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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: 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

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: 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

Free For All: Because We Love You

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

Put Your Portfolio on the Web Without Touching Code

With free WordPress soft­ware and a pow­er­ful but easy to use port­fo­lio or photo-blog theme, even design­ers and pho­tog­ra­phers who aren’t Web experts can get a port­fo­lio online in less than an hour.read more

Free For All: 2,010 Photoshop Brushes

Get set for 2,010 free Photoshop brushes in nine cat­e­gories: Spray and Paint; Light Streaks and Effects; People; Abstract; Grunge; Space and Sky; Vintage; Doodles; and Paper. All of the brushes are ready for CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5.read more

Free For All: Everything's On the House!

In this install­ment of “Free for All,” you’ll find plug-ins, appli­ca­tions, and online ser­vices that will make you more indus­tri­ous. I’ve also thrown in 25 industrial-style fonts. And as always, they’re free.read more

Free For All: A Thousand Free Textures

You can use these free tex­tures for print and Web designs. The files are com­pat­i­ble with Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and more.read more

Free For All: No Payment Necessary

Discover an online ser­vice that lets you cre­ate smoke and flame images; browse thou­sands of fonts; import and export Photoshop work­spaces; and set up con­fer­ence calls for as many as 95 users that can last for up to 6 hours. And as always, it’s all free…

Free For All: Geeks and Goofs

This bipo­lar edi­tion of Free for All focuses on the highly tech­ni­cal and the highly whim­si­cal, from free fonts for the pin­na­cle of sci­en­tific, med­ical, and tech­ni­cal pub­lish­ing, to more than one hun­dred vec­tor and PNG car­toon thought and speech bubbles…

Free For All: For You, No Charge!

In this install­ment, you’ll enjoy free Photoshop actions, bokeh-licious back­grounds, right-angled fonts, and a time­line creator.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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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

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