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Major companies make their software free for everyone

  In March, both Google and Dwango announced they would free software collections by the end of the month. These industry giants decided to make their software free…

Adobe Offsetting: November 2015

Yesterday was a national holiday for the US and today is our biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday. If you’re planning to spend…

Getting to know Timothée Giet: Krita instructor extraodinaire

Earlier this week, I purchased the Secrets of Krita, a new series of training videos available on the Krita site. Buying the DVD is a great way…

Adobe Offsetting: October 2015

Over the past two years, Krita has become a force to be reckoned with in the digital painting arena. Their ambitious developers have launched two successful…

Affinity Photo FREE ten-day trial

On the heels of the much anticipated release of Affinity Photo this summer, Affinity announced in late August that they’re now offering a free ten-day…

Serif’s Affinity Designer and Photo taking the design world by storm

Affinity Designer is a drawing program for the Mac that has gotten a lot of buzz, earning lots of high praise in just its first…

Photo finish with Cade Martin

I thought that I’d share some of the before and after shots from the photo shoot that I was just on. Cade Martin was the…

Google Nik Collection makes me salivate

A couple of weeks ago I discovered a set of plug-ins that it seems everyone knew about but me. I was overseeing a photo shoot…

Masking with Gimp

So I decided to record my first attempt at creating a masked composite in Gimp. I still have a lot to learn, but I was…

Sometimes photoshop IS a verb

Recently I was given the task of creating a conceptual representation of microglia. Microglia are like little obsessive cleaners and guardians in your brain. They…

Never Boring with Bohr

Recently, I’ve been busy doing illustration work for my day job at Science News and for friends and their pet projects. All-in-all it’s been a…