Spot Color Seps: Part 1 Creating the Black Film

Here we go — The quick youtube walk throughs are going up as we speak….and of course the Black Film is where we all start off. Basically once you have a black film you, can use the film as a knock out to help sep out the other colors much easier. It is essentially the [...]

Photoshop Seps 101

Seps out of Photoshop are bit of a mystery to a lot of people. Since I am in the middle of putting together our tutorial videos, as well as beginning a new more involved set, I thought some corresponding posts might be helpful as well.
So here is some basic, basic, basic information on Spot Color [...]

Spot Color Seps: Intro PSD Tutorial Series

The start of the Eternyl Asylum — Quick & Dirty Tutorial Series. I’ll keep the chatter down on this first episode, because it speaks for itself.

Long Time No See

Oh wow, a blog post after 5 months, yikes! Well I found twitter over the summer, so there is that…..but it’s been a hugely busy summer for The Design Asylum & eternylstudios.com, both business wise and, well business wise….the whole “oh no it’s a recession” thing kinda made me take each and every project headed [...]

Gold's Gym Merchandise Catalog

After a busy month, it’s way past time to post up some new work. So I better make it good huh?….Well I’ve been meaning to post up our latest Catalog / photo shoot / Apparel Line project…but well… time is always limited, so now that I have a sec, take a peek at our recent [...]

An Opinion on Stock Art

Ok I’ll say it.
Stock Art is Evil, and a necessary Evil…
and if it truly doesn’t ruin the industry…you’ll see that it really, really, really changes it to something else all together.
…however now a days…it is a necessary evil, and one that will not go away, so we should accept it, and move along.
but then again…I [...]

Some Gold’s Gym Art

Since we’ve been absolutely swamped these past few weeks, I thought I’d finally jump on a chance to post up some new recent Artwork. Here is some stuff we recently did for Gold’s Gym, in a collaboration, with John Lambert, at Lambert Illustration. Here is some of the stuff he put together with us recently….very [...]

Our Social Links

Hey all I just wanted to mention that we’ve added our social links to the side bar here….

FlickR , Myspace , Technorati , Youtube , Facebook , and Squidoo ….thats a lot of socializing so it might take a few weeks to months to get everything up to speed….but in the meantime, you can always [...]

Spot Color Seps: Photoshop Using the Channel Mixer

Here is the quick & dirty version of how I occasionally sep out spot colors…with the Channel mixer…
Basically if you want to use a simple method…
in Photoshop CS,CS2,CS3…whatever just go to your channel mixer,
which is under the top menu (image / adjustments / channel mixer)
check the monotone box, and pull out your other info, with [...]

Direct To Garment Example

his is just an example of a Shirt Design I did for Sturgis last year, Not the highest end design, but one of those odd requested designs the client envisions, that you put together and oddly enough despite not being super excited about the actual design personally, it sells hotcakes….gotta love that.

The reason I thought [...]