Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

3D Typography in Photoshop

Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 2

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…

Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 1

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

Shading with Watercolor Textures

Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

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…

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.

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