As I’m sitting here putting together a presentation for the Creative Arts Forum at Michigan State University, I’m reminded of what keeps me and the Tridea team going. And that’s passion. I can’t imagine trying to be creative and lacking passion. Is that even possible?
Anyhow, I just felt compelled voice my thoughts on that. And [...]

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Being in a creative industry has tons of advantages, even when you’re planning things that aren’t work related. In my case, I’ve recently gotten engaged and because of the fact that weddings can be a creative endeavor (invites, table settings, photography, etc.) I’m confident that some of the planning can take place right at my [...]

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I had a request for an explanation of exactly how masks work, and some useful techniques that come in handy a lot. I wrote before of some easy ways to mask solid color backgrounds, but I wanted to add some simple, but highly effective techniques too.
The basic premise of a mask is to eliminate portions [...]

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Photocompositions are one of the primary uses of photoshop: to integrate seamlessly several images to produce a new reality represented in the resulting image. Look through your Sunday advertisements, I guarantee you will find dozens of instances of this; this morning I found the Hulk sitting on a couch to watch his namesake film with [...]

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One commonly-cited (and totally false) weakness of Photoshop is that it has no effective text layout capacities.
If you need a dynamic way to wrap or curve a line or whole blocks of text, Photoshop is perfectly capable of catering to your every need. A seemingly uncommon demand for a raster-based image application, I can’t tell [...]

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