Archives for the ‘Features’ Category

Lord, where is my creativity?

By Adrian Rodriguez • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Features

If your a designer like me, you may experience this question very often, “Lord, Where is my creativity?”
As a designer you are usually required and expected to have a good, creative, and imaginative mind, but that’s not always every designers strong area. Yes, sometimes you have a splurge of creativity flowing in your brain whenever [...]



Earthly Trials and worries

By David Wildish • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Features, Uncategorized

There are many of us here as members of the GDFC and possibly you the reader who has stubbed upon this thread that have many issues and worries in your life that you feel have no control over.
Sometimes in our lives money can take a strong hold and seam to be the driving factor in [...]



TheGdfc forum Update!

By Adrian Rodriguez • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Features, TheGdfc News and Updates

TheGdfc will be performing a forum update this morning. If there are any problems, please don’t hesitate to email, us at adrian(at)thegdfc(dot)com. You can also follow any updates to the site or forum on Twitter via
http://twitter.com/TheGdfc
it’s just for news and updates and no chatting. In the meantime the forum may not work and the old [...]



Quark Express 8 - Xperience Design

By David Wildish • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Features, Software

This Thursday Quark, realeased there long awaited Quark 8, ahead of Adobe offering of CS4
Quark 7 was a massive improvement on previous versions and was a good step into the right direction, but to some including me it was not far enough and lacked details that seamed essential for a fight back to the top [...]



THEGDFC Download Point - MP3 Bible

By David Wildish • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

The Bible is our instruction manual for life, our values and the true words of God.
As Christians we should try as much as possible to develop our knowledge of the Bible and what it has to teach us. Which is as relevant today and for the future as the days it was written.
With an age [...]



Photoshop links & tutorials

By David Wildish • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Features, Photoshop

As we at THEGDFC try to cater for your tutorial needs on a request basis sometime its good to find inspiration when you are lost for a topic to try your hand at fun tasks in photoshop.
we have scoured the web and have brought you a list of of Fun and educational tutorials from [...]



Illustration Tutorial - Halfbuiltrobot style

By David Wildish • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features, Photoshop, Tutorials

I would like to share my style with you and give an insite into my style of illustration. I generally use a mix of vector artwork and raster work in photoshop for layout and colour effects. There are no rules to the process you choose to make your elements with, although I recommend a Vector [...]



Essential Free Mac OSX Applications

By David Wildish • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Features, Reviews, Software, Technology

With an abundance of Free PC software out there for PC users out there, we Mac users can sometimes feel a little left out.
Sure we get a great selection of software that covers most bases in the domestic field with ilife.
However there are times when you just don’t have the Application to cater for your [...]



Microsoft DreamSpark and Expression Software

By Adrian Rodriguez • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Features, Reviews, Software, Technology, Web Design, Web Development

For all of you who are students:
Sorry that I am a bit late posting this, but Microsoft has a great gift for you guys. Microsoft is offering their new development software for free, for all college students. It is called Microsoft Dreamspark. I know that as designers we don’t like to hear the word,”Microsoft,” but [...]



What is the most important question of your life?

By David Wildish • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Christian Life, Features

What is the most important question of your life?
Could it be what will I be when I grow up?, what Job should I do? or even when should I upgrade my computer system to the latest offering of intel Core duo speed?
There are hundreds of questions that we on this world and in our [...]