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Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text

Friday, July 3, 2009

I tag all my artwork posted online with a minimum of my website URL, and usually with copyright info. I wanted to set up an easy way to add this in Photoshop to each image without having to go to the Type tool, type the text, size it, etc. Here’s how I solved the issue…

Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Here’s a quick tip for all you Adobe software users out there: The Adobe Exchange. What is it? The Adobe Exchange (which seems to have recently been renamed to the Adobe Marketplace & Exchange) is a community resource to share and download lots of extras for your Adobe software products: Actions, Brushes, Custom Shapes, Displacement Maps, Filters, Flash Panels, Gradients, Droplets, Patterns, Plug-ins, Scripts, Styles, Templates, Symbols, Patterns [...]

Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client

You’ve just been given a project and the client has made a list of demands that will surely result in a total design failure. Your integrity as a good designer is on the line… …WHAT DO YOU DO? Manage the client’s expectations BEFORE the project brief is even written. In an IDEAL world, the battle over [...]

10 Tips to avoid designer’s block.

Monday, October 20, 2008

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Ever feel like some days you can crank out amazing looking designs with little effort? Then on other days it feels like nothing is working, you’ve lost all your talent and you’ll never make another good design for the rest of your miserable life? Don’t panic – this is

First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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Thirteen versions and twenty-one years after the very first Illustrator, Adobe is rolling out beta versions of Illustrator CS4. After so many iterations, you might wonder what Adobe could possibly do to make Illustrator CS4 worth the cost of the upgrade. In this preview, I am going to highlight the most noticeable [...]

How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results

Friday, August 22, 2008

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A lot of you have asked about how to set up your Wacom for awesome results like this. In this post we’ll cover the basics of getting your Wacom working, some finer details of getting it to work well, and finally some tips for getting better at drawing with a Wacom. We use Intuos [...]

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is what’s going to do the job. Apparel designs are much different than regular print jobs [...]

122 Raster & Vector Wings

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Lately I’ve been reading a lot about lucid dreaming, keeping a dream journal, watching Waking Life, and generally trying everything I can to take control of my dreams. The first thing I’m going to do in a dream – FLY! Us ground dwelling humans seem to be pretty consumed by the idea of [...]

I Am Liz Hunt — Designers, Unite!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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When Jeff Finley first approached me to work as an information designer for Go Media, my inner monologue went something like this: “Go Media? Who are THESE guys? What’s this ‘Arsenal: Professional Design Weaponry’ stuff? Vector Packs? Skulls and Heraldry and — Hooladanders? What the hell is a Hooladander?! This is pure madness. These guys are [...]

Adobe Bridge is iTunes for Designers

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Really? Think about it: What if every time you wanted to jam to your Summer 2001 Playlist you had to re-construct it from your mess of mp3s in a folder called “downloads”? Well, you don’t, because iTunes doesn’t organize your tunes by folder, it organizes them by metadata: artist, album, genre, playlist. Adobe bridge does the [...]

13 ways to trick your client into happiness

Monday, June 2, 2008

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13 ways to trick your client into happiness

The art of making your customers love the designs you create. In an ideal world our clients would think like designers. In an ideal world our clients have a good knowledge of marketing. In an ideal world they think logically and communicate clearly. Well folks, this is not an ideal world. And, unfortunately, our clients do [...]

How to print giant designs onto shirts

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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I thought this was pretty cool. For those of you who wonder how this kind of printing is done, here is a good example. Just get a machine like this! Demonstration video of the 12 color Workhorse Falcon E Duplex Automatic Textile Printer. Oversized 47″x40″ honeycomb pallets from Action Engineering (approx. $695 per pallet) [...]

The Dreaded Design Lull – 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump

Friday, April 18, 2008

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Recognizing and reacting to a slowdown in design work. I can remember clearly when it was just me alone in my apartment running this design firm. It was easy to stay busily and happily working on a non-stop string of client projects for months on end. Then unexpectedly one day – I would notice something strange. [...]

2 New Fonts to Help you Win at Life

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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We just released two new fonts. They are now available to purchase on Go Media’s Arsenal. These two new fonts are sure to help you attract any customer you want and ultimately win at life. Well, maybe only get you part of the way there! Goatbeard Goatbeard is a handlettered font. It’s got an [...]

Velocity Control in After Effects

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Velocity Control in After Effects Tutorial from Go Media on Vimeo This is a short, quick and easy tutorial showing how to use the graph editor to control the velocity of keyframes within after effects. I go over using the easy ease function and how to manipulate the bezier curves using the graph editor. This is [...]

Wordpress Skinning

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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Something I enjoy doing and would like to be doing more of is creating custom Wordpress themes. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but I have managed to create a few themes so far for a few people. The theme you’re looking at now for the Go Mediazine was my very first theme [...]

Tag Archive | "Design Tip"

Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text

Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange

Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client

10 Tips to avoid designer’s block.

First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4

How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

122 Raster & Vector Wings

I Am Liz Hunt — Designers, Unite!

Adobe Bridge is iTunes for Designers

13 ways to trick your client into happiness

How to print giant designs onto shirts

The Dreaded Design Lull – 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump

2 New Fonts to Help you Win at Life

Velocity Control in After Effects

Wordpress Skinning

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