Adobe Creative Cloud is only 29.99 a month with a year contract for a limited time! Normally it is 49.99 so this is a pretty amazing deal. Major benefits include always having the latest versions and features, updates, and 20GB of online storage. The offer expires April 19th, so it’s only a few days away. …

After Effects has many shortcut keys to speed up workflow, just knowing a few can cut the amount of time you spend clicking around and more time focused on animating. The one listed below doesn’t even begin to cover all the shortcuts available, but they are the ones I use most frequently. Surprisingly, the one …

5 years ago I had used Photoshop very little, mostly for websites and random illustrations.  Now 5 years later, I practically live in Photoshop & After Effects. With tight deadlines and multiple projects, it’s crucial for me to be as fast as I can be.  One thing that I’ve found that’s sped me up greatly …

I’d never thought I’d say this, but one important feature to have on your next laptop is the number pad. It’s absolutely crucial to motion graphic designers, since some of the most time saving After Effects shortcuts are mapped to it. The number pad 0 button does a quick ram preview, and I also often …

My desktop computer is dying, and I am not as sad as I could be.  I haven’t used it regularly in over a year, instead using it mainly as my render machine.  As a Quad-Core Xeon, it’s no slouch and easily beats out my Core i5 Dell Studio laptop.  Still, I like designing on my …

One feature of Photoshop I wish I had known about when I was just beginning to create for web is Save for Web & Devices.  It’s under the Photoshop menu item, then just under Save As.  Also the shortcut keys Shift+Command+Option+S (Mac) or Shift+Control+Option+ S (PC) will bring up the Save for Web & Devices …

When you’re designing a website, it’s important to check your website on as many platforms as possible.  Now with smartphones and tablets flooding the market, it’s becoming important to make sure your website works well on them too.  Safari makes this easy for those who don’t have a iPhone or iPad at hand, or if …

If you are hosted on Media Temple’s Grid-Service running a WordPress website, you might run into a error message when you try to update to WordPress 3.2. That’s because WordPress 3.2 requires both PHP and MySQL to be version 5. If you haven’t, you can easily switch PHP to version 5 by logging into your …