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 ReadingTestflight – App Development Deployment the easy way
Here is something I have learned about making apps for Apple: Distributing to a bunch of beta testers (including oneself) is actually pretty difficult! You have to be a legitimate business, get your Apple Developer account, create and write the application, create an application ID, register devices to your account, create a provisioning profile, [...]
Continue ReadingWeb Generators
All design takes time and practice learning the metaphorical pallet and brush for the medium. In fine art, you have charcoal, pastels, paint, and canvas. With Photoshop you have the Brush Tool, Rubber Stamp, and your Canvas. In Web Design, you have images, CSS, HTML and a variety of other languages to play with on a browser canvas. While learning [...]
Continue Readingmyfav.es
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 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 [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Dropbox
When I first heard about Dropbox a few years ago, I didn’t understand the need. I guess I thought that it was an FTP server for people who didn’t have or know how to use an FTP server to share files. Like yousendit. Boy, was I wrong. Dropbox is a cloud system that is linked to a folder on every computer that it is installed on [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Evernote
This week’s pick is an oldie but a goodie. Evernote is a great application for taking simple notes (some, but not a ton of rich text editing), and storing those notes in a cloud location for a long period of time (as the name implies, forever!). The fantastic thing about Evernote is it’s search. Do you remember back in high school [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Wunderlist
I discovered this gem in the “Recently Added” section of the iPhone App store last December. I didn’t think much of it because my team and I were trying out Things, a very popular and very pretty todo manager. What we were (still are) looking for is an easy, pretty todo manager, but we wanted device syncing and sharing, all [...]
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