The Graphyte

A collective of creative works created by Gabriel Torres. A long time New York based Illustrator, Designer, Developer & Dangerous Web Agent

Archives for the ‘Design’ Category

Whats new in CS4

By The Graphyte • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Design
When first opening Photoshop CS4, existing users could be forgiven for thinking that the most significant changes to the program are cosmetic ones.


Illustrator Crash Course

By The Graphyte • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Design
This FREE 30 days Illustrator crash course is created for beginners interested in learning Illustrator. Each lesson will take around 20 mins...


Color me bad

By The Graphyte • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Design
If I "Save For Web" an image from Photoshop, open that image up in a browser side-by-side with the original, I should see identical colors. I can then take a screenshot ...


2 Advance Me

By The Graphyte • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Design
A decade I have been studying digital art and trying to perfect my craft, though never perfect, and since then I have been a huge fan of...


Pulling you're Card

By The Graphyte • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Design
If you have ever seen "American Psycho" the movie when Patrick Bateman shows his business card to his colleagues...


Shoot Me

By The Graphyte • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Design
I have managed to come across these designers through a little bit of link hopping & soul searching. As artists we seek each other out...


Shadow Boxing

By The Graphyte • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Design
The days of pop-up windows have long changed, and gladly for the better. From pop-ups to pop-unders, separate java windows and different callout names...


Quick sum up of "Lorem Ipsum"

By The Graphyte • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Design
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever...


Were the Dove Ads Retouched?

By The Graphyte • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Design
After a New Yorker profile implied that “king of the photo touchup” Pascal Dangin had airbrushed photos taken by Annie Leibovitz.


Revisiting Imagination

By The Graphyte • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Design, The Fizz
Since inception I have run Imagination Squared Interactive studio, for nearly 8 years now and recently mentioned that I will be focusing my efforts into my own personal online portfolio. It has given me a wide array of mediums to work with, and not solely basing my work on web design. I have met many incredible [...]