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 [...]
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Simply put, Myfav.es is a really cool bookmark-page maker. However, that doesn’t give this the justice that it deserves! I mean, look at the interface above! Clean. Simple. Elegant. And, completely customizable. You can have as many bookmarks (faves) as you want, and link them to whatever you want. I found that the cleaner, the better. [...]
Continue ReadingFree Illustrator T-Shirt Template
After scouring the inter-webs to no avail for a good T-Shirt template, I decided to make one. All of the ones that I found before were too difficult to overlay layers quickly onto (for showing clients), were completely raster, or the looked to unrealistic and the entire vision could be lost to a client with a bad sense of future-think. After [...]
Continue ReadingGurus of Tech
The church tech world can be frustrating sometimes*. I think one of the main reasons for this is loneliness. It’s often said in church that “we were made for community” or we weren’t made to “go it alone”, and I think that speaks to the techie at heart as well. Most of the time there are only one or two [...]
Continue ReadingTop Eight Alfred Extensions
I bought Alfred’s Powerpack the other day, and so far it’s pretty awesome! For those of you who don’t know, Alfred is a free application-launcher, file-searching beast, that is mostly keystroke driven (like Quicksilver, but still supported). The Powerpack allows you to write your own scripts (Shell, Applescript, Automator, [...]
Continue ReadingCamera Cheat Card, plus free Illustrator file
We do things just a little different at Southeast Student ministry, namely in that almost all of our production is handled by the students. Junior Highers and High Schoolers They run the graphics. They run the lyrics. They run cameras, lights, the switcher, direct and even produce. All of this means that part of my team’s job is to train [...]
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