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Creating an Illustrative Monogram

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Creating a Monogram Monograms are an interesting way to go about making an identity. By nature they can be straight forward or extremely ornamental and illustrative. In this tutorial I’m going to walk you through the steps I (Chris Comella, designer at Go Media, hi!) took to making Go [...]

Learn to Create Collage Typography

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Ever been asked to come up with a type driven design but still wanted to use imagery? Creating text through collage can be an awesome solution. Here’s what you’re going to need to create a successful piece: 1. An open mind. I always find that being noncommittal toward the [...]

Advanced Digital Painting in Photoshop

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hello! My name is Hatice Bayramoglu and I am a 3D artist and illustrator from Turkey. In this tutorial I demonstrate how to draw and color a character design and illustration for a children’s book. I’m going to explain my choices and thought process throughout the tutorial. My tutorial [...]

Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Sometimes real life can be boring so artists extend their imaginations and designs to extreme limits through dream scenes, fictional world, or surrealistic images. Today we’ll be creating a cloudy dream scene using Photoshop’s different tools and techniques. Tutorial Details: Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: [...]

GMZ Reader Special: The Making of Andrew Jackson

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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GMZ Reader Special: The Making of Andrew Jackson

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey Go Media Zinesters, Jeff Finley here. If you didn’t know, I actually spent all of August working on new Arsenal and Zine stuff exclusively. To be specific, I was working on some really rad tutorials. One of which you folks read last week about how I created the [...]

Design a Sleek Website Interface in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Design a Sleek Website Interface in Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a sleek & clean portfolio/blog Website interface design inside Adobe Photoshop. As we go through, we will deal with selections, layer styles, some basic typography, and so on…We’ll also use 960 Grid System to keep our layout nicely well-aligned. [...]

Design Process: Creating the Cover Art for Parachute Journalists

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Design Process: Creating the Cover Art for Parachute Journalists

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m going to show you all how I went about designing the cover art for my band’s new single “24th of January.” Listen/Download for free here. If you aren’t aware, 2/3 of Parachute Journalists are members of Go Media: Jeff Finley (me on drums), and Adam Wagner who’s voice [...]

Iconic Poster Design Tutorial (with video)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Iconic Poster Design Tutorial (with video)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey I’m Jeff Finley and I’m going to show you how to make an iconic poster using the new Vector Set 18 from Go Media’s Arsenal. I sent out an email to all our Arsenal customers and the two things they wanted most were more tutorials and to show [...]

Create a Glossy RSS Feed Icon using Photoshop

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy TV style RSS feed icon using the basic Photoshop functions like, Layer Styles, Layer Masks and Filters. Take a look at the image we will be creating in this tutorial. Step 1 Create a new document with 500px [...]