Photoshop Color, Color, Color Madness

Photoshop Madness Color, Color everywhere in April, so here are some fun actions and reference sites for various photographic colorizations, including : Color by Alice In Underland * Cool Color action #106 * Special FX Enhanced Vol 4 * Saturn Rings * Marcia Cross Actions * Pirates vintage T-shirts * and more March 28, 2012

DTG News for March 2012

This is our 17th Annual DESIGNING WOMEN feature! Be sure to send in your favorite designing women from the graphic arts community!
01 Welcome to MARCH
02 17th Annual Designing Women
03 Photoshop (Designing Women) Madness
04 Stylin' with Nicole Alesi
05 Vanesa Merulla : whatever it takes
06 Pamela Wells : Publishing Art & Magic
07 Book of the Year: Saul Bass
08 StockLayouts
09 Photoshop Vintage Compass Icon
10 Photoshop Madness: Fail
11 Black History Month 2012
12 Can you use it?
13 Artexpo New York Hosts Superstars
14 Creative Tidbits: mid month
15 Publishing the e in eBooks
16 Web Design Update March
17 March message from the editor
March 1, 2012

Tintbooks Blog Makes CMYK Simple

Tintbooks has opened their new blog called "Simple CMYK Color" -- it's dedicated to assisting you with CMYK color solutions. Common to complex situations which affect color reproduction will be described on this blog. January 17, 2012

Festive printed designs

Whether you’re working on holiday greeting cards, invitations or holiday-inspired promotional pieces, there is a material that is sure to add a flare of holiday cheer: metallic paper. Andrea Alstad is back with another of her great articles on designing with paper November 25, 2011

DTG News for September, 2011

01 Welcome to September
02 17th Annual Fonts Surf
03 17th Annual Fonts Surf Two
04 Photoshop Madness Typography
05 Photoshop Madness Dimensional Type 2
06 Photoshop Madness Dimensional Type 3
07 Metal Type in the 21st Century
08 Design inspiration : Typography in space
09 Typography in space too
10 Michael Doret's Steinweiss Script
11 The World's Most Hated Fonts
12 Favorite APPs for Designers
13 Creative Tidbits: Typography
14 Marketing Updates for September
15 Alert: Before you buy a vehicle online
16 Site of the Month : Ben Fry
17 &Else : news, views, reviews and more
18 AS WE CONTINUE
19. On the Fonts Fest Trail ...
and more! September 1, 2011

Favorite APPs for Designers

Following our previous selections of apps for designers, now we'll take a look at these new ones on the dock... * Amazing photo-to-sketch software * Cutting up photos made easy * Doodle over photos, create amazing art * Video Editor for FREE * Oil Painting Effect * PicWall gives you a virtual wall * Video-Joiner app ... and more! August 18, 2011

DTG News for August, 2011

It's back to School time ... DESIGN SCHOOL that is! -- This month's topic is all about learning! And, as usual our readers have all joined in with some rather wonderful insights into the way they learn, favorite training resources, and keeping a sharply honed edge on graphic design and communication arts. August 1, 2011

Designing with Paper

Part of your 'Design School' training should include the use of paper as a design element for both its texture and color. You can begin with this article, another insightful piece from Andrea Alstad! Designing with paper can do a lot more than you might suspect! July 28, 2011

DTG News for July, 2011

Welcome to JULY [] Design Graduates of 2011 [] Photoshop Pen Tool Drawing Savvy [] Tutorial: Retouching skin in Photoshop [] Photoshop Madness: help those photos [] Feature: Allen Babbitt: Un-still Photography [] Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques [] Apps: Ancient Calligraphers on iPad [] Marketing Updates during June: [] Web Design Updates from June [] Media Updates from June: [] Will E-Books Become the Next Napster? [] High Performance Database Management [] AMAZING video about stolen Mac [] &Else - news, views, reviews, and else... [] Mailbag: Awesome video [] Mailbag: Letterpress is Like Violin Playing [] JULY: take photos, go places July 1, 2011

Real World Color Matching

The toughest challenge many graphic designers encounter is matching digital color to real world color. It's fine until it leaves the computer or digital output -- but if you have to plan, design, construct, or manufacture anything that will be painted, you're in trouble. This app may be a life saver! June 28, 2011