know what goes on behind the artwork? Jeff Finley of Go Media shares his personal experiences of the ins and outs of designing t-shirts for bands…

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ShirtMockup.com “Retweet to Win” Winners!

As promised, here are the lucky five winners of our ShirtMockup.com “Retweet to Win” contest. Each will receive a free Shirt Template from GoMedia’s Arsenal! And of course, a huge thanks to all the rest for participating and helping us…

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The Brads: Photoshop Unexpectedly Quit