Entries Tagged as 'Benn'

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Put Your Name in Lights!

After a long break, I will have a quick photoshop tutorial coming later this week. Today though, I have a new blog feature to introduce, and that is the Wednesday Spotlight.

With this post each week we would like to highlight one of our outstanding Tat customers, and any interesting stories they might have. [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Organize Your Materials

One trap that is so easy to fall into, is that you just have too much content without any organization. For example, in a booth, it’s very important to have your stencils displayed so that your customers can easily window shop through them. This sounds less problematic than it can actually be. [...]

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Gonna Catch ‘em All: the Google story

It is Google’s stated mission to digitize and index all information on the planet. They seem to get closer every day.
I’m not sure when this feature was released, but I just noticed today that you can now filter your Google image results by color. I apologize if I am way behind the times [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Local Copies

It’s important to be able to update your website regularly. Most small business, especially those with no web division per se, simply change the live copy of their site. By that I mean, they try changing things on the actual site without testing it in any intermediate step. This can be a [...]

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Free Audio Player

I was recently looking for a good solid (free) way to embed and play MP3’s on my own personal blog. I stumbled on to this little gem of an article, aptly named, “How to Embed MP3 Audio Files in Web Pages with Google or Yahoo! Flash Player.”
As you know I am unapologetically enamored with [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

JD Crowe Style Designs for Existing Stencils

Maybe you have been tating for a while, and you are skilled enough to execute JD Crowe designs which are very attractive but very time consuming and somewhat difficult. Maybe you additionally have been experimenting with JD Crowe style coloring patterns with your other stencils to dazzle your customers. Well, if you are [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Fun with Layer Styles

*Special Note* Make sure to check out my bonus blog published this morning
We’ve been working around with this series on non-destructive editing. Well, I think that we’ve been through about everything that I wanted to. I thought it would be a good idea to maybe give you a little pay-off for these techniques. [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Infomercial Alert

Here’s a bonus blog. We’ll let this make up for me missing my date last week. So here’s the scoop. I just watched an infomercial on CBS for Luminess Air which is an airbrush system designed for cosmetics. It’s quite an appealing infomercial as Mindy who works with airbrushes every day [...]

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Adjustment Layers

You may have detected a pattern to these posts in my non-destructive editing series, the last couple of weeks. Layers are everything. Fortunately for us, Photoshop thinks so, too.
Adjustment layers are yet another advantage to shelling out the serious coin for full blown Photoshop over it’s free and cheaper competitors. These special [...]

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Quick Masks

Sorry, I’m so late with this blog entry. I had the opportunity last weekend to do a Home and Garden show in Novi, Michigan, and when I got home last night, I didn’t really have the energy to blog.
This will be a bit of a short entry. I just wanted to write a [...]