Photoshop: Prep & Color Scanned Drawings

Monday, 10.26.09 at 12:48 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments (10)

For years now, we have been using and teaching a slightly more powerful approach to digitally coloring scanned sketches/drawings/artwork (art) in Adobe Photoshop. The de-facto technique for coloring scanned art in Photoshop is to switch the document color mode to ‘RGB Color,’ set the blending mode of the layer containing your artwork to ‘Multiply’, and [...]

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The Chop Shop 144 Icons of Horror and Fantasy

Thursday, 10.22.09 at 6:28 pm
Written by Tom, Comments

Since All Hallow’s Eve is just around the corner we thought we would complete our Horror and Fantasy series of designs. 146 icons make up the trio of tshirt designs now available as a discounted set at chopshopstore.com.

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MPS Digital Photography: Thesis Exhibition

Tuesday, 10.20.09 at 9:42 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments

Ever wish you could master everything related to digital photography? There is a place for that. This week, the graduating class of the MPS Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts will be exhibiting their work in NYC. I am grateful for the opportunity to be involved in the program, and I am [...]

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51 Icons of The Undead Tshirt

Tuesday, 10.20.09 at 11:55 am
Written by Tom, Comments

We just put the final nail in the coffin of our Horror/Fantasy collection with our newest offering “undeadWe”; it packs in 51 zombies, ghosts, mummies, spirits and other boo-tiful members of the living dead. References range from television, film, video games, popular music, animation, literature, legend and another one from the breakfast table.

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Robot Stuff On Etsy: Part 6

Friday, 10.16.09 at 3:25 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments

One thing I love almost as much as robots and hand crafted stuff is wine. That’s why my inner lush was giddy with delight over this wonderful Robot Wine Rack that I found on Etsy.

The wine rack from paperdollwoodshop is made of wood (also a big Chopping Block passion) and painted to bright [...]

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Chop Shop: weBite

Friday, 10.09.09 at 12:02 pm
Written by Tom, Comments

The only thing that outlives vampires is our obsession with them. In 1922, the film Nosferatu introduced our fanged friends to film and almost 90 years later, vampires are sucking more than ever.
weBite is the second in our series of horror/fantasy designs, following weScare (a collection of 59 monsters). It features vampires from film, sitcoms, [...]

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Lent Space: You know, for art

Thursday, 10.08.09 at 1:24 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments

Every morning for several months, I get out of the Canal Street 1 stop and I walked past a fenced in area between Canal and Grand. I was curious about what was brewing behind those closed fences but I could never quite get a good look. Then a few weeks ago the fences [...]

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The Thing With The Flash CS5 to iPhone

Monday, 10.05.09 at 4:36 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments

We will not be posting about Adobe’s announcement that Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch, instead we are supporting CreativePro’s even more awesome post.
See how I did that.

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