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Blue Goon

Published on February 11, 2010 in cartooning. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartooning, character, CS4, drawing, Illustration, Photoshop, sketch, software, Wacom.

Just quick post to show the “blue goon” drawing I did for tonight’s artcast.

Unfortunately I forgot to hit “Record” for the show, so it was a live event only. Next time!

The “blue goon” character was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos4 graphics tablet and some store-brand Sudafed to ease my cold & sinus symptoms.

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Cartoon Ogre Mascot Character

Published on June 24, 2009 in cartooning. 4 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, cartoon, CS4, illustrator, vector, Wacom.

Working color vector art for a mascot character project. The ogre will be used as a mascot for a video game portal website. We needed a prop and I suggested a video game controller, the client wanted to go with an old-school Atari 2600 controller, which I think looks great. it’s such an iconic design it really reads well, which is important for smaller sizes.

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Flattening Transparency Properly When Using Layer Appearances in Adobe Illustrator

Published on April 17, 2009 in tips. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, CS3, CS4, Illustration, illustrator, software, troubleshooting, vector.

For longer than I can remember, I have been flustered with the Flatten Transparency feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS4. Very often I use the excellent Layer Targeting feature introduced into recent versions of Adobe Illustrator, however I found that when using the Flatten Transparency feature, it seemed to ignore the attributes of the Targeting, which forced me to find lengthy workarounds to solve this. Turns out there was an approach to solving this that I had overlooked…

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6 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts For Illustrator Users

Published on January 16, 2009 in productivity, software and tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, illustrator, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, tip.

Here are a few handy keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop for those of you out there like me who spend an inordinate amount of time in the Creative Suite primarily using Illustrator. These are not keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Illustrator, but rather are keyboard shortcuts providing methods of doing things in Photoshop that you are used to doing in Illustrator that at first it might seem isn’t possible, like click directly on an object to select it, drag to a new layer, etc.

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Adobe Apps: Backup Your Prefs

Published on January 15, 2009 in software and tips. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, backup, Creative Suite, how-to, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, PC, productivity, tips, troubleshooting, tutorial, Windows, Windows XP, workflow.

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It’s happened to all of us digital creatives. The dreaded day when you just cannot get one of your Adobe applications to launch. Usually there’s a deadline looming (of course). You’ve restarted your computer (three times) and still you cannot get Photoshop to launch. You’ve tried a few tips from some Google searches, but still nothing. Your geek cred is showing it’s limitations. And your deadline isn’t getting any further away.

What if I told you this could be avoided, virtually forever? And also, that you can get back to work with all your settings just the way you like them?

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