Photoshop
Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography
What you will learn In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects. You’ll also need Adobe…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: 3D, Photoshop, Graphic Design, Illustrator
3D Typography in Photoshop
Introduction In this tutorial we are going to go over various techniques you may have seen before, as well as a bulk of techniques that may be new to you. After you have completed this intense walk though, I assure…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Graphic Design, Illustrator
Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 2
Photoshop Vs. Illustrator in a (continued) no-holds-barred battle to the death! WARNING! This blog post contains foul language and dirty underhanded insults. The (harsh) opinions expressed in this article do not reflect those of Go Media Inc. or Adobe Inc.…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe, Illustrator
Text Tool Tips
So you’re a keyboard shortcut junkie, working on a design. You need to add text. You select the Text tool in Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign and add your text. But how does one jump to other tools—permanently or temporarily—while having…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Illustrator
Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 1
Photoshop Vs. Illustrator in a no-holds-barred battle to the death! WARNING! This blog post contains foul language and dirty underhanded insults. The (harsh) opinions expressed in this article do not reflect those of Go Media Inc. or Adobe Inc. Please…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Graphic Design, logo design, Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator
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: Photoshop, Graphic Design
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.
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…
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
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: Photoshop, Adobe, Illustrator
Shading with Watercolor Textures
This tutorial will try and show an alternative way of using the watercolor texture files (as most of you know, you can download Go Media’s watercolor texture pack here, or you can try and make some of your own by…
- Categorized: Graphic Design
- Tagged: Photoshop, illustration, apparel
Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.
Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: Photoshop, Graphic Design, web design, Adobe Illustrator
Draw a Windy Sunset Illustration
Introduction I’ve always loved Asian art and particularly Japanese illustration. While Asian art is the main source of inspiration for my design, the point is not to create a traditional Japanese illustration, but rather to filter design inspiration such as…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: illustration, Photoshop
T-Shirt Template Upgrade Free to Current Users
*NOTE: This upgrade path no longer exists. The original Men’s T-Shirt Templates was the debut Template Pack back in August 2008. In the process of making two more Template packs & an Advanced Hoodie Design Package, we learned a few…
How to Draw a Classic Hand using a Graphics Tablet
I use this kind of drawing to give to the design an artistic look. In my opinion the hand drawing effect looks great applied on anything from animals to gothic ornaments. Another advantage of this style is that you can make great artwork using only one color.
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- Tagged: illustration, Photoshop
Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster
Introduction Everyone knows the pink panther! I sure love the old cartoons and remember this old VCR tape packed with episodes I used to watch as a kid, over and over again. Well, there were lots of episodes, so it…
Impressive Watercolor Splatter Effect Tutorial & Freebie
This guest post was written by Nick Steimling from HeavyPrints . Many thanks, Nick, for sharing your knowledge with Go MediaZine readers! I have been working with natural media more recently, and as a result, I have been learning how…
How to Design Your Own Custom Hoodie
We know how much you guys and gals love a good tutorial! We just launched our new Hoodie Templates and they are amazing. I decided to sit down and design a hoodie and to write a tutorial in celebration. You…
Sexy Holiday Vector Pin-Up Girl Tutorial
A month or so ago I did this sweet tutorial of a pin-up girl on a motorcycle. It had been a project from on of our better clients. Since they liked and bought the design I thought that they wouldn’t…
- Categorized: Tutorials
- Tagged: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop