I was just cruising the internet and came upon an article by Tom Nudd on AdFreak which show how Google is soothing privacy concerns in Japan related to its Street View Google Maps project.

So, number one, I just thought that was cute, and I hope it made you smile – very gumby-esque (or bob the [...]

As you all know, we here at TAT continue to seek opportunities to advance our industry as a whole. We have created the countless free industry-wide resources like the TAT Forum, and the Artist Directory. To this effort we have added a Tat industry Squidoo lens.

It’s not really a huge thing, but it [...]

Hey guys, back again with another Aviary tool that seems very promising. As you all will know by now, Aviary produces fantastic browser based applications which allow you to do pretty advanced image editing for free.
Recently they launched their newest tool called Talon. Talon is not as amazing as some of their other [...]

Hey Guys. I hope you all had a fun and profitable holiday. I had promised last week that I would put up a photoshop tutorial, but it didn’t quite work out. I was having trouble with my screen capture program. I finally got them all under control this morning though so [...]

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 [...]

*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. [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]