I am currently working on a project and needed a graphic of Chicago’s flag. I would like to share this with anyone who can use it to create works about Chicago. Below are large jpegs of a graphic Chicago flag and a fabric textured Chicago flag.
When it comes to using Photoshop the weakest link in your computer setup is your hard drive unless you are using a higher transfer speed solid state drive (SSD) such as a Corsair Neutron or Crucial M4 series drives. These drives are 600%+ faster at reading and writing data than your standard disk based hard drive…
It is always such a treat to see the new edition of the photography Workbook and when I saw Linda Levy at an APA event last week she shared the new book with me. It is amazing to see the amount of beautiful work shown in the book and to see work from many photographers…
With over 100 billion searches on Google per month and over 900 million unique users, getting ranked on Google’s first page for keywords that are relevant to the right people finding your website is important for your business even as a creative. This isn’t the simplest task to get done but it is also obtainable,…
In the six years I have been a self employed / freelance creative I have came across independent contractor agreements that contain wording that you just don’t want to sign, it happens to everyone. The freedom limiting agreements are usually buried in the middle of 4-8 pages. In the creative field we often run across wording pertaining to…
I worked on the retouching and compositing for this film noir-esk image for Taylor Castle, printed in this month’s Chiacgo Magazine. I created this image from a photo of the super cute bunny on seamless and shadow of a cardboard cutout on a white seamless. The room was created in Photoshop along with adding the…
Utah has some of the most beautiful natural landscapes that exist. For that reason it’s always exciting to have the opportunity to work on projects for Utah’s Tourism department creating some unique imagery. In January, I was contact by Philip from Struck and he asked me to work on creating this really awesome composite image…
I was recently needing to work on a word document with another person today in real-time. I’ve done this in the past over gChat or emailing however this is cumbersome and inefficient if you want to work together in real-time. A quick search on Google lead me to lots of information on how last year…
I retouched a portfolio image for New York City photographer, Peter Hurley about a year ago. Peter has this incredible knack for capturing the raw emotion and expression from a person. One of my favorite images we collaborated on was chosen by Rangefinder Magazine, for the cover of their February 2013 issue. Despite the fact…
Even though I’m may not be a designer and don’t have formal training in typography I greatly dislike bad fonts. The Eames lounge chair is perhaps one of the most beautiful pieces of furniture made. With that in mind put something ugly or sub par beside of it and it just looks worse than it…