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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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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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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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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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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The Brads: Photoshop Unexpectedly Quit

Color Management in Adobe Photoshop

This is the first part of a comprehensive detailed series of posts guiding you through the image editing process step by step from profiling your display and managing your color space and settings, to profiling your printer and preparing your work for print out, to saving and distributing your work on the web.

Getting Into Graphic Design: Q & A with William Beachy

Go Media receives countless inquiries into the nature of the design business from students all over the world. This posts shares a recent round of Q & A with Go Media president William Beachy. Who was your mentor and what…

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Creativity & Control

Encouraging creativity while remaining the “boss” How does one balance the business side of running a design firm with creating an atmosphere that encourages creativity? Well, for starters I believe very strongly that creativity starts with the designers. If you…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Chad Lenjer

We’ve already posted 4 of the video interviews we were lucky to film with attendees of the first Weapons of Mass Creation event last fall. Currently we’re busy planning a much more ambitious festival to celebrate contemporary creative visionaries, called…

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Blank Canvas: How Often Do You Upgrade?

Design software ain’t cheap. And for us designers and illustrators using the professional-level software to create such as Adobe Creative Suite, we find a typical 18-month cycle for new releases of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and the rest. GoMedia wants to…

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Interview with Illustrator Dan Mumford

Can you start by telling us about who you are, what you specialize in and where you’re from? My name is Dan Mumford, i am an illustrator/screen printer and i live in London. I know you had formalized study in…

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Art Files: Illustrator’s Missing ‘Collect for Output’

Plenty of designers out there do their design work not in InDesign, but in Illustrator. If you’re among those, you’ve no doubt been confounded by the lack of a “collect for output” feature in Illustrator. Enter Art Files from Code…

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Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Fuel Brand Inc.

Welcome to the fourth interview of the Weapons of Mass Creation video interview series. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off article to get caught up! We sat down with Adelle Charles & Joshua Smibert of Fuel…

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