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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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