With in the Print Design and Production Art field as well as among those working as InHouse Designers there has been a debate for years as to which layout program was better, Adobe InDesign or Quark/Quark Express. Having used both pieces of software before I decided to break down the argument into 4 parts: Tools and Capabilities, Ease of Use, Cost and Workflow.

TweetI designed this poster in a very short period of time using Adobe Photoshop. It had been a while since I had a reason to do much with the new 3D typography tools in Photoshop and I wanted to do some images that would allow me to experiment. This just happens to be one of many pieces of typographic artwork that I have in mind to produce over the next few weeks and share with the design community. I have several other ideas that also use 3D typography and a …

Many professionals and design professors frown on the use of Free Fonts, I am not one of them. Fonts are merely a tool, and while in some cases the quality of the tool is proportionate to its cost, its not a rule that is set in stone.

Ultimately I wanted to create an image that I could tie to the emotion I felt looking at the original photograph. It conveyed to me a sense of being under strain or stress, of being worn down. I wanted to contrast those feelings rather than take the easy route of a stark, harsh depressing or dark image.

In this Photoshop CS6 Tutorial I will show you how to Change Hair Color in Photoshop using Non Destructive Editing. The tools we’ll be using are Quick Mask Selection (Using a Wacom Tablet), Layer Masking and Adjustment Layers as well as Layer Blend Modes.

Even the most experienced handcoder will have a problem turning around a well designed website that is consistent in most browsers, looks aesthetically perfect and uses all the fonts and branding conventions of the existing advertisement, and turn it around in only a day, or less than a few hours. Much less convert a PSD to and HTML equivalent in that time frame. Adobe Muse was meant to solve this problem and furthermore allow nearly everyone to take the web into their hands and build a presence there, not just the “handcoding elite”.

The Nikon D40 is arguably one of the best DSLR camera’s Nikon has ever made. It’s light weight and compact size make it convenient for anyone to use and easily adapt for a dual battery kit or other accessories that usually add more weight to the camera.

In this video I will show you How To Make Better Youtube Videos using affordable equipment. I will cover Camera’s, Lighting, and Audio Equipment.

I recently just purchased a Nikon D3200 DSLR. This camera has a great live view display, stereo audio, full HD video (1080P) and shoots 24 Mega Pixel images. If you’re looking for a great and affordable entry level DSLR or just a really easy to use light weight camera for professional shooting, this is definitely an option you should consider.

The Google Nexus 10 is here, and just in time since I was going to finally buy the Nexus7. This device seems like the mostly likely candidate to challenge Apple, just as it made a 7inch Tablet of its own to compete with the price umbrella and success of the Nexus7 and Kindle Fire HD.

Photoshop is the primary tool in Graphic Design and Advertising for a reason. It has amazing features that allow you to produce fantastic images and composites. One the main techniques necessary to do the high end design work featured in advertisements, movie posters and book covers, requires you to remove images from their background and combine them seamlessly with other images and backgrounds.

Like most of the rest of the twitterverse I got a chuckle out of the “Horses and Bayonets” meme from the Presidential debates. However, even though it hadn’t been long the design community and print on demand sites were flooded with less than stellar images for something so “epic”. I took it upon myself to try and develop the “logo design that Horses and Bayonets deserves”.

Having won the epic court battle some have referred to as iCourt, Apple has requested a ban on the sale of these 8 phones that it claims infringed on its patents and trade dress

The true heroes of the design world, of Ad Agencies and In House Art Departments are Production Artist. These graphic designers use their skills to correct the mistakes and polish the work of other graphic designers, as well as take their layout, art and concepts and translate them across different media and generate new sizes and formats while keeping things consistent and maintaining their quality.

If the cult of Mac believes Flash is Dead, that’s all well and good they aren’t truly important (no offense). In the grand scheme of things the people who matter haven’t accepted Steve Jobs memo as absolute, the Entertainment and Film Industry. Nearly every major motion picture company including Sony and Universal still use Flash on their websites. They still use them on the websites of the movies they produce, and build flash games and content for their entertainment properties.