Adobe recently announced Creative Cloud, addressing a concern that many designers myself included have been speaking up about for years. Creative Cloud will be a subscription based version of the traditional Adobe Creative Suite that you can pay for month to month. Effectively what his means is for $50/mo you get Adobe Master Collection and will always be using the latest version of the software.

Senior Level Designers are very much sought after, and they are greatly admired in the design community. It’s a coveted status that not all achieve. These master are capable of not only producing amazing work, usually for high profile clients, but are able to do an amazing volume of work in a short period of time.

Marketing and self promotion today is pretty straight forward. Think about what you do in your everyday life when its time to make an informed decision. Personally if I want to find the best deal on computer hardware, I do a Google Search. If I need a plumber or painter, I ask friends for recommendations and I still do a Google Search on the people they suggest.

I then go to their website and try to find information on their services, rates and what people are saying about them.

This is how most people qualify their buying decisions in the technology age. And hiring and investing in you “is a buying decision” and you need to think of it that way to market yourself effectively in 2012.

Yesterday on October 5, 2011 several things happened. The sun rose in the east, my sister turned 13 years old, and the world lost a great visionary. Steve Jobs was more than a man, he was a symbol of what creatives can accomplish. And now we must all move forward into future he helped change for the better.

Designers need to invest in the future of this market as well. The need for print designer’s continues to shrink with every new devices that is capable of enabling media and ad delivery. A huge shift to digital media buying has been taking place for the past 5 years and show’s no sign of slowing.

As long as they there is print media there is print advertising. I believe the market and value of print advertising however is shifting completely and that traditional way its been done.

In this video I talk about what Graphic Design is today, and how it has changed over the years

I’ve seen many different typography effects on the web, and one of my favorites is always when I see one from the movie TRON Legacy. Today I decided to share my own text effect and the assets for it, FREE!

New and old designers, photographers, and photoshopers of all flavors at some point come to ask “What kind of machine will run Photoshop the best?” To answer that question you have to understand what Photohsop needs from a computer. You can actually have a great Photoshop machine depending on your needs for as little as $400. Don’t believe me? Read on and be amazed!

Optimizing Photoshop (CS5 or otherwise) is something that many designers overlook. Just because you have a great computer to run Photoshop, doesn’t mean you’re taking full advantage of your setup and getting all the speed and power out of it you can. Today I’m going to talk about how you take your Photoshop experience to the next level.

With my art, I prefer to challenge myself to use as much of Photoshop as possible and not just stick to simple tools or even the ones I’m most comfortable with. I think this is important and something people take for granted. Photoshop is a $699-999 piece of software. I can’t justify only using $200 worth of it!

Fotolia may very well be one of the most diverse and high quality stock resources I’ve come across yet! As many of you know like many designers and artist I utilize stock photography for my images, from sites like Fotolia, iStock, and Deviantart. Today I will be reviewing my experience with Fotolia as a stock photo resource.

TweetRecently someone encouraged me to be more vocal about a personal decision I made toward the end of last year. My reasons for not being vocal about it up to this point and not using this blog to promote this stance, is that I truly do feel it is a “personal decision” that one has to make for themselves. However I feel that it would be fine for me to talk about why I decided to become a “Green Designer” what it means, and how it has effected my work.
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Adobe has done a Mid Release update in the form of CS5.5 but is it really worth it?

A great collection of photo manipulations from a variety of talented digital artist and designers.

No matter what level you’ve reached in your career or journey as a designer, there is always room for improvement! Today I’m going to cover a few ways you can improve your design skills and reach your next level.