Design By Firgs will return January 4th, 2010 with new content. See you then!

The NAPP membership giveaway was the biggest and most responded to giveaway in, well.. EVER! And the folks over at NAPP Headquarters were so thrilled with the feedback they spent the entire weekend reading everyone’s comments. They learned a lot from all of you and because of that, they decided to put together a special [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This tutorial is aimed for CS3/4 users as part of it contained the Warp tool. However, there are also instructions included how to mimic a similar effect with the tools found in lower versions. Here is how to simulate a crushed dark velvet, fabric texture. First set up your canvas according to the specs you [...]

Written By Dawn of My Home Sweet Home Without a doubt, the biggest obstacle in my quest to take the best pictures I can take has been white balance. I love my Nikon D80, but I honestly believe that it came with a default white balance setting of “Jaundiced,” particularly noticeable on indoor, nighttime shots [...]

Hi all! I just wanted to let everyone know that I am going on vacation for two weeks. I’ll be taking some much needed “me time” and then I’m off to spend the holidays with my family out of state. While I’m gone, I’ll be reposting the best and most searched for articles from over [...]

This week, I drank the Kool-Aid. Technically, I drank the Kool-Aid about twenty-five years ago when I cut my teeth on my first computer – an Apple IIc. What am I talking about? I’m talking about today’s Hot Site – I Drank The Kool-Aid. This site is dedicated to converting you into an Apple lover [...]

The rush job. It’s unavoidable and tends to happen when you least expect it. You get a frantic call or a panicked email and the urgency in both puts all of the neurotransmitters within your brain on high alert. With every beat of your now quickened pulse, all you can think is “Craaaaaaaap! Now what?!”

Happy Monday all. As the holidays are pretty much upon us, I thought it was time we got a little festive around here. So, I called out to the lovely ladies of Landailyn Research and Restoration to see if they might be interested in joining forces with me to create a brush pack for you [...]

This brush pack is a combination of my own work and the work of Landailyn Research and Restoration. This is a set of 30 brushes ranging in sizes from 76 t0 641 ppi including some created by scanning images out of old books for that retro feel. If you enjoy these brushes, please be sure [...]