I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking for and adding fonts. It’s very easy to do, and there are so many great free fonts out there it can get kind of addicting. Free fonts are incredibly abundant, but since they require us to download a file off of the internet I’m hesitant to [...]

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 is [...]

I just wanted to take a moment here to remind everyone of the focus of your website. Your website is for your customers. It is all about them. If you are considering making a change, always ask yourself how it will help your customers, and if there is a better way to do it. I [...]

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 tools, [...]

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 I thought I would [...]

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. We at TatStore [...]

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 here, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]