Giveaway: Paint Party
What you’re looking at is 14 high resolution scans of paint drippings, splatters, sprinkles, and smears. My wife and I created these in our kitchen a few years ago, and I’ve got to be honest, I’ve used these a ton in my artwork to breath just a little more life and color. Just drop them on top of your artwork in Photoshop [...]
Continue ReadingWallpaper Photoshop actions
Lately I have been making a few desktop and mobile wallpapers to promote a few things and have realized just how tedious of a task this is. The first time it took me almost an entire day to just modify the same file to work within the different sizes and export the different sizes. Finally, I decided to make my first pass at automating the [...]
Continue ReadingSoup by Jon Gordon
Whether you are producing a church service, or creating a product, or providing a service for others, what you put into your product is more than time and money. We, especially in America, have gotten used to the idea that if an idea is failing we need to lob more people or money at it in order for it to succeed. And when that doesn’t [...]
Continue ReadingDefining guides in your own presets in Photoshop
Everyone who has used Photoshop in the last decade is familiar with the new document dialog box. Here you define the size, resolution, pixel aspect ratio, and color profile of the soon to be masterpiece that you are going to make. Adobe as even done a fairly decent job of compiling a list of presets for you to use for print, web, and video. [...]
Continue ReadingRead It Later is now Pocket
Last week I published my thoughts on the web app called Read It Later, which you can read now, here. The day before the article was scheduled to hit the inter webs, the guys at Read It Later pushed their big announcement: Read It Later is now called Pocket. As someone who knows a little about rebranding and renaming, I think that this was [...]
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