GoMediaZine» Ask the Readers http://www.gomediazine.com Graphic design tutorials, freebies, & advice by working artists and designers. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Real-world advice from working artists and designers. GoMediaZine no GoMediaZine jeff@gomedia.us jeff@gomedia.us (GoMediaZine) GoMediaZine Podcast graphic design, artist, business, inspiration, go media, tutorials, advice, illustration, photoshop, illustrator, art GoMediaZine» Ask the Readers http://www.gomediazine.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.gomediazine.com/category/design-articles/ask-the-readers/ Blank Canvas: Creative Resolutions http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/ask-the-readers/blank-canvas-creative-resolutions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blank-canvas-creative-resolutions http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/ask-the-readers/blank-canvas-creative-resolutions/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:30:15 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=12718 Blank Canvas: Creative Resolutions is a post from: GoMediaZine

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Excerpt: It’s that time of year again. January first always seems to bring out the best intentions in people, and us creative types are no different. Some may choose to lose weight, get in shape or quit a bad habit. But Go Media is curious what you the design community wants to change, improve or quit in regards to your creative life. I’ll kick things off by sharing what art-related resolutions I’ve made in 2011. Most of my plans for the coming year are less on the creative side and more on the business side of my art. In general the theme for me…

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: Go Media has a large student readership. We’d love to hear from you regarding your current classes and offered classes — what’s missing? I know back in my college days, it was a far different environment than it is today. The school and professors were considered reputable in their field, yet I found some of their approaches to be out of touch. I imagine that situation never changes. What’s not offered, or not given enough time in the classes you’re taking? What’s not available to learn that you feel are important skills for a designer to have in their arsenal for the…

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media Zine would like to get some reader feedback on stock photography. Do you use it? What’s your favorite site? Do you sell your own stock photography? For the most part, when stock photography comes up for a project, I tend to use iStockPhoto. They have a pretty decent selection of both photography and illustration, and it seems easy enough to find what you are looking for. That said, I think the primary reason I’ve used iStock is because the prices are low, the quality is decent for what you pay and I’ve just been using…

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: I thought this would be a fun game. I’m sure you’ve been into Hot Topic and looked up at the t-shirt wall for inspiration on designing tees. You might even have the pleasure of seeing one of your OWN designs up on the wall. Or you might recognize the work of fellow designers. I went in there recently and discovered that I could only identify a couple of designs that I recognized and there were a lot that I didn’t know. I admit, I haven’t been keeping tabs on this in quite some time. So I snapped a…

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Excerpt: For this installment of Blank Canvas, I’d like to hear from our readers on the topic of learning new design and illustration techniques and software. Obviously here at the Go Media Zine, we offer plenty of design and illustration tutorials, however not everyone learns best from a computer screen. Creative types have a wealth of information online nowadays, however many out there learn best from a classroom setting, one-on-one tutoring or perhaps even good old fashioned books. If you are one of those who keep up to date and expand your arsenal online, what do you prefer as the format for your content…

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: There seems to be quite a growing number of websites such as 99 Designs offering design services by way of “contests”, where the client will submit specs for the project, and the designers will then submit actual designs in order to “win” the payment. While I can see the appeal of these types of services for the client (get designs for free, only pay for the ones you like), I feel this devalues the worth of a designer’s skills. You don’t get to have 5 mechanics work on your car and then only pay the one you felt did the best…

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Excerpt: For this installment of Blank Canvas, Go Media is interested in hearing about your forays into the analog world. With so much design work being created and used online and in digital format, it’s easy for a creator to only see their work on the screen. And typically the work you create is for a client. Our question this time around: how much work do you create for yourself, and do you exhibit that work in shows and/or galleries? If so, how do you go about finding an outlet for your design work? We also want to hear from you illustrators out there….

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: Recently we published a post regarding Apple’s stance on Flash and their iDevices. The gist of the situation is that Apple has decided they don’t want to be reliant on a third-party plugin for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch products. Apple’s suggestion is for developer’s to embrace the new HTML5 specs which are supported by most current browsers, with planned support for HTML5 coming in those browsers that don’t currently support it. There’s actually two components to this situation: the first being a browser plugin, which allows Flash-based video players and Flash-based websites (or web elements) to run on the Apple…

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: “Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for me? I’m not bragging or anything, but instead actually interested in why this happens to some people and not others. Perhaps it’s the setup, perhaps the types of files. I’d like to get to the bottom of this, and I need your feedback to do so. My Setup So let’s start off with a description of my setup, then an overview of a typical Photoshop…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/ask-the-readers/blank-canvas-photoshop-crashes-ram/feed/ 41 Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading? http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/ask-the-readers/blank-canvas-adobe-creative-suite-cs5-%e2%80%94-are-you-upgrading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blank-canvas-adobe-creative-suite-cs5-%25e2%2580%2594-are-you-upgrading http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/ask-the-readers/blank-canvas-adobe-creative-suite-cs5-%e2%80%94-are-you-upgrading/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:30:36 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=10105 Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading? is a post from: GoMediaZine

Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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Excerpt: It’s that time of year again fellow creative types. Well, actually that time of the 18-month release cycle for Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade. I know many users out there have a feeling of “didn’t I just upgrade?”, but in fact the release cycle is indeed every 18-months and this one is right on schedule. Come April 12th, Adobe will be hosting a live CS5 launch announcement event where we will all find out about the new features to be added. Some of you may already be aware of some of the sneak peek videos Adobe has released for the amazing new Content-Aware Fill…

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