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Silverpeak | Graphic Artist's Resource
http://www.silverpeak.ca/spblog/
David is mixing his Art and Photo blog with a Graphic Artists Resource featuring tips, tutorials and hard-won lessons from over 20 years in the business.
Recent Posts
Blue Boxes, PNGs, and Windows IE 6
The Problem Transparent PNGs appear with Blue Boxes where the transparency should be in Windows IE 6 and earlier. WHY? Simply put, the support for transparent PNG images was not implemented in Windows IE until version 7. The transparent areas of a 24...
figure drawing resource
This is an amazing web resource that offers photosets of figures, (male / female / nude / clothed / with props) all free as a resource for artists and illustrators. http://www.characterdesigns.com Why? well according to their website About Character...
precious memories in a digital age
I just saw one of the most moving films I’ve seen in years , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It spans over 80 years of this man’s unusual life and it showed us that in the end, all the people we touched, spent time with, loved and lo...
communication design part 2
As a follow up to my article on Communication Design, which related to my discovery of the term, I Googled it to see what its current status was in the industry and who was using it. The top result is a definition: From: Wikipedia Communication desig...
Spidey Meets the President!
Today the Globe and Mail ran a story stating that a special edition of a Spider-Man comic will feature a six-page story about the Spidey intervening when an imposter tries to take Obama’s place as president. It hits newsstands next Wednesday. T...
tutorial: how to ship files
A very common but very costly mistake in a project’s lifeline occurs the moment the project leaves your hands and ends up in another’s… namely a service provider like a printer or film house. The cause of most of these problems is p...

