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In addition to training and consulting, seminar tours and Webinars, I am a prolific author in the creative and production professional spaces. I’ve authored or co-authored quite a few books and written somewhere north of 250 tutorials and articles published in many of the most respected industry magazines and Websites. Below are some of my recent articles

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Free For All: Because We Love You

Fonts, email newslet­ter tem­plates, InDesign scripts, and more are all yours free for the taking.read more

Free For All: Adobe Illustrator Grab Bag

Attention, vec­tor vir­tu­osos! This month’s Free for All is a grab bag of cool Adobe Illustrator free­bies. There are scripts galore, tem­plates, brushes, a brush cheat sheet, appli­ca­tion icons, and a whole lot more!read more

Apps for the Mobile Creative: Part 1

iPads and Androids and BlackBerrys, oh my! Discover some of the best apps for cre­ative pros on the go. In this install­ment, I’ll cover apps for sketching/designing, busi­ness man­age­ment, and inspiration.read more

Free For All: Freebies from Us to You

Unwrap these free tem­plates, tex­tures, tileable pat­terns, and fonts. read more

Free For All: 623 Photoshop Brushes to Distress Images

Add tex­ture, depth, age, and real­ism to your images with these grunge Photoshop brushes. All are free for per­sonal and com­mer­cial use.read more

Free For All: Fonts, Photos, and a Forgetfulness Cure

Read on and you’ll find links to down­load free fonts, metal tex­tures, Lightroom pre­sets, a pass­word keeper, and an invoic­ing tool.read more

Branding Yourself on the New Twitter

Recent changes to the Twitter inter­face might make your old Twitter back­ground image brand­ing impos­si­ble to view. Use these free Photoshop and Illustrator tem­plates to build your new back­ground specif­i­cally for the new Twitter. read more

Free For All: The Halloween 2010 Edition

Get ready to be fright­ened by this col­lec­tion of free Halloween-themed pho­tos, fonts, sounds, and more. read more

Free For All: Old Type, New Tablets, Web Icons, & Grunge Textures

There’s amaz­ing breadth and depth to the free­bies in this install­ment. Print design­ers, Web design­ers, and artists will all find resources so good, you’d pay for them!read more

Free For All: Clear Communication

This install­ment focuses on free forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, from words that don’t mean any­thing to sym­bols that mean every­thing. read more

Free For All: Old, New, and Right Now

This install­ment of free resources includes stock pho­tos, a paint­ing appli­ca­tion, Pantone libraries, an InDesign CS5 helper, and a color calculator.read more

Free For All: High Quality, No Cost

In this install­ment, you’ll find a geo­graphic sym­bol font; tilable tex­tures and pat­terns; Illustrator resources; a branded file-transfer ser­vice; and online tilt-shift effects.read more

Free For All: Resources for Creative Pros

This install­ment includes free­bies that address your busi­ness side and your cre­ative side, whether you work in print or on the Web.read more

Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along

Death, taxes, and import­ing Word files into InDesign: They’re all inevitable. I can’t help with the first two, but here’s how to make the best of the third.read more

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

The amaz­ing Internet once again yields a crop of free­bies so good that you’d pay for them–but you don’t have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock pho­tos, water­mark images, track your to-do’s, and anno­tate Web pages.read…

Free For All: The American Southwest

This month, all the free resources are inspired by the Southwest. You can choose from 120 stock pho­tos and tex­tures; 124 color palettes and pat­terns; 55 Photoshop actions, and 81 Photoshop brushes.read more

Free For All: The American Northwest

This month, every­thing is inspired by the Pacific Northwest. I’ve found 120 free stock pho­tos and tex­tures; 63 free color palettes; 20 free pat­terns; 25 free Photoshop actions; and 41 free Photoshop brushes.read more

Free For All: Spring into Photoshop Freebies

This install­ment of your favorite free­bies fea­ture is all about Photoshop. I’ll point you toward resources that opti­mize the app and add a grid tool. Then I’ll give you a huge assort­ment of tex­tures and some use­ful image-editing actions.read more

Free For All: Typefaces, Textures, Web Typography, & a Proposal Template

This install­ment of the col­umn includes help craft­ing a logo design pro­posal, free fonts and photo tex­tures, and many tips and tricks for using type on the Web.read more

Apps for the Mobile Creative: Part 2

Creatives on the go need to stay cre­ative. You can do that with apps that let you view and cre­ate color palettes; design­ing and iden­ti­fy­ing fonts; plan and con­trol photo shoots; and keep mobile devices safe and secure.read more

Twitter Activity Digest 2011-08-05–2011-08-11

My Twitter activ­ity for 2011-08-05 through 2011-08-11

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

The amaz­ing Internet once again yields a crop of free­bies so good that you’d pay for them–but you don’t have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock pho­tos, water­mark images, track your to-do’s, and anno­tate Web pages.read…

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