Latest tip from the Art Life Collective forum

Actually, it's not so new, but something I just found digging through the posts on the Art Life Collective, forum from one of our custom T-shirt gurus.

Just about every graphic artist out there, myself included, heavily relies on some form of raster based software for post production. Photoshop has always been my weapon of choice -- not detracting from some of the other programs, I'm sure they work fine, it's just what I learned on.

While PS is a great program by its self, the great thing -- one of several -- about it is that it so readily accepts plugins, scripts and other customizations.

dr1sean2 posted this link on the Art Life Collective forum. Definately worth checking out:

"When you get sick of photoshops awesome leaf brush and other natural selections, check out www.imageafter.com for all kinds of great textures, brushes, and other types of photos."

Of course, I still draw alot of my stuff on paper, especially since, outside the digital realm, my real strength is pen and ink. However, I have found that, often by scanning my stuff into Photoshop, I have a whole new list of creative options available. Sometimes the work lives just as I drew it, but in digitized format to both preserve it and so I can move it around on the Internet. Though, again, with a few filters and tweaking in the Adjust Image menu, I get something much more to my liking.

If you follow some of my previous posts, you know my feelings about the arguments over whether digital work is actually art when compared to paper or canvas -- physical -- creations. I still don't like that the argument is even going on, but think it's especially silly and inane since I work in both and don't see either as mutually exclusive.