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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 3 - XHTML

12. February 2008

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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 3 - XHTML

This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands…

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Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop

6. February 2008

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Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop

Written by guest author Barton Damer. Introduction: This tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer. There is…

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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 2 - Slicing in Illustrator

30. January 2008

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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 2 - Slicing in Illustrator

This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands…

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Create a Killer band site in Drupal - Part 1 - Design

16. January 2008

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Create a Killer band site in Drupal - Part 1 - Design

This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands…

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Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal: A 6-part Tutorial Series

10. January 2008

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Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal: A 6-part Tutorial Series

This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands…

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

8. January 2008

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool takes just seconds when you use this technique. This tutorial is special because…

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Tutorial: Extreme Sports Branding

13. December 2007

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Tutorial: Extreme Sports Branding

In issue #142 of Computer Arts Magazine (should be in stores now) you can find Oliver’s tutorial on how to design a logo and print ad for a fictional extreme sports brand. The brand he chose to invent was Yellow…

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Ornate Lettering Process

1. November 2007

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Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by…

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

9. October 2007

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you…

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Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects

8. October 2007

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Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects

So in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a spray paint effect using After Effects. It’s a fairly simple process but I’ve got a few tricks that you may not have thought of. Here is a…

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Create an Old-World Look in Photoshop

17. September 2007

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Create an Old-World Look in Photoshop

Our friends over at PSDtuts.com wrote a nice tutorial on using some of the Arsenal freebies to create an old-world style look in Photoshop. I thought our readers might learn a little from it so I thought I’d post a link to…

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

11. September 2007

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

23. August 2007

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

We get quite a few people calling every day with trouble opening or using our Vector Packs. I decided to write a tutorial specifically to help out newbies who aren’t exactly sure what they’ve just purchased. It’s amazing to know…

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Revised Tutorial: From Sketch to Vector

15. August 2007

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Revised Tutorial: From Sketch to Vector

For those unaware, our Sketch to Vector tutorial was taken down for legal reasons as per request by our client. But Bill has spent the past few days reworking it with new artwork. We’ve reposted it and it’s back online! Check…

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

3. May 2007

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Gigposter Design: The New Sex

Tutorial Introduction: A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and…

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From Sketch to Vector Illustration

18. April 2007

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From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Hey everyone! Welcome back to the GoMediaZine. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one. If you recall in that tutorial I discussed how to…

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