Blank Canvas: Adobe Or Not?

Von Glitschka – Adobe Illustrator CS4 Guru

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Sneak Peek [video]

Here’s a quick sneak video of some experimental new features being worked on by Adobe for Photoshop CS5, including “wet” paints (similar to Corel Painter) as well as a very cool-looking warp tool. Warning: corny voiceovers.

Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster

Introduction: This tutorial will show you how to make a killer Fashion Model Poster using basic Photoshop functions like Layer Styles, Vector Masks and Filters like Motion Blur. At a time when there’s more DOWNLOADING of source material than actually…

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The Best Spray Paint Textures

Do a Google search for “Spray paint textures” and you’ll see why knew that the artistic community deserved better. So, we brought in a well-known graffiti artist from right here in Cleveland to show us what he could do. And,…

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Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Free download, Adobe Air application that allows you to look up keyboard shortcuts for any Adobe software. Well, at least Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Acrobat Pro. The shortcuts are only for the CS4 versions of these applications.

Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth

Blank Canvas: Who Inspires You?

Another installment of Blank Canvas, where Go Media asks the readers to tell us what they’re thinking. This week’s topic: Who inspires you?” We want to hear about the designers, illustrators and other creative types whose work or personality has…

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Designing for the Film Industry: Interview With Go Media’s Jeff Finley

Design Solution: Indie Coffeeshop Corporate ID

Blank Canvas: What’s Your Digital Design Setup?

We’re starting a new feature on the Go Media ‘Zine to give our readers a chance to voice their thoughts and opinions. We’re naming it “Blank Canvas”. And if you readers have any topics you’d like to see covered, please…

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Wacom Bamboo Touch Revealed Early

Seems Wacom has a new product to be released, and the beans were spilled early by retailer Best Buy, who put the product out on the shelves before the official release date. In fact Wacom has no information on their…

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Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

Ask the Readers: Who is a current household name in design?

LeBron James, Barack Obama, Terrell Owens, Britney Spears – names you all recognize I assume? For better or worse, I think that just about everybody in the United States would know these people by name. So I wonder: Who are…

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Erika Simmons: Ghost In The Machine

Erika Simmons’ ‘Ghost in the Machine’ series is an imaginative approach to image creation/illustration. The concept of incorporating elements of the subject matter as the medium is a great example of thinking outside the box. The use of the cassette…

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15 Over-The-Top Business Card Designs

Business cards are one of the elements of corporate design that should be pushed beyond just graphics, and converge with several processes to become what they should be: a memorable, collectible and impressive piece to be carried away everywhere. The…

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Go Media’s Jeff Finley: Interview at VectorTuts

Death To Creatives!!!

I am not a creative. You are not a creative. No one could ever or will ever be a creative. The word creative is not a noun. It is an adjective used to describe a noun. i.e. That is a…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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.

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…

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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.…

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