Free Cartoon Icon – Meet Chubbs

April 13th, 2010 Orkron Be the first!

Say hello to Chubbs!

Chubbs can be a lovable little boy, an officer of the law, a 1970’s prom date, or a ghetto-fabulous teenager! All Chubbs’ costumes are available in transparent PNG files at 512 x 512

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Create multiple Polaroid collage from one image using Adobe Photoshop [Skill level: Intermediate]

April 6th, 2010 Orkron 1 comment

I recently searched for a Polaroid Image template to use for a project and found a tutorial for creating a collage of Polaroid images from one stock image. This gave me an idea on how to integrate their idea within my design.

I quickly lost interest in the tutorial as it was overly complicated and spread across 5 pages with little visual aid. Having lost interest in their way of creating this effect, but still wanting to do the effect myself, I set about figuring out the fastest way of achieving the same result.

Below is the final result of my tutorial; click through after the jump to learn the process and download the final PSD file if you prefer that way.
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Reducing Scope Creep for Freelancers

April 1st, 2010 Orkron Be the first!

peopleFreelance Folder has a great article for Freelancers on how to minimize or even eliminate Scope Creep (work not agreed upon in an original agreement) from their clients.

This article by Laura Spencer offers some great insights, be sure to read the comments after the article for more suggestions and dialog!

The article lists The Five Steps to Controlling Scope:

1. Know how much time you are spending on your project–Far too many freelancers don’t keep good records of how they use their time. You won’t notice scope creep if you don’t really know how much time you are spending on a project…. READ MORE ->

Illustrator CS4 Q&A Round One

March 20th, 2010 Orkron Be the first!

I have noticed that my post a while ago about how frustrating CS4 can be has been one of my most popular articles to date. I took this as you folks have some questions about CS4 and Illustrator in general.

mmRecently, with the help of Media Militia, I put out a call for your questions to be answered here. I’d like to personally thank everyone who sent in an email with questions. If you have a question that you’d like me to answer then send me a note; I’m happy to add you to the list for Round Two in the future

Illustrator CS4 Questions/Answers Round One

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20 free iPhone / iPod Touch wallpapers

February 17th, 2010 Orkron Be the first!

I have put together 20 beautiful, unique iPhone wallpapers for you to download for free.

These were created using resources and tutorials from MediaMilitia.com – They have amazing Freebies and great tutorials you just HAVE to check out.

These wallpapers all measure 320px wide by 480px tall

Download 20 free iphone wallpapers (199) (1 MB Zip)

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[Article Edit 3/17/10]:
My apologies to those of you browsing to my site on your iPhone / iPod Touch – Since you cannot get these wallpapers in the ZIP file, I’ve included the loose JPG’s just for you!

[When using your iPhone] Click the link and then press and hold the small (looking) image and choose Save Image – it will be the right size after you save it.

download-to-iphone Click thumbnail for screenshot example

iPhone wallpaper 01 (98)
iPhone wallpaper 02 (65)
iPhone wallpaper 03 (72)
iPhone wallpaper 04 (69)
iPhone wallpaper 05 (78)
iPhone wallpaper 06 (65)
iPhone wallpaper 07 (59)
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iPhone wallpaper 12 (58)
iPhone wallpaper 13 (65)
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iPhone wallpaper 17 (65)
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iPhone wallpaper 19 (50)
iPhone wallpaper 20 (56)

Generative Art, explained by MediaMilitia

December 9th, 2009 Orkron Be the first!