Photoshop
Tennery Typeface & New Apparel Templates
Watch out! It’s Big November at Go Media – and that not only means tons more awesome design resources to spice up your upcoming projects, but a whole new & improved Arsenal. We’re kicking it off with the Tennery Typeface…
How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the…
T-shirt Template Freebie
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a freebie on the Go MediaZine, and an email I got this morning provided the perfect opportunity. Here’s what Jan had to say about the Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates we just released:…
How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo
EDITORS NOTE: Jimiyo is showcasing a template from Vol. 2 of Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates, which we’ll have ready for release in November. For now, check out Vol 1. Go Media gave me the chance to test out their new…
Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
Hello, my name is Alex Beltechi, a designer that is currently studying in college and working in the print media realm. I would love to explain my vast experience and overwhelming knowledge to you, but due to the fact that…
The Day After: Photoshop CS4 Resources
We didn’t get a chance to beta test Photoshop CS4 here at Go Media, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Here’s a collection of previews & feature lists of the latest & greatest Adobe Photoshop. If you’re in a…
Free Exclusive resource from Jimiyo: Skull Reference Photos
You could hop on ebay and bid on some anatomical skull models (which run between $20 and $80). Or, you could just download these complete reference photos prepared by jimiyo exclusively for the Go MediaZine. They’re awesome! Inside there are…
How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results
A lot of you have asked about how to set up your Wacom for awesome results like this. In this post we’ll cover the basics of getting your Wacom working, some finer details of getting it to work well, and finally some tips for getting better at drawing with a Wacom. We use Intuos 2s & 3s here at Go Media. Specifically, this tutorial was written with the Intuos 3 6×11 in mind.
How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is…
How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation
In the last post, I showed you how to make 8-bit characters in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, we will animate those characters in Adobe Photoshop using the Animation Window. 1. CREATE A NEW PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT To Begin, open up…
122 Raster & Vector Wings
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about lucid dreaming, keeping a dream journal, watching Waking Life, and generally trying everything I can to take control of my dreams. The first thing I’m going to do in a dream – FLY!…
Go Media featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine
We were lucky enough to be featured in the new issue (Issues 45) of Advanced Photoshop Magazine. They were pretty generous, giving us a two page spread as well as covering the Arsenal in later pages. I can’t thank them…
Drawing Skulls with a Wacom Tablet
Draw a Skull with a Wacom Tablet from Go Media on Vimeo. This isn’t exactly a tutorial, but more of a quick “time lapse” demo of a simple illustration technique I use. In this video, I’m going to draw a…
Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial
A few months ago, I wrote a tutorial for Computer Arts Magazine about how I put together the CD Package for the band Hollywood Ave. I wanted to share you the link, since it’s now available for free online in…
Create a stunning undersea painting using Vector Packs
So Set 10 is out. It’s sort of sentimental because I remember when Set 1 was released and wondering to myself, “Wow, if people dig this and find some real usability out of it… we could keep cranking out sets……
A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
Hey people! It’s Dave again giving you all yet another excuse to get your knowledge on. This isn’t as direct as my previous Gigposter Tutorial (by the way – thanks to everyone who found that helpful!) because I’m actually covering…
Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2
This tutorial I wrote on Ornate Lettering is now available for free on Computer Art’s website.
Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
Written by guest author Barton Damer. Introduction: This tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer.…
Ornate Lettering Process
I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by…
Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art
This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows…
Old School Type – Line Gradients
One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…