Halloween Dissection, by Chris Harkins.

Halloween is one of the most fun holidays we have in the year. For artists, it gives us an opportunity to explore creative avenues not often traveled.  So when brainstorming for this year's Halloween greeting, it only seemed appropriate to feature zombies.  Zombies are in! Read more

You may or may not know that Photoshop has a newer more dynamic way to deal with layer contents and filters than the old process of try, undo, and try again.  Smart Layers and Smart Filters are meant to give you a non-destructive way to tweak filters and layers. Read more

First, let's get this out of the way… I'm not a writer, I’ve never blogged before, I don’t tweet, I don’t even have a Facebook account, so how am I supposed to start this thing out?  I don't want to create a plain old introduction because what fun is that?  So instead I'll create an establishing shot: