Recent Posts Tagged With 'graphic design'

• Tutorial: Dull Color fix with Duck GIrl

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 11:40 in graphic design, photoshop, tutorials

  Photoshop Tutorial: Dull Color Fix: Duck girlLevel: BeginnerDemo in Photoshop CS4Click on images to enlarge.This picture of my daughter was taken by a professional photographer - my cousin Brian Pedersen. We went to a local park in Las Vegas. It was ...

• New shiney stuff

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 23:38 in graphic design

  I was pleased to come home with two Bronze trophies from the AIGA Work Show X last weekend. One was for my VVBF signs and the other was for the Pearls of Honor Trailer Wrap.Bronze doesn't seem like a big deal until you understand just how difficult t...

• My VVBF signs just won a national award

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 19:04 in graphic design, aiga

  This is my good friend Richard Hooker from City of Las Vegas Cultural Affairs office standing next to one of my signs I did for last year's Vegas Valley Book Festival as part of the AIGA Las Vegas design team. He loved these so much that he's kept th...

• FLOOR IT!

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 00:04 in graphic design, etsy seller help

  My sister just sent out her email newsletter with the password to get into the page to order my Hot Rod Nail Polish collection. Within 20 minutes, she had multiple orders come in. She sent the newsletter out about an hour ago. Of her 1278 subscribers...

• Photoshop ON!

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 19:23 in graphic design

  Dana says he doesn't care for this picture from yesterday's photo shoot for Metal of Honor. He wants it to be all serious. I think it shows the "real" him now that I've spent a few minutes "tidying" it up in Photoshop. There was this perfectly clear ...

• My Branding work has been sited

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 23:06 in graphic design

  A while ago I did a new banner, avatar, sticker and business cards for my great friend Debbie from Santiam Designs. Guess what? Her shop on Artfire was just picked up for an article on Handmadenews that cites her unified, professional look as a GREAT...

• My trailer (and the bike it holds) meets a hero

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 00:36 in graphic design

  I shared my newest design project with you all a week or so ago, the trailer wrap I designed for Metal of Honor. The bike is finally finished and it (and it's striking trailer home) went on a little trip to meet a real live hero over Memorial Day. Ch...

• finished wrap

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 00:09 in graphic design

  wow! oh wow! oh wow!...

• It's a wrap!

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 21:24 in graphic design

  I just got these pictures today of the trailer wrap I created for Dana's Metal of Honor Tribute Harley trailer being installed by Mark's team over at Color Reflections. They still need to wrap the other side and the front. The trailer will spend a lo...

• Selecting very fine details in photoshop or the hair dilemma

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 19:30 in graphic design, tutorials

  This week I taught my Photoshop II students this technique to make complex selections from channels. It's explained in a number of resources, (Photoshop User, Deke McClelland) but I feel it is most clearly explained by Photoshop Diva Katrin Eismann....

• Tutorial: Digital Teeth Whitening, Photoshop curves

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 16:07 in graphic design, tutorials

  This fine fellow's name is David. He's going to show up in a chapter of the book I am working on called Pearls of Honor. From all accounts, David is a huge proponent for the Survivors of Pearl Harbor, working tirelessly to organize their appearances ...