Graphic Design
Photoshop Script to run action X Times
To create this artwork of the ink bleeding I worked on an action that I needed to create that look, I needed to run the action multiple times to have the correct look to it. That number would be hard to know for sure but would be a lot, ended up being 32. Till running...
Designing the “Freaked” Special Edition Booklet: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
I recently had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with Umbrella Entertainment on the design and layout of the companion booklet for their "Freaked" hardback Blu-Ray special edition. This cult classic from 1993 deserved a visual treatment as wonderfully bizarre as...
Converting a photo to Vector
Open photo in Photoshop: Crop down to the subject size such as 5 in @ 300DPI In the quick menu click Select Subject Use the lasso to clean up as needed (add or remove parts)...
Graphic Work on Bewitched Special
I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to work on a graphic design project for the classic TV show Bewitched. The first part of the project involved recreating the iconic Bewitched logo in Illustrator. To do this, I carefully removed all background elements from a...
Menu Graphic for Legend of Boggy Creek
For the new 4K disc release of the movie of ‘Legend of Boggy Creek’, I helped with getting the original artwork expanded to use for the menu screen. The original art takes most of the screen but leaves some space on the left and right. To expand the sides of the image...
InDesign Multiple Records per page
This continues the Data Merge in InDesign Post For this post we’ll look at something simple like a 2-up postcard on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper. With this we’ll bring in 2 records per sheet that will have the mailing address, the back of the card will be static...
Variable Data in InDesign
This is the basic instructions on how to do Variable Data Printing VDP setup in InDesign. If you’re looking to do a basic letter such as in Word I have the basic instructions here. Sometimes you’ll want something more designed than a letter or just prefer to work in...
Variable Data Processing in Word using Mail Merge
Creating a Variable Data Printing (VDP) in Microsoft Word, this is where you have an Excel file, or some other structured data source (CSV, TSV, any file that can be opened in Excel should work) with information of people you want to mail a letter, or labels to be...
GREP commands in InDesign
There will be times you’re laying out a file for a client, that will need several repetitive changes throughout the project. The file might be several charts of figures with perfectly spaced-out columns in the Word, but when you import the file, the formatting is all...
Recreate hand drawn font instructions
Sometimes there's the need for a client to create a font based on some poster, document where the words were hand drawn and they would like to use again for a retro look. These are mostly working notes the top will have the high-level steps then below will have how I...
My Town Commercial – Video Practice
Test file to practice in Photoshop and most After Effects; to bring motion to a photo. https://youtu.be/w1nDVUtuigc The aspect ratio is different than a normal video; changing it to the proper aspect ratio would have cut off some items at the bottom that I wanted to...