In a little over 2 weeks (October 16th & 17th) some of the brightest minds in the social media world will be converging on New York City for the first ever SMX Social Media conference which is being put on by Danny Sullivan and co-chaired by Neil Patel. I am speaking on the first day…
Transforming Text: Photoshop Tutorial
Some things are easier to do than others when manipulating type. Here is a quick tutorial on how to transform and distort your type in an easily scalable way with a vector mask. This works on the same premise as distorting or transforming a basic shape. When you convert a text layer to a shape…
In Today's Internet Landscape, Age is Really Just a Number
Every time that I see one of my younger cousins or nieces/nephews I implore them and their parents to get them involved with the Internet right away. Forget having to work at a supermarket for their after school job (nothing against this – I did) but they can be working right from their house, earning…
Hitting a Search Pothole
Sometimes I wish I was a movie star simply because I would have more occassions to wear gowns. I don’t even watch that many movies. But if I did have a chance to wear one gown this year it would have been this one from Oscar De La Renta. I loved it when I saw…
Simple Hollow Type Effect: Photoshop Tutorial
More text style tips! Text styles are a great way to get away from the same solid color on a background and add some subtle ‘pizazz’ to the type. For this tutorial we will need a photograph or an illustration to go behind the text that we will be applying the style to. Step 1.…
Highlighted Chrome Style for Text: Photoshop Tutorial
Text styles are always a great way to get away from the same solid color on a background and add some flair to the type. Text style is used to further express the mode of a piece. Chrome could be considered mechanical or cool. This technique can be applied to text, an object or shape…