Matt Smartt

Photoshop Black Belt

Over the past 2 weeks or so, I’ve jumped into teaching myself advanced Photoshop. There are a few areas in digital art that personally I want to develop more this year. Advanced Photoshop techniques  is one of them. I hooked up with Photoshop Top Secret, the coolest video workshops I’ve encountered! There is 4 DVDs, [...]

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10 Defining Logo Design Trends in 2008

I read this article on logoorange this afternoon, I found it interested and thought it was worth sharing with you guys! To sum up, ‘organic’ and ‘wave-swirls’ are ‘in’, and I don’t care what people say, web 2.0 is definatly out! I’m tired of seeing the same lame shines and glossy logos appearing everywhere! I [...]

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Firefox 3 is the bomb!

Saw this on Digg this morning: The goal was for a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded software in a 24-hour period. All FireFox needed was 5 million copies downloaded. Not only did they meet that goal, they exceeded it by over 1 million downloads! I have to say that the guys over @ Mozilla have done [...]

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Thinnovating

So rumors are true, Apple are releasing the Macbook Air, the thinnest notebook computer ever! Think of it as the Macbook’s baby brother (or sister). The design is sleek and silver. Not sure I’d buy it, but I’m sure it’s going to revolutionize the way portable computing is done!

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2008

Well it’s a brand spanking new year, and to go with it I’ve started my second semester of Digital Media Arts! After my first week of classes, I’m really looking forward to the next few months. I know I’m going to learn tons and hopefully have the skills to pay the bills! Over this semester, I’m intensely [...]

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