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The Lost and Taken Poster: A case study and texturing tutorial

Monday, December 19, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Before We Get Started Hello dear readers! Simon and Jon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Today, we have the chance to write a tutorial about one of the Studio’s recent projects, the poster we did for Lost and Taken. What’s great about this particular project is that it [...]

Freebie: Hi-Res Grunge Textures

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Who doesn’t like free textures? Some nice grunge textures for you, our loyal readers. Click on any of the preview images below for a nice, juicy hi-res version for your designs. Go!

Scriptographer

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Scriptographer is a pretty amazing plugin available for Adobe Illustrator. It basically frees the user (at least those familiar with JavaScript) from relying on a third-party developer to create the plugin or script that you have in mind, by allowing you to create it yourself. I’m going to start [...]

Ai to Canvas HTML5 Plug-in

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hot on the heels of the Adobe HTML5 Pack, here’s a handy new Adobe Illustrator plug-in from Microsoft’s MIX Online web developer resource site that will export vector and bitmap artwork directly to an HTML5 canvas element that can be rendered in a canvas-enabled browser. The Ai->Canvas plug-in enables Adobe Illustrator [...]

Roundup: Mac Utilities for Designers

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A quick round up of some interesting new and updated Mac utilities of interest to creative types. Photoshop Automator Actions 5.0 (free/$19.95) A package of Actions that lets you control many of Photoshop’s most common functions from within Mac OS X’s Automator, letting you add Photoshop functionality to your [...]

Layer Lifter for InDesign

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Layer Lifter is a simple, free Adobe InDesign plug-in from Rorohiko that offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers. Using it couldn’t simpler: first select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context [...]

Giveaway: Ten Ton Photoshop DVD

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Are ya up for some Photoshop? How ’bout Ten Tons of Photoshop? And how would you like it for free? Then check this out: This week on GoMedia, we’re running a give-away for Geoff Blake’s Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials DVD! Ten ton Photoshop includes comprehensive exercises on resizing and [...]

Adobe Font Finder

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Fonts. What designer doesn’t have too many? And we are always on the hunt for more. The internet is a goldmine for fonts, but it’s not always easy to find just the font you’re looking for. It’s always good to have another font tool in your arsenal, and with [...]

Win “Go Media” Posters and Platinum Imagekind Account

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Win “Go Media” Posters and Platinum Imagekind Account

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The kind folks at Imagekind are letting us give away 2 free prints of Go Media artwork. All you need to do to enter the contest is browse our Imagekind store and link us to the print you want and tell us why in the comments. That’s it. We’ll [...]