Gimp Tutorial Review
If you haven’t already figured it out, I love Gimp! When I first found out about the application and downloaded it I kept thinking, “all this for free?” And when I say ALL THIS , I mean there’s a lot to this Open Source image editor. In fact the only thing I think Gimp lacks is Read more
From Wordpress blog to Website in 6 Easy Steps
Hello everyone. I know it’s been a while since I posted last. What can I say, life is demanding. One of the things that took up so much of my time was a website build. The site itself was pretty simple and straight forward, it was the prep work that took time.
I wrote these instructions because I was looking for a easy way to put together a website. I’m comfortable with using Wordress as a blog and I like how streamlined and well it works with search engines. So I thought it would be cool to build a website with Wordpress. Some may ask, why not just use Dreamweaver or one of those easy drag and drop site building Read more
Graphic Artist Don’ts
You don’t have to have lived long before you start to learn some of life’s lessons on what not to do. The same goes for being a graphic artist. I remember my first screw up as a production artist at my first real gig. I was asked to cut and paste some high resolution proofs for presentation to the company’s executive board. I cut right up to the keyline boarders of the image instead of leaving some distinguishing white space. It wasn’t a disastrous mistake, and the Board probably never even noticed our quick fix. But needless to say, Read more
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ENOUGH SAID. 
Buying A Mac - Is less more?
Well I finally did it. I bought my next Mac. I’ve owned 2 in my 15+ years as a graphic designer, and this will be my 3rd. You may be wondering how I could survive as a graphic artist for so long on just 2 macs. For one thing, many of the jobs I’ve had in the past came with their own Macs. Also I’m no stranger to working on a PC. You see, I’m not one of those, “Macintosh are the only computers for creative Read more
