Hi this will be a bit of a quick one because I don’t exactly know a whole heck of a lot about layer modes, but I know enough to know that I love them. My goal here is to pretty simple. Briefly gloss over what layer modes are, show you three nice tricks, and encourage [...]
Usually, I spend most of my time praising the GIMP and other open source projects for their dedication to giving us all an opportunity to create at a high level. This praise is completely deserved and should not be tempered by what I am about to say – Adobe is amazing. Adobe is so progressive [...]
So after the slight interruption from Totally Stylin’ Barbie last week, we’re back to our burgeoning series on the modern graphic designer’s best friend, non-destructive editing (especially if you can’t afford a graphic artist, and have to do it yourself). I believe so heartily in this concept that I hope I can dedicate several weeks [...]
This year, Barbie turned 50 years old. I just wanted to alert all of our readers who are in the tat industry, that Barbie now sports sticker tattoos, and even comes with wash-off temporary tattoos for her owner. This is causing quite a stir as tattoos are still largely associated with less than savory figures [...]
I was surfing this morning through my favorite design blogs, when I stumbled onto this wonderful tutorial at gimp-tutorials.net. It’s a great tutorial, as are the tens of tutorials that I read every day, but this particular tutorial spurred me to write about one of the biggest boons to my design carreer – the concept [...]
In my google reader assisted web roaming, I stumbled across a wonderful web suite of products under the umbrella Aviary. You can visit them at Aviary.com – I would strongly suggest doing so. Their offering includes four very trendy (yes, beta) programs called Peacock, Phoenix, Raven, and Toucan. In reverse order a swatch processor, a [...]
You know it’s gotta be good because they call it Beta [*wink GMail beta]. But really, I jabbed it’s use of a very trendy naming convention because that is literally the only bad thing I have to say about this service. FreeConferencing.com is a sister service of FreeConferenceCall.com which is in itself a wonderful product. [...]
Last week I had encouraged our readers to submit screenshots of their websites that they had done some small thing to improve them either by adding a call to action, contact information, or their logos. One of our best customers. In my opinion, our model public events business customer, submitted his site www.toppersandtats.com and the [...]
So, as I hope you know. One of the most important elements for any marketing opportunity is the call to action. When you get right down to it, in most cases, the marketing message without action amounts to a shameful waste of resources: money, time and energy. That’s where an obtrusive, unapologetic, unambiguous call to [...]
You have got to check out this link. 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do that You Should Know. This documents 11 really useful things that Google does right from the search bar. Take a look at them, notice particularly: Track UPS, FedEx, and USPS packages Current flight information Conversion: (currency, measurements, and translation) I [...]
