Archive for October, 2007

Freeware Update: Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Released

If you haven’t been informed from your updater application yet, Adobe has made available a new version of Adobe Reader (8.1.1). Personally, being on a Mac, I prefer Preview because it seems a ton faster, but Adobe Reader is great for viewing, saving copies, and even adding security (passwords) to PDF documents. [Lots of] Designers [...]

Freelance Switch Calling Card Design Competition: $350 Worth of Vectors Up For Grabs

The folks over at Freelance Switch in conjunction with GoMedia are having a Calling Card Design Competition and the 2 best designs take home $350 of GoMedia Vector Packs. The deadline is November 17th, and make sure you read the rules carefully. The 2 winners will also be featured on Freelance Switch, so this is [...]

Font Update: Olho de Boi

New grunge-type time folks. Actually, you might even call this a grungy script font. Ohlo de Boi by Billy Argel is not only a decent looking grunge font, but has a lot of extra characters, unlike the majority of (free) grunge fonts.

Photoshop 101: The Annoying Phantom Brush

Have you ever had the creative juices flowing, your favorite music blaring, and selected your Photoshop brush, only to find that your cursor disappears and you can’t see the brush outline? Photoshoppers everywhere have endured this little annoyance for years. It’s really quite simple to avoid, but until you know why, it can be quite [...]

Blog Action Day 2007:

I got wind of the Inaugural Blog Action Day a little late, but I want to participate because it’s such a great cause. Blog Action Day is a cooperative effort by bloggers around the world to raise awareness on a given topic each year. This year the topic is (The Environment) climate change and global [...]