Let’s be honest. Designers and artists love to personalize their stuff. It’s a way of expressing our individuality as well as being a great creative outlet. And, well – it’s just FUN! So I went through Amazon and found some really cool vinyl laptop skin sets. All of them have their own unique sense of [...]
Normally, Thursdays are reserved for Shout Outs and the promotion of people that I find to be fascinating, amazing, or just down right cool. But usually when I write them, I myself feel good about life in general. I am normally a pretty positive and happy person, so when the hard times hit – they tend [...]
W00t! It’s time again for Phtoshop World! The largest Photoshop conference ever produced by NAPP and sponsored by* the Godfather of all design programs – Adobe – will be taking place the first week of October in Las Vegas! If you have never been then today’s Hot Site – the Photoshop World Blog is for [...]
Editor’s Note: This article was featured yesterday on the popular Photoshop site tipsquirrel.com. I am posting it again due to the illness I have been going through for the last week. However, I would like to mention a point that was made in the comments on the Tip Squirrel site by Linda that Serif fonts preform [...]
Happy Monday all. Well, I am still feeling pretty lousy and I am headed off to the doctor. But I had to pop on here to give everyone a heads up on the announcement that was just made on Sunday. Check it out… WITHIN THE FRAME – IN ITALY! David duChemin, best selling author of the book [...]
Ok, so I have been trying to recover from a bout of food poisoning for the last 18-20 hours and because of that I am now massively behind on work. Maybe it’s Karma’s way of getting revenge for joining Facebook or something. I don’t know. Anyway, I need to forgo the blog posts for today [...]
Ok, so after about six moths of constant dodging of invites, ribbing from colleagues, out and out nagging of family, the meeting with my entrepreneur coach, the added suggestion of a second coach, and the responses from yesterday’s article – I have succumbed. I am now on Facebook and although not happy about it – [...]
Ok, so for the last six or seven months I have been getting pressure from all sides (friends, family, colleagues, etc) to join Facebook. And every time I have been very clear and very vocal in my “Not in this lifetime” answer. I don’t like Facebook, I never have. I feel that their Terms of [...]
This is a custom shape pack containing eight layout outlines. They can be used as part of a design but are intended to be used as layout guides to help you figure out where to place your content. Because they are shapes, they are sizable to any document. For more complex layouts all you need [...]
Hi all. Happy Monday again. Lately, I am seeing a lot of beginning designers trying to create posters, postcards or adverts, that are falling apart when they come to the layout. It’s a constant issue that seems to keep reoccurring. I thought – basic design should not be this hard. I thought – there should be [...]
